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New git tooling features

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 includes fantastic updates to everyone working with Git. They bring the richness of both GitHub and Azure DevOps into Visual Studio and part of your natural workflow. This greatly simplifies your inner loop, making you even more productive than before.
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19 Aug 2024

What We Didn’t Do Boosted Our Paid Ad CVR by 11% [Expert Interview]

Our CRO team made a change that lifted the performance of our paid ads by almost 11% — and they didn’t have to make any deals with supernatural beings to do it.

Digital Marketing

19 Aug 2024

How Wistia earned absurd growth with two-pizza teams

Chris Savage once raised $17.3m in debt to do a leveraged buyout of his own company.

Digital Marketing

19 Aug 2024

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Confidential Virtual Machines with Ubuntu Pro enabled Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS Confidential VMs with Ubuntu Pro now available on Azure Marketplace, offering enhanced security and compliance for sensitive workloads.

Desktop & Laptop

17 Aug 2024

Real Estate Social Media Automation: Top 7 Tools for 2024

Social media management can be a total time-suck. That's where real estate social media automation comes in.
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Digital Marketing

17 Aug 2024

Instagram Growth: 21 Ways to Get More Followers and Reach

Expand your brand's reach and get more followers with these tried and tested Instagram growth strategies, today.
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Digital Marketing

16 Aug 2024

How to Make Money on Instagram in 2024: 11 Tactics That Pay

Whether you're a brand or a content creator, there's big bucks to be made on social media. Learn how to make money on Instagram in 2024.
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Digital Marketing

16 Aug 2024

The Fediverse Files: Making Social Media Fun Again

Social media has become unruly and hard to navigate. (An understatement, we know.) How can the fediverse make social media fun again? Tune in.

16 Aug 2024

SERP Tracking With Free Tools: A Beginner’s Toolkit

Each of these free tools allows you to check rankings in different locations, without “contaminating” the results with Google’s personalization algorithm. Here’s the first one. The SERP Checker lets you check the top 10 pages for any keyword in 243&#82...

Digital Marketing

16 Aug 2024

Win the Client With Your Next SEO Proposal (+ Expert Tips and Template)

In this article, I’ll explain what an SEO proposal is and how to craft it to win over the prospective client. I’ll share my SEO proposal template based on my agency experience and tips from the SEO pros to give…Read more ›

Digital Marketing

16 Aug 2024

Follow My SEO Content Creation Process: How I Rank #1 on Google

I’ve created plenty of them in my career. In fact, I’ve written 111 articles for this blog, of which ~80%—90% are SEO content. Altogether, they receive an estimated 121,000 monthly search visits from Google. Suffice it to say, I know…Read more &#...

Digital Marketing

16 Aug 2024

49 Call-to-Action Examples You Can’t Help But Click

Think about all the times you’ve signed up for things in your life. Did you once download Evernote? Dropbox? Spotify? Maybe you’ve even taken a class on General Assembly.

Digital Marketing

16 Aug 2024

13 Best Free (& Private) Email Accounts & Service Providers for 2024

When I was growing up, your first email address was a rite of passage (I see you, smileygirl747 and thegrouchy1). Today, it’s simply a necessity for many daily activities. Need a free email address?

Digital Marketing

16 Aug 2024

Managed storage with Ceph

Treat your open source storage infrastructure as a service What if storage was like coffee: menu driven and truly service oriented? Everyone knows how quick and easy it is to order a cappuccino or cortado and have a friendly barista bring it to you in just minutes. Now imagine this is a user who needs […]

Desktop & Laptop

16 Aug 2024

How Links Impact Organic Results and Local Packs — Whiteboard Friday

In this episode, Joy talks about the world of link building as it pertains to local SEO, specifically touching on how links impact local pack rankings.

Digital Marketing

16 Aug 2024

Instagram Engagement Rate Calculator + Tips and Benchmarks [2024]

Feeling overwhelmed by the numbers? We've got the easiest ways to calculate and increase your brand’s Instagram engagement rate.
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Digital Marketing

16 Aug 2024

Copilot Content Exclusion Now Available in Visual Studio 2022 17.11

We are excited to announce that Copilot Content Exclusion is now available in Visual Studio 2022 17.11. This feature allows your admins to configure Copilot to ignore certain files in a repository or organization, giving you enterprise control that ensures sensitive information is protected while seamlessly integrating trusted AI for efficient coding.
The post Copilot Content Exclusion Now Available in Visual Studio 2022 17.11 appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

16 Aug 2024

How We Built It: Beeper’s New Blog

Our special projects team was eager to build Beeper a new blogging home. Here's the beautiful result.

16 Aug 2024

New Threads Features for Creators and Businesses

We're introducing new web features to help you understand how your Threads content is performing and simplify the planning process.
The post New Threads Features for Creators and Businesses appeared first on Meta.

16 Aug 2024

New ways to connect to the web with AI Overviews

We’re bringing AI Overviews to six new countries, sharing more on our work to connect people to the web, and introducing updates for AI Overviews in Search Labs.

16 Aug 2024

Meet our Public Sector team at Technet Augusta 2024

We’re excited to announce our participation in Technet Augusta 2024 from 19 to 22 August.

Desktop & Laptop

15 Aug 2024

The 21 Social Media Metrics You Must Track for Success in 2024

Pin down the social media metrics that really matter and learn how to track them to build a winning social media presence.
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Digital Marketing

15 Aug 2024

20+ Expert Tips on How to Get More Views on YouTube in 2024

Learn how to get more views on YouTube by responding to comments, creating video playlists, designing attention-grabbing thumbnails, and more.
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Digital Marketing

15 Aug 2024

How to Get Followers on TikTok in 2024: 22 Proven Tips

Don't be fooled by websites that offer to sell you "real" TikTok followers. Learn how to get followers on TikTok for free, the honest way.
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Digital Marketing

15 Aug 2024

4 ways to shop for back to school on Google

Google Shopping offers new tips for back to school shopping.

15 Aug 2024

How we’re strengthening online safety in Singapore

At our second Safer with Google event, we touched on several of our security initiatives to keep Singaporeans safe in an AI-driven future.

15 Aug 2024

Web Analytics 101: The Beginner’s Guide That I Live By

One of my favorite things to do on my personal website is to dig into web analytics.

Digital Marketing

15 Aug 2024

The 20 Best Marketing Automation Tools Available to You

A majority of businesses use marketing automation tools nowadays — in fact, studies cite around 56% of businesses currently use the technology, and that number continues to grow.

Digital Marketing

15 Aug 2024

Why Short-Form Video Is the Future Of Lead Generation

Short-form video is revolutionizing the way that businesses approach primary lead generation. But do you know why — and how to apply it to your marketing strategy?

Digital Marketing

15 Aug 2024

What to know about our August 2024 core update

This post announces the August 2024 core update to Google Search.
This update is designed to continue our work to improve the quality of our search results by
showing more content that people find genuinely useful and less content th...

SEO

15 Aug 2024

Iranian backed group steps up phishing campaigns against Israel, U.S.

Google’s Threat Analysis Group shares insights on APT42, an Iranian government-backed threat actor.

15 Aug 2024

Announcing a new way to build technical skills: 30 Day Plans on Microsoft Learn

Are you hoping to learn new technical skills to excel in your current job or prepare for a new career? Is your organization looking to upskill employees in AI and other critical technologies? Microsoft Learn’s 30 Day Plans are a great option for skilli...

15 Aug 2024

New video calling features coming to Google Meet

An updated calling experience and new features in Google Meet make connecting with friends and family more fun.

14 Aug 2024

3 Trending Now updates to help you keep up with the latest trends

We've rolled out a new Trending Now experience with more local and up-to-date trends, and expanding it to over 100 countries.

14 Aug 2024

10 years of Classroom: What we’ve learned, and what’s to come

Google Classroom celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and tools for teachers.

14 Aug 2024

First preview of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 with .NET 9

We’re excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview 1 – the first preview of our next update to Visual Studio. This update focuses on providing fantastic developer experiences for working with .NET 9 projects and new AI productivity features,
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14 Aug 2024

How To Plan and Run a Successful Client Meeting – Next Level

Client meetings are one of the keys to success for any SEO consultant or marketer. In this edition of Moz’s educational Next Level series, Meghan shows you how to use Moz Pro to prepare for and run a successful meeting with your clients.

Digital Marketing

14 Aug 2024