In the marketing spotlight this week:

♨ Is Google Removing Video Snippets Just Like Authorship?
♨ Link Google My Business account with your Google AdWords account;
♨ Google+ dumped its real-name requirement;
♨ Find YouTube live events or Hangouts on Air on Google;
♨ New ‘Buy’ button on Facebook;
♨ Follow topic feeds on Pinterest;
♨ Which Social Share Buttons are site performance and security killers;
♨ Apple and IBM announced a major new partnership;
♨ Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited;
♨ Google Alerts gets new design;
♨ and much, much more…

In the marketing spotlight this week:

♨ Leaked Google’s Quality Ratings Guidelines (and what you need to know about them);
♨ Twitter now shows engagement numbers and, oh boy, do they suck…
♨ Multiple Facebook backlashes for their ‘mood’ study;
♨ Useful update to Pinterest Follow button;
♨ A rare occurrence: both Google co-founders sit down for a chat;
♨ …and much more.

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In the marketing spotlight this …

In the marketing spotlight this week:

♨ Google Manual Action Over 302 Redirected Links;
♨ Local SEO: Google Testing Neighborhoods;
♨ Essential Tools To Track Your Social Media Data;
♨ Google Kills Google+ Direct Connect Feature;
♨ Twitter Now Supports GIFs;
♨ Improved Facebook Right Hand Ads;
♨ You Can Now Share Smells Online;
♨ Music on Google Now Links to Apps;
♨ Amazon’s brand new Fire Phone;
♨ …and more.

In the marketing spotlight this week:

♨ New Matt Cutts’ Video: How can small sites become popular?
♨ Google Penalizes PostJoint Over Guest Blog Links;
♨ Help Test & Validate Web Marketing Hypotheses;
♨ ‘Is Google+ Walking Dead’ Mass Hysteria;
♨ Facebook has launched a newswire service… on Twitter?
♨ Pinterest Updates;
♨ New Twitter Profile is Now Available to Everyone;
♨ Upgrade to WordPress 3.9;
♨ Project Naptha – highlight, copy, and translate text from any image;
♨ …and more.

In the marketing spotlight this week:

♨ Matt Cutts Video: How does Google separate popularity from authority?
♨ Matt Cutts Video: How does Google evaluate algorithmic changes?
♨ Econsultancy Nofollows All Contributor & Guest Posts;
♨ Google On IE8 Drops SSL & Passes Full Referrer;
♨ New Title Tag Guidelines & Preview Tool;
♨ YouTube, Google+, and LinkedIn drive most engaged traffic;
♨ Understanding Google+ Profile & Page View Counts;
♨ Best time to post on Google+;
♨ Facebook tests a new ‘Save’ feature for your favorite posts;
♨ A Breakup Letter to Facebook from Eat24;
♨ Twitter Emojis For All!
♨ Turkish court rules to unblock YouTube after lifting Twitter ban;
♨ Google Moves Universal Analytics Out Of Beta;
♨ Do images help to increase website traffic?
♨ Microsoft officially reveals Cortana;
♨ WhatsApp hits record 64 billion messages in one day;
♨ …and more.

In the marketing spotlight this week:

♨ Google’s Matt Cutts: Almost All Penalties Are For Quality Violations;
♨ How can I tell if my site is affected by a particular algorithm?
♨ Dear Google: THANK YOU for penalizing Traffic Generation Café;
♨ Moz: Google Plus +1′s Do NOT Affect Search Rankings;
♨ Preview & select images with new Google+ link posts;
♨ Instagram Surpasses Twitter in Mobile Users in the US;
♨ Twitter Gets More Social;
♨ People Freaked Out when Twitter Briefly Replaced ‘Retweet’ With ‘Share’;
♨ Twitter Experimenting With View Counts for Your Tweets;
♨ Twitter Fights Back, Files Suit to Lift Ban in Turkey;
♨ Infographic: Guide to Facebook NEW News Feed image sizes;
♨ Multiple Pinterest Accounts Hacked, Flooded With Butt Pics;
♨ Microsoft finally brings Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to the iPad;
♨ Chrome Adds Google Now Notifications;
♨ Customize Your Google Navigation Bar;
♨ Facebook is buying Oculus for $2B;
♨ …and more.