Hope you had a rocking weekend! Are you down with laziness? And, if you wish that only if once in a while your week did not start with the boring Mondays and Tuesdays the world would have been so different, then here we have got something for you.

Your regular box of Weekly Roundup!

Gear up now for some exciting news that we have caught up with for you from the world of SEO, tech, content marketing, and social media.

Here is what we found:

#1. War of words. Let’s do it!

Have you ever realized the power of words? The success behind some of the digital marketing influencers such as Neil Patel and Brian Dean. They persuade people through their words.

When a content marketer sets out to convince people, it is not just about curating content that sells, but ideas that people want.

Have you observed some of the successful digital marketing curators often include excerpts or precis of what other experts are thinking and talking about? Why do you think they use the words of others to persuade people?

The simple reason is that-

It works!

Social Media Examiner discusses in detail about the popular copywriter S. Ray and his journey in writing.

Here: SocialMediaExaminer, you can find out more about “The Art of Persuasion: How to write words that Sell.”

#2. Social Media Marketing Tools could help you in ways that you never knew

We struggle daily with numerous tasks when it comes to digital marketing.

The industry is ever expanding, and there is no time to pause and think that “Yes I can get this done later!”.

So, what can we do to move with the ever expanding technology?

There should be some alternate or better methods of which we can add customer data to spreadsheets and also find help with the social media tasks.

Social Media Examiner discusses of 4 ways you can save some time using Social Media Marketing tools. Read about it here: Social Media Examiner.

Work smart! Save time!

#3. Dreaming of the day when your blog will go viral? Here is what you can do

All Bloggers and content marketers secretly or openly wish that their blog goes viral.

And we all would give anything under the sun if a piece of our content goes viral!

So how to write blogs that go viral? Any idea?

Here: Smartblogger, you can find some simple tips from Copyblogger to get your content at the top of the charts:

These are things that we all know but either forget or deliberately ignore while writing content.

#4. Facebook has some good news for Media Companies and Marketers:

Since ages, we have been forced to post sponsored content to Facebook, and this has to be part of a paid ad placement on the social media site.

But it looks like the Social Media Giant is all set to change the rules which are the need of the hour.

So what is the new change?

Now Facebook will allow all forms of branded content. All that it needs is a simple verification process.

Here you can read more about the new implementation from Facebook: WallStreetJournal 

#5. Is Twitter trying to compensate for what it lost?

Have we forgotten Twitter? Are we not utilizing the power of Twitter effectively for marketing purposes?

Twitter is one of those social media platforms that has been long forgotten by marketers.

Why not utilize Twitter to improve and boost your marketing efforts?

B2C discusses the three ways to optimize your Twitter marketing efforts.

Read more about it here: Business2Community.

These are some of the most important news from the world of Social Media, SEO and content marketing that made headlines in the previous week.

Here are a few links where you can find other related Social Media, SEO and content marketing topics that created quite a hype during the last week:

➤ Facebook Live Rolls Out for Groups, Events, and More  — FB Newsroom
➤ Facebook Messenger Launches Scannable Codes Similar to Snapchat, and more — Facebook for Business blog
➤ Google makes AdWords Products tab more useful for Shopping campaigns — SearchEngineLand
➤ Keyword research: a key element of SEO & content marketing — SearchEngineLand
➤ How One Company’s New Blog Strategy Increased Lead Flow by 700% in One Year — HubSpot blog

Enjoy Reading while we take a break and set out on our expedition to hunt for news that is all set to create history across the web.