Best Times To Post, Disavow Out Of Penguin, Tools and Tips For SMMs, Speedlink 1:2015

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great and productive week! First things first, a Happy New Year to all. And here we are back again with my weekly roundups. In case you are not familiar with “speedlink”, it is nothing more than a compilation of the most interesting and noteworthy “stuff” that I stumbled upon during the week. It also features some articles that users sends me by email. I can´t see them all right? So if you feel that you have an article that should be featured here, do let me know.

What Are The Best Times to Post on Social Media

OK, now that we got that out of the way, I want to start this first Speedlink of the year with an interesting infographic from QuickSprout.com. You may have seen many similar tips already out there telling you what the best times are to post on social media channels to maximize your reach potential. The difference of this one IMHO is that the source has a very good experience with social media. If you want to increase your engagements in various social channels, I highly recommend you giving it a try to see if it works for you. It won´t hurt!

In case you are wondering, the social media channels mentioned here include the major ones, those being, FaceBook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter, and Instagram. The infographic below is only a partial view. For a complete view, please follow the link provided above.

Discussion: Can You Disavow out of Penguin?

Penguin is back at the forefront of many marketers’ minds now that the third iteration of the algorithm update has been released, and a rumor has begun circulating that you can weasel your way out of a Penguin penalty by simply submitting a disavow file.

In this recent video from Moz.com’s Whiteboard Friday, Josh Bachynski breaks down that argument and starts a realistic discussion to find the answer. Join the discussion over there if you are interested.

36 Tools and Tips for SMMs (Social Media Marketers)

Are you a busy social media marketer? If you are, you should that it is quite difficult to find the right tools to make your job a tad easier. To help you do your job better, SocialMediaExaminer.com has compiled a list of 36 tools and tips to help SMMs increase visibility and productivity. Great resource!

And as usual, in no particular order:

Content Creation & Marketing/SEO and Search

• Breaking The Glass Ceiling Of Search Through Acquisition
• SEO Case Study: Page One, Result One
• 11 Link Building Tactics Explained With Real World Examples
• Resolving to Do Better with Content Marketing

Social/Small Business Bites

• Try something different in 2015 – Pinterest
• 10 Social Media Sins We Hope We Won’t Have to See in 2015
• Firms turn to online ‘influencers’ to spread the word on social media
• My Blog Was Hacked & I Learned All About WordPress Vulnerabilities and Inevitability

More from around the web …

• SearchCap: Breaking Glass Ceiling Of Search, Google’s New Year Logo & Top 10 Columns Of 2014
• Marketing Day: Defining Your Marketing Success Metric, Twitter’s “While You Were Away” Feature & Shaping Brand Attitudes
• 25 Experts Share Their 2015 New Year’s Resolutions!

That’s it! Enjoy, have a great weekend! And, once again a Happy New Year!