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As we finish another back breaking weak at work we at least can take comfort in the thought that we have Fridays Funnies to look forward to. Leading up to that I’d like to put forward to all the women out there that men really are deep thinkers. When you see us sitting on the couch, sometimes with a beer in our hand, we’re not merely contemplating our navel. Nope, it goes way deeper than that. We could be trying to solve the world’s many problems or we could be trying to find the answers to many age old questions. The following is a prime example of what deep thinkers men really are. What Deep Thinkers Men Are I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold beer. The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking on various topics. Finally I thought about an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts? Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts. Well, after another beer and some heavy deductive thinking I have come up with the answer to that question. Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby and here is the reason for my conclusion: A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, “it might be nice to have another child.” On the other hand, you never hear a guy say, “You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts.” I rest my case….time for another beer! Now for the ever popular Sexy Sal blonde joke. Sexy Sal Blonde Joke Of The Week Yeah, Friday Funnies wouldn’t be the same without Sexy Sal’s blonde joke and I’m sure you’re going to love this one. And to finish of this weeks Friday Funnies….. YouTube Blonde Jokes Of The Week And let’s not forget this weeks popular make you laugh resources…. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2013JVZoo Killer WordPress Plugins.Covert Geo Targeter New WordPress Plugin Lets You Easily Geo Target Your Blog And Insert Your Visitor's Actual Geo Location Anywhere On Your Blogs - Resulting In A Massive Boost In Conversions and Revenue!Easy Video Press PRO - Turn Your Blog Into A Video Cash Machine Easy Video Press, Your New All-In-One Plugin To Easily Publish, Customize and Monetize Videos On Your WordPress Blogs!WP Linkizer WP Linkizer automatically turns every link into your blogs content into a money making machine. It does this by split testing multiple anchor text phrases and defaulting to the phrase thats gets the highest click through rate.IMSC PingFresh - Sean Donahoe's Inner Circle The post Deep Thinkers Sexy Sal Friday Funnies #65 appeared first on WassupBlog.

When we save drafts on Blogger, they automatically get saved. But if you made several drafts, how will you find out which one you need and which ones to delete? Here’s a tutorial that will help you solve this issue. This is from Ankit Kumar Singla who shares simple steps on how you can delete multiple posts all at the same time. Sign in to Blogger > Blogger Dashboard > Posts Select the posts you would want to delete. If you want to delete your draft posts, simply choose Draft, and to delete the posts you’ve published, choose Published. Once you have selected the unwanted posts, hit the delete icon that is seen under the blog title. A pop-up box will then appear. Click OK button to confirm. Now it’s done. Hope Ankit’s tutorial helps.

I recently wrote a review of Spotify, a music streaming service that blows iTunes and Amazon MP3 out of the water. A few days after my Spotify review was published, Google released their own competing service that integrates into the already-existing Google Play music store. Premium Spotify is $9.99 per month, but the Google service [...]Author informationIan EberleWeb designer, Apple enthusiast, and entrepreneur. I'm currently attending Northwest Florida State College and have future plans to transfer to Florida State College to obtain a degree in entrepreneurship. I like anything with pixels - especially if you can't see them.The post Spotify vs Google Music Streaming appeared first on Dragon Blogger. Be the first to comment... Related Posts:Google Music Service To Launch TodayHow to Block Ads in Spotify using BlockifySpotify Review: The Most Inexpensive Way To Listen To MusicSpotify for Ubuntu or Debian LinuxReview of Spotify Music Streaming Service RSS Feed Powered by MaxBlogPress Bring My Blog Visitors Back

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You might find how it has become ubiquitous for brands to be so into Social Media and users not minding even if these brands seem to be hogging conspicuously even larger amounts of presence in it as time passes. With the advent of brand publishing and social engagement, business has finally found a retail short-cut closer to home to serve their marketing and advertising efforts well. This is why the average social media user would be having more and more big business friends and brand buddies online in the coming days. The exodus has been going on now for the last couple of years and shows no sign of abating. Content Marketing on social media, executed through the wily skills and talents of content strategists, purveys brands and their brand stories as pivotal information sharing points. While you might think that it is brands that are directly responding to your initiatives, you are in reality engaging in a dialog with content strategists. Every bit of information you deliver, via an inquiry about product/service specs, price, promo, deal, purchase instruction and the like, would hence be responded to in ways that resonate with the brand’s philosophy about value delivery. Why people stay glued Because the focus of content marketing is always more on the consumer’s user experience with the brand rather than the brand itself, you will note that the dialog any consumer initiates would most likely carry on longer than any momentary attention getting advertising could ever achieve. People tend to listen to marketing narratives more when the story is about them rather than products or services per se. The primary intent of a brand’s publisher on social media is to make its philosophy find coherence with consumer goals. When online accessing consumers engage brands in a dialog via direct comments, postings, likes, tweets, reblogs or shares of viral content, they are in reality engaging not only in self-serving retail action but also forwarding the brand cause. In other words, the consumer becomes the hero and distributor of lead information all at the same time. The kind that induces a whole lot of other social media friends, peers, followers and users to also engage the brand. Brands in turn, take over the role of administrator in the social media engagement to exercise the following functions: 1. Respond to consumer initiatives creatively Customer comments and their other social media activities commonly revolve around the reasons behind their particular wants, needs, aspirations and concerns about retail items. Brands and their content strategists process these information and also regard varying degrees of customer intimacy as informational capital necessary to rationalize innovation and development of new retail items in the future. To enhance social media presence, brands usually update accurate and useful info and entertaining viral content so that the rapport becomes a never-ending engagement. 2. Measure analytics strategically The brand’s analytics people are the ones who measure consumer response on social media using metrics they believe suitable to their marketing analysis needs. Where the market resides and how retailers may reach them; what products they wish for and the innovations they dream about, also become clear to companies that own brands. Your company’s RingCentral system in aid of sales activities, for example, could thus be reconfigured once analytics find out that a large volume of potential customers are most likely to call tollfree after engaging the brand online via their smartphones. 3. Communicate with civility Brands that encounter challenges along the way are supported by content providers who take up the cudgels for brands when confronted by media issues dealing with retail mishaps. Brand publishing response is about communicating a brand’s statement in a civil manner that may not offend certain sensibilities with a view to mending lapses first while addressing these objectively and resolutely. Bran

Yesterday, I shared a series of questions to help those bloggers seeking a little clarity when it comes to what their blog could be about. Today, I wanted to share 3 more questions – these are not so much focused upon YOU as a blogger but upon your readers. Hopefully they’ll also help you achieve a little clarity. Who are your readers? What do they need? How will they change as a result of reading your blog? Answer these 3 questions and you will actually have a pretty good purpose statement for your blog. You could certainly go into some real depth on each question but even doing it at a low-level will be helpful. For example on dPS I would answer the questions as: My readers are camera owners (who they are) who are not using their cameras to their potential (their need). Reading dPS will help them to gain creative control over their cameras (the benefit). I shared these questions on my Google+ account a few weeks ago. Yesterday, I received an email from a blogger who set aside 15 minutes to answer them. She told me that in doing so she realised that she’d created a purpose statement for her blog which she also turned into a tagline for her blog. Give it a go and let us know how you answer the questions in comments below. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger How to Create a Blog Purpose Statement in 3 Simple Steps

Every month as Webmasters we ask ourselves what we can do to get more traffic and success with our SEO efforts. Because things seem to change so much in SEO we are forced to constantly change, innovate, and adapt. You could make an argument that this is what makes SEO so enjoyable. It’s challenging and new challenges are always arising. Over the past year there have been almost countless updates to Google’s algorithm, countless changes to search results across several major search engines, and talk of even more countless changes and updates looming around every corner. So join me if you will, on a simple/common sense high-level overview of what to do and what not to do in your SEO efforts throughout this year 2013. First let’s take a look at the “Do’s.” 1. More Guest Posting Guest posting, if done properly, will be a strategy that you will reap success from throughout this year and next. As long as the content is top-notch and you are focusing on getting published on high quality, high-moderated blogs. 2. Emphasis on Authorship Markup I’m not just talking about setting up Authorship Markup in your code for rich snippets, but also focusing on building up author Google+ profiles. 3. HTML5 Integration Converting your sites to HTML5 will be huge because of the ability to leverage new tags for SEO like the tag or the tag. HTML5 integration = better communication to search engines on content and types of content. 4. Mobile Mobile Mobile! Optimizing your site for mobile will be huge as well. But more importantly, not creating a separate mobile site but creating a responsive design that’s the same site just adjusted to work with mobile phones and tablets. 5. Social Media Pushes Pushing branding efforts in Facebook, Twitter and Google+ will continue to be a major area of success for SEO. The people who have figured this out are increasing their organic search traffic hand over fist each month. Now that you know what to focus on, let’s take a look at the “Don’ts.” 1. Low Quality Guest Posting There’s really no difference in low quality guest posts from article submission sites. Which is why you must stay away from this. High quality only! 2. Article Submissions This is just old-school and Google has gotten so good at evaluating these types of links. You may think they’re working now, but the end is near! 3. Buying Links You’ll always hear a few SEOs touting their link buying strategies and how they still work when executed properly. Even more however, you hear of webmasters who’ve been penalized by Google because of paid links. It’s your choice. 4. Link Building Too Fast Slow and steady wins the race. Google and Bing are going to reward patient SEOs. Why? Because big brands are patient. They’re around forever so they have to be patient. It’s the affiliates who aren’t patient and that’s who Google is trying to eliminate. 5. Low Quality Content and Blogging Always be on the lookout for Panda! One of the biggest don’ts of the year is publishing poor quality content in the form of pages or posts on your site. Sometimes I find it better to structure a brainstorming or thought process not necessarily around “what works” but more around “what’s important.” This simple separation will help you prioritize better in your SEO efforts and truly understand where you should be putting your time, money and effort. For example, would an aggressive press release strategy where you’re publishing multiple press releases each month work? Sure it would. The questions you should be asking yourself however are a) would the results be big enough compared to other things I could be focusing on and b) knowing how Google likes to improve things on their end, would the results be long-term? Looking at SEO strategies for SEO’s and SEO services in this light will help you come up with a solid DO

At the moment you can find dozens of web design tools available on the web at low cost, or even for free. Some of these can be used by the professionals only, while others have been initially designed for non-techies. The latter are known as website builders or site constructors. These are extremely popular with [...]Author informationVictor MooreVictor Moore is the owner of EasyStepstoCreateaWebsite.com. He's a skilled webmaster who enjoys discovering new trends and approaches to SEO, webmastering and improving website usability. He runs his blog to prove that creating a website from scratch can be a piece of cake even for novices.TwitterFacebookGoogle+The post Create Your Personal Website Without Stress: Top 5 Website Builders Reviews appeared first on Dragon Blogger. Be the first to comment... Related Posts:Create Alexa Toolbar For Your Blog or Website4 Ways to Spot a Dodgy Webhosting CompanyBlogging Tip: Stress Test Your Blog For FreeWhere Has Software Quality Testing Gone?How to identify a Fraud website RSS Feed Powered by MaxBlogPress Bring My Blog Visitors Back

When Pinterest (a visual bookmarking tool) first made an appearance in the social media arena, people thought it was meant only for industries like fashion, design, travel, wedding and real estate. But the mindset gradually changed and today it’s quite evident that participating at Pinterest can be beneficial for almost any industry or any blogging niche. You’ll find tons of bloggers (regardless of what niche they belong to) using Pinterest effectively. Pinterest is today an ‘addiction’. Whether you want to reach out to a new audience, connect with influencers in your niche, promote a brand or attract traffic to your blog, spending some time on Pinterest will be truly worth the effort. So, how do you achieve success on Pinterest as a blogger? Given below are four essential tips that will be of great help to you. #1. Add Images to Every Blog Post If you are an active blogger, the first thing that you need to do is include engaging images to each of the posts that you publish on your blog. Depending on the topic you are writing on, you can always find one or two images that would be good enough to be pinned by others.  You can also create your own pinboards and pin these images yourself to your account. Pinterest is basically a social platform where users share all the wonderful images (and videos) they find across the web. By being a little more creative, you can benefit from this opportunity as well, in many different ways. #2. Pin Content from Other Blogs Too If your pin boards feature content (images and videos) only from your own blog, it might not look credible to others. In order to win the trust of your audience, you should never hesitate to pin images from other blogs on the same board where you have pinned your own images. By pinning content from other blogs in your niche, you can also build connections with influencers and fellow bloggers. #3. Run a Contest One of the best ideas to attract tons of eyeballs quickly is to run a contest or competition on Pinterest. First, you’ll first need to go through all the Pinterest terms so that you don’t violate the rules in any way. Second, you’ll need to choose a right type of competition – Best Pinboard, Most Repins and Sweepstakes Entries – and create them with your important goals in the mind. In any case, you should not forget to promote your Pinterest contest so that you can attract the maximum number of participants. With such contests, you can market your brand or product quickly, engage the target audience and attract lots of blog traffic within a short period of time. #4. Use Analytics Tool Google Analytics is a nice tool to find out which of the pages on your blog are getting the most traffic from Pinterest. With this tool, you can also check out which of the images on your site are being pinned the most. Such valuable data will help you tweak your Pinterest strategy. Apart from Google Analytics, you can also find many other tools that are specific to Pinterest. A good example is Curalate. Are you on Pinterest? How are you using this visual pinboard to your blogging benefits? Feel free to share your opinions. Copyright © 2013 Blogging Tips. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us so we can take legal action immediately. The post 4 Essential Pinterest Tips for Bloggers appeared first on Blogging Tips.

When 2013 was just kicking off, pundits and aficionados were dubbing it as ‘year of the mobile’. As much as we like to get snarky with the headline catching proclamations, they might actually have been onto something. Taking a look at the numbers between 2010 and 2013, we indeed see that mobile devices’ share of global internet traffic has jumped from 2% to 14%. Research is indicating also that this trend is only gaining steam. Whether in Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa or Scandinavia, there is now an unprecedented amount of smartphone and tablet owners along with unprecedented accessibility to Wi-Fi and 3G networks. WWW dot Darwinism So the world is in the process of ‘going mobile’. Does this then have any implications for web content or web design? Do sites now need to perform and look differently? The short answer is, yes they do. In fact, many websites are actually losing traffic because they’re not adapting to the changing reality of how they’re accessed. In industry jargon, they’re not ‘optimized-for-mobile’. How is this so? What do sites have to do to keep up with the changing world around them? “Design is about how a product is used” – Steve Jobs To answer the above, we need to understand that there are a few issues that need to be addressed when designing a mobile-friendly site. First off, many desktop sites contain a wealth of multimedia and javascript components, which a desktop machine – with its relatively high processing power – has no problem displaying smoothly. Mobile devices though, due to their relatively limited processing power, usually can’t handle them properly. These components then have to be used in a site sparingly. Second, because of the small screen sizes of smartphones (between 4 and 5 inches in size on the average), fonts which are normally suitable for a desktop monitor (around 19 inches in size) usually appear on them very small. Which brings me to my third point: On mobile devices, there’s only room for viewing objects vertically. There’s no room for positioning objects side by side (assuming they’re sized large enough for the human eye to behold), whereas on desktop sites, due to the large viewing space, components can be placed side by side. On a smartphone, such a layout would require the user to zoom out and in and scroll left and right (besides up and down) for accessing content (see screenshot). In short, a desktop site on a mobile device can translate into a frustrating experience for a user, leading to his abandonment of a site. For site owners this can be a big deal. The Everyman’s Solution How then do we remedy this situation? How does a site owner transform his site from a mobile Syria into a mobile Singapore? If you’re a web professional who doesn’t mind the toil (superfluous?), there are a number of effective ways to do so. The thing is, these solutions require time and expertise to implement, or at least the funds to pay someone to implement, which renders them inappropriate for the layman, or even for the designer who just wants to take care of business quickly. Fortunately, for time pressured, code-challenged, frugal folks, a solution is available in the form of one of the many online platforms for building a mobile website. Such platforms allow you to create an alternate mobile version of your site, which is served dynamically in as optimized-for-mobile HTML to mobile visitors. Let’s have a quick look at what I mean, and you’ll see how you can create a mobile version of your site easily. Getting Mobilized What an online conversion tool does is create an alternate version of your site, which is served to visitors identified as browsing on smartphones or tablets. But first we need to build our site’s mobile version. To get started, we navigate to one of the abovementioned online site builders (in our case GinWiz.com), input our site’s URL and presto! a mobile version of it is created in a matter of seconds. In our case we used dunkindonuts.com (who do