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How to Improve Your Website’s Reputation With Google [Infographic}
Are you looking for ways to improve your reputation with Google? Want to boost your SEO efforts, and generate more targeted website traffic? The team from Red Website Design share their tips for improving your online reputation in this infographic. Here’s a quick summary of what you’ll learn: Review your current backlink profile. Create a list of your top posts…
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X Has Added a New Setting to Opt Out of it Using Your Data to Train Grok
Okay, this probably comes as no real surprise, seeing as though it’s actually a key selling point of the offering. But last week, X quietly added a new, explicit setting within your account options that gives X permission to use your posts and activity in the app to train its Grok AI chatbot. As explained here, X has now opted…
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New Data Suggests that X is Still Far From Profitability
While X’s owner and CEO continuously promote claims of surging popularity, and “record high” usage of the app, it seems that the transition to X has not been a financial winner for the platform, and may still spell the end for Elon Musk’s social media experiment. Over the weekend, The New York Times published a new overview of X CEO…
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Snapchat Adds New AR Experiences for the 2024 Olympics
Snapchat has outlined a range of new elements to celebrate the 2024 Olympics, including AR Lenses, official highlights, filters, and more. And Snap’s going to extra effort this time round to facilitate fan connection with the Games, which could help it drive more engagement during the event. First off, Snapchat’s added a range of AR Lenses, including several created in…
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Snapchat Announces the Latest Participants in Its 523 Support Program
Snapchat has announced the next 15 participants in its 523 creator accelerator program, which aims to provide support and assistance for small, minority-owned businesses and creatives, which traditionally don’t have access to such resources. Originally launched in 2022, Snap’s 523 program includes 12 months of support for the chosen participants, which will also see them receive mentorship opportunities, partner education,…
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TikTok Publishes Marketing Guide for SMBs
With holiday planning now in full swing, TikTok has published a new marketing playbook for SMBs, which could help you maximize your TikTok efforts. The 19-page playbook covers all aspects of TikTok marketing, with a range of notes and suggestions to help guide your approach. The full guide is available here (with email sign-up), but in this post, we’ll take…
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Reddit Cuts off Search Engine Scrapers, Including Bing
This is interesting. This week, Reddit mas moved to block search engines not named Google from crawling its site, via an update to its robot.txt file which blocks their crawlers. Microsoft’s Bing has now stopped crawling Reddit, after an update to the platform’s robots.txt file on July 1st, which essentially refuses access to all non-approved search engines, meaning that Reddit…
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Reddit Launches Lead Generation Ads
Reddit has launched its own version of Lead Gen Ads, which will enable marketers to gather prospective customer info direct from their promotions in the app. As you can see in this example, Reddit’s Lead Gen Ads function pretty much as you would expect. The ads include a “Sign Up” CTA (or similar), which, when clicked, takes the user through…
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Snapchat Announces the Latest Participants in its 523 Support Program
Snapchat has announced the next 15 participants in its 523 creator accelerator program, which aims to provide support and assistance for small, minority-owned businesses and creatives, which traditionally don’t have access to such resources. Originally launched in 2022, Snap’s 523 program includes 12 months of support for the chosen participants, which will also see them receive mentorship opportunities, partner education,…
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WhatsApp reaches 100 Million US Users
While WhatsApp has long been the biggest messaging platform in the world, it’s never really been a major focus in the U.S., where other platforms, like Messenger, have been the DM platform of choice. Till now. Today, WhatsApp has announced that it’s reached a new milestone of 100 million U.S. users. As per WhatsApp: “It’s been a long time since…
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