How to Create and Use Instagram Collections

Shares 868 Do you save Instagram posts? Looking for a way to organize your saved posts? In this article, you’ll learn how to create private Instagram collections to organize saved posts you want to refer to later. How to Create and Use Instagram Collections by Robert Katai on Social Media Examiner. Why Instagram Collections? When…

Twitter can keep its extra characters, I want to edit tweets

Geez, Twitter, have you not been listening? Yesterday, in an unsolicited act of largess, Twitter doubled the number of tweet characters from 140 to 280 characters for unspecified number of Twitter users. The change was announced by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey. This is exactly what we don’t need. Forget brevity. I’ve spent a…

Looks like Trump hasn’t gotten upgraded to 280 characters on Twitter yet. Bless.

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Stop with the ‘sleeping selfie’ Instagram pose. We know you’re not actually asleep.

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3 Ways to Measure Your YouTube Performance

Shares 854 Are you creating YouTube videos? Wondering how to analyze the impact of your video content? In this article, you’ll discover how to measure the performance of YouTube videos. 3 Ways to Measure Your YouTube Performance by Victor Blasco on Social Media Examiner. #1: Assess Video Watch Behavior YouTube provides powerful analytics data that…

Alphabet to create separate business unit in Europe to run Google Shopping

According to Bloomberg, Google is going to create a separate business unit to manage shopping content in search results to comply with the European Commission’s recent antitrust decision. This unit will reportedly be required to compete in the auction against shopping competitors. The unit will apparently use its own budget and revenues to bid in…

Twitter is actually ditching the 140-character limit (for some)

Twitter just changed the rules of tweeting. The company is now testing a change that doubles Twitter’s character limit for “a small group” of accounts. It’s not clear when the change will roll out more broadly. SEE ALSO: Twitter finally breaks silence on why it’s never suspended President Trump Under the test, users will be…

World-Class Link Building Is More Than Links by @alanbleiweiss

So I have a pet peeve in our industry. People read or hear or discover that some tactic or other can help with SEO, and within those, some are really important. Then they proceed to pound that method into the ground until it’s dead. Or in the case of off-site authority, relevance, and trust signals,…