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Nine Benefits of Using Social Proof in Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Social proof is more persuasive when reviewers or influencers are viewed as competent or more acquainted with the industry or product category than the observer. ComScore’s case study shows how social proof affects conversions using their landing pages. Product research can take a long time.

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Instagram Looks More Like Snapchat and Facebook’s New Video Metrics | Social You Should Know

Ignite Social Media

If you have been keeping tabs on what features Instagram is rolling out to compete directly with Snapchat, you can add the latest direct messaging feature updates to the list. In addition, ComScore and Nielsen are enlisted to ensure that the ads purchased are delivered to the intended audience. These metrics matter to advertisers.

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You Must Read This!

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It's not only competing with the regular slew of online publishers and traditional publishers trying to figure out how the digitization of media has forced their way to rethink publishing, but they are now competing with you and I - the new publishers of content. billion ads, comScore found." consumers spent 3.8 journalist.

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Google+: The New Kid on the Block, but is it Too Little, Too Late?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In June, comScore reported that one out of every six minutes is spent on a social network. This isn’t earth shattering news for Google, but they need to keep people’s attention if they want to compete with other networks. Twitter usually scoops news outlets like CNN, and LinkedIn can open the door to your new dream job.

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Socialympics: How Social Media and Blogging Has Boosted Sports Media

Convince & Convert

Nike+ has revolutionized how runners track progress, compete and interact. Dump your local sports section in the paper and hop on your iPad to read sports opinions from your favorite bloggers. Sports will never the be same and it’s quite exciting.

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URL Be Sorry! Google Cuts Back on Top-ranking Exact-match Domains

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However, the latest comScore figures show that Google sites were responsible for 11.3 According to a Cutts’ tweet on September 28th, 0.6% of English-US queries will be noticeably affected. This might not sound like many searches in the grand scheme of things. of queries amounts to almost 68 million searches per month.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

At that point, search engine optimization coalesced to become a form of geek chess, where SEO pros compete daily against Google’s own stable of geeks, playing a high stakes game of loophole discovery, exploitation, and elimination. SEOMOZ SEO Ranking Factors.

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