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Facebook Patents Type of Influencer Marketing to Identify Experts & Influencers

February 17, 2015 at 3:40 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Facebook Patents Type of Influencer Marketing to Identify Experts & Influencers

Influencer marketing has become much more popular recently, especially when you consider the roles of power Pinterest on Pinterest and those with plenty of followers selling promoted tweets on Twitter. However, there can definitely be some issues when trying to consider exactly who these influences are, because usual metrics such as followers or likes don’t […]

Google Webmaster Tools Updating Search Query Data Once Again

February 16, 2015 at 3:50 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Webmaster Tools Updating Search Query Data Once Again

Search query data is once again showing up in Google Webmaster Tools after disappearing for about a week. There was some speculation that the missing data was somehow related to the alpha test of the new search query reports. However the problem is affecting both people who had applied to be a tester of the […]

Pinterest Working on Adding a Buy Button to Pins

February 16, 2015 at 3:44 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Pinterest Working on Adding a Buy Button to Pins

Pinterest is working on yet another way to monetize their social media platform with plans to add a “Buy” button to pins. According to re/code, Pinterest is pushing to launch it within the next 3 to 6 months. The buy buttons would be powered through payment processing company Stripe which is reportedly close to signing […]

Google Analytics Data From February 9th Finally Restored

February 16, 2015 at 3:40 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Analytics Data From February 9th Finally Restored

If you are among those people with missing data for February 9, 2015 in Google Analytics, the data has now been restored. It is unclear what made the information vanish for a week, although people were suspecting it might have had something to the corrupted database. Many people were seeing the data from the 9th […]

Google Helpouts Closing, Citing Slow Growth of the Expert Video Advice Service

February 13, 2015 at 1:08 pm PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Helpouts Closing, Citing Slow Growth of the Expert Video Advice Service

Google is planning to close down their Google Helpouts program on April 20, 2015. Google launched help out as a way for experts in various topics to give personal advice to others for a fee. However Google feels the program hasn’t grown as much as they expected to, so they are closing down the program. […]

Increase Google AdSense Publisher Revenue By Utilizing Google Display Network Data

February 13, 2015 at 5:10 am PST By Shelley Ellis

Increase Google AdSense Publisher Revenue By Utilizing Google Display Network Data

From an Old Google AdWords Advertiser The good news: AdSense success is not all about your content or headlines. No, really, that’s good news! Knowing a few insider tips can help you be more competitive in the AdSense publisher space from the start as well as help you get more traffic to your website and […]

Which is Better: Subdomains or Subdirectories? Here’s What Google Says

February 13, 2015 at 4:45 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Which is Better: Subdomains or Subdirectories? Here’s What Google Says

There has been plenty of discussion lately over whether subdomains or subdirectories are the better route to go – with many people from both sides supplying Google Analytics screenshots details to prove their argument, with probably the subdirectories side winning the argument. Obviously someone else who has seen all these posts and tweets lately decided […]

Why Google is Slow to Process & Index Some 301 Redirects

February 13, 2015 at 4:08 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Why Google is Slow to Process & Index Some 301 Redirects

On today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, one of the questions was why it can sometimes take significantly longer for Google to process some 301 redirects while others are processed quickly.  John Mueller from Google says there’s actually two parts of this issue. Google processes 301 redirects right away, as soon as they discover it. So […]

Pinterest Bans All Affiliate Links, Redirects & Trackers from All Pins on Entire Site

February 13, 2015 at 2:31 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Pinterest Bans All Affiliate Links, Redirects & Trackers from All Pins on Entire Site

If you’ve been making affiliate revenue on Pinterest, you’ll need to get a bit more savvy with how you do it as Pinterest is now banned all affiliate links from the popular social media platform. In an email sent out to their so-called “power pinners”, and they disclose that they are removing all affiliate links, […]

Pinterest Launches App Pins, Allowing Users to Install iOS Apps Directly from Pinterest

February 12, 2015 at 5:58 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Pinterest Launches App Pins, Allowing Users to Install iOS Apps Directly from Pinterest

If you are selling iOS apps, you had better start getting your Pinterest account set up because Pinterest and Apple are joining forces to have pinned apps on the popular image sharing site. Instead of just having pins link to various webpages, these new app pins are designed to not only promote the app but […]

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