My Top Posts of 2012 on Inbound Marketing and Audience Development

Another year gone by, and that means it’s time again for the obligatory top-posts-of-the-year lists.

These roundups may be overdone, but personally I like doing one because it is interesting to look back and see what made an impression.

With that in mind, here are my top 10 posts of 2012 by pageviews:

1. The Best Free Tools for Twitter Analytics
2. Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools
3. News Organizations on Google+: Which Pages Get the Most Engagement?
4. 5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO
5. The Fastest and Slowest News Sites in 2012
6. Media Relations Gone Wrong: How Not to Pitch a Journalist (Video)
7. 5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages
8. 8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves
9. SEO Metrics for Publishers: How are You Tracking and Measuring Success?
10. Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down

The Facebook analytics tools post is actually from December 2011 but since it was a top performer this year I’m letting it make the list.

I’d also like to give a shout-out to my press release buzzwords post from 2010 which continues to do well. It pulled in the second most pageviews of any post this year. Thank you search referrals!

5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO was the big winner in terms of social traction; 500+ tweets is a lot for me.

And the most fun to do award (yes, I’m giving out awards now) goes to the media relations gone wrong video. I was recently contacted by a global communications firm that wants to use it in their training program on media relations fundamentals.

As a side note, I also wrote five columns for Search Engine Land this year on enterprise SEO, which was a good experience.

Thanks!

This was a challenging year in terms of keeping up with workload. That’s good for business but it means certain things had to give, and this blog was one of them. So I didn’t publish here as frequently as I’d have liked, but I still managed to put out some posts that I was happy with.

I hope you found some of them useful.

To everyone that sent a pageview, comment, link or social share my way this year, thank you, I appreciate it.

Have a great 2013.