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Google Ranking All Sites By Mobile Version In September

Google Shifting Entirely To Mobile-first Indexing By September Google has announced that it will start indexing all websites by their mobile versions beginning in September. Mobile-first indexing means Google predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking in search engine results. Historically, the index primarily used the desktop version of a […]

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[STUDY] Facebook Video Watch Time: 4.57 Seconds On Average

For 60+ Second Facebook Vids, Users Watch <5% On AVG Socialbakers most recent data makes grim reading for social media marketers. Confirming suspicions that many in the industry have long harboured… Facebook video is not quite as good as it’s made out to be. To put it mildly. According to Socialbakers 2019 Q4 Trends Report,

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LinkedIn Jumps On Stories Bandwagon

LinkedIn Trialling Ephermeral Stories Feature Social Stories have been one of the defining social media product themes over the past few years. Originally created by Snapchat in 2013. Instagram cloned in 2016. Facebook emulated in 2017. WhatsApp spun off Status in the same year. YouTube launched its version in late 2018. So did Google. Pinterest

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Google Angers Agencies With Partner Program Update

Who Hasn't Google Upset In 2020? After upsetting web users with its recent desktop search redesign and regulators around the globe with alleged anti-competitive behaviour, it is now the turn of marketing agencies to fall out of love with Mountain View’s finest. It is hardly scandalous to say that digital and social media marketing is

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[NEW STUDY] Email Marketing Benchmarks

Government Dominating Email Open Rates Globally Despite the meteoric rise of social media over the past decade, email remains a key tool for most communicators. However, much like social media, email performance is highly nuanced. To help get a better understanding of these variations, Campaign Monitor analysed 30 billion emails sent globally between January and December

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What’s Up With Facebook Campaign Budget Optimisation?

September 2019 Launch Pushed Back To February 2020 Last year I wrote about the impending launch of Facebook’s Campaign Budget Optimisation (CBO), which was scheduled to begin rolling out for all in September 2019. Launched initially as an optional budgeting tool in 2017, the feature supposedly helps give businesses an easier way to manage their

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Instagram Guidelines Updated After Bloomberg Meme Explosion

When Memes, Influencers & Politics Collide Last week saw perhaps one of the largest ever influencer marketing onslaughts as US Democrat nominee wannabe, Mike Bloomberg, threw his golden-rimmed hat into the ring. Bloomberg’s campaign team recruited some of the largest meme accounts on Instagram, via Meme 2020, unleashing an unprecedented, coordinated wave of sponsored posts

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