Making the case for mobile site optimizations: Who doesn’t want an extra $13K?
These days, the question isn’t whether we should invest in mobile but to what extent. Columnist Carrie Albright explains how marketers can make the case for greater investment in mobile optimization. For years, the digital marketing world has asked itself, “Is now the year of mobile?” But at this point, we’ve clearly surpassed the Year of Mobile and […]
Pew: Twitter Usage Grows to 13% With African-Americans Leading Adoption
Thirteen percent of the U.S. online population now uses Twitter at least occasionally, according to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, marking a significant increase from the 8% previously measured in November 2010. Growth was especially strong among non-Hispanic Whites and those between 30 and 49 years old. Among online African-Americans, […]
Bing Providing Detailed Answers From Third-Party Web Sites Like Google
Bing is now providing long form answers taken from third-party web sites. Bing seems to now be providing detailed answers to your queries at the top of their search results, pulled/sourced from third-party web sites, much like how Google does with their knowledge graph answers. This step will likely anger publishers as much as when […]
Snowflake CEO: Once You Get To The Cloud The Lid Is Off
“Once you get to the cloud all of a sudden the lid is off,” says Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman. “People can just pursue their backlogs and whatever they can imagine. We’re now in a situation where technology is ahead of what people are capable of and imagining what they could actually do with it. That’s […]
5G Will Cover 53% of World’s Population by 2025
A new report is predicting some 53% of the world’s population will have 5G coverage by 2025, an increase of 254%. The new analysis, by Bankr via TechRepublic, is based on the number of Ericsson’s Radio Base Stations, in combination with the coverage each of those base stations provides. While roughly 1.17 billion people were covered […]
Google reviews coming out of quarantine
New user reviews, photos, Q&A will return gradually, by category and country Google shut down the publication of new reviews and Q&A a few weeks ago as part of its coronavirus response and reduced support. However, the company appears to have just re-started publication of reviews and review replies. Google announces review return. On this page Google says: “Review replies […]
Link building tool roundup: Site crawlers
Link building is hard work! Here’s how to utilize site crawling tools to make sure your effort pays off. If a search engine’s crawler can’t find your content to index, it’s not going to rank. It’s also not a good signal, but, most importantly, if a search engine can’t find something, a user may not […]