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Today marks another milestone in the Majestic SEO offerings. This morning, the Fresh Index began updating on an hourly basis. According to the blog post from Dixon Jones, Majestic SEO marketing director, “We not only want to have the largest Link Map on the planet, we also want the fastest and the freshest.” Although the …
Klout is basically a tool that helps measure one’s online influence by using a proprietary yet allegedly mysterious algorithm. Social media skeptics are still hating the idea of Klout claiming that its scores are meaningless and do not serve much purpose over someone’s online popularity. Whether Klout is useless or not, we still cannot deny …
On Friday, Reuters reported that four of the five Federal Trade Commissioners were convinced that antitrust action is warranted in the case against search giant, Google. This announcement lines up with other actions the FTC took in recent months as they have been investigating complaints against Google. According to Reuters: The FTC announced in April that it had hired …
A recent survey of more than 1,300 digital marketing professionals finds that 64 percent of them agree that content marketing is emerging as a discipline of its own. This finding is part of Econsultancy’s first Content Marketing Survey Report, produced in association with Outbrain. Digital marketing professionals seem to be in agreement that content is becoming increasingly more important as …
Pubcon is next week and we all want to have a good time, but I found some images that might give you food for thought before you head to “sin city”. Have fun and be safe! I will see you there. Things to Ponder… Source: google.com via Melissa on Pinterest Source: google.com via …
One of the things I have on my list to learn more about is Google Analytics. I love data and I like to inspect our sites’ stats a few times a week… but frankly I have a lot of “Er, what’s this button for?” type of thoughts when I’m trying to dig up more meaningful …
When it comes to social networking, one golden rule seems to apply: If you share it with Facebook, you share it with the world. Whether or not Facebook makes it crystal clear, the onus is on the user to protect their personal information. This fact was plainly demonstrated over the weekend and confirmed by Facebook. …
Pre-Pubcon Tips And Guidebook To Plan A Great Week In Las Vegas via Pubcon. And more posts from Pubcon: Get Around Like A Pro At Pubcon Las Vegas 2012 Monday: Pubcon Monday Night Kickoff Networking Social Tuesday: Pubcon Monte Carlo Networking Reception Wednesday: Internet Marketing Ninjas Save the Pandas and Penguins Party Thursday: Pubcon Hofbräuhaus …
Last month, Google announced a new way to tag news articles that allows webmasters to assist Google News in properly categorizing their posts. From the official blog of Google News: …we’re excited to announce a news_keywords metatag. The goal is simple: empower news writers to express their stories freely while helping Google News to properly …
“In your mind which is more valuable, content or distribution?” This was the question posed by YouTube’s Vice President and Global Head of Content, Robert Kyncl, as he opened the Media Mastermind Keynote at the MIPCOM conference in Cannes, France on Monday. As his address unfolded, he demonstrated that you may produce some of the best loved content in history, …
