Blog Posts by The Newstex Team

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October 15, 2014
Happy Birthday Blogs

Twenty years ago, on October 7, 1994, software developer Dave Winer published his first blog post. The date is important because Winer also wrote the first blogging software which opened the doors to blogging as we know it today.

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October 9, 2014
The Weight of Words

Words carry weight and content publishers have a responsibility to choose their words wisely, particularly Authoritative Content publishers who have earned the trust of their audiences as credible sources of information.

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October 3, 2014
Fastest Growing Digital News Audience is Young Women

Women between the ages of 18 and 24 represent the fastest growing segment of the digital newspaper audience.

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October 1, 2014
Tapping into Instagram Growth for Content Promotion

Between mid-2013 and mid-2014, the number of Instagram users between the ages of 16 and 64 around the world jumped from 15% of all global Internet users to 20%.

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September 26, 2014
5 Tricks to Breath New Life into Old Content

What do you do with all of the old content in your site archives? Does it just sit there languishing? Does it attract spam comments faster than you can delete them?

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September 24, 2014
Direct Traffic Trumps Value of Search and Social for News Sites

There has been a lot of discussion about the growing importance of social discovery to drive traffic to content in recent years, and of course, SEO has been a priority for many content publishers for even longer.

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September 19, 2014
Analyzing Content Consumption Beyond the Click

As a content publisher, you're probably tracking the number of clicks to your content, the clicks visitors to your content are making once they arrive, and where clicks to your content are coming from.

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September 18, 2014
Amount of Time People Spend in Mobile Apps Jumps by 21%

The amount of time that people spend in mobile apps has jumped by 21% over last year, which means the average session length is longer than ever. Furthermore, the average number of sessions for an app is also higher than ever.

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September 12, 2014
Blogging Comes out on Top in State of Inbound 2014

The 2014 State of Inbound report has been released by HubSpot and thousands of marketers agree---blogging works.According to the research, blogging is the number one way that marketers get their content and companies found.

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September 10, 2014
How to Increase Revenue from Your Content

Timing, market conditions, frequency, and length---these are just four of the things that affect content revenue, which Newstex president Larry Schwartz and Jonathan Hoy, director of licensing and copyrights for the American Bar Association Publishing, shared at the recent SIPA conference.

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September 5, 2014
Rhett Butler of Mongabay Wins Prestigious Parker/Gentry Award

Rhett A. Butler, Founder of Mongabay has been awarded Field Museum's top conservation prize---the Parker/Gentry Award.

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September 3, 2014
SIIA Previews 2014 Call for Company Presenters

The annual SIIA Previews event will be held during the the new Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) conference---the Business Information and Media Summit (BIMS)---which is is coming to Miami, Florida on November 10-12.

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