Blog Posts by The Newstex Team

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August 6, 2014
Facebook Reaches Nearly 1 in 2 People with Internet Access Around the World

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.

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July 30, 2014
What Content Publishers Need to Know about Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation

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.

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July 28, 2014
Image Content - Not Just for Pinterest and Instagram

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.

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July 24, 2014
Bloggers Beware - Your Content Could Get You in Trouble with the Law

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.

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July 22, 2014
4 Lessons Authoritative Content Publishers Can Learn from Content Marketing Agencies

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

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July 19, 2014
6 Steps to More Successful Blog Posts

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.

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July 18, 2014
The Demise of Google Authorship Photos - What Does It Mean?

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.

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July 12, 2014
The Data Explosion in 2014 Minute by Minute - Infographic

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

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July 9, 2014
4 Key Factors Influencing Content Sharing Trends

Content sharing is a critical component of any online publisher's marketing plan, and new research from ShareThis identifies consumer sharing trends that dominated during the second quarter of 2014.

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July 2, 2014
Global Digital News Trends in 2014

Reuters Institute of Digital News and Reporting released its Global Digital News Report 2014 (based on a survey conducted by YouGov) and a number of interesting trends are revealed that show just how much the news industry has changed in a few short years.

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June 27, 2014
The Fight for Content Quality

PR Newswire's new guidelines to improve press release content quality. PR Newswire has joined the fight for content quality by launching a new press release evaluation process and quality guidelines which will reduce the number of low quality press releases that are published using its distribution service.

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June 26, 2014
Update: SCOTUSblog Denied Press Credentials

In May, I shared the story of SCOTUSblog's appeal of its denial of press credentials from the U.S. Senate Press Gallery. This week, SCOTUSblog's press credentials were denied again.

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