Category: Internet

SearchCap: New Google Penalty, Action Schema & Subscribe To Google Trends

April 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Slaps Another Guest Blog Network: PostJointGoogle’s Matt Cutts somewhat confirmed on Twitter that Google has taken action on another guest blogging network. This network is named PostJoint and claims there’s no footprints. Someone tweeted to Matt that PostJoint was penalized. In fact, if you check out Google for a search on their name, their web site no longer ranks on â€¦ Google Trends Now Lets Users Subscribe To Receive Email NotificationsGoogle Trends announced today it has added a “Subscribe” feature, allowing users to receive email notifications on search topics, Hot Searches for any country, or any…

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SearchCap: New Google Penalty, Action Schema & Subscribe To Google Trends

21 Actionable Landing Pages for Content Marketers

April 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you’re a content marketer like me, you’re in the sales funnel front line for your business. You blog, yes. You create amazing content. But how are you turning your efforts into lead generation? How do you get the numbers to show your results and increase your ROI? I’ve got a simple and super effective method: landing pages. With landing pages you can generate warm leads and show your ROI in a boss-appealing number crunching way. Here are 21 actionable lead generating landing page tactics you can use to get qualified leads. I’ve also included a short section on what content marketing is – just in case you don’t know. What is Content Marketing and Why does my Business need it? Many of…

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21 Actionable Landing Pages for Content Marketers

Try the Super-Secure USB Drive OS That Edward Snowden Insists on Using

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

We all know that Edward Snowden insists on secure email, but he’s also very picky about his operating systems, too. In fact, he uses a free, super-secure version of Linux called Tails that fits on a USB stick and can be used on any computer without leaving a trace.Linux installs on USB sticks are nothing new, sure. But Tails is an operating system optimized for anonymity – and it’s used by the likes of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald to keep their digital lives as secure as possible. In its developers’ words:Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving …

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Try the Super-Secure USB Drive OS That Edward Snowden Insists on Using

Simplelenium, Writing Robust Tests with Selenium

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I use Selenium a lot. And I hate it! I hate it and I use it. Every other browser automation tool I’ve used either has the same problems as Selenium or end up dying because nobody uses it. There are nice librairies to make writing Selenium tests more user friendly. Fluentlenium is one of those nice tools. But Selenium’s problem is not really with its syntax. It’s the complexity of writing stable tests. It’s hell! It would be great if Selenium tests didn’t fail every other day If you test modern websites with Selenium, you end up playing with waits and timers. Very often people put random Thread.sleep(s) into their test code because they are just fed up trying to understand …

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Simplelenium, writing robust tests with Selenium

Are You Getting the Basics of Analytics Right?

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Posted by: Paul Boag On Tuesday, 15th April, 2014

Monitoring website analytics is an important part of evolving your site. Unfortunately many of us aren’t monitoring enough and look at the wrong things.

Content Strategy Short Audio Tips: The estimated time to read this article is 4 minutes Subscribe to these quick tips using iTunes or RSS | Download Audio I think if we are honest most of us are floundering around when it comes to website analytics. We know they are important, but are not quite sure what to do with the data we collect. After opening the default dashboards a few times we give up and don’t check our analytics for months at a time. At least many of us are like that. Others are…

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Are you getting the basics of analytics right?