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The Hidden Pitfalls of Instagram's Banned Hashtags in 2024: Navigating the #ValentinesDay Conundrum

In the ever-evolving landscape of social media, staying informed about the rules and regulations is crucial for maintaining visibility and engagement. As we embrace Valentine's Day in 2024, a significant aspect that businesses and content creators must consider is the use of hashtags, particularly understanding which ones are currently banned by Instagram, including the widely popular #ValentinesDay. This insight is particularly relevant today when the urge to use thematic hashtags is at its peak.

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Building your business with effective and powerful stress-free marketing

Marketing is essentially the way that customers hear about your business. It encompasses everything from big billboard on a busy road that capture the attention of everyone who passes to direct social ads to a very tight and defined audience. The secret is in determining which type of media and communication is correct for your brand, your business, your customer and your strategic aim. The aim or goal is the most important thing to clarify effective marketing is based on what you are trying to achieve rather than simply copying what other businesses do it appearing anywhere for the sake of it. Square Balloon work closely with you to plan Marketing activity against your business goals, to report against those goals and deliver results.

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You need Local SEO to boost your local Google Presence

For anyone who’s involved in digital marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) remains an important strategy. SEO has changed a lot in recent years, and currently one of its key benefits is helping local businesses gain visibility. While it’s very hard to compete in the saturated global markets, it can be relatively easy and cost-effective to help small businesses thrive through local search engine optimization. There are simple optimization strategies that are proving very effective, which anyone can replicate in their local area to achieve spectacular results. In case you’re lagging behind on this matter, this article will bring you up to speed.

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Facebook stops sharing & scheduled sharing from Hootsuite

Facebook made an announcment that they were stopping sharing to your profile via the API on April 24th, with a target date of 1st of August for the changes.  This has effected apps like Hootsuite and Buffer who use the API to make posts of personal profiles.  

Here's the original post https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/24/new-facebook-platform-product-changes-policy-updates/

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