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Google Browser Size Helps Increase Engagement

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Browser Size from Google Labs is quite an eye-opening tool. It tells you quite visually what percentage of your traffic is seeing a chopped-off version of your web page. The first impression your website makes is how much of it can be seen in the visible area of a browser. Before the user decides to click, or even scroll anything, he will be looking at your website through a narrow lens. It’s in your best interest to optimize your content to look fantastic even when the window is small. Often overlooked, the way your webpage fits into your visitors’ viewport needs to be optimized to showcase all your best content. Note that viewport size isn’t simply just a function of mobile vs. web. People have different screen sizes for their computers, from 11 inch or smaller laptops to 32 inch or more monitors. Also, many many users do not keep their browsers maximized; they resize the browser into all different shapes and sizes. Yet, for all of these different types of visitors, we want to make a...

How to check for Google seo updates and confirm them

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If you have a site, you are always keen to know how it is faring in the search engine rankings. Everybody wants their site to be in the top one or two pages of Google or any of the other search engines and are doing everything they can to improve the SEO of their site. While there are many ways to find out the performance of your site and how many hits it is receiving, webmasters find it a problem when there is a search update from Google. This is how people identify the changes in the traffic. Now tools like Google Analytics do help you check out your site stats quite accurately as long as things are constant and there is no great change in the manner search engines evaluate or rank sites. But with Google SEO Updates becoming so common and dynamic, webmasters are unable to comprehend the net impact of these updates on the ranking of their sites. They are also puzzled with the ever changing position of their sites on the search engines and are unsure about what is causing it – is ...

Dos and Don’ts for Brands on Social Media

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The unparalleled growth in popularity and interest in social sites like Facebook and Twitter saw an initial clamour from organisations of all sizes to adopt social media marketing. A consequence of this was a series of out of touch corporate organisations attempting to force their brand messages on to consumers in an environment they were wholly inexperienced and unprepared for. Learning from those mistakes the majority of brands are now highly social media savvy and able to interact smoothly with consumers. Being a casual consumer led environment, users are often wary of corporate brands intent on mere self-promotion rather than adhering to the values of the site itself. It is a fine line for corporations to balance the need to advertise with the need to interact and getting the balance wrong will seriously damage their consumer PR efforts. Take a look at the following guide to dos and don’ts on social media and you will make sure your brand doesn’t run the risk of losing followers or...

Great Lakes Angels hosts deal night for investors

Great Lakes Angels, Inc., a nonprofit corporation is hosting March “Madness” Deal night, 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 27 at Great Lakes Angels, 568 Woodway Ct., Suite 1, Bloomfield Hills. The three presenting companies are Stkr.it, Carbon Motors and Hoscomm Systems. Stkr.it / is a company that turns digital memories into scrapbook pages and greeting cards. Carbon Motors / is developing the CT7 Autonomous Surveillance Vehicle for the global law enforcement market with electric drive propulsion, facial recognition, automatic license plate recognition, gunshot detection, thermal imaging, WMD dirty bomb detection and 360 degree audio and video capability. Hoscomm Systems / is a physician focused secure mobile communication network business. The mission is to organize and mentor angels and provide a forum to grow in knowledge and wealth and foster more angel investing. For more information, visit glangels.com/ or email dweaver@glangels.org.

Google Reader will be cremated in July; RIP Google Reader!

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As a part of this spring-cleaning, Google has decided to burn down it’s not so popular Google Reader. Google is bringing it down on July 1 st . It started of as a feed parser, which turned into feed reader. It was launched as a Google Lab project in 2005. Later it was integrated with iGoogle along with added social features. In 2011, Google fired its social features and started all social features under a separate with as Google +1. After this, a lot of people lost interest in feeds and browsers dropped support for reading feeds. Why is it good to dismantle Google Reader? Although it is good to have immediate access to all latest information as soon as it is made available to readers, but not all websites support RSS feeds. So, it is not possible to subscribe to all your favorite websites. Another problem is that a lot of feeds are updated frequently, and not all of them are of your interest. Therefore, it takes time to sort feeds that are of your interest from this large pool of data....

Importance of Keyword Research in Search Engine Optimization

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You type few words on the search box; that’s where everything begins! In Search Marketing, keyword research plays a very vital role. Correct ranking of the right keyword can make our website. If not, it will break your website. Learning SEO tricks will not work for you if you do not understand your customer. Because at the end of the day, it  doesn't  matter how many visitors visited your site, the right visitor is all your website needs. With the help of keyword research, you get a better understanding of the shift of demand. Based on this, you can respond to the changing market and produce your product or service accordingly. Judging the Value of Keywords How worthy is a keyword to your website? Suppose you own an online apparel store. Now, you need to generalize whether you make more sales when visitors search for “red dress” or “black dress”. Keywords that visitor types on the search bar are available to webmaster. Keyword research tools allow you to find details about the...

Tips to safeguarding your wealth

Submitted by Ginny Grimsley of News and Experts Litigation is America’s fastest growing business because plaintiffs have everything to gain and nothing but a few hours’ time to lose, says Hillel Presser, attorney and author of “Financial Self-Defense (Revised Edition),” www.assetprotectionattorneys.com . “Even if a case seems utterly ridiculous, like the man who struck and killed a teenager with his luxury car and then sued the boy’s family for damage to his bumper, defendants are encouraged to settle. It’s sometimes the only way to avoid potentially astronomical legal fees,” he says. While it helps to have the assistance of a lawyer who specializes in asset protection, there are many things you can do yourself. “You shouldn’t have any non-exempt assets in your name,” Presser says. “The goal is to ‘own’ nothing but control everything.” Presser suggests these resolutions for safeguarding your wealth in the event of a lawsuit: • Inventory your wealth. Figure out how much ...