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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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Now grab your cup of coffee and let’s catch up on the marketing news that matter to your business.
Search
Yahoo announced a search deal with Google. Yes, you heard me right….
Google says: when translating your site, use separate URLs for individual languages.
SEO FYI: single or double quotation marks work the same for Google.
YouTube thumbnails/screenshots now appear in Google Image Search results.
Social Media
It’s here: meet YouTube Red - YouTube new subscription service.
YouTube also unveiled its new music app YouTube Music.
Here comes Facebook SEO: Facebook Search goes beyond your News Feed; you can now search all public posts and data as well.
Facebook video features updated with video suggestions, floating screen, and dedicated Videos section.
Socialbakers study finds that (only) 3% of Facebook news feed is promoted content. Surprising? Definitely!
Instagram released a new stand-alone app, Boomerang - a cross between a gif and a looping video.
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey apologized to developers, says he wants to “reset” relations. Is it too late?
Twitter Publish is a new tool for showing off embedded collections.
Twitter announced Twitter Polls.
Twitter announced Native Video Ads.
You can now link your Twitter profile to Vine and vice versa, plus see loop stats.
Blab rolled out a slew of new features.
Love Buffer’s new Pablo 2.0: truly, the easiest way to create engaging social media images.
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Marketing This & That
Good news: you can now mute individual tabs in Chrome.
Google removes ‘OK Google’ voice search from Chrome.
Skype announced shareable group chat (similar to Google Hangouts).
Yahoo Mail will now let you access multiple third-party mailboxes.
Tumblr will recycle seemingly abandoned usernames.
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:
Google AMP and Your Site – What You Need to Know - MaAnna Stephenson at blogaid.net
What Is the Best Way to Promote a New Business: 13 Experts Share Their Most Effective Strategies - Tim Fehraydinov at texterra.biz
55 Ultimate Niche SEO Guides (On TOpics You Probably Know Little About) - Dave Schneider a ninjaoutreach.com
7 Key Ways To Increase Your Content Marketing Output (While Not Scrimping On Quality!) - Steve Shaw at vwriter.com
Tips Tuesday – Site Review Webinar, New Blab Interface, Basic SEO Training - MaAnna Stephenson at blogaid.net
Remarketing Best Practices, Traffic Via Pinterest, Digital Marketing Myths, #Speedlink 41:2015 - Francisco Perez at iblogzone.com
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M. K. says
I’m like 90% sure YoutubeRed will be a total flop (sort of like Google+), but I’m definitely interested to see how it pans out.
I definitely think it’ll be a challenge to coax people to switch from free to paid. Personally, I’d do it in a heartbeat, if I watched enough YT videos.
I am with you, Mikhail - it’ll be interesting to see how it pans out.
Hi Ana
It’s a fact that your blog posts are so unique and interesting and I enjoys a lot while reading your posts because you explained your post very deeply in a very easy and clear language.
Thanks for your support and Happy Blogging 😀
So very kind of you, Lisa.
Hi Ana,
Lots to read and implement, so thanks so much for sharing them with us, as always! This is one place to gather all that one might have missed during the week. We appreciate you and all the efforts you put into these awesome weekly’s 🙂
And I appreciate you letting me know, Harleena - you know that makes all the difference in the world!