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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. 

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:

Back in May we reported the announcement of Google MUM and what it might mean for search. MUM began to come into effect in June 2021, with the aim of delivering improved search results based on a more real-world understanding of language and complex queries. This updated blog gives more information about Google MUM and how it is likely to be applied in real world searches. 

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.

You may be aware that Google is planning to update their search algorithm by implementing Core Web Vitals as a search ranking factor, this update was initially scheduled for May 2021, but it has now been pushed back to mid-June 2021. However, it’s well worth being aware of the planned changes so that you can be ahead of the game in managing their potential impact on your website ranking and visibility.

HubSpot announced the launch of their new Hub today. The new HubSpot Operations Hub has been a closely guarded secret and only certain top tier partners, Innovation Visual included, were granted a sneak preview at the new functionality in advance of the launch on 21 April 2021.