Month: December 2024

3 Common Social Media Mistakes That We Don’t Talk About Enough

Amanda NatividadBy Amanda Natividad
You know it’s not scalable, but you do it anyway. You email your friends, “Hey, I just posted this thing on LinkedIn. Would you mind resharing it with your network?” Friend, some tough love: This has got to stop. It’s not that you shouldn’t ask for support. It’s not about reciprocation either. It’s that begging for reshares or retweets isn’t…
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Are your customers switching to AI tools (and how much)? SparkToro’s new Search & AI Tools feature has the answers

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
There is a lot of activity moving to LLMs and generative AI tools right now, and for marketers, founders, and creators, the questions are almost always the same: Are my customers moving from traditional methods of discovery to these platforms? If so, how much? Starting today, SparkToro has the answers. Using clickstream panels from our partners at Datos, we’re able…
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The State of Digital Agencies in 2024: Big Challenges, Bigger Optimism, and Is Remote Work Here to Stay?

Paddy MooganBy Paddy Moogan
Introductory note from Rand: This extraordinary research was put together by the brilliant Paddy Moogan, who’s had a long career in marketing agencies, and now coaches other agency owners and runs The New Leader newsletter (to which I’m a subscriber). Paddy’s contribution here cannot be overstated – he’s assembled a mountain of survey data from 612 agency owners and consultants…
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New Research: We analyzed 332 million queries over 21 months to uncover never-before-published data on how people use Google

Rand FishkinBy Rand Fishkin
Google is a massive presence on the modern web. They’ve held 90%+ of the global search market share for 15 years. Even the rise of AI tools has been unable to budge that number (so far). They get <9% of all web visits, but send more than 60% of all referring traffic to other sites. Google is certainly one of…

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