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Using Content Curation To Find New Customers.
Being an Internet marketer for many years I’ve seen the landscape change many times but one thing has stayed the same “Content is King”, when it comes to driving traffic to a website.
As a business owner we all want to get new customers to our websites. Many have tried blogging to drive traffic to their website and due to a shortage of hours in a day they end up dropping the blog or hiring ghost writers to develop content for the site. We now have a new player on the net and it comes in the form of Content Curation. No it will not completely eliminate business owners creating content for their website but adds a whole new area of content development for a website.
Over the past two years I’ve tested different content curation sites and tools and have found Scoop.it to be the leader in both innovation and traffic building potential.
Below are examples on how Scoop.it can drive traffic and help to show the world, yes the world that your business knows your market.
In this article are 3 areas that when done correctly can drive new traffic to your business or brand?.
*** If you would like help setting up a Scoop.it traffic generator for your company. Contact Brian at 1-888-535-9139 or Email Me ideas@marketinghits.com ***
Does using stock photos on your pages have a negative effect on rankings? Do original photos help you help you in this regard? Greg M, Vancouver, BC
lat Social Media Icons is a collection of beautiful icons developed in the flat style. As you already know, we have issued several UI kits in the flat design style, namely Square UI (paid and free versions) and Flat UI (paid and free versions), and we’ve decided to create free social flat icons, so that the entire design fits the style.
In the pack, you will find 35 icons (PNG and PSD formats). Use them in your projects, commercial and non-commercial use if free.
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Have you ever thought about how many fonts you really need and really use on a given project? Maybe 2 fonts will be enough or 100-200 fonts is not a limit for you? This subject is quite disputable in web design. It seems there is no definite facts-based answer, but today we’ll try to summarize pieces of information around the topic that some experienced designers have shared with us..
The WordPress platform uses plug-ins as a means of extending the many functionalities that are already available. WordPress.com, for various security reasons, does not allow uploading and installation of custom plug-ins by users; however this does not mean that there are no plug-ins installed on the WordPress.com platform.
This collection of more than 40 websites that use fullscreen background images comprises some static images and some sites that incorporate another current trend: a fullscreen slideshow.
Color schemes are very important to web designers. The color choices for any typical website layout can greatly affect your visitor’s reactions. This is why you need to take ideas into consideration before launching a product online. I think many common ideas revolve around simpler, mild colors such as green, blue, or purple.
However in this showcase I have put together 40 outstanding yellow websites for design inspiration. Yellow is a bright and vibrant color which will definitely capture a reader’s attention. Design agencies and studios will often utilize yellow and orange colors to draw visitors towards their company branding. If you can pull off a solid layout design then this color scheme may be a fantastic idea. Similarly feel free to share links to other yellow websites we may have missed.
Until recently web design and development was an exceptional prerogative of highly educated professionals who knew a couple of programming languages (not to mention HTML and CSS). But these times have gone and now every curious and creative person can build a website rather simply without having programming background and even without knowing HTML/CSS. Internet provides you with a lot of free and paid solutions to create a website and to maintain its successful activity. You just need to choose a platform to run your site on and the design it will be “dressed” in.
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About Us Page is not ordinary one. It can increase conversions and get new clients involved in your business. In this article you'll get to know how to plan About Us Page's data structure and how to design it.
The market for mobile websites has rapidly evolved over the past several months. More than 82% of all businesses now have mobile websites of some form. With more than 40% of all Internet time now spent on mobile devices, it's little wonder that businesses are scraping together their marketing dollars to invest in mobile web development. The year 2013 has been filled with a number of developments, but as we enter the second half of the year, a number of mobile web design trends will begin to emerge.
The trend in web design has been hovering over minimalism for quite some time now.
We are gradually getting used to the fact that professional designers don’t have limits; they just simply push boundaries of general conceptions and recreate whatever comes to their minds. One of the best examples confirming this notion is website design with depth perception. Despite the fact that initially it is a two-dimensional medium, nowadays, designers are capable of transforming conventional flat website appearance into astonishing 3-dimensional environment by simply establishing an illusion of depth.
There are different ways of simulating depth perception, most commonly used are: - Natural depth of landscapes;
- polygonal art that fakes convex and concave areas;
- photo manipulated backgrounds;
- combination of subtle shading and lighting;
- focal points;
- perspective;
- digital collage;
- skeuomorphic setting;
- overlapping layers;
- typography treatments;
- and, of course, various illustrations with 3-dimensional touch.
Which aspect of Google updates you think the SEO industry simply won't get? Where do you see many SEOs spending too much energy on when they could be taking care of other things?
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A few years ago, creating a logo with the use of CSS sounded a bit crazy. Now, with CSS3 properties like border-radius and transforms, you can replicate a lot of fancy effects you thought you can do only in Photoshop.
After showcasing examples of designs that embrace clean and minimal styles, that are flat, that use white and so on, today we decided to gather examples of beautiful websites using textures. Textures are a nice way to add personality to a design, and as you can see in our list, you can go from minimal to super textured pages. Just choose your favorite approach and go for it on your next project.
Working on a big development or design project can be extremely fun. You get to create something beautiful that will be used by millions of people. You have the power to make the next big app or top website, but be wary, it’s not all about pretty looks and great features. Sometimes, when creating large projects, designers and developers alike, tend to make mistakes when it comes to the user experience.
In this post we feature the 6 most common UX mistakes that are made, and how you can fix them. The best part is, most of these are simple fixes. They are so simple that they are often overlooked. This post aims to change that.
WordPress is known as the best blogging platform for a reason. I am sure everyone knows it as an amazing CMS platform which enfolds a multiple number of features and functions on it. One excellent thing with WordPress is it has got a plenty of plugins and resources which helps in enhancing the functionality of any website.
The recent attack on WordPress blogs by unidentified hackers has brought the vulnerability of WordPress to attention. Categorized as ‘brute force’ attacks, they made the news and warned WordPress site owners – once again – that it is in their best interests follow safety best practices.
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Since the beginning of CMS “Open Source” software applications, the tides have turned on how a website development project is approached. Before Open Source code that would handle the back-end approach to a website, users had to rely on developers and web masters to build and add content for their site. This sometimes required full time staff to work on the site around the clock. Open Source applications created a library of code that would handle all of a website editing needs by using a simple tool called a “What You See Is What Your Get”, or WYSIWYG editor. It would save content edited into a database on the server which would in turn be “called for” by the website when a page is opened. This content was not hard coded into a file like it was previous to CMS functionality.
when we talk about using Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress, we must approach these 3 applications as tools that all basically do the same thing. Manage Content! They each have a database that stores the content needed for display. The difference is only in what we don’t really see as an “end-user”.
The difference is only in ease of use and potential scalability. This means your choice as to what you use should only be based on what you are able to handle. Some folks stay with WordPress because it is known to be simple to install and customize directly from the “Dashboard” or Control Panel. Joomla! and Drupal on the other-hand needs a little more knowledge with regards to using the Control Panel (built into your WebNet Hosting account) to customize and install the product itself.
Free open source tools and resources have been getting online over these past few years. Many of these tools are geared directly towards responsive web design, handling CSS and other typical features. The performance of these tools can vary greatly which is why so many designers are hesitant to jump right into a new library.
With HTML5 and CSS3, along with other advancements, the internet is changing, and is doing so quite rapidly. Since things change so quickly they also fade away, based on what designers like, and the trends that people are responding to online, are indicators of what might happen next. So, the main question is where are we standing right now, and what are the future trends we are likely to see?
I’m going to keep this brief, because you’re not going to stick around for long. I’ve already lost a bunch of you. For every 161 people who landed on this page, about 61 of you—38 percent—are already gone.
Via Peg Corwin
Never underestimate the power of HUMOR or its application. Here are 100 funny 404 pages, the pages users get when something has gone wrong. The ability to turn a page that is FRUSTRATING into a funny gambit is the difference between a site that makes a few bucks and one that is worth millions.
Design for engagement means thinking about the customer at all times. Thinking about the customer means BEING the customer and not the Master Blaster Controler. Have fun and design fun in especially where its a surprise and you WIN.
Via Martin (Marty) Smith
24 beautifully-designed web dashboards that data geeks will love | Econsultancy
Via Danielle Uskovic
In the comments of my last column about how I doubled e-commerce revenue for clients by focusing on user intent, readers asked for some more specific e-commerce SEO tips that they could apply in their own client work.
Single page websites, when properly designed, are a great way to put all the content front and center and increase the chances of it being seen by the visitor.
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