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User Experience (UX)
Broadly refers to the entire experience that a visitor to your website or app has. User experience also refers to a design approach that focuses on ease of use and testing to ensure that visitors to your site don’t become lost or confused, and can easily understand and navigate through the site’s infrastructure.
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The GDPR generally refers to a law adopted by the European Union (EU) that is related to personal privacies and human rights. It’s often invoked in regard to personal data that is collected by businesses, regulating their usage of this data. The law was adopted in 2016 and went into effect in 2018.
Making sure your data privacy and sharing policies are compliant with GDPR regulations is an important step for businesses that manage personal information.
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Social Media Marketing
Any outreach, paid or organic, via social media channels with the intent to generate engagement, leads and revenue for a company.
Social media sites differ greatly in their demographics and marketing options, so it’s important to research your audience and their preferred social platforms before engaging in social media marketing campaigns.
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Backlink
A backlink is linked text on a website that sends the user to another website. You’ll often see sources cited in articles via backlinks to another source.
Backlinks are extremely important for website authority, because you are aligning yourself with related websites and sources within your industry. It’s just as important to work toward obtaining links from other sites to yours, which signals to search engines that your website is useful and trustworthy. Many strategies exist for maximizing a site’s backlink profile.
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