Regardless of where and how you start your business, you can bet your livelihood that if you are serious about it, at some point or another you will have to start using paid advertisements. While it is true that you can achieve a lot by dishing out high-quality articles and properly optimizing all of your content, there comes a time when your business needs a bit of an extra boost, and the StumbleUpon Paid Discovery feature can help you with that.
Although many people are now well aware of basic online safety precautions such as not entering credit card information on an insecure website, some willingly give others too much insight into personal situations through mediums such as Facebook. Data from the Pew Research Center suggests over half of social media users turned to these websites as a way to make plans with others.
In the olden days of the early to mid 2000s the world of search engines was a kinder simpler one. You had a few simple search engines competing against the growing tidal wave of Google that was well on its way to sweeping up the entire Internet ocean in its wake. SEO tactics, then still in their infancy were equally rudimentary. You had link-farms and carousels, keyword stuffing and other questionable tactics just waiting for a name. That the so-called 'black-hat' SEO is as old as the business is no novelty but what is interesting is just how stark the contrast between 'white hat' acceptable and 'black hat' bad has become lately.