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Facebook opens door to cryptocurrency ads, reversing policy announced earlier this year

After banning promotions around binary options, initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency in January, Facebook is now allowing cryptocurrency ads. Facebook is now allowing ads promoting cryptocurrency and related products, reversing a decision it made in January to prohibit such...
Posted On 27 Jun 2018
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Snapchat is Now Selling Merch with Launch of New Snap Store

Is Snapchat trying its hand at eCommerce? That just might be in the works with its launch of a new feature that would essentially enable the company to sell merchandise through the messaging app. Snapchat Inc. just opened up the Snap Store today, a new feature that lets users buy...
Posted On 27 Jun 2018
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Are The SEO Weather Tools Off Again On Algorithmic Changes?

Whenever the automated tracking “SEO Weather” tools go off, I get tons of people telling me there was an update. They tell me this not based on them noticing any ranking changes, traffic changes or changes to the search results but based on the tools going off. Well,...
Posted On 27 Jun 2018
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SEMPO Press Releases

SEMPO today issued two new press releases announcing the availability of new search engine briefings from two leading research firms. CEO of eMarketer Presents Latest Search Engine Research to SEMPO Jupiter Analyst Discusses Search Engine Industry with SEMPO
Posted On 27 Jun 2018
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SEMPO New Board of Directors

Just got notice that SEMPO elected a new board today. The thirteen Board of Directors that will serve a one-year term, starting in mid-March, are (in alphabetical order): Ron Belanger, Carat Interactive Chris Churchill, Fathom Online Barbara Coll, Webmama.com Koichiro Fukasawa,...
Posted On 27 Jun 2018
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Small Businesses are Struggling to Find Workers Due to Low Unemployment Rate

A recent LinkedIn employment report has revealed that the US job market is hale and hearty. The country’s unemployment rate is down across the board while hiring is 4.5% higher when compared to this same time last year. While the news certainly is encouraging, the report...
Posted On 27 Jun 2018
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Salesforce Wants to Buy MuleSoft, $6.5 Billion Offered for Acquisition

In today’s ultra-competitive business environment where customer satisfaction is key to success, every company needs to have a proper Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy in place to stay ahead of the competition. This explains why the services of CRM-focused cloud...
Posted On 27 Jun 2018
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Google Releases Indexing API, Well Just For Job Posting URLs

Google announced this morning they released a new API called the Indexing API but it is only available for job posting URLs that support job schema. It is not available for other types of content. Google said “this API allows any site owner to directly notify Google when...
Posted On 27 Jun 2018
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Bing Turns 4: Was There A Search Update?

As you can see from the design of this site today, we are all decked out celebrating Microsoft’s launch of Bing four years ago today. But that is not why I am writing this story, there seems to be some chatter, again, of a Bing search update. A WebmasterWorld thread has an...
Posted On 27 Jun 2018
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