Friday’s Marketing Roundup: Good Reads for November 22nd

Happy Friday! It’s that time to review this week’s interesting blog posts, news and articles.

Our content includes a variety of articles from DMCA notices to design best practices for a website’s home page and landing pages. We’ve also thrown in a video from Matt Cutts and some great goodies on Schema.

If you’re interested in getting involved in the WordPress community face to face, we’ve included a list of upcoming WordCamps and the live WordSesh event.

So without further ado, the articles of interest for this week are…

Web Design and WordPress

• 50+ Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes and Plugins
• Homepage Real Estate Allocation
• Free Web Style Guide PSD Template
• B2B Website Pitfalls: What Is It That You Do Again?
• 3 Reasons Why SMBs Should Have a Website-First Marketing Strategy
• Creating Smart Sidebars Using Widget Visibility
• How to Improve Your Conversion Rates with a Faster Website
• Evaluating Plugin Weight and Performance
• How Long Should Your Landing Page Be?
• 6 Proven Ways to Boost the Conversion Rates of Your Call-to-Action Buttons
• WordPress Goes Legal: Sues Over Two Egregiously Bogus DMCA Notices That Were Designed To Censor
• 4 Essential UX Rules Taught by Eye-tracking Research

Internet Marketing, SEO and Social Media

• Understanding Google’s Blacklist – Cleaning Your Hacked Website and Removing From Blacklist
• Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Connected Pages Dashboard
• Schema-org Guide for Beginners (Everyone Can Understand!) + Schema Cheatsheet
• What would you like to see from Webmaster Tools in 2014?
• Google’s Matt Cutts: Responsive Design Won’t Hurt Your SEO

Entrepreneurship, Business and Plain Old Fashion Goodness

• Enter Copyblogger’s First-Ever Essay Contest For a Chance to Win $7,000 in Content Marketing Prizes
• Apply to the WordPress Startup Challenge!

Upcoming WordPress Events

• WordCamp London – November 23
• WordCamp Raleigh – November 23
• WordCamp Sao Paulo – November 23
• WordSesh – December 7
• WordCamp Las Vegas – December 14
• WordCamp Sevilla – December 14

As always, this is not an exhaustive list. If you know of any posts related to web design, WordPress or SEO then by all means do share! Post a comment below and let us and our readers know what we may have missed.