When Facebook went down, direct traffic to news sites went up
Facebook users turned to Google search or went directly to publishers....
How to reach consumers while protecting their privacy
The debate surrounding probabilistic versus deterministic cross-device tracking is nothing new. But with the rapidly evolving online landscape...
How to take advantage of strategic PPC audience targeting
Contributor Amy Bishop shows us how to use audiences within paid search campaigns to target and convert prospects more...
Should you keep your best content on your site or send it away?
Contributor Julie Joyce looks at the pros and cons of keeping content on your site versus sending it...
How social networks usurp Google’s local search dominance
Google may dominate most results, but not local search. Contributor Wesley Young looks at how Facebook and other social networks take a...
Finally! The 800 million ways Facebook gets serious about local business
Contributor Adam Dorfman explains how to capitalize on the one-two punch of Facebook advertising and organic engagement through Marketplace,...
Search and direct mobile navigation surpass Facebook as traffic referrers
The shift is likely the result of Facebook algorithm changes, but other factors may also be at work....
Google rolls out new ID requirements for US political ads
Due to increased scrutiny of how these ads affect users and voters, company says more transparency intiatives are to...
Facebook & Cambridge Analytica: What we know, what they knew & where that leaves us
A brief history of the many privacy disasters at the world's dominant social media platform, and what the most recent data exposure means for...
Does Cambridge Analytica have your info? Here’s how to check
Facebook is making it easy for users to find out if their data was scraped and is launching a data abuse bounty program to report app...
5 conversion boosters to optimize your PPC campaigns
Earlier this year, Facebook broke some bad news. Organic reach is officially being choked, making it harder for brands to reach the audiences...
7 marketing and promotion tactics to get your content discovered
Contributor Kristopher Jones outlines seven tried-and-true content promotion strategies that will drive traffic to your content and...
30 questions to ask that so-called PPC ‘expert’ before hiring him/her
Just say no to the expert if he/she can't answer the following 30 PPC, content and remarketing questions, says contributor John Lincoln. ...
Search outpaced social for referral traffic last year, driving 35% of site visits vs social’s 26% share of visits
According to a new referral traffic report from Shareaholic, 2017 was the first time since 2014 search owned a larger share of visits over...
Google’s growth in online local reviews continues to dominate, but…
Contributor Jamie Pitman shows us why we should keep an eye on TripAdvisor and Facebook when trying to increase online...
Federal Election Commission proposal toughens political ads disclosure rules
The rule would bring traditional media disclosure requirements to digital ads....
Publishers turn to ads, search following Facebook’s News Feed change
Media companies are turning to paid distribution and other platforms to insure them against Facebook’s latest algorithm...
Facebook updates branded content policy to clarify what qualifies as content
Facebook will bar publishers and creators from using its branded content tagging tool to promote content that they were not involved in...
European press agencies push for licensing fees for their content from Google, Facebook
It remains to be seen whether European legislators and regulators will pick up the cause, but there's a possibility that they will....
Facebook Local is the social network’s stab at Yelp, Foursquare
Facebook’s new app lets people find nearby things to do and places to...
