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Instagram testing a booking & payments feature it first announced more than a year ago

For now, the feature is available to a limited set of partners and businesses on Instagram.   Instagram has started testing a new booking and payments feature that lets users book services and make direct payments to businesses directly from the app. Right now, the feature...
Posted On 28 May 2018
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Facebook lets publishers cross-post Live videos across multiple Pages & tests a rewind button

Facebook is also making it easier for teams to collaborate when shooting Live video by giving publishers a single, permanent stream key for live broadcasts. Facebook is continuing to give Pages more video features. After announcing new video metrics last week, the platform is now...
Posted On 28 May 2018
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Google: We Don’t Always See Links With OnClick JavaScript Events

We all know how good Google is at understanding and crawling JavaScript, AJAX and complex web pages in many forms, but Google’s John Mueller said, when it comes to discovering links within onclick events in JavaScript, sometimes Google is not able to follow such links. John...
Posted On 24 May 2018
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The SEO And User Science Behind Long-Form Content

Are you struggling to rank some keywords that should be easy? Are you having trouble attracting an audience to your site, even though you think you’re offering some great information? If so, then maybe you should consider adding more long-form content. To put it succinctly,...
Posted On 22 May 2018
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Hidden PPC traffic killers

If a pay-per-click (PPC) account and the advertiser’s business model are functioning reasonably well, we often find that a business owner becomes heavily dependent on the PPC channel. “Max the volume!” and “We’re down from last year, I’m very worried” are typical (if vague)...
Posted On 22 May 2018
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Pump the brakes: SEO and its sweeping statements

The problem is that this advice is lost upon what would appear to be a worryingly large portion of the SEO world. At critical points, the SEO community has proven that they are prone to not only making knee-jerk reactions, but then vehemently defending these reactions long after...
Posted On 22 May 2018
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How to Combine Link Building with a Content Marketing Strategy

Getting higher rankings in online organic search results has always been associated with getting links from other websites. Before 2008, this was relatively simple, as what counted was the quantity and not the quality of backlinks. The more links existed to the given website, the...
Posted On 22 May 2018
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AWS Makes Serverless Application Repository Available to Cloud Consumers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of its serverless application service. After a brief beta testing phase, the AWS Serverless Application Repository, which was first announced in November of 2015, works as an app store where consumers can try out a...
Posted On 22 May 2018
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Google’s Web Store Spreads Malware Again, 100,000 Users Infected By Malicious Chrome Extensions

Security firm Radware has uncovered malicious extensions believed to infect more than 100,000 Google Chrome users. According to a report released on Thursday, malware was discovered in the browser’s official Web Store. Using machine-learning algorithms, Radware was able to...
Posted On 22 May 2018
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Walmart’s eCommerce is Booming, Sales Grow 33% in First Quarter

Walmart delivered on the online sales growth it hinted at after its less than stellar performance during the last holiday season. With its eCommerce sales seemingly ready to bounce back, the retail giant’s stocks traded higher on Thursday. Business analysts also believe...
Posted On 22 May 2018
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