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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.
This week, the team at Automattic launched official statistics about the growth of WordPress.com during 2013, and the numbers are very impressive.
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.
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
The 2013 Good Push Index from Urban Airship offers two important findings for content publishers, which clarify the need for making content mobile-friendly.
Search engines drive the vast majority of traffic to most websites, but social media referrals are growing quickly while search traffic is slowly decreasing.
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.
How do journalists and content publishers use social media and how do they feel about social media as it relates to public relations?
There is one thing that broadcast news programs, national newspapers, online media giants, smaller content publishers, and publishers of every other size you can imagine have in common.
In its seventh annual Blawg 100 list of the best legal blogs, the American Bar Association's (ABA) ABA Journal has compiled a collection of 100 of the best legal blogs, which includes many of publishers who syndicate their Authoritative Content through Newstex.
Loz James of Content Champion reached out to content experts and marketing experts around the world to create the ultimate list of content marketing book recommendations.
The illusion of online authority and influence isn't a new problem. For years, people have been buying fake Twitter accounts and using robots to inflate follower numbers and boost trading topics on Twitter.
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