Googles Huge $2.7 billion EU Fine, New Facebook Mission & More: Weekly Forum Update
This week’s biggest news was Google being fined 2.42bn euros by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results. Below we highlight the most indepth discussion of the news you’ll be able to find online. In other news, […]
- 06-30-2017
- SEM Industry
Dwell Time & Page Speed for Rankings & Google Job Search Opens: Weekly Forum Update
This week members discuss dwell time and page speed and how much of a role exactly they may play in ranking. Also, Snapchat unveils a new publisher tool and Google opens up Google Job Search to the dev community. Is Dwell Time A Ranking Factor? Member KernelPanic, references a 2011 blog post from bing about […]
- 06-23-2017
- SEM Industry
Instagram On Bots, Dealing With Dodgy Reviews & Google To Define Dupe Content: Weekly Forum Update
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 […]
- 06-16-2017
- SEM Industry
4 Tools to Find Trending Subreddits
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 […]
- 06-13-2017
- Social Media
Google’s Planned Chrome Adblocker & Latest Internet Trends Report Released: Weekly Forum Update
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 […]
- 06-09-2017
- SEM Industry
Clickbot Bypasses Google Bouncer & Warning On Low Quality Guest Posts: Weekly Forum Update
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, […]
- 06-02-2017
- SEM Industry
Using Analytics To Drive Change For SEOs, Facebook & Google Data Transparency – Weekly Forum Update
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, […]
- 05-26-2017
- SEM Industry
How To Create Awesome, Eye Catching Instagram Content
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 […]
- 05-23-2017
- Social Media
3 Must-Use Tools to Curate Your Twitter Testimonials
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 […]
- 05-17-2017
- Social Media
Can You Trust SEO Tool Proprietary Metrics, How SEO Has Changed & Latest Advertising Changes – Weekly Forum Update
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 […]
- 05-13-2017
- SEM Industry
