Social Media
Learn the latest news and trends on the most popular social networks and how to reach and engage your audience with social media marketing best practices.
5 Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn for Reputation Management
When it comes to online reputation management, most people head right to Google for solutions. They look for keywords that could harm them, or articles...
Hands-On With YouTube’s New Animated GIF Creator
It seems that everyone but Facebook is jumping on the animated GIF bandwagon these days, with YouTube having recently released its own GIF creator to...
Facebook Launches Call-To-Action Buttons For Business Pages
Facebook is on a roll right now when it comes to introducing useful new tools for business pages. In case you missed it, yesterday the...
New Twitter Study From @StoneTemple Shows How Mentions, Length, and Images Affect Engagement
Eric Enge and his Stone Temple Consulting team have released on a new study on Twitter engagement today, specifically examining the effects of metrics like...
Facebook Introduces Organic Post Targeting, Along With Other New Tools For Pages
In an effort to help publishers better connect with their audience on Facebook, the company announced today a new set of tools and and improvements...
Instagram Is Now Larger Than Twitter With 300 Million Monthly Active Users
Instagram announced a new milestone today — less than a year after hitting the 200 million monthly active user mark the photo and video sharing...
Facebook Brings Graph Search To Mobile, Makes It Possible To Search For Individual Posts
Almost two whole years after Facebook’s Graph Search launched on desktop the company announced it is finally bringing the feature to mobile devices. Listening to...
Shots Fired! Mark Zuckerberg Defends Against Anti-Ad Statements From Apple’s Tim Cook
If you follow Apple news you might remember a story back in September where CEO Tim Cook published an open letter expressing his criticism of free...
Highlight Your Most Important Google+ Updates With New Pinned Posts
Despite all the criticism against Google+, there are still those who swear by it. Whether you love it, hate it, or are just plain indifferent...
Twitter Updates: Improvements To Managing Blocked Accounts, Reporting Harassment, And Adding Filters To Photos
Twitter announced several updates to its service today that will all be appreciated for entirely different reasons. One update aims to protect users from abuse,...
10 Tools To Give Your Instagram Campaign a Boost
Did you hear the big news? Instagram recently unveiled several new features that are making its users all giddy. For those uninitiated, Instagram finally updated...
10 Tips for Writing Effective LinkedIn Inmails
LinkedIn has proved itself an incredible resource for B2B companies. For sales professionals, Sales Navigator is the “go-to” tool as it allows to search, identify...
This Month in Social Media: 10 Social Media Updates From November 2014
November was a big month for various social networks. Some interface changes were made; apps were launched; lawsuits were initiated; and partnerships culminated. Here are...
Twitter Is Now Keeping Track Of What Apps You Use, But Don’t Worry, You Can Opt Out
A new change to Twitter’s mobile app will see it collect information about the other apps installed on your phone for the purposes of delivering...
Tumblr Is Now The Fastest Growing Social Media Platform, Edging Out Instagram and Pinterest
A report released today by Global Web Index (GWI) reveals that Tumblr is now the fastest growing social network, with its active user base having...
How To Be More Effective At Social Media Marketing in 2015: Interviews With Two Experts
At Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas, the SEJ team had the opportunity to catch up with two social media experts: Cynthia Johnson of RankLab, and...
How a Facebook Page Grew Their Organic Reach 219% in 30 Days
If you’re a business on Facebook, there’s a good chance you’ve been fighting the organic reach battle. In the last year-and-a-half, Facebook organic reach has...
How Social Media Changed SEO And Why Your Business Can’t Thrive Without It
Many people ask the question, “Is social media necessary to get good search engine rankings?” In my opinion, they are starting with the wrong question. I...
Facebook Releases Quarterly Highlights, Continues To See Growth In Active Users
Facebook, as a public company, reports every quarter on the state of its business. This week it released its highlights for the third quarter of...
Twitter’s Complete Index Of Public Tweets To Become Fully Searchable
Twitter’s Yi Zhuang announced today that it now indexes every public tweet since 2006, and the entire index will be searchable. Want to read peoples’...
#SMM 101: 8 Apps To Make Better Pictures For Pinterest
As you’re probably already aware, Facebook is a juggernaut when it comes to social networking. In fact, research released recently by the Boston-based firm Shareaholic...
Wil Reynolds, Reddit, Content Over-Creation, and More: #StateofSearch 2014 Day Two Recap
Day Two at the Dallas-Ft. Worth Search Engine Marketing Association‘s State of Search conference was just as great as Day One: Sessions on social media, SEO, marketing,...
Snapchat Partners With Square To Introduce Snapcash, A Money Sending Service
Snapchat announced they have partnered with Square to introduce a new service called Snapcash, which marks Snapchat’s first partnership of any kind with another company. The...
User Behavior, SEO Audits, Social Media: #StateofSearch 2014 Day One Recap
Day one at the Dallas-Ft. Worth Search Engine Marketing Association‘s State of Search conference was a full day: ten sessions plus a morning keynote by...
Black Hat Social Media: How Buying Accounts or Follows Can Hurt Your Business
You just released a new piece of content and want to give it a little bit of traction on social media. While you could sit...
Facebook To Reduce The Amount Of ‘Overly Promotional’ Page Posts Appearing In News Feed
Beginning in 2015 you will start to see fewer page posts in your news feed that Facebook considers to be “overly promotional,” the company stated...
Twitter Plans To Introduce A Timeline That Resembles Facebook’s News Feed
Twitter recently announced some changes that are coming soon to the network, with one in particular that’s already not sitting well with longtime Twitter users....
Facebook Displays Unprecedented Transparency In Update To Privacy Polices
Facebook has been making strides to change the public’s perception towards how transparent and open they are about the data collected on its users, and what...
Lawsuit Against LinkedIn Claims Reference Search Is Costing Candidates Jobs
The social network known for connecting prospects with their ideal employers, and vice versa, is now being sued by four individuals who claim LinkedIn cost...
Instagram Adds Ability To Edit Captions, Improves People Search
Instagram announced a few new updates and improvements today that will no doubt make a lot of users happy. Have you ever published a picture,...