Experts agree: Social media is ineffective in local link building

As anyone who’s tried to develop links to a local business will know, the link building game for local SEO is a very different beast to standard link building. For a start, Domain Authority isn’t as critical as local relevance. Then there’s the realization that nofollow links are...
Posted On 28 Feb 2019
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How to optimize your Instagram account for search engines

Instagram is a powerful visual platform for digital marketers to take advantage of. Naturally, anybody taking part in a multichannel marketing strategy understands that efforts to market your Instagram profile should extend beyond Instagram itself. Surprisingly, however,...
Posted On 22 Feb 2019
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Facebook is a local search engine. Are you treating it like one?

As soon as Facebook launched its Graph Search in 2013, it was only a matter of time before it became a big player in the search engine game. But Graph Search was limited as far as optimization was concerned. The results it returned focused on providing an answer on the...
Posted On 16 Feb 2019
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How to scale your social media marketing to build traffic and leads

Scaling is all about making repetitive tasks more productive to be able to focus on more creative things and experiments.                                        I know a lot of people will cringe at the idea of scaling social media marketing because it is supposed to be all about...
Posted On 15 Feb 2019
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IRS Employees Are Missing Work, May Hamper Tax Season

Hundreds of IRS workers are skipping work during the partial government shutdown, taking advantage of a part of their union contract that allows them to miss work if a shutdown causes them “hardship,” while other employees are bowing out of work in a coordinated...
Posted On 24 Jan 2019
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How to master Facebook advertising and targeting

Facebook advertising is becoming very useful, especially when you explore its potential and all its targeting options. Greg Gifford, Director of Search and Social at DealerOn, delivered a very informative presentation at Brighton SEO last week, describing all the advertising...
Posted On 31 Oct 2018
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Facebook Group Vs. Facebook Page: Which is Better for Marketing Your Brand?

For some time now, social media has been a popular way for marketers and brands to get more exposure and grow their customer base. Among the many social media platforms on the web, Facebook ranks as the most popular with nearly 70 million active business accounts. If you’ve been...
Posted On 25 Oct 2018
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Estimate: Video now 25 percent of all US digital advertising, Facebook the top site

Facebook roughly 2X of YouTube when looking at net video revenue, according to eMarketer. According to eMarketer’s newest forecast, online video ad spending in the U.S. will reach $27.8 billion. Accordingly, it will constitute one quarter of all U.S. digital advertising in 2018....
Posted On 18 Oct 2018
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Facebook launches Ad Archive API for political ads with limited release

Facebook says it is offering the API to a select group before making it available more broadly. Facebook is launching an Ad Archive API for US researchers and publishers that will allow them to analyze political and issue-based ads that run on the platform. Announced in May when...
Posted On 10 Oct 2018
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Facebook is letting 5 publishers test headlines, images, copy in organic posts

The company says it wants to provide publishers with more visibility into how their organic content is performing. Facebook is running a test with a very limited group of publishers, giving them the ability to test different variations of headlines, images, videos and copy in...
Posted On 03 Oct 2018
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