Where the Good Leaves Are – A Story About Finding the Best Opportunities

Yawning Vervet Monkey. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Two monkeys, a father and his young son, were sitting in a large tree together. The son turned to his dad and said, “I’m hungry, can you get me some leaves to eat?” The father looked at his son and smiled, “Well, then you had better get some yourself.” “But I don’t know how.” the son protested. “You have a choice,”  responded the dad.  ”You...

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Art & Design Inspiration Fix for February 22nd 2013

The Art & Design Inspiration Fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from DKNG Studios, ?rtomir Just, Martín Azambuja, Dan Christofferson and Craig Henry. Big Top Pee-wee by DKNG Studios Revolved Forms by Crtomir Just Work Hard by Martín Azambuja Lone Wolf by Dan Christofferson ...

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NewZoo Report: More than Half of All App Revenue is Coming From Games

“In 2012, two out of every three dollars spent on tablets and smartphones was spent on games.” That’s a very startling statistic, but according to NewZoo, a marketing research company specializing in the gaming industry, there’s plenty of money to be made in the business as long as you’re on the mobile side. On the console side, things aren’t looking so good. XBox and Playstation are struggling to stay relevant as more and more...

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Not All TV Viewers Watch on TVs: Nielsen Looks at Expanding the Ratings System

I watch a lot of TV, (no surprise to anyone who reads my work) but I don’t watch all of it on a TV. I watch on my iPad. I watch Netflix through my Blu-ray player and sometimes I watch online. Even when I’m watching the TV, I’m not always watching what’s on, as I often watch shows I recorded on the DVR or shows from the On Demand menu. To think I grew up in a world with three networks, three UHF channels and no recording capabilities. As...

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Love, Relationships and SEO

Love, Relationships and SEO was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips. Even though it’s past Valentine’s Day, love is still in the air with “The Love Edition” of our SEO Newsletter. This month, we speak with author and consultant Rob Garner, formerly of iCrossing, on the search and social love connection. We also dive into the importance of having a marketing mindset to enhance your keyword...

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Pinterest RePins Its Social Media Prowess with $200 Million in New Funding

Earlier this month, Search Engine Journal reported that Pinterest was seeking a fresh infusion of cash after a phenomenal year of growth.  Yesterday the virtual pin board company confirmed that it had secured $200 million in new funding and has now been valued at $2.5 billion.  ”Our focus is on helping millions of people discover [...] Author information Michelle Stinson Ross ...

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How to Build an Affiliate Website Google Doesn’t Hate

In over a decade of working on websites I’ve see a lot of affiliate websites. Some were good but a lot were very bad. In this post, I’ll share my experiences about what I think Google is looking for and the common traits of things I’ve seen fail. Single Offer Website When I first started, [...] This post originally came from How to Build an Affiliate Website Google Doesn’t Hate Can Google Detect an Affiliate Website One of the questions...

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Politician Pushes for Anti-Anonymity in Illinois

Not like there aren’t about a million different ways to approach this kind of story but let’s first look at the basics. In Illinois, state senator Ira Silverstein (D) has put forth a bill that would require anonymous commenters online to reveal their identity if they want their comments to remain online. The Daily Caller reports A recently introduced bill in the Illinois state Senate would require anonymous website comment posters...

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Solved: How to check if memcache or memcached is installed and running or not on Server Using PHP

After doing some R&D I figured out how to fix the issue with memcache installtion or class many time we got the following message, If memcahed server is not running. Memcache::connect(): Server localhost (tcp 11211) failed with: Connection refused To fix the following issue I written the following Code if(class_exists('Memcache') && extension_loaded('memcache') && function_exists('memcache_<div dir="ltr"><wbr />connect')) { //Checks on Server Memcache is installed or not$memcache = new Memcache();...

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Wireframing and Sketching for Web Designers: Tools, Utilities and Reasons

A website wireframe is a visual guide, or a skeletal framework that will help you define your future website’s characteristics. By wireframing you are basically defining the primary steps and the shape your website or product is going to have. One of the main purposes of wireframing is to set the main priorities and describe the functionality of your future creation. Blueprints and various grids are what define the basic sketch and wireframe,...

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8 Strategies to Get Multiple First Page Rankings on Google

Remember “the good ol’ days” when Google search result pages were clean, simple pages with 10 results and a few ads? For better or for worse, those days have disappeared like Severus Snape being confronted with shampoo. While some users may lament the more cluttered search pages, the “new normal” does offer more opportunities to [...] Author information Chris Ainsworth Chris...

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Optimizing Your Store: Add to Cart Rate, How to Increase it? [S02.E04]

Tweet The add to cart rate has a lot in common with the cause of the cart abandonment rate as in both cases the percentage shows the amount of carts that were filled with some products and for some reason were then abandoned. Add to Cart percentage is one of a “metrics trinity” that help define the overall success rate of the store. The other two are Bounce Rate and Cart Completion.     This is the next episode...

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Site From Scratch: Localmost (Part 1, Design)

This is Part 1 of the 3 part series, "Site From Scratch: Localmost". In Part 1, we'll be designing a dark and sleek web layout in Photoshop. I will walk you step by step through the process in designing our fictitious company's layout. In Part 2, we'll be moving our design to the web using clean, semantic, and valid HTML & CSS. Finally, in Part 3, we'll be adding the interactive elements, the bells, and the whistles with my favorite javascript...

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