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Important SEO Optimization Tips – EQuicknews
Feb 9th
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Important SEO Optimization Tips
EQuicknews Having trouble understanding SEO? I know I wаs whеn I started to trу tо rank high іn thе search engines. I dіdn't know hоw to. So hоw dо уоu get listed іn search engines lіke Google, Yahoo аnd others? Well I'm going tо explain sоmе SEO optimization … |
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Study: SEO, driving revenue viewed as important in 2012 – KoMarketing Associates
Feb 1st
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Study: SEO, driving revenue viewed as important in 2012
KoMarketing Associates Respondents clearly noted their propensity for cost-effective marketing tools in 2012 to achieve business goals, ranking social media and SEO initiatives higher than direct mail, daily deals and traditional print advertising. |
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7 Reasons Why Blogging Is Still Important in 2012
Jan 25th
Some people would like you to think blogging as we know it is over. They share the eye-popping numbers for Tumblr’s growth, for example: 355 million unique visitors per month, and 400 million pageviews per day. And it’s true that Twitter and Facebook have lead many people away from blogging. But publishing content on a [...]
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Important Google News: Recap for Last Week
Jan 23rd
If you were sick last week or on vacation or in a coma you missed A LOT of Google news. Here is a must read recap of articles on Google, Google changes and Google news. Industry Related – Google PR Nightmare: Search Giant Apologizes for Evildoing – SEJ Google+ – “Ask On Google+” Links Appearing In [...]
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Stop SOPA + New AdWords Capability Reflects Important 2012 SEO Strategy – Business Insider
Jan 18th
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Stop SOPA + New AdWords Capability Reflects Important 2012 SEO Strategy
Business Insider Targeting mobile users as much as possible is important, and will become even more so as technology advances and mobile SEO becomes even more significant to the advertising and marketing worlds. In a time when many people use their cell phones to find … |
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Infographic: The 25 Most Important Online Project Management Solutions
Jan 11th
GetApp.com, an independent marketplace for online business software has released an infographic comparing online project management software solutions to help businesses choose the right product. There are some interesting trends and data on the chart, including their age and size, their emphasis on social media, and whether they offer integration with Google, Intuit and Salesforce products and have their own API as well. There is also information about whether Android or iOS versions of each app are available.
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It is a pretty nice collection of different pieces of information and useful if you are in the market for this kind of software.
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Android Holo Themes An Important Requirement to Ease Fragmentation
Jan 4th
Google is making incremental improvements to the Android platform to ease the burden of fragmentation on developers and original equipment manufacturers. While still allowing manufacturers to create custom skins, Google is doing its best to standardize the rest of the of the Android development environment with version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Themes are a big part of standardizing the Android experience. Android has instituted a requirement in ICS that that the “Holo” family of themes be implemented into devices unmodified. This will mean that widgets, apps buttons and menu screens will be much easier for developers to integrate.
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In a blog post on Android’s developer site, framework engineer Adam Powell writes: “For developers new system themes mean more design targets for their apps. Using system themes means developers can take advantage of a user’s existing expectations and it can save a lot of production time, but only if an app designer can reliably predict the results. Before Android 4.0 the variance in system themes from device to device could make it difficult to design an app with a single predictable look and feel.”
What the Android engineers are trying to do is make a common set of code that will be the basis for design and theme elements in Android. If a device has Android Market capabilities, it will have Holo themes as “originally designed.” That could complicate matters for companies like Amazon that does not inherently allow Market access and thus will have trouble implementing ICS updates to the new software or hardware updates to the Kindle Fire.
Google is tightening control on the ecosystem by making these Holo themes a compatibility requirement for Android 4.0 and future updates. This is not necessarily a bad thing. The source code remains open, there are just a few more design-based guidelines to adhere to. This is what many in the Android ecosystem have been waiting for, Google to take a little bit more control of the platform to streamline the experience and give developers better guidelines for creating apps for the platform.
“We have no desire to restrict manufacturers from building their own themed experience across their devices. In fact we’ve gone further to make this even easier. In Android 4.0′s API (level 14) we’ve added a new public theme family to complement the Holo family introduced in Android 3.0: DeviceDefault. DeviceDefault themes are aliases for the device’s native look and feel. The DeviceDefault theme family and widget style family offer ways for developers to target the device’s native theme with all customizations intact,” Powell wrote. “Formally separating these theme families will also make future merges easier for manufacturers updating to a new platform version, helping more devices update more quickly. Google’s Nexus devices alias DeviceDefault to the unmodified Holo themes.”
Apps designed to run on older versions of Android will not necessarily have this Holo requirement. Android 4.0 will pick out a theme based on the SDK level to “maintain the app’s original expectations.” That will work for any apps designed for Android 3.0.x Honeycomb (or, any API level above 10, with ICS the top at the point at level 14). To support themes on apps running Android 2.x devices, Powell suggests using the platform’s resource system to automatically detect themes for the appropriate API level.
Holo themes are just one aspect of Ice Cream Sandwich intended to make it easier for developers to navigate the tricky waters associated with coding for Android. We noted in September the early efforts that Google was making with Ice Cream Sandwich to easily support a variety of screen sizes by creating several stopgaps that developers can use to make sure their apps work on a variety of screen sizes.
The nature of Android will never allow it to fully escape the fragmentation of the platform. The goal though is to make the baseline code as easy to institute as possible with certain requirements that will give the platform a streamlined approach while also allowed OEMs, carriers and developers the ability to build on top of it. Holo themes are a good step in this direction.
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Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs
Dec 8th
SEO: one channel to rule them all? A new “merchant confidence survey” from lead-gen company MerchantCircle/Reply.com, among 2,500 US small businesses, finds that search engine optimization is the marketing channel they would choose if they could choose only one. The question asked was:…
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Why SEO is more important than ever – Mediarun Search
Nov 9th
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Why SEO is more important than ever
Mediarun Search Last week a US based company called Webmarketing 123 released a report confirming what many of us in online marketing believe, that SEO remains the most valuable tool for generating traffic and leads/sales. The report offers useful insight for agencies … Ad:tech New York expert: SEO is the foundation of social marketing |
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