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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.
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How to Use [the New] Google+: Tutorial
On November 17, 2015, Google-owned social media platform Google+ stepped into an unknown territory.
It went from being the ‘everything-for-everybody site’ to focusing on what Google+ is truly great at: passions.
The new Google+ is all about connecting around common interests (Collections and Communities) rather than people (Circles).
And it’s definitely NEW. It’s like using a completely different platform – for better or worse.
So if you never used Google+, this is a good time to start. If you have, but barely recognize what you see on it, you definitely need this Google+ tutorial.
Search
For the first time ever, Google has released the full and complete version of the Search Quality Rating Guidelines.
And here’s a quick Skinny on what’s new in Google’s newest Search Quality Rating Guidelines.
Google now lets any live blog show up in its search results in a publisher carousel.
Google’s new ‘About me’ tool lets you control personal information shown across Google’s various products.
The partnership of two rivals: Facebook began allowing Google to crawl and index its mobile app.
The European Commission wants to hold site owners liable for linking to copyright infringed content – even if they had no idea it was stolen.
Social Media
Obviously, the new Google+ was the biggest social media news of the week.
Facebook Pages’ engagement and reach continue to slide.
Notify, a Notifications App from Facebook, officially comes to the lock mobile screen near you.
Good for Zuck: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take off two months for paternity leave.
Twitter introduced “ScratchReel” GIFs you can play with by dragging a finger or cursor. Yes, we definitely needed another way to be consumed by GIFs…
YouTube now lets creators crowdsource subtitles, add translated titles and descriptions.
Two major updates to Periscope: a revamped Global Map, Skip Ahead on replays, plus Zoom on Android.
LinkedIn just introduced a great publishing feature: ability to embed ALL kinds of rich media in your Pulse posts.
Pinterest has made some improvements to help you find and sort your Pins in a more intuitive way.
Buffer’s new calendar view helps you schedule social posts.
Tumblr has launched a full-fledged threaded, instant messaging.
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Marketing This & That
Google Hangouts rolls out ability to add users without a Google account to video calls by sending an invitation link.
Did you hear about Yahoo blocking ad-block users from their email? Well, now Yahoo says it’s just a test.
Microsoft Windows turns 30 (you heard me right!) years old!
The other side of the coin: the Yahoo Directory is finally absolutely dead… It now redirects to to aabacosmallbusiness.com.
Google Maps search and turn-by-turn navigation are now available offline.
Love it… A cop pulled over Google self-driving car for driving too slowly.
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:
13 Tactic Checklist To Drive Blog Leads And Sales – Heidi Cohen at heidicohen.com
Episode 23—Ana Hoffman-Community, Traffic Generation, and One Amazing Journey – Craig McBreen at craigmcbreen.com
You Can’t Build a Business by Yourself! – Don Purdum at unveiltheweb.com
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