4 Ways to Improve Your Instagram Stories Organic Reach

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Google Shows Paywall Content in Featured Snippets via @martinibuster

A member of the search marketing community tweeted his surprise that Google ranked a paywalled web page in the featured snippets.  Google’s official description of featured snippets precludes content that cannot be clicked through to be read. But other documentation states that paywalled content is acceptable for Google Search as well as Google News. In…

Parse.ly looks to solve content marketing attribution challenges

Content marketing and analytics provider Parse.ly has rolled out the first generally-available release of Parse.ly Conversions. The solution seeks to help marketers address content attribution challenges of conversion reporting. It allows users to select different attribution models for assigning credit to content. The release also includes features such as labels that can be applied to…

Facebook Power 5 Ad Tools: What Marketers Need to Know

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Facebook Page Verification: What Marketers Need to Know

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Facebook Announces Program to Help News Sites via @martinibuster

ADVERTISEMENT Facebook announced a new feature called Facebook News. Facebook News was created in partnership with the journalism industry. Given Facebook’s popularity, Facebook News may become a significant source of audience growth for publishers. Facebook News Has Five Features Facebook will make the news accessible via a News tab. Within this tab users will be…

Voice assistant study: Microsoft’s Cortana offers most answers, Google Assistant proves most accurate

Perficient Digital released the latest version of its now annual Digital Personal Assistants accuracy study. It compared responses to roughly 5,000 queries on seven devices including Amazon’s Alexa (Echo and Echo Show), Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Assistant (Home, smartphones), and Siri. More answers, less accuracy. At the highest level, Google Assistant performed the best, but Cortana…

Becoming Indispensable: How to Become Important to Others

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