Category: Links

A reference in an electronic document that lets a user display or activate another document or program, this is a collection of LINKS we LIKE.

Demographics for Reddit in USA

Demographics for Reddit in USA

In the United States, age groups of adults follow a relatively balanced distribution, with 22 percent of the adult population made up of 18-29 year old, 34 percent in the 30-49 age range, 25 percent in the 50-64 range, and only 19 percent of adults above the age of 65. These numbers have likely shifted a bit since the data was gathered in 2016; regardless, they hold true for our point today. Comparatively,  the Reddit user base doesn’t match these numbers at all. According to data collected in 2016, 64 percent of the Reddit user base was between the ages of 18 and 29, and another 29 percent were between the ages of 30 and 49. Only 6 percent of Reddit users were found to be between the ages of 50 and 64, and just a single percent were 65 or older.

Source:  https://www.alphr.com/demographics-reddit/

The Demographics of Reddit: Who Uses the Site?

Tools to engage with your LinkedIn audience

Tools to engage with your LinkedIn audience

Ileane Smith had an episode about LinkedIn audio events, she mentioned turning on creator mode in your LinkedIn profile

https://members.linkedin.com/creator-tools will get you started

Tech and Coffee – helps again.

default-logo_miniYesterday, I bought a USB 3.0 drive for my computer, since it has 4 3.0 ports and they’re 10 times faster I thought it was time.  Got home, plugged in the drive and it didn’t work, wasn’t detected.  After testing on another computer, where the drive worked fine, I mentioned about that this morning in the Google+ hangout for TechAndCoffee  within minutes one of the fellows found a link (shortened via Goo.gl) http://goo.gl/cVYRgM  that had an update for my computer’s bios.

It worked, I now can use the 3.0 16GB USB drive as intended, thanks to Ed this morning at Tech and Coffee

–end shameless plug here.

10 Usability studies from Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think”

In the coming month’s class I’m preparing called “Help your Website Everyday – Have A Right Start” part of that was presenting best practices for usability, and that research led me to this presentation, a book that to this day I refer people to so that they too won’t make me think. Here you go, look and then decide if you agree that this is indeed timeless information from Mr. Krug.

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130727

50 Homepage Website Layouts using Featured Details & Icon Lists by Jake Rocheleau

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Explaining Markdown The trend of icon detail lists has be rising very quickly but silently. I have not seen many other designers writing about this topic, and my hope is to shed light onto the trend with some beautiful examples. Generally startups and smaller Internet-based websites utilize these icon details for pitching their product to customers.

Homepage layouts are also the typical place to find these details because it will capture visitors landing right on the website. Some icons are very large, others are tiny and stacked in rows of 6 or 8 features. Other icons are colorful or flat or shiny and many other various styles. The point is to give recognition for these icon-centric interface features which really to present a beautiful product to interested consumers.

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Shared this for the excellent keep it simple calls to action this model presents!  And if these 50 ideas don’t work, let me know what you came up with instead ok?

Guy R Cook - President vDomainHosting, Inc

Freemium
and the links to go with that word.

5 ways developers fail at freemium games

Freemium Games Explained!  – Dual currencies and more.

Freemium Is Irresistable, Even For Successful Game Companies

Advanced Link Tracking Code from Google

It’s listening really well, that enables you to hear the sound of one hand clapping.

7 Benefits of App Authorization for Sweepstakes

To make sweepstakes perform better, here are 7 benefits explained.

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The Evolution Of Quality Score

Even if you don’t care much for a history lesson, it may help paint a picture of why QS exists in the first place, and the evolution of factors may give you some insight into what Google cares about.When I started working at Google in 2002, Quality Score didn’t exist. But what set Google apart from the other PPC ad systems at the time was how they determined if ads were relevant enough to warrant an impression. In addition to having a team of humans reviewing all ads, the system was also monitoring the click-through rate (CTR) of every keyword — if a keyword’s CTR fell below 0.5%, it would become disabled for poor relevance. Google was using the wisdom of the crowds to let its users determine which ads should show and which shouldn’t.The problem with disabling keywords at an arbitrary CTR level was that advertisers were unhappy to see some of their keywords disabled forever (unless, of course, they knew of the workaround to resubmit the same keyword with different capitalization). So, we started to evolve the system. Instead of disabling keywords, we came up with new statuses like “slowed,” “in trial” and “on hold.”

Know Thy Fans – Be Relevant In Your Fan Acquisition Efforts

Before you pull the trigger on a sweepstakes to win a new iPad, diamond earrings, or luxury vacation, ask yourself if the people who enter your contest are doing it because they are potential customers and want to engage with your brand, or if they’re just using you for a chance to win that shiny new gadget/sparkly/getaway.
— another great post from the WooBox website @ http://blog.woobox.com 

5 Landing Page Headline Formulas Tested

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While there is no shortage of articles that list different headline formulas that you can use on your landing pages, there really isn’t much research available on how these formulas actually perform in real life on real landing pages.

How to Deactivate All Plugins
When Not Able to Access WP-Admin

Often times during troubleshooting, hosted WordPress, many sites will recommend deactivate all plugins and activate them one by one. What’s worst is sometimes you get locked out of your WordPress admin panel, so you can’t even deactivate the plugins in an easy way. If you have ever faced the white screen of death, then you know exactly what we are talking about. In this article, you will be shown how to deactivate all WordPress plugins when not able to access wp-admin area.

JoomlaShine Power Admin

Very often JoomlaShine sees reports from users about how difficult it is to do simple tasks in Joomla such as changing module positions, hiding an article’s title or relocating menu items. Thus, we decided to take a good look at how people use Joomla and created an ultimate solution to make such processes much easier and joyful.  Have a look.

Weekly Roundup – Guy R Cook 20130713

Guy R Cook - President vDomainHosting, Inc

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1O7pTJ/:6oIbVPeA:2lOR.IFu/weavesilk.com/?fls/   found weavesilk.com by accident via StumbleUpon.com as a part of setting that up in Chrome browser.

http://www.google.com/script/start/   Google Apps Script is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services and build web applications.
 
 If you’re on Twitter, make sure you’re following @vDomainHosting for more updates.
Check My Links – Check My Links is a link checker that crawls through your webpage and looks for broken links.  Available for Google Chrome browser in the store for extensions.
Configure dual delivery – Understanding the legacy server primary configuration

What Does it Take to Be on the First Page of Google?

Recently Netmark.com performed a massive correlation study to better understand Google’s algorithm after the Penguin 2.0 update. The data from the Netmark research was not only useful for the correlation study, but also allowed viewing the search results from a lot of different perspectives. In the linked infographic, (checkout the vDomainHosting Pinterest if you like Inforgraphics) Netmark evaluated the top 10 search results in order to understand what it takes to be on the first page of Google.

Lightbox Ads 

Lightbox ads bring full-screen creative to the scale of the web, helping you engage consumers with your brand’s story. They begin in standard, scalable ad units, but then expand into a near full-screen canvas that supports full rich-media capabilities. Embed a YouTube video, game, or shopping experience in your ad to grab your customer’s attention. Lightbox Ads qualify user engagement by requiring users to hover over the ad unit for two-seconds before expanding.

Two links from Stumbleupon in the past week I”m sharing here are these:

Excel Formulas: 10 Formulas That Helped Me Keep My Job

and

Free online file converter

The entire collection is at this link  http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/guyrcook  Follow other StumbleUpon users to see their favorite websites, videos, photos and images from across the Web.

Add a Pinterest button or widget to your website. You can also add a Pin It button to your iOS or Android app.

Everything You Need to Know about the new +1 on Google+

5 crazy SEO mistakes not to make in WordPress  – thanks wordtracker.com

A part of the above got me some other resources for WordPress and use of categories and tags.

and

What Are Tags?  – your blog’s index words.

And I liked

Lorelle put it best by defining categories as your blog’s table of contents, and tags as your blog’s index words.

How to Get Google’s Verified Authorship for your WordPress Blog

How To Be Included In Google’s News Feed

JOOMLA TIP

If your Joomla 2.5.xx install errors in the Extension Manager saying:
JFolder::create: Could not create directory
Warning: Failed to move file!

Try this fix that worked for me:

1 go to the directory where I installed Joomla.
2 find configuration.php file
3 change access level for this file to 755: it is necessary for the changes to remain
4 open it and Change next lines to:
var $log_path = ‘./logs’;
var $tmp_path = ‘./tmp’;
5 than save it.

Be sure you reset your permissions back to 444 on the configuration.php file

Glassdoor.com
http://fwisp.com/tag/web+design   fwisp-Top Business & Financial Blogosphere Links
http://blogmarks.net/   Blogmarks.net is a social bookmarking service.
http://www.arto.com/ On Arto you can share pictures, videos,

create friendbooks, make a blog and much more.
You can participate in fun quizzes, interesting
threads in the forum and join thousands of groups
– or try some of the fun games.

 
http://n4g.com/    Hottest Game News & Rumors | N4G
 
http://www.corank.com/user/guyrcook  A better way to get, keep and share the web you want
http://my.vcita.com/vdomainhosting is the profile page for this service.
Everything Your Small Business Needs Online!
Client Engagement, Management and Retention
by vCita.com and so far like it.  The profile is at