Speedlink V31/2011, FaceBook, SEO, Online Business, Klout

HI everyone! Hope you had a great week. Nothing much to report on my end as I have been very busy doing some experiments, along with testing Hesham’s forthcoming launch of ProductSkin. Be on the look out as it will be available, very, very soon 🙂

On the other side of the world, it seems that the Germans have taken (been taking) an aggressive stance towards FaceBook, due to privacy issues. Reports are saying that any “website” that uses the “like” button must take it down until a given date or face the possibility of being fined 50K Euros (approx. $72K). Whether this will actually come into effect, still remains to be seen, but pretty soon, Germans will no longer be able to “like” anything, at least through FaceBook. I guess they will be allowed to “+1”, lol. Anyway, what do you think of this move? Will other countries follow suit?

As usual, in no particular order:

Blogging/Business

• Why Failure Online Is Not Your Fault
• Avoiding Overwhelm by Resisting the Urge to Lower Your Fees
• How To Promote Products Without Pitching Anything

SEO/Marketing

• Writing a Book – Marketing And Promotion (series)
• Statistics: Don’t Make These Mistakes – Whiteboard Friday
• How The Feature Box Increased Our Blog Subscription Rate by 51.7%
• SEO for WordPress Wordcamp SF 2011
• How To Set Up Google Authorship Markup, The Real Simple Way (shameless promotion)

Social Web/Other Stuff

• Germany Dislikes Facebook’s Like Button
• Forget the Klout Score! What’s Your Social Zoom Factor?
• Can Klout Really Measure our Influence on Social Media?
• Should you use Google Plus over Facebook?
• WordPress: State of the Word 2011 Matt Mullenweg

Is the “Panda” algorithm update affecting non-English searches?

That’s it! Enjoy and have a great week ahead.