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With Facebook’s holding company changing its name from Facebook to Meta there has been much talk of the metaverse recently. It's a new concept that has got marketers thinking about how the metaverse will impact their business and what they can do to leverage it. Here's more about the metaverse and what you need to know. 

In the world of SEO, Google E-A-T is on every SEO specialist’s radar and has been a trending subject since August 2018. E-A-T stands for Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness, which was outlined in Google’s official Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines. E-A-T looks at the content creation, the content creator, and the website overall to understand whether the content provides valuable and correct information to the user. This guide will explain what E-A-T is, how important it is, and how to optimise towards a SEO friendly website by using Google’s E-A-T as guidance.

The Innovation Visual team recently attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2021, one of the worlds’ largest global inbound marketing events. The event spanned three days and encompassed a wide range of inspiring discussions across all areas of digital marketing and culture. This year also saw some particularly inspiring speakers, including the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Spike Lee.

While the event was used to present and announce a series of new HubSpot tools and updates, its primary goal was to share ideas from industry leaders, many of whom delivered some exceptional sessions on the current inbound marketing thought-leadership and emerging trends. As a team we value Inbound as it is a great way to ensure we stay up to date on all things new in this area of digital marketing. Here are a few ideas from two presentations that stood out for us in particular this year:

Google continually updates its algorithms, with core algorithm and general updates happening throughout the year. The latest of Google’s general updates was the spam update, which rolled out on 26th July 2021 and took two weeks to roll out. The update concentrates on backlinks to websites and whether they are spammy or quality links. This article discusses the link spam update, what effect the update could potentially have on your website and how it will impact SEO, how Google may penalise links going forward, why links are so important for SEO, and an action plan to optimise towards the link spam update.

HubSpot launch the perfect website solution for small businesses and start-ups today. It’s been under wraps for a while, but we can now share the exciting news that HubSpot have made their exceptional CMS platform even more accessible and flexible with the launch of the new CMS Starter hub.

It's been a busy time for Google in the last couple of months. In June they rolled out the Core Web Vitals algorithm update and, as of 1 July, they will be rolling out the second part of that update. It is anticipated that it will take up to 2 weeks for the update to roll out completely. While all that is going on they have also been rolling out their Page Experience Update which will continue rolling out up until the end of August.