Creating a mobile website is not easy. Of course, you have those free plugins that will make an instant change with a tap, but creating a real mobile version of a website with a proper responsive design, and good user experience requires lot of thinking and hard work. Google wants to help you. Google says that one reason for a high bounce rate on referrals from mobile devices is the bad user experience on websites. And there is only one way to fix it. Create a good mobile experience for users! Read full article [...]
Hope not. But it appears that possibilities point in this direction. Now, that Instagram is bought for $1 Billion by Facebook, Instagram, which was one of the rarest apps that ran purely on soul and emotions, might turn the other way round. Instagram is all about the community Instagram is(was) built solely on emotions and that’s why probably Kevin Systrom kept it simple and to the point. There were no distractions or ads, which was a huge USP in my opinion. It would’ve been an huge task Read full article [...]
On SEO forums, you find this question pop up many a times – “Why did my website suddenly drop in ranks? I did nothing problematic recently.” Within the question itself lies the answer. There was a sudden drop in Google ranks and this was caused by something you did well in advance if not recently. And significantly enough, 90% of the cases have connections with wrong or black hat SEO techniques. Well, let us say “greyhat”, to make it clear. But even then, predicting a Google penalty is Read full article [...]
Fundraising on Social Media has always been an opportunity nobody got right. There sure has been several attempts from sites like fund.ly but none of them really got picked up or embraced by social media. There is no one single website your friend would recommend when you ask for a fundraising option except PayPal may be, which is a bunch of hurdles to set up. So, here’s another new startup that’s offering just that – fundraising via your friends on social networks. Crowdtilt – It looks Read full article [...]
So, the first time I heard about this website, I was not interested at all. I mean, I’m not on social media to shop stuff online. But then I thought…Oh! Well, may be there are folks out there who’d buy things for a deal. Enter Buzzmart, another social media startup trying to make it big in social media shopping – a not so explored area. According to the website.. Buzzmart.com is a new, innovating and dynamic online shopping marketplace platform that offers a people-centric approach to Read full article [...]
MicroSoft is keen on encouraging game developers to got the plugin free, HTML5 way, and it’s a good move as well. Recently, they revealed the new website that will help developers build HTML5 based games. According to MS, With the release of Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 5 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview, it’s never been easier to build sites that work well in all modern browsers. The web continues to evolve and IE10 PP5 supports 33 new HTML5 & CSS3 site-ready web standards – Read full article [...]
In a step that looks like a signal to a major technological advancement in mobile payments technology, Google acquires another major payment technology company TxVia. TxVia is a technology pioneer that offers a fast, flexible and highly reliable payments platform. Their technology, at some point will be integrated with Google Wallet, I assume. Since 2008, TxVia has supported the management of more than 100 million accounts with Google Wallet already. They’ve partnered with the industry’s Read full article [...]
Steve is a spammer.He makes $1000 a day on Pinterest. And he’s proud about it.
According to him, Pinterest is the easiest to spam social network today, so much that they are doing almost nothing to “catch” his multiple spam bot accounts in there. His source of income? Amazon affiliates.
So, what’s the story all about?
Steve started the whole deal on Feb 20th, when Pinterest used to use a script called Skimlinks. What this did was when anything was pinned that had any type of affiliate Read full article [...]
These days, with an overwhelming number of social networks that we’re on, social media fatigue is probably a bi-product and nothing to be worried about. Interestingly, not everyone complains of fatigue. I know for a fact that my 20 year old cousin won’t complain, like my 40 year old aunt. A lot of things like age, background, expert level etc should go into the mix for genuinely counting what a “fatigue” really is but I’m sure you’d all agree that we’ve come across it sometime or the Read full article [...]
Creating an editorial calendar is probably the first step in planning your content marketing mix. An easy task, we all skip just because it takes time to plan well.
Planning is really important in social media marketing but I’m personally not a fan of going according to plans. Planning is good but you got to improvise on it based on trends and circumstances, or it gets stale. One could plan one year ahead, but there should also be space for improvisation.
Well, the amazing folks at Distilled, Read full article [...]
