In an online statement, Twitter said it has widened reporting on user engagement with Promoted Tweets – the sponsored tweets that appear at the top of its newsfeed – to include not just paid media but also earned media, or those that are...
There’s a university level feed, with more campus-wide news, and each college or school within that university generally has a dedicated news page that highlights accomplishments of students, faculty or staff members specific members of that...
After mashing up that data, I was able to calculate the approximate number of posts each feed had published, and what percentage of them I had starred: Obviously, whether an article from an RSS feed was starred or not was purely subjective, so I am...
YouTube for iOS gets access to live streams, My Subscriptions feed, video queuing for TV playback, and more – The Next Web All this and much more in our quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week.
For each article in a feed, show the excerpt. Not indexing quickly or often enough means your site could miss some big organic search opportunities, especially if your site relies on current affairs or breaking news.
Looking at Facebook usage specifically, it's staggeringly huge (20 percent of all pageviews are on Facebook):
percent of users' time spent on NewsFeed
million photos uploaded daily
billion Likes every day
million pages with 10+ Likes
million...
If you triangulate Facebook's moves with Nearby/Local Search, Graph Search, and mobile newsfeed ads, there's an opportunity to connect buyers and sellers in locally relevant ways. With Cover Feed, which gives you NewsFeed updates on your home...
The second realization is that there’s much more to effectively managing PLAs than just cleaning up a feed, uploading assets and doing basic manipulation and reporting. The first thing to realize is that PLAs have moved from being a feeds-based...
This Epicurious Twitter feed used the Boston Marathon bombings as a way to promote recipe content on its popular recipe site. Many organizations replaced scheduled content with acknowledgements of the news.
First, the image is onlytext, which, if that's your tactic, cool, but Facebook is cracking down ads in newsfeed with images that have 20 percent or more text. The great news is, many small to midsized business marketers can still eat big brands...
Digg is taking advantage of Google's decision to close its popular RSS feed reader Google Reader and has announced that it has already started developing its own version. Digg hopes to identify and rebuild the best of Google Reader's features...
Bear in mind now, Bing has direct feed access to the entire Facebook database of connections, Likes, and shares. I am not going to dig into that the entirety of that argument today, other than to note that in my recent interview with Bing's Stefan...
As promised, Facebook’s newsfeed is evolving to feature larger photos and multiple feeds that are designed to reduce clutter. The New Facebook NewsFeed In addition to the main newsfeed, Facebook is letting you browse updates by:
The median reach of a Facebook article is said to be around 16 percent – in other words only 16 percent of your followers will see your average Facebook posts in their newsfeed. Once they’ve responded, there’s a greater chance that future posts...
Social network Facebook has said it will roll out some major changes to its newsfeed during a March 7 event. Invitations were sent out Friday summoning media to "see a new look for NewsFeed" at an event set for this coming Thursday starting at 10...
The first result is a Bing news aggregation feed featuring posts from Huffington Post (posted just a few minutes prior to search and had 4 shares and zero comments), Search Engine Land (one day prior to search with a total of 1,168 shares and...
NewsFeed* NewsFeed The NewsFeed report will provide data for ads that are placed in a user’s NewsFeed. Ads are placed in the NewsFeed of users targeted by the advertiser who are notPage fans or friends of fans.
Data Feed or Biddable Media? Another important question that many marketers asked was whether to treat PLAs more like a data feed or biddable media. Can your feed partner effectively manage biddable media better than your optimization system or...
Local suggestions built from Nearby and locally oriented graph search will create monetizable inventory for advertising within the newsfeed. Facebook's Graph Search is just one example of the many impactful things we can expect in fast moving tech...
Facebook Ranking Factors: How to Gain an Edge in the NewsFeed Looking to take advantage of Facebook Graph Search, the social network’s new and improved internal search engine when it fully launches? Facebook has shared a few basic tips on how you...