Instagram is one of the most popular and fastest-growing social media platforms, with roughly 1 billion new members joining the platform between 2020 and 2021, and even more anticipated to join in 2022. Unfortunately, as more people are using social media platforms, there are also more threats to online security and private information. Whether [...]
In 2022, YouTube is the second most popular social media platform, just behind Facebook. Whether you’re looking up music videos, cooking advice, gardening tutorials, or, really, anything else, you can find it on YouTube. Unfortunately, as we find ourselves online more and more, we are also experiencing greater threats to our online security, including [...]
In 2020, Twitter made headlines when 130 Twitter high-profile user accounts - including Barack Obama, Kanye West, and Warren Buffett, just to name a few - were compromised in a bitcoin scam. Some of the compromised accounts were used to ask individuals to send bitcoin currency to a specific cryptocurrency wallet, tweeting that the [...]
There are nearly 2.9 billion monthly active users on Facebook worldwide. In the United States alone, there are approximately 307 million monthly active users - this is roughly 93% of the US population. Unfortunately, the world’s most popular social media platform can be a target for hackers looking to take advantage of Facebook users. [...]
How do you decide what you share online? In 2022, many of our professional and personal interactions happen online. As a result, most of us have an online presence or persona - in fact, over 80% percent of Americans have at least one social media profile. However normalized being online is in 2022, there [...]
The war in Ukraine has been on everyone’s minds, with the entire world watching in horror as we see it unfold in real-time online and on social media platforms. As a company, Status Labs wants to do its part to support the people of Ukraine. “While it has been heartbreaking to watch this horrible [...]
There is a lot of guesswork in SEO. To avoid revealing too much information, Google tends to keep pretty hush hush when it comes to smaller algorithm updates, the weight of certain ranking factors, and any other insights that could help people game the system. As a result, to get the most out of [...]
Do you know what a Google knowledge panel is? Whether you think you do or not, you’ve seen a Google knowledge panel in the wild. Knowledge panels display fundamental information about businesses, celebrities, brands, countries, states, cities…pretty much any notable noun. As more of our lives move online, knowing how to put your best [...]
When it comes to where you rank in Google search results, if you’re not on the first page, you may as well be last. In 2022, you’ve got to be #1. With billions of web pages out there, ranking well in Google’s search results can feel like you’ve hit the jackpot. But it’s not [...]
The Google MUM update, which was announced in May of 2021, is likely to shape SEO strategy in 2022 and beyond. The update, focused on search intent and providing users with the best results through the use of AI, has replaced BERT to further improve Google search results. If you’re wondering who BERT is, [...]