Here are the posts that I loved this week!
Social
Twitter Promises Downloadable Tweet Archive by Year’s End by James Dohnert
Titter Will Win The Social Brand Advertising War by AJ Kohn
Facebook Launches Conversion Measurement Tool by Miranda Miller
13 Ways to Improve Social Media Marketing in 2013 by Megan Leap
Advertising on Facebook: Self-Serve Ad Units Explained & Examined by Merry Morud
Making the Most of the Open Data Movement by Andrew Delamarter
Google Plus’ Bradley Horowitz Rips Advertising On Facebook by David Cohen
How My Team Uses Pinterest and The Pinterest Tool by Annalise Kaylor
Visual map of top twitter discussions in your region by Rudi Gabriel Bedy
Marketing and SEO
Should We Chase The Algorithm? by Dr. Pete
25 Online Marketing Trends for 2013 by Shaad Hamid
Top 10 Ways to Stretch Your Advertising Dollars – Holidays by Greg Habermann
Excavating “Social Tail” Keywords For SEO & PPC! Radical ScrapeBox Tutorial #78 By Marty Weintraub
Catching Up with your Local Competitors & Automating Citation Discovery by John-Henry Scherck
The Scouting Report for Link Building Rookies by James Daugherty
What’s Really Included in An SEO’s Job – Whiteboard Friday by Rand Fishkin
Inbound Marketing Town – A Guide to the Sites by Rory Kennett-Lister
News
Google security glitch restores Webmaster Tools, possibly Analytics access to revoked accounts by Matthew Panzarino
BREAKING: YouTube Officially Launches Associated Website Link Annotations – Link Directly to Your Site by Chris Atkinson
Google connects its Play Store with Google+, public reviews will now feature your name and picture by Matt Brian
Content and Blogging
We Can Do Better Than This by Jonathon Colman
Putting the Strategy Back in Content Strategy by Lisa Barone
How to Better Connect with Influential Bloggers by Jessica Edmonson
How to Slowly Lose Trust, Influence, and Ultimately Your Audience by Michelle Lowery
Content Marketing: Creating vs. Engineering Content – Part 2 – by Alec Painter
How to do Content Marketing – (Almost) Everything you Need to Know by Aaron Charlie
Can The SEO Industry Embrace Long-Form Content? by Barry Adams
Missed Opportunities – Finding Sites That Publish Your Infographic But Don’t Link by Geoff Kenyon
How To Write Thought-Leadership Pieces That Get Published And Don’t Make Editors Want To Die by Shane Snow
Can Yoast Really Help Your Video SEO? by Destinee Cushing
A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Quality Score & Tactics for Improvement by John Lynch
Websites / Coding
23 Tips on How to A/B Test Like a Badass by Eric Siu
On-Page Optimisation with a View to the Off-Page by Matthew Barby
Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first
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Hey, Melissa! Thanks for including my post on “13 Ways to Improve Your Social Media Marketing in 2013″. Appreciate it