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12 Solid Stats Surrounding Social Networking (Plus Four  Timely Tips)

Webbiquity SMM

Though it’s dangerous to assume anything about leadership in the social networking space (Facebook overtook MySpace as the biggest social network less than a decade ago , after all), the landscape does seem to have matured and stabilized somewhat at this point. However, that engagement ratio declined 26% in 2016.

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RIP: Social Media Networks & Features that Died in 2016

Ignite Social Media

Needless to say, a lot of newsworthy events happened in 2016. The social media space saw many changes as well. Social media networks constantly have to improve and evolve in order to stay relevant. This post will revisit some of the social media networks and channel features that didn’t make it to 2017.

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15 Things Smart, Social Savvy Business Marketers Never do on Facebook

Pam Moore

It’s no surprise that Facebook is still one of the hottest social networks around. Check out these statistics published by Facebook as of March, 2016. billion daily active users on average for March 2016. 989 million mobile daily active users on average for March 2016. Every social network is different.

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Social media stories: Your guide to all social media story platforms

Sprout Social

While feeds are carefully curated, social media stories tend to be more spontaneous. Now that you know a bit more about what social media stories are, let’s cover the platforms that have now introduced various versions of this feature. What platforms offer social media stories? Share behind-the-scenes.

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Instagram is bringing the algorithm to its feed, but don’t panic yet

Unmetric

In a blog post , the social network mentions that users miss almost 70% of the content on their feeds and to improve user experience, the new curated feed is being brought in. What you’ve been hearing is true; Instagram will soon be adopting the algorithmic newsfeed.

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Your Social Listening is Broken. Here’s Why.

Talkwalker SM

Visual Social Listening actually means more than just the emergence of visual-oriented social networks such as Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest. It also means that we are sharing more and more images on the traditional social networks of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Not anymore.

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Connecting the Bridge Between Social Media And SEO

Your Escape From 9 to 5

For 2016, experts say new SEO trends focus on keyword intent and search user needs. Is social media management still relevant? Social is the New SEO. SEO expert Neil Patel made a compelling argument related to Google’s recent stance on social signals. The number of global social media users is expected to reach 2.95

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