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How to Look at Your Website the Way Google Does

April 30, 2014 / / 0 Comments

When you spend months or years on a website, not to mention thousands of dollars, it’s hard to step back and look at it objectively. Can you look at it through the eyes of your users? Can you look at it the way Google does? If you can look at your website the way Google does, you’ll probably discover areas in which your website needs work. So in that spirit, I’m going to teach you how you can see your website from Google’s perspective, and how you can then target the areas that need improvement. First, Google finds your website In order to see your website, Google needs to find it. When you create a website, Google will discover it eventually.

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Evernote + Feedly is Now on Mobile

April 30, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Feedly users love Evernote because it helps you collect the articles that matter to you. It has been one of our most used feedly Pro integrations since it launched, and today you’re going to love using feedly and Evernote together even more. We’re happy to announce that we’ve just launched an update to Evernote on feedly that addresses some of your most asked for features. Evernote is now available on mobile We’re excited that starting today, feedly apps on iOS and Android now include full Evernote integration. It’s something you’ve been asking for, and we heard you. You can now save articles directly to your Evernote notebooks from your feedly mobile app. Automatically clip full article content Along with mobile support, …

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Why Users Aren’t Clicking Your Home Page Carousel

April 30, 2014 / / 0 Comments

by anthony on 04/29/14 at 10:19 am

A website study found that out of 3 million home page visits only about 1% clicked a carousel slide. How could a large, graphical element on the home page get such few clicks? The reason most carousels do poorly might surprise you. Most carousels have multiple slides that rotate when users click the navigation arrow. The first slide always gets the most clicks. But the click-through rate for every slide after that will suffer a steep drop. The problem with the low click-through rate is not the carousel pattern itself, but the carousel navigation. The navigation arrows on a carousel don’t give users an incentive to click. It fails because an arrow affordance doesn’t describe the information users get …

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Why Users Aren’t Clicking Your Home Page Carousel

Use the ‘Eisenhower Box’ to Stop Wasting Time and Be More Productive

April 30, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Dwight Eisenhower lived one of the most productive lives you can imagine. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving two terms from 1953 to 1961. During his time in office, he launched programs that directly led to the development of the Interstate Highway System in the United States, the launch of the internet (DARPA), the exploration of space (NASA), and the peaceful use of alternative energy sources (Atomic Energy Act). Before becoming president, Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army, served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II, and was responsible for planning and executing invasions of North Africa, France, and Germany. At other points along the way, he served as President of Columbia University…

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SearchCap: Google’s Secret Translate Service, Animated 3D Maps & Bing Wake Times

April 30, 2014 / / 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: Bing: The Earliest & Latest Searchers By CityMicrosoft Bing posted data on the earliest risers by city based on Bing usage data. Bing said they thought it would be interesting to look at Bing usage as a proxy for when people get online, start work or otherwise wake up. The earliest city to rise is San Francisco, reaching 50% of Bing traffic – How To Amp Up Your User Engagement (And Get More Links)People like to link to content that shows signs of life. If you have an active community, people are more likely to return often…

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SearchCap: Google’s Secret Translate Service, Animated 3D Maps & Bing Wake Times

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