Newstex Blog

Ten years ago in 2004, blogs ruled the internet and "blog" was named the word of the year by Merriam-Webster.

Home pages are losing value quickly. There was a time (in the not too distant past) when home pages were the top priority for website owners and consumers.

As we get deeper into the second half of 2014, it's disappointing to see the news publishing industry continue to struggle. The biggest problem? Failing to accept the irrefutable realities of the news publishing industry today.

Do you let your content writers tweet updates from your competitor publishers? The Hindu doesn't.That's according to a memo sent by The Hindu managing editor P. Jacob and senior managing editor V. Jayanth that Mint reviewed earlier today.

New data from Facebook's second quarter 2014 results shows just how big the social networking site has grown. As Shift Communications reports, Facebook reaches half of the connected human race.

This month, the Canadian Anti-Spam Leglslation (CASL) came into effect. If you send email messages in order to directly or indirectly promote your content, then you need to know what this law entails.

Some people learn by hearing. Others learn by reading. And others learn by seeing. The basics of human psychology and neurology tell us that to successfully communicate with a wide audience, you need to create content that engages with those people based on the way they like to learn and consume information.

Recently, there have been a number of situations in Europe where bloggers and content publishers have been the victims of censorship. The cause---because their content ranked high on search engines.

Content publishers face competition from a wide variety of sources, including content marketing agencies which publish content for brands and companies around the world.

Remember a couple of years ago when pundits warned that blogging was dead? Turns out they were very wrong and blogging is more popular today than ever.

Invested time and money into Google+ Authorship in the past could of years? You're not alone.Among the search engine optimization community, Google+ Authorship (where your Google+ profile image, byline, and Google+ circle count appears with your article links in Google search results) has been a top priority.

In 2012, Google received over 2 million search queries per minute. Fast forward to 2014 and that number has more than doubled.

