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.
And I package them neatly in bite-sized chunks in my Weekly Marketing Skinnies right here at Traffic Generation Café every Saturday morning.
Between you and me, I have no idea why I bother investing hours of my time weekly reading all these marketing news just to boil them down for you in my Weekly Marketing Skinnies, other than the fact that I know you don’t have the time to keep up with the fast-paced marketing industry on your own, yet you DO need to be in-the-know to remain competitive.
Plus, your enthusiastic comments and social media shares show me just how much you truly appreciate being kept in the marketing loop in just a few minutes per week.
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Now grab your cup of coffee and let’s catch up on the marketing news that matter to your business.
Search
Searchmetrics has published their annual Search Ranking Factors study for 2015 – here are the 5 most important takeaway lessons, plus links to more.
Google says affiliate links don’t count against a website.
Google is now indexing more URLs – just because they can.
Social Media
Huge: Google+ will be unlinked from YouTube and other Google products.
Twitter announced that Windows users will have a new Twitter experience optimized especially for Windows 10.
Twitter now lets you preview a user’s bio when you hover over their avatar.
Sooooo…. You want to know the secret to growing Facebook engagement and traffic? Show up.
YouTube now gets over 400 hours of content uploaded every minute.
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Marketing This & That
Windows 10 free upgrade is now available in 190 countries. Some love it, some are wisely waiting for the bugs to be worked out.
Brilliant new Google Search feature: avoid long lines by looking up the busiest times at millions of places and businesses.
Did you know the Google Translate app lets you instantly visually translate printed text – now in 27 languages?
Android users can now say ‘Ok Google’ to send messages via WhatsApp, WeChat, NextPlus, Telegram, and Viber.
Team behind Delicious releases Dmail, a Chrome extension to make Gmail messages self-destruct.
Yahoo announced Livetext – the first silent video chat app.
Amazon is launching Launchpad: a new marketplace specifically geared at startups.
Thank You
To all of you who mentioned Traffic Generation Café in any shape or form in the past week, my whole-hearted THANK YOU.
Traffic Generation Café would NOT be what it is today without you.
And I am not the only one who thinks that, by the way.
Take a look at the comment Kurt Frankenberg of Shoestring101.com (one of my favorite blogs, by the way) left on a recent Weekly Marketing Skinny:
Here are just some of the mentions I came across in the past week:
Top 100 SEO Blogs For Increasing Search Traffic – Josue Valles at engagebit.com
Google and New gTLDs, Content and Keyword Research, YouTube Ranking Factors, Panda 4.2?, #Speedlink 30:2015 – Francisco Perez at www.iblogzone.com
Have I missed your mention? Let me know in the comments!
Want to see your name here? Mention Traffic Generation Café in your next blog post!
On a Personal Note
I am heading off to Russia to visit my family on Tuesday. (For those of you who don’t know, I was born and raised in Russia.)
My daughter and I will be there for two weeks, enjoying a completely different style of life.
With that said, I might not be able to continue publishing these Weekly Marketing Skinnies… or much of anything else for that matter.
If that’s the case, you’ll know why.
Enjoy the rest of your summer!
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