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15 (More) Fascinating Facts About Internet and Social Media Use in 2021

Webbiquity

But Chinese search engine Baidu is #4. 98% of Internet users (globally, aged 16-64) say they use conventional search engines (the other 2% likely didn’t understand the question). 45% search for brand information on social media, and the same percentage use voice search. Yahoo is (still!) #11,

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Using a New Correlation Model to Predict Future Rankings with Page Authority

Moz

Correlation studies have been a staple of the search engine optimization community for many years. Each time a new study is released, a chorus of naysayers seem to come magically out of the woodwork to remind us of the one thing they remember from high school statistics — that "correlation doesn't mean causation."

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What Can Social Media Do for SEO?

Oktopost

The search engine recognizes that it’s easy for website owners to place these links, thus downgrading their value. Social media in search. Enhance brand awareness and brand search. Social media in search. That’s why you can optimize not only your website for search engines, but social media pages as well.

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Why Content Strategists Take Social Shares Seriously (And You Should Too)

Contently

With all of this progress, counting Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn shares may seem like a thing of the past. The way your content performs on social media is a great indicator of its overall effectiveness, including its search performance. They then tell marketers how to optimize their content for maximum visibility.

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Top 200 Google Ranking Factors: 2022 Complete List

seo.co

And, while link building has always been the bell of the ball when it comes to ranking, it is NOT the most correlated factor for ranking in Google. No, the most correlated ranking factor is that you have diversity among all the other top correlated factors. Correlation vs causation. Spearman correlations.

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Big Data: What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Use It

Webbiquity

Most businesses are inundated with big data every day, and most of it comes from three primary sources: Social data : This data is collected from things like web searches and the likes, tweets, comments, shares, videos, and photos across all social media platforms. Machine data : This is data that’s gathered from machine learning.

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20 Top Social Media Monitoring Tools

Brandwatch Marketing

1) Hootsuite Hootsuite is one of the best free social media listening tools available and covers multiple social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Foursquare and Google+. 4) Buzzsumo Buzzsumo is a great tool for content research, but it also has an excellent way to analyze and monitor your Facebook pages.