Instagram Strategy: Growing Your Followers and Business

Instagram Strategy: Growing Your Followers and Business : Social Media Examiner Worth Exploring: Social Media Marketing Industry Report In our 11th annual social media study (46 pages, 60+ charts) of 4800+ marketers, you’ll discover which social networks marketers most plan on using, organic social activities, paid social media plans, and much more! Get this free…

Google Webmaster Conferences Postponed via @martinibuster

ADVERTISEMENT Google announced that they are postponing their Webmaster Conferences until later this year. The reason given was concern over the worldwide coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. The Google Webmaster Conferences were a series of conferences held in locations around the world, from Japan to Indonesia and India, over fifteen countries over the past year. Coronavirus concerns…

The rise of customer review amplifiers

Back in 2016, I introduced the concept of data amplifiers in this column. I defined them as consisting of publishers (such as Apple and Google) and data aggregators (such as Infogroup) that together make sure an enterprise’s location data is made available to all the places where people conduct near me searches. Since then, a…

How to Use LinkedIn to Amplify Your Live Event Experience

How to Use LinkedIn to Amplify Your Live Event Experience : Social Media Examiner Worth Exploring: Social Media Marketing Industry Report In our 11th annual social media study (46 pages, 60+ charts) of 4800+ marketers, you’ll discover which social networks marketers most plan on using, organic social activities, paid social media plans, and much more!…

Reddit Launches a Twitter-like Ad Unit: Trending Takeovers via @MattGSouthern

Reddit is launching a new ad unit which is familiar to anyone who’s seen Twitter’s takeover ads in the ‘trending’ section. The aptly-named Trending Takeover ad offers brands the opportunity to be prominently displayed in Reddit’s ‘Popular’ feed. Reddit says its Search tab and Popular feed are the two most commonly visited sections: “Reddit is…

Yelp to Congress: Don’t investigate Google without looking at search

Testifying on Tuesday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Yelp’s SVP of Public Policy Luther Lowe made the case to open (or re-open) an investigation into Google’s treatment of third-party content in search results. The hearing was formally called “Self-Preferencing by Dominant Internet Platforms.” Here, the subject of “self-preferencing” was the local SERP.…

How Employees Can Improve Organic Reach and Engagement

How Employees Can Improve Organic Reach and Engagement : Social Media Examiner Worth Exploring: Social Media Marketing Industry Report In our 11th annual social media study (46 pages, 60+ charts) of 4800+ marketers, you’ll discover which social networks marketers most plan on using, organic social activities, paid social media plans, and much more! Get this…