Do Third-Party SMM Tools Hurt Your Reach?
Whether you're using a third party tool to schedule all your social media posts or just recycle your evergreen content, is there a negative impact on your reach and engagement? Is it safe to use these tools, or should you be manually posting to social media sites? The...
Are You Shadow Banned on Social Media?
What is Shadow Banning? Shadow banning is a method used by administrators of social media sites to limit the effect that spam has on their communities, and limiting the benefit of posting spam to the spammers themselves. Different services have different methods and...
Do URL Shorteners Hurt SEO Performance?
URL shorteners like bit.ly are now ubiquitous among content creators and sharers. They're most often used in social media posts, and are appealing for their short aesthetics and can even offer analytics to help you track statistics. But since these are links to a...
Newsjacking: Targeting Topics for Organic Growth
If you have a new site that you're trying to build organic search traffic for, targeting popular keywords can be a very difficult task to bring to fruition. Instead of focusing on these highly competitive keywords, you can grow your traffic and domain authority by...
139 Facts about Instagram Infographic
Instagram, the ubiquitous photo sharing application that Facebook bought in 2012 for $1 billion continues to be one of the largest and most popular social media platforms in the world. Our friends at WebsiteBuilder put together a comprehensive infographic with 139...
The effect of Brexit on .eu Domain Names
Brexit is coming, and the European Commission has released a notice to stakeholders about what effect it will have on .eu domain names. These rules also apply to private parties, so do you have anything to worry about with your websites using the .eu top level domain...
What’s a Tweet Worth? $105,000 if it’s from John McAfee
Twitter is a top-20 website on the internet in terms of traffic, and it continues to grow. At the end of 2017, Twitter claimed 330 million monthly active users, a rise of 4% over the previous year. This huge user base provides excellent opportunities to reach...
Increase Website Traffic Without Building Links or Adding New Content
Ask the experts! Helga Moreno is a content creator and marketer at Ahrefs, and shares her knowledge with us: Do you think that building links that boost your domain rating and adding new content are the only ways to increase traffic to your website from the search...
WordPress Now Runs 30% Of All Websites
According to a survey of the most popular content management systems by W3Techs, since February of 2018 WordPress is being used on 30% of all websites on the net, up from 25% in 2015. Its market share of the content management industry is over 60% as a result....
Microsoft Removes Skype Classic Download
Microsoft removed the ability to download Skype as a desktop Windows application on or around February 14, 2018 citing security concerns with the application. Recent builds of Skype version 7.40 is still available at download sites if you prefer the desktop version,...
