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 human connections. There are also many people who don’t believe you can attract […]
Australia’s government and political parties hit by cyber attack from ‘sophisticated state actor’
The Australia government suffered a cyber attack that it suspects is the work of a “sophisticated state actor,” according to the country’s Prime Minister. PM Scott Morrison said today the computer network of the country’s parliament, and those belonging to Liberal, Labor and Nationals parties, were targeted by an attack which took place a few weeks ago, The Sydney […]
SurveyMonkey CEO: Our Enterprise Business is in Hyper-Growth Mode
Our business on the enterprise side is in hyper-growth mode, says SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie. “We grew our new bookings 80 percent year-over-year,” says Lurie. “We booked our first $10 million quarter, our first million-dollar customer, and we signed up 11 percent more customers in the last quarter alone than we had over all these […]
Google: Disavowing Bad Links May Help Google Algorithmically Trust Your Links
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on Tuesday at the 16:44 mark that in some cases, disavowing or cleaning up bad links to your site may help Google’s algorithm trust other links to your site. Let me quote what the question was and how John responded, plus you can watch it yourself below. […]
Bing doesn’t show ads for queries around Super Bowl commercials, while Google does
Were you interested in driving online traffic to your Super Bowl ad campaign? If you tried to do it on Bing, you were out of luck again this year. While Google is again this year showing ads in their results for queries related to Super Bowl ads, Bing has apparently decided not to show any […]
Apple is selling the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 in Germany again
Two older iPhone models are back on sale in Apple stores in Germany — but only with Qualcomm chips inside. The iPhone maker was forced to pull the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 models from shelves in its online shop and physical stores in the country last month, after chipmaker Qualcomm posted security bonds to enforce a […]
Neil Patel’s 6 Tips to Dominating Google
“Do you want to know what’s better than being on page one of Google?” asked digital marketing expert Neil Patel. “Not just ranking number one, but owning the first page.” In Patel’s latest video (below) he reveals six tips designed to help anybody with unique and useful content result on the first page of a […]
Google My Business Launches New Tools for Service Businesses
Google My Business has launched a new tool that allows service businesses to share their service areas and information about their business via Google Maps and Search. New Google My Business Update By configuring their service area by adding the towns, cities and postal codes they cover, the new Google for Business feature means businesses […]
What Are the Security Risks of the Internet of Things?
IBM Resilient CTO and security guru Bruce Schneier takes a look at the security risks of the Internet of Things in his latest video. He brings up an interesting and rather disconcerting point, IoT devices tend to do critical things like turn on and off power or drive your car, so preventing hacking is even […]
PerimeterX secures $43M to protect web apps from bot attacks
We know by now that modern website attacks are typically automated, as armies of bots knock on doors until they inevitably find vulnerabilities and take advantage.PerimeterX, a San Francisco startup wants to protect sites from these automated assaults. Today, it announced a $43 million Series C. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners . […]