Discover the answers to all of these questions and more here in the final selection of the best guides and tips for business blogging from the past year. Here, Ann Smarty contributes a guest post on best practices in guest posting, from planning your approach and brainstorming topics to following through by responding to comments. Best practices for a killer corporate blog by iMedia Connection. Best Business Blogging Tips and Guides of 2010 (So Far), Part 1. Best Business Blogging Tips and Guides of 2010 (So Far), Part 2. Digg this! Grow your audience? MORE >>

Find the answers to these questions and many more here in more than 40 of the best reports, studies, videos and other sources of social media, search, and other marketing facts and statistics of the past year. 11 infographics for your next presentation by Ragan’s PR Daily. ** 5 STARS. Arik Hanson shares a collection of “Infographics that would fit nicely into many digital marketing/PR presentations.” How can B2B companies best take advantage of social media? SEO Salaries and the Best Cities for SEO Jobs by Onward Search. hours to 6.3 hours. MORE >>

Best of B2B Marketing. Best SEO Link Building Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , July 14, 2010 Optimizing a website by incorporating keywords into page titles, headlines, text, page URLs, image alt tags and internal links will help improve the position of a site in the search engines—but it’s only half the battle. Ways to Make A Better Analytics Presentation - Manhattan Marketing Maven , July 23, 2010 Analytics are the new black. With over 20 years of direct marketing experience, Stephanie Miller is an expert on email marketing best practices. Miller MORE >>

Which emerging trends do we need to keep an eye on? While you won’t find much in the way of “tips and tricks&# in this post, you will find guidance on answers to these big-picture marketing questions and more here in some the best marketing strategy guides and insights of the past year. Big Ed’s Top 10 B2B Marketing Trends For 2010 by Marketing-Gimbal. John McTigue presents four reasons why both inbound and outbound tactics should be included in any b2b marketing strategy. Best Practices Produce Mediocre Results by iMedia Connection. ** 5 Stars. MORE >>

And that leads to questions, like: What are the best ways to attract more (relevant) followers? Get the answers to these questions and more here in some of the best Twitter guides, tips and tools of the past year. Frequent best-of contributor Adam Vincenzini contends that “the more unusual and varied your stream is, the better—both for you and your followers.&# …When benefits are difficult to quantify, the best way to explain the value is through a story.&#. distasteful trend has developed among newer Twitter users. Digg this! Twitter Tools. MORE >>