Facebook Finally Launches Reactions

Facebook first began testing reactions back in 2015 – introducing the first thoughts that the Like button we have come to love may one day be gone. Well today is that day as Facebook officially rolls out Reactions and replaces the Like button for mobile and desktop users. The Like button does make a come-back […]

Easily Create Stunning Social Posts With Adobe Post

When it comes down to social media management there are two main hurdles to get over. First you need to come up with the content to share, and then you need to come up with the graphics to go along with it. Well Adobe is here to help with a new mobile app called Adobe […]

60% Off All New Hosting Packages from HostGator

HostGator has kicked off a brand new sale – starting right now and running until Monday, February 29th, 2016. During this sale you can use coupon code [coupon code=”HostGator LEAP2016″ /] to score 60% off you’re new hosting account! Keep in mind that this HostGator coupon code is only valid for new customers, and expires at 11:59pm CST […]

Google Begins Rolling Out Campaign Drafts and Experiments in AdWords

Google has began rolling out Google AdWords Campaign Drafts & Experiments – a new suite of features intended to let advertisers test and measure changes to their campaigns with ease. Things essentially break down into two main features: Drafts – which let you prepare and review multiple campaign changes without actually implementing any live changes. […]

Google Confirms: No Need To NoFollow Related Posts

The majority of blog’s out there showcase “related” posts at the end of their blog post – and in most cases this content is automatically generated via a plugin – and a common concern is whether or not these auto-generated links need to be “nofollow“. And the final answer – no. Google’s John Mueller confirmed this […]

Infographic: Snapchat Stats For Marketers

Snapchat is still a relatively new piece of technology in the marketing space, and while it has achieved immense popularity among it’s users in a rather short period of time – the marketing world is still piecing together the data and coming up with various marketing campaigns that can utilize Snapchat effectively. That said – MarketingProfs […]

Google AdWords Will Only Support Internet Explorer 11

Now that Microsoft has given up on supporting older versions of Internet Explorer – Google is starting to filter out the older versions of IE from it’s various services. To start off – Google AdWords is dropping support for all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer except for IE 11. Google announced the news via a […]

Facebook & Instagram Now Support 90 Day Advertising Campaigns

Facebook has announced support for 90-day campaigns  – letting marketers run de-duped campaigns over a longer period of time. The new functionality is live already, and also extends to Instagram campaigns. Facebook says on its Marketing Partners website “When running longer campaign lengths, we suggest that you also utilize the frequency cap interval feature. Currently, […]

Bing Predicts Carolina Will Win Super Bowl 50

Super Bowl 50 is right around the corner, and if Bing’s predictions are right – the Carolina Panthers are going to be this years winners. Check out the prediction for yourself here. “In Sunday’s title game, the Bing Predicts models project 17-1 Carolina to win the Big Game with 64 percent probability. During the regular […]

Nearly Half Of The World Is On The Internet

Every year We Are Social publishes a global report showcasing many of the key statistics surrounding digital, social, and mobile media. Usually these give you a great idea of what to expect for the remainder of the year – letting you tweak your marketing and advertising campaign to better suite the trends. 2016 brings with […]

Google Confirms: External Links Are Not A Ranking Factor

Yay! There’s more confirmations from Google! This time around Google’s John Mueller has stated that external links are not a ranking signal. The news came from a Google Hangout, and can be viewed here at 19:53 in the video. Our point of view, external links to other sites, so links from your site to other people’s […]

Introducing TrumpScript – Donald Trump Style Programming

Sam Shadwell, a Rice University of Texas student, has written a brand new programming language which does everything Donald Trump style. The new language is a modified version of Python, and it will only do and output things that The Donald would do or say himself. Here are TrumpScript’s features: TrumpScript won’t run via root […]

Pingdom Launches Page Speed Monitoring Tool

Pingdom has rolled out Page Speed Monitoring – a brand new service which automates full page performance tests which you can use to analyze and optimize you’re websites performance. Website load times are extremely important, for both user experience and SEO purposes – and this type of check let’s you identify if you’re website is […]

Amazon Offers Free SSL/TLS Certificates

Speaking of SSL certificates, Amazon has rolled out the Amazon Certificate Manager – a free service that lets you deploy SSL certificates which you can utilize with AWS services. Oh, did I mention –  it’s free! The downside being that ACM (Amazon Certificate Manager) is currently only available in the Northern Virginia region – however Amazon […]

A Non-Secure Icon Is Coming To Google Chrome

Talk across the Interwebs this morning is revolving around a possible upcoming decision by Google Chrome to flag non-secure websites via a red “x” icon. The feature hasn’t been officially announced, however a new hidden option is now available within Chrome which lets you “Mark non-secure origins as non-secure, or as ‘dubious’“. Want to try […]

Hivelocity Launches Rapid Restore to Speed Data Backup

Hivelocity has launched a new service designed to make life better when it comes to recovering you’re website. The new service, called Rapid Restore, is designed to make data restorations up to 20x faster than a typical data recovery effort. The service can restore server data from up to 200GB per hour, providing protection from hard […]

Facebook Has 823 Million Mobile Only Users

Facebook has announced it’s fourth quarter 2015 earnings this week – which revealed some rather interesting and important numbers that webmasters and marketers should take note of. First off, Facebook is now up to 1.59 billion monthly active users – a 14% increase from last year. Monthly active mobile users are up to 1.44 billion […]

Spend Less Time Tweaking Your Facebook Ads With The Facebook Grid Tool

When it comes to running Facebook advertising campaigns one of the most common issues most business owners face is passing the Facebook text-rule. See Facebook has a rule, ads that have more than 20% of text in their image won’t be approved to run on Facebook or Instagram. However time and time again I find business owners […]

Score 10% Off Any Annual Volusion Store

Volusion has kicked off their first promotion for 2016 – 10% off any annual store plan! Considering that you ALSO get a free 14-day trial – Volusion is making it pretty cheap and easy to start selling online. There’s no coupon code necessary either. Simply follow the graphic below, and select any annual plan after […]

Bing Now Powers AOL Search Results

Bing and AOL announced a long term partnership back in July of 2015 and now, as of Jan 1st, 2016, Bing has taken over AOL search – successfully powering all of AOL’s search results. As of Jan. 1, Bing powers AOL’s web, mobile, and tablet search, providing paid search ads and algorithmic organic search results to […]