Don’t have the time to read all the marketing news, blog posts, announcements, and other content related to SEO/social media/online marketing published each week?
I’ve got you covered.
I sift through trillions (well, hundreds) of online publications to stay on top of marketing news that might affect your online business.
We’ll get to the marketing news of the week in a minute, but first, a couple of notes:
Slower Load Times
Since I embed Google+ posts to compile my Marketing Skinnies, please bear with slightly slower loading times.
I am trying to figure out a way to speed it up (suggestions are welcome), but for now it is what it is.
A shout to Michael Bennet’s Photography
Thanks to +Michael Bennett for providing this week’s Marketing Skinny featured image!
You can see more of his incredible photos as well as purchase them at Michael Bennett’s Photography.
And by the way, this is just one example of building strong bonds on Google+.
March 8: International Women’s Day
Today’s truly International Women’s Day doodle features a host of inspiring women from around the world, including the President of Lithuania, a brave Pakistani education activist, an ever-curious explorer, and dozens more.
Find the full list of participants: http://goo.gl/fzUBZn.
Happy International Women’s Day to all women reading this post. And men: do something special for that special woman in your life today.
SEO
Matt Cutts Video: How Google Determines What’s A Paid Link
Google: Keep URL Length Shorter Than 2,000 Characters
Got A Google Penalty? Should You Kill Your Site and Start Over?
You Don’t Have To Disavow Off Topic Links
March 2014 Google Webmaster Report
[share]By the way, you should share this post right now before you forget – much appreciated![/share]
Social Media
Google+ Page or Personal Profile?
Google+ +Post Ads: How Google Will Monetize Google+
Still wondering how THEY make it on Google+?
Newest Facebook Layout Quietly Kills The Beautiful Newspaper Concept
Facebook takes steps to block illegal gun sales
Facebook is buying a drone maker!
From YouTube annotations to your blog
Vine will no longer allow sexually explicit content
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WordPress
Lawsuits Be Gone: How to Use Getty Images for Free
Google Authorship & Publisher – What’s The Difference?
Time saving Chrome extension to check for broken links
Marketing This & That
Siri – meet Cortana
Google Places: Duplicate Listings Issues
Dust off your Yahoo ID
Edward Snowden to Speak at SXSW Interactive Via Videoconference
Google Adds Restaurant Menus To Search Results
HOW TO: “Ok Google” voice search on Chrome [beta]
Google Docs Is Rolling out Voice Dictation
Thank You
To all of you who mentioned Traffic Generation Café in any share or form in the past week, my whole-hearted THANK YOU.
Traffic Generation Café would NOT be what it is today without you.
Here are just some of the mentions I came across in the past week:
31 Ways To Promote Blog Posts & Get Blog Traffic – Stuart Walker at nichehacks.com
3 Things You May Not Know About Google and SEO – #FridayFinds – Sherryl Perry at keepupwiththeweb.com
How to Promote Your Blog Content: 40+ Experts Share Marketing Tips – Brian Lang at smallbusinessideasblog.com
Lucrative Home Based Business Ideas for Moms – The joy of being a mompreneur – Prince Molak at onlinemoneydon.com
Have I missed your mention? Let me know in the comments!
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Looks like a good roundup but all I get are the headlines which are not clickable and no other info. Were they meant to be clickable or was it just a roundup of headlines.
It was a glitch; working on a solution to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Hi Ana,
I am unable to see the Google+ embeds. Is there any issue?
WP Total Cache with Maxcdn will be a big help to improve loading time.
BTW, I have started a “Around the Blogosphere” section on my new blog, EsmeeNetwork.com, and it focuses on news concerning only freelance writing & blogging niche. I credited you as the motivation. Here’s the first update I did -http://bit.ly/1jFqyiF
Thanks for the inspiration.
Chitraparna
It appears certain browsers refuse to render G+ embeds, Chitra; I am working on a solution. Meanwhile, I’ll be providing links to G+ posts along with embeds.
Thanks so much for the mention by the way! Loved visiting your new blog; looking good.
What does Esmee mean?
Thank you Ana 🙂
Esmee is the short of “Renesmee”, a character in Stephanie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ series. Simply loved the name 😉
Hey Ana,
Great round up as usual and appreciate yet another mention in one of your posts.
Thanks a lot.
Pleasure is all mine, Stuart.
Links are not working, I can only read the title but not the content.
Thanks for letting me know, Nick; working on the fix.
Hi Anna,
Just thought I should let you know the your Google+ embeds are not displaying on the latest version of Google Chrome on Windows7 64, at least on my PC (Ad blocker is off). Works fine on Firefox though as well as on Chromium in Ubuntu. You may want to check into that.
Not quite sure what’s causing it, but will definitely look into it; thanks for letting me know, Martin.
Actually I resolve the problem. Not sure what was causing it, but I had to completely uninstall all traces of Google Chrome from my PC and then do a fresh install. Now the Google+ embeds are working fine.
Interesting… Google Chrome messes up Google+ embeds? The left hand doesn’t know what the right one is doing?
Glad you figured it out, Martin; thanks for letting me know.
Looks a good marketing skinny, but not seeing the content? Just the headings?
Temporary glitch, Karl; some browsers act up when loading G+ embeds.