Blog Posts by The Newstex Team

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January 29, 2014
10 Ways to Increase Content Promotion with Pinterest

Pinterest is the second biggest driver of social media referral traffic to websites (behind Facebook), but it's still relatively untapped for Authoritative Content promotion.

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January 29, 2014
Faceboook Drives Double Referral Traffic of 7 Other Social Media Sites Combined

During the fourth quarter of 2013, Facebook drove more than twice as much referral traffic to websites than seven other social media sites combined (Pinterest, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+).

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January 24, 2014
5 Critical Reasons Publishers Need a "Mobile Always" Strategy

Did you know that most content publishers haven't prioritized mobile content delivery yet? As we near the end of the first month of 2014, one thing is absolutely certain---the world is mobile and your content must be mobile, too.

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January 15, 2014
The Future is Bright for Non-Profit Investigative Journalism

ProPublica President Dick Tofel[/caption]While the amount of true investigative journalism on network television today has dwindled to next to nothing, the future looks good for digital investigative journalism, particularly for non-profit publishers.

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January 9, 2014
The Illusion of Authority and Influence Part 2

Buying and selling social media followers has become big business in recent months. In November 2013, I shared statistics from a number of studies as well as an infographic filled with information about fake followers and the illusion of authority and influence online.

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January 8, 2014
Nearly 14 Million New Blogs Launched on WordPress.com in 2013

This week, the team at Automattic launched official statistics about the growth of WordPress.com during 2013, and the numbers are very impressive.

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January 3, 2014
Words to Ban from Your Content in 2014

Each year, Lake Superior State University in Michigan compiles a list of words that have become so overused that they should be banned from the English language.

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December 26, 2013
The Amazing Growth of Google - Infographic

How did Google become the powerhouse that it is today? Although it's hard to remember a time when Google wasn't the most popular search engine in the world or a time when Google wasn't the company behind many of the websites and tools that people use every day (like YouTube and Gmail), Google's enormous success didn't happen overnight

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December 23, 2013
Push Notifications Drive Higher Mobile App Opens and Retention Rates

The 2013 Good Push Index from Urban Airship offers two important findings for content publishers, which clarify the need for making content mobile-friendly.

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December 20, 2013
Search Traffic or Social Media Traffic - Which is More Important to Content Publishers?

Search engines drive the vast majority of traffic to most websites, but social media referrals are growing quickly while search traffic is slowly decreasing.

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December 18, 2013
Newstex Named to EContent 100 Companies that Matter Most in 2013

For the eighth year in a row, Newstex has been named to the EContent 100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry list.

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December 14, 2013
Social Journalism 2013 - How Content Publishers Use Social Media

How do journalists and content publishers use social media and how do they feel about social media as it relates to public relations?

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