Google announced a new service yesterday at Google I/O 2018 called Google Duplex and much like their announcement of Google Home / Assistant at Google I/O 2016 they reminded us that they have been planning and trying to build this service for over a decade. Google Duplex will...
You may have noticed YouTube Live results showing up in Google recently. In the past few weeks I’ve had a few clients ask if “going live” on YouTube was good for their SEO or guaranteed a number one position. They all say they read it somewhere that “going...
Twitter recently launched their Promote Mode, an automated advertising system designed to promote an account and the tweets made by an account to their potential audience. The Beta rollout started in November of last year and I decided to give it a test run last month myself to...
Recently PR Hunters, a tool that helps PR and Marketing folks find journalists looking for sources from around the world, did a small poll on Twitter asking journalists which social media platform they use most to find new story ideas. The poll didn’t gain a lot of votes,...
There is nothing more annoying than trying to share a link on Facebook after you’ve meticulously selected an image, written a title, and crafted the perfect description all so 2% of your audience might see and click the link, and then when you post to your page, group,...
Net Neutrality is under attack by major tech companies, entertainment companies, and ISP’s. The number of threats is mounting as consolidation takes place across the tech and ISP worlds. When ISP’s merge with major websites or content producers it creates an unnerving monolithic conglomerate that can feed content...
I had the very rare opportunity of releasing a brand new website recently. At our brand Explore Media we’ve launched a blog covering a few topics in Fort Worth, TX. We decided that we would develop out the website on a production server but block spiders from crawling...
“SEO is Dead!” the expert on X new technology loves to exclaim. It’s an interesting concept that Facebook, or Twitter, or Pinterest, or Snapchat, or Mobile Apps, or Virtual Reality would supplant the practice of SEO as the main need for online businesses, a practice which predates even...
Google appears to be showing Featured Snippets (the answer box at the top of search results) in fewer and fewer searches starting on October 27th, 2017. MozCast, a service that tracks 10,000 search queries and shows the 30-day trend of SERP features, began tracking a reduction in Featured...
UPDATE: This is a permanent change according to Spencer Hitchcock of Facebook who stated: “In our efforts to make News Feed an even more visual and engaging place to connect, we have been introducing new design updates in News Feed…” You can read the full statement from Facebook...
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