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16 Jun 2017

Instagram On Bots, Dealing With Dodgy Reviews & Google To Define Dupe Content: Weekly Forum Update

Posted by to SEM Industry

This week has been the week of “what took so long”: Instagram is finally taking an action on fake followers and Firefox is finally addressing its speed issues. In other discussions of note, members provide tips for how webmasters can control for “dodgy” reviews, Google provides a not-so-clear clarification on duplicate content, and more! Instagram Clamps Down on Bots and The Companies Running Them The consensus on Webmaster World seems… [Read More…]

13 Jun 2017

4 Tools to Find Trending Subreddits

Posted by to Social Media

Reddit is the content marketer’s goldmine: It inspires viral content, shows you what people seem to love sharing and offers a great venue to market content to get it discovered by journalists and bloggers. Building up your Reddit presence is tough: There are no shortcuts and Reddit Karma is fast to lose and time-consuming to establish. Participating in trending Subreddits allows you to easier interact and better understand what’s hot… [Read More…]

09 Jun 2017

Google’s Planned Chrome Adblocker & Latest Internet Trends Report Released: Weekly Forum Update

Posted by to SEM Industry

This week has been rich in interesting discussions! Forum members have been talking about Google’s planned  Chrome Adblocker, 2017 State of the Internet Trends report, Google’s drop of NOODP meta tag support and what it means for marketers and marketing conferences. Here are our highlights: Report: Google Plans Ad Blocking in Chrome In a perplexing move, Google announced that they plan to release their own adblocker. To quote the referenced… [Read More…]

06 Jun 2017

7 Social Media Analytics Companies To Keep An Eye On

Posted by to Social Media

Social media continues to grow and adapt into a more exciting technology than ever before. While it was once a purely personal platform, the business and marketing applications are ace. Now we have entire degrees dedicated to the practice, and firms popping up all over the world promising to help brands expand on and off the web. While many offer tools to allow you to measure your own analytics, others… [Read More…]

02 Jun 2017

Clickbot Bypasses Google Bouncer & Warning On Low Quality Guest Posts: Weekly Forum Update

Posted by to SEM Industry

Does click-through-rate impact Google rankings? Is Google preparing to hit guest posting links again? Will we all be forced to migrate to HTTPS? This week’s forum discussions bring up important points. Join in! Ad Click Bots Discovered In Game Apps In Google Play Store According to researhers at Check Point, Malware “Judy” bypassed Google Bouncer, Play Stores proction system. The malware creates fraudulent ad clicks on the ads. The 50… [Read More…]

29 May 2017

How to Faster Collect Leads

Posted by to Marketing

Never underestimate the value of an email. Email marketing has proven itself again and again to be the one marketing avenue that consistently brings in the highest conversions for companies all over the world. There is a reason they are always pushing to get customer email addresses. No matter the size of your enterprise, you can benefit from building an email marketing list. The faster you do it, the sooner… [Read More…]

26 May 2017

Using Analytics To Drive Change For SEOs, Facebook & Google Data Transparency – Weekly Forum Update

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This week has seen some very interesting discussions around leveraging analytics for SEO, transparency in digital advertising, and of course some interesting technical SEO questions. Analytics is THE engine of change Member iamlost states a case for how analytics can be an agent of change for SEOs who are making do without keyword level metrics, proposing using the data to build detailed personas that can then be used for personalization,… [Read More…]

23 May 2017

How To Create Awesome, Eye Catching Instagram Content

Posted by to Social Media

Instagram is taking over the world! Seriously, according to a study by Hootsuite, in 2015 the average number of photo shares per day on the platform was 70 million. And this year there are even more users, so the number is climbing every day. Obviously it is a network with increasing influence. So you should be taking advantage of it, and the only way to do that properly is by… [Read More…]

17 May 2017

3 Must-Use Tools to Curate Your Twitter Testimonials

Posted by to Social Media

Making sense of Twitter buzz is tough whereas responding timely to the tweeted feedback as well as making the most of everything with the positive sentiment – these two tactics combined can bring your brand awareness to the roof… Note: This is a follow up to this article which you may want to check out as well: Control & Promote Positive Brand Mentions on Twitter: Custom Timelines, Lists and Favorites… [Read More…]

13 May 2017

Can You Trust SEO Tool Proprietary Metrics, How SEO Has Changed & Latest Advertising Changes – Weekly Forum Update

Posted by to SEM Industry

On a strategic angle this week, members discuss to what degree you can trust proprietary link metrics in SEO tools. Also, members talk about how the SEO game has changed from the 1990s to present. In the tactical realm, members react to changes in Adsense, Facebook Algo, and consider a of if a site should roll back HTTPS if Google drops your traffic after the migration. Does increase in a… [Read More…]

05 May 2017

Google Quality Raters Speak Out, Changing Value Of A #1 Ranking & When Responsive Is Not Mobile Friendly: Weekly Forum Update

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This week has been rich in interesting updates from search and social platforms. Our forum users have actively discussing Google’s raters getting a cut in hours, Twitter teaming up with Bloomberg, Googlebot ignoring robots.txt directives and more! Please click the links below for more details: Google raters get a cut in hours and start to speak out In this thread, an article is referenced about Google Raters, who work through… [Read More…]

02 May 2017

2 Awesome Twitter Search Tools That Give You What Twitter Lacks

Posted by to Social Media

I love Twitter. That was almost love at the first sight. It’s a great idea which became awesome thanks to all the apps that completed it. Here are two absolutely fantastic tools that have some really basic functionality Twitter still lacks: Snapbird: Better search Snapbird is a freemium tool giving you some cool searching options you probably didn’t know you actually needed a lot! In fact, its functionality is so… [Read More…]

28 Apr 2017

Evaluating link quality, Google Combats Fake News & Seismic Shift In Top Companies – Weekly Forum Update

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This week members asked tough questions about how to evaluate the quality of your links. Google released features to help combat fake news and what this may mean for SEOs Members also discussed to what degree Alphabet, Googles parent company, is a monopoly and how 5 out of the 10 biggest companies are now Internet or computer companies. How do you find links to boost Google rankings? Over on Webmasterworld,… [Read More…]