Ah, YouTube. You never know what you’re going to find! This week I discovered a little treasure from the 60′s featuring my boy Leonard, the original Spock. Everyone is aware of Captain Kirk’s vocal abilities, but Spock released a few albums as well. Take a break and watch Leonard sing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins on the 60′s variety show Malibu U.
Now onto the stuff you were really looking for, here’s what the team’s been reading this week.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on the EMP blog. I’ve been busy catching up on episodes of Shark Tank and counting down to the release of Star Trek Into the Darkness. If you don’t remember who I am, I’m Max Speed, the guy on the Pole Position Marketing team who says things other team members wouldn’t dare say. Maybe that’s why they haven’t let me post for awhile?
While the rest of the team would like me to share some web marketing news, I’d like to share something from the final frontier… space. If you haven’t checked it out yet, go visit Timelapse and view timelapse videos of anyplace on Earth created from nearly three decades of images collected by NASA’s Landsat in collaboration with Google and Time.
Here’s what the rest of the team has been reading…
Here in Ohio, we’ve had a nice week of sunny weather in the mid-70′s, and it’s amazing how a week of sunshine makes you feel! It’s made us feel so good, that part of the crew has made a resolution to start working off that winter weight with an afternoon plank break. I’m realizing just how out-of-shape I am! After the planks, it’s back to the desk to catch our breath and catch up on the latest happenings in the web marketing world. Here’s a sampling of what the crew has been reading this week.
This week our crew chief has been in the Big Easy imparting his SEO wisdom to the attendees at PubCon. While the chief is away, the crew will play. Well, we managed to squeeze in a bit of play time with Cylon, the chief’s lovable dog who’s been a little forlorn. So, what’s been happening in web marketing this week? Here’s a sampling of what the pit crew has been reading.
Spring has been rather elusive in our neck of the woods. Actually, downright spiteful with temperatures coming in right around freezing–until today. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and we’re decidedly more cheerful. While we had to wait what seemed like an eternity for warmer temperatures, we don’t want to make you wait for some great reads about link building, analytics and content creation.
WordPress is a fantastic blogging platform that is pretty quick and easy to install. When you download the WordPress install, it comes with a five-minute install guide, which is pretty good for even for the less technically inclined.
But what happens after that? WordPress has a host of setting options and a variety of features. To the uninitiated, these can seem overwhelming to just simply confusing as to what each of these options does. This tutorial is designed to take you through the settings that matter most. I won’t go through each and every one, as some are self-explanatory and others don’t matter all that much. But those that do can make or break the success of your blog.
From Google’s announcement that it will close Google Reader in July—some people aren’t too happy—to nifty ways to optimize a PDF for search, we’ve read some great articles this week on analytics, SEO, link building and content marketing. Oh, and don’t be creepy when you network on social media channels.
From good SEO practices to determining ROI for link building, we’ve scoured the Internet to bring you some great articles to help you with your online marketing efforts. We like to read and we like to share—we’re just nice that way.
Lots of things happened in the world of social media this week: Facebook unveiled Graph Search, the Twitterverse exploded with the discovery of Manti Te’o fake girlfriend and good old MySpace got a facelift, courtesy of Justin Timberlake. Based on that, you might think social media is the center of the inbound marketing universe. Of course, it IS important, but there’s so much other interesting stuff out there. Here’s what we were reading this past week…
Last week, our mojo-gushing link builder wrote ‘Always Be Reading’: the Link Builder’s Mantra. Funny thing is, we all have this mantra at the office. So, what have we been doing this week (and every week)? Reading, of course. (Oh, and we did some work, too.) Here’s what we gave five stars this week…
