IPweb Blog: Articles and analytics about website and social network promotion

Follower count matters less than it used to. Meta is paying creators to post original content and penalizing reposts, Instagram now lets users opt directly into or out of topics, and YouTube and TikTok are both leaning into AI-assisted creation and native in-app formats. Here's what actually chan...

Two app stores aren't the whole distribution picture. This guide covers every store worth knowing for the English-speaking market (US/UK/CA/AU): actual scale, revenue share, ASO tools like Apple's Custom Product Pages, and what's changed in 2025–2026 — Amazon Appstore dropped support for third-pa...

Where to host your code — and how to actually get it noticed.

Where an article actually gets read — and how each platform decides.

Etsy isn't the only option — here's where else handmade and resale actually sell.

Where discoverability actually comes from — and how to grow without getting banned.

Beyond the App Store and Google Play — where else to publish.

Testing mass-commenting instead of ads: setup, platforms, geo, results.

Google, Bing, Baidu, Naver, Brave, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Gemini — a breakdown of who really shapes search results, how ranking works on each platform, and what it takes to get found.

Organic growth takes months or years to pay off. Incentivized traffic — cashback, referral programs, gamification, and CPA — speeds it up by rewarding real users for real actions. Learn how to tell it apart from click fraud, which methods stay within platform rules, and how to avoid penalties whi...

Over 120,000 tracks hit Spotify every day — and most of them go nowhere. This guide breaks down how streaming algorithms actually work in 2026, which paid promotion services (Groover, SubmitHub, SoundCampaign and more) are worth your budget, and how independent artists turn a release into real, l...

Learn how YouTube dislikes work