Search engine optimization has changed a lot in the past few years. Instead of just publishing text with the right keywords, small business marketers have to carefully engineer their sites so that they show up in search results. Here is a quick guide for SMB marketers looking to drive leads and encourage qualified traffic to visit their websites.
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6 Facts about How People Reading Content Online
55% of page views get less than 15 seconds of attention. That’s less than the record of the fastes man in the world (Usain Bolt) in the 200m final during the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 (19.19 seconds).
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10 Musts of Using Instagram for Businesses
Make sure you’ve created a business page, not a personal page
Instagram offers two types of pages: Personal pages and business pages. To get all the benefits of a corporate account, double check that you’re choosing the right option.
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Technology Vision 2016 by Accenture
Digital Impacts
- 33% of the global economy is currently impacted by digital in some regard.
- 86% of respondents anticipate that the pace of technology change will increase at a rapid or unprecedented rate over the next three years.
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A Parent Guide to Teaching Children About Money
Most parents excel when it comes to teaching safety and good manners, but money few know where to start. Research shows that how we behave around money as adults is learnt early on from our parents and helping children to understand money from an early age will help them manage it better when they reach adulthood. However, according to our research, only 24% of parents discuss savings often with their children.
If you are amongst those who don’t talk to your children often about finances, use our step-by-step guide to prepare your children financially for adulthood.
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Workplace Health and Safety by the Numbers
3,670,800 workplace injuries, 212,800 workplace illnesses. The numbers add up:
- 42% increase in the number of illnesses per year over the past 3 years.
- 50% of injury / illness cases result in days away from work or transfers.
- 21% of U.S. workers fall victim to workplace illnesses.
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How and When to Post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest and LinkedIn
Updating your social media profiles too frequently or infrequently can alienate your target audience, leaving you ignored or unseen by your followers. This is why understanding when your audience is active on social media can help you increase shares, traffic and links.
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History of Augmented Reality
1968
Ivan Sutherland developed the first head-mounted display system. The system used computer-generated graphics to show users simple wireframe drawings.
1974
Myron Krueger built an “artificial reality” labroratory called the Videoplace. The Videoplace conbined projectors with video cameras that emitted onscreen silhouettes, surrounding users in an interactive environment.
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Top 10 Google Search Engine Ranking Factors
Here are top 10 factors that lead to a better ranking, not listed in any order of priority or importance. Web admins and site owners tend to worry about a site’s Google ranking more than anymore else’s. They have reasons to worry so. Google’s ranking factors depend on a number of steps, of which pagerank is just one of them. A Pagerank is the importance that Google gives for a particular page.
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Building The Gender Balance in the ICT Profession
2.7 million of people work in the ICT sector in Europe but only 20% are women. Meanwhile the ICT sector keeps growing and growing. 7.6% employment growth is forecasted by 2020, however 700000 vacancies might remain unfilled by 2015 because of the shrinking supply of ICT graduates.
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