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5 for Friday – New YouTube Feature, Ads on Reddit and more!
1. Advertising on Reddit is easy with this guide -Moz For those of you unfamiliar with the site, Reddit.com is a social site composed of user submitted images, text posts, links, news stories and more. Reddit is a huge community with roughly 115 million unique visitors. This site offers low …
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5 Google+ Page and YouTube Tips Your Boss Wants To Know
In the office I am often asked to help with doing things in Google that turn out to be fairly simple tasks but are often hard to figure out. For example, creating a custom YouTube channel URL is fairly simple to do, but the place you make this edit is …
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The Secret Life of Gmail (Part 1)
Part of my everyday is sorting through ~150 emails, which can be quite taxing if you don’t have a good system in place. We use GMail for our email system at SI. I know most small businesses probably have their email system already figured out, but if you don’t, I …
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5 For Friday – Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest, Oh My!
1) Twitter Profile Redesign is now available to everyone! -Twitter Do you have the new Twitter layout for your profile? If not, you may be behind the times. Twitter recently updated their profiles with a new, user friendly look. This design is pretty similar to what many people are used …
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Social Media, Your Personal Red Carpet
Coined ‘Fashion’s Latest Muse’ by the New York Times in September of 2013, it’s no secret that Instagram has been the leading source of social media in the fashion industry for quite some time. Naturally, marketers and retailers alike have picked up on this trend, using Instagram as the latest …
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5 For Friday – Links, Stories, & Posts for Your Weekend
1. SEO 101: Getting the On-Page SEO Basics – Search Engine Journal This article provides a ground-floor explanation of some of the basic, on-page SEO elements. Though this article may not seem useful for experts, this article takes into account that the rules for SEO are always changing. A refresher …
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Why Your Ads Fail: The Secret To AdWords Data
Within the past decade or so, it’s no surprise that everyone is hopping onto the data bandwagon. To businesses big and small, across all industries, it’s all about collecting data, data, data. However, while we focus endless efforts on collecting and analyzing data, we often lose sight of the reason …
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Social Media Goes Sci-Fi
Continuing the trend of the recent push towards wearable tech, Facebook recently announced that they have acquired the virtual reality company Oculus VR, for a price tag of around two billion dollars. If you have no idea what Oculus is, or does, their flagship product, the “Oculus Rift,” is depicted …
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5 for Friday — Links, Stories, & Posts for Your Weekend
1. Google To Protect Paid Search Keyword Data, Making it ‘NotProvided’ – Search Engine Journal This article discusses a report that Google will stop passing keyword data to analytics software, even for AdWords advertisers. The three main points of the article state that Google will likely stop providing referrer data …
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Why I Hate Your Website: A Guide to Good Web Content
Hopefully you’ve read some of our other great blogs on sharable content and you’re sending out all those valuable signals that lead people back to your website. These leads are great and all, but what good are great signals and roadmaps if they lead you to something… disappointing? Imagine your …
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