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How Search Tactics are Replacing Hashtag Strategies for Social Media Success 

Ignite Social Media

Finding it hard to compete with social algorithm changes using hashtags? Here are tips to make sure you can outsmart social media search and get in your audience’s feed. Even Google acknowledged that almost 40% of young users used social media to look for a place for lunch instead of Google Maps.

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6 Ways Emerging Technologies Are Set to Change the Use of Social Media

SocMed Sean

Maria writes for a variety of blogs and today she shares her thoughts on how a variety of emerging technologies could potentially impact our use of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Let us look at the few technologies which will shape social media usage in 2018 and beyond. Facial Recognition.

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Here’s what you need to know about the Google+ shut down

Sprout Social

In October 2018, Google announced that it will be shutting down the consumer version of Google+ owing to insufficient usage. The initial announcement also stated that Google would complete the Google+ shutdown in 10 months. Since 2013, Google+ had been experiencing low activity. While there were 1.15

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This Week in Social Media – 6/12/2013

Social Media Marketing

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Social media isn’t always the right tool for the job. Over the last three days, I’ve spoken to four HUGE brands in America that are considering social media for one project or another, and there are many more out there working on how these tools might integrate into their business needs. Not every company needs a blog.

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17 Tips for Writing Effective YouTube Descriptions

Hootsuite

Tools like Google Ads’ Keyword Planner and Google Trends can help you get started. Google Trends, for example, will help you understand if a keyword you’re considering is trending. Source: Google Trends. More and more people find YouTube videos through Google searches rather than through YouTube itself.

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How to post a video on YouTube: The complete guide

Sprout Social

The latest Sprout Social Index™? found that YouTube is the second-most popular social platform (behind Facebook). Google says that 90% of people use it to check out brands and products. Even as TikTok continues to grow in popularity, brands should still invest in the original social video platform, YouTube.

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