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50%+ of Local Business Sites Receive Under 500 Visits Monthly

Google Analytics Study Claims Organic Search Best Channel A study of Google Analytics for local businesses claims they see an average (across verticals and regions) of 414 monthly website users each month. Local business websites receive 50% of their traffic from organic search, with 37% coming from direct visits. The average local business receives no […]

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LinkedIn Takes Networking Offline With New Events Offering

LinkedIn Launches Events Hub For  Face-to-face Networking After 15 years of trying to convince that world that “networking on the interweb was the future”, LinkedIn has finally thrown in the towel and launched an offline event offering. Computers are good, I suppose, but you can’t beat the real thing. LinkedIn Events is now live worldwide

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Google Takes On Facebook With New Lead Gen Campaigns

Google Search Beta Will Capture Leads Directly From Results Page Google is testing a new way for businesses to capture customer information with lead form extensions for Google Ads. The new beta functions very similarly to Facebook Lead Ads, in that Searchers can submit their information directly from the search ad. See image above via

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Is Facebook Recalculating Organic Reach?

Reports Claim Organic Reach Is Shifting To Mimic Ad Reporting  According to reports circulating over the weekend, Facebook is expected to introduce changes imminently to how organic reach is calculated. The changes were first announced by social media expert, Matt Navarra, who claimed that the changes would be going live between 17th – 28th October.

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Page Tips from LinkedIn’s Top 10

Innovation, visible social responsibility, valuing employees and video: new analysis says these may be the most important factors to amass a following for your company on LinkedIn. Kylee Lessard—LinkedIn’s own Associate Product Marketing Manager—has profiled and analysed the 10 most followed companies on LinkedIn and says we should all learn from their performance. Lessard’s Lessons to Impress

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[New Study] Which Keywords Drive Most YouTube Views?

Pew Research's YouTube Deep Dive Shows Power of Power Keywords YouTube is perhaps the best-kept secret in modern digital marketing. Outside of television, in its various forms, YouTube rules the roost for online video consumption. Globally, YouTube is responsible for 11.4% of total internet data consumption, second only to Netflix, which hoovers up 15% of

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LinkedIn’s ‘Open For Business’

LinkedIn's New Features For Users & Advertisers Alike LinkedIn latest product release and Microsoft’s latest quarterly results demonstrate the platform is both literally and metaphorically ‘open for business’. Microsoft’s latest data shows continued growth in user sessions, revenue and on-site engagement. LinkedIn’s heritage has long been in recruitment, with its Talent Solutions being its main

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