Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

We are at the penultimate reading roundup for this year! I’ve written and scheduled all the content and social media on my blog up until Christmas – it really is feeling like the holidays are so close. I’ve got a beach cocktail with my name on it!

Until then, though, the hamster wheel keeps on turning. We’ve got some epic content coming up for you on ProBlogger that you won’t wanna hang your laptop up until you read. Here’s your second-last lot of tips and tricks for the coming week.

Useful Social Media Image Size Cheat Sheet, 2017 Edition | Petapixel

Well now, very handy indeed! You’ll wanna save this somewhere you can grab easily.

6 Holiday Marketing Tips From Twitter’s Head of Content Planning | Entrepreneur

It’s tough enough trying to cut through the noise online but when you’ve got something to sell and it’s the holiday season, then how on Earth do you be heard?!

2016: the year Facebook became the bad guy | The Guardian

With great power comes great responsibility as they say, and also every business has ups and downs – this just happened to be one hell of a down year for FB. Only not monetarily!

5 Social Media Tactics that need to be Trashed | Socially Sorted

From auto-comments to being added to lists and groups without our permission, Donna nails those tiny-but big things that are wrong with social media today.

Monetizing your SEO expertise | Search Engine Land

I’m willing to bet you’ve got tons of SEO info up your sleeve, after teaching yourself what you need to know to grow your blog. This is an interesting monetization angle that I have to admit I’ve never thought of before!

15 Incredible Facebook Ad Tools We Love | PPC Hero

I definitely hadn’t heard of most of these, the space is moving so quickly. But if Facebook advertising is your aim, better add these to your game.

Actual Ways to Drive More Traffic From Your Facebook Page | Meet Edgar

And who doesn’t need that? As they say, don’t build a house on someone else’s land – you want them to come to YOUR home! It’s so easy for people to do all their interacting on Facebook, it can be hard to get them to come to your site.

10 Ways To Use Social Media To Supercharge Your Job Search | Time.com

I’m also going to say use these tactics to identify and reach out to potential brand collaborators, blogging collaborators, freelance writing or social media positions… the list is endless.

Influencer marketing: where we’re headed in 2017 | Search Engine Watch

Well I found this interesting, plenty has changed this year in the influencer space and who knows where it will end up.

Snapchat introduces Groups with up to 16 people, plus new creative tools | TechCrunch

Shazam! Paintbrushes! New chat functions! And by the way, the stickers are still way better than the competition.

What’s caught your eye this week?