Failure to Launch: Google+ Growth Spurt Short Lived. 25 Google+ Tips to Enhance Your Google Plus Experience. Google has finally rolled out Google+ which is not yet another service like Google Wave and Buzz, but is an amazing and power packed social networking website which is deemed to rise very high and compete with today’s biggies ‘Facebook and Twitter’. I tried out Google+ after getting an invite and found it really interesting, may it be its simple and cool design or the variety of features it offers. One has to accept that Google has done some really good and hard work in bringing out Google+. After all, it was their long time wish to have a Google Social Network that can dominate over the web. # Here are some useful Google+ Tips shared by Matt Cutts and users who responded to Matt’s post at Google+. All these tips are handy and let you experience the actual power of Google+ (PLUS). Check them below: 1. 2. 3. (*)bold(*): Add * before and after the message. (_)italics(_): Add _ before and after the message. (-)strike-through(-): Add - before and after the message. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Enhanced User Profiles with Joomla - Don't use a hammer. One of the complaints I've seen often about Joomla is that the registration process on your site doesn't gather enough data. As supplied it's restricted to asking for just the name and email address which for many people is just not enough. As a result people have resorted to installing something like Community Builder just for the enhanced registration form without using any of the additional "social" features that Community Builder offers. That's just using a sledgehammer to crack a nut There is a little known plugin available for Joomla 1.5 called "usermeta" which Steve Burge has written a very good tutorial about. With this plugin you can easily add as many additional fields as you want to your registration form. With Joomla 1.6 it is even easier as everything you need is already in the core joomla installation.
User Profile Plugin Don't want to know the new user's favourite book then just disable that field. Still need more fields. Site Speed - Are You Fast? Does it Matter? Good Resources for Joomla! Beginners :: Joomla! Community Magazine™ This article helps you, especially Joomla! Beginners, get started with Joomla! CMS systematically by providing you with good sources of Joomla! Tutorials. The selected websites have proven their reliability to many Joomla!
Users, and to me, for a long time. All sources are thoroughly designed with detailed instructions in both text and videos format so that readers have the best understanding of these tutorials. Certainly, starting with something new is not an easy task, you should be careful to choose what source is most reliable and suitable for you then. Therefore, these Joomla! Here we go! Joomla! [Joomla! This is the “Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Joomla!” The handy thing is that you do not need to Google around for articles; the website already provides you with simple articles to begin with. Security matter which has become a great concern of Joomla! This second part “Selected Advanced Beginner and Intermediate Topics” is geared to more advanced Joomla! Joomla! [Joomla! Available Languages. Available Languages for SobiPro. If your language is not in the list, you are welcome to translate the language files for SobiPro into your language. We are using Transifex, an online tool for translation of SobiPro language packages and application translations.
If you want to help the SobiPro translation teams, sign up at Transifex for free and join the team of your language. If your language does not exist, you can request the creation of a your language. Install a SobiPro language package in the Application Manager of SobiPro or via SobiPro Repository. Available Languages for SobiPro SobiPro is available in the following languages. If a language is not yet available for SobiPro 1.1, you can use the language package of SobiPro 1.0, but there will be missing translations. When should developers upgrade to Joomla 1.6? 32 SEO Tactics to Avoid in 2011. The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. With all the excitement and planning that comes along with a New Year, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with newfangled ideas.
You probably have a long list of SEO tactics in the pipeline for 2011. Finding the resources, whether time or money, is the real trick. The point of this post is to minimize your to-do list by covering 32 SEO tactics that you shouldn't focus on. If any of these buggers have made it onto your 2011 task list or are still lingering in the queue from years past, go ahead and cross 'em off. They won't help you reach your goals and some of them can even hinder your progress. If you are still looking for things to do, check out these New Years post for ideas.
Alrighty then, lets get on with the list of things for you to take off your list. Do not... 1. Do not... 6. Do not sign up for... 13. Other Link Types to Avoid Ah links. Do not... 19. 20. Joomla Outsource India › Articles › Vertical Scrolling Menu. 101 Social Media Stats to Make Your Spirits Bright and Your Head Spin. Finding the right needle in the haystack that is the Internet is often times an exercise in futility and frustration.
Sure, you can find “quick tips” for just about anything, a “how-to” guide for maximizing anything you’d like to maximize, and “case studies” that illustrate someone else’s success story which you believe – for a fleeting moment – you can just as easily apply to your own situation. Most often the tips are oversimplified, the how-to guides leave much to be desired, and the case studies seem to more like exceptions than they are rules. What you really need, at the beginning, middle, and end of the day, is the truth. Or something that is almost close enough to the truth: like social media statistics. I Wanna Know Where the Stats At As you probably know, 108% of statistics are exaggerations, so be careful what you glean from this. I did not intend for this to be a be-all, end-all answer source, but rather a launch pad for further investigation.
On Twitter Behavior on Twitter. Joomla! Actualités sur le groupe. 31 Facebook Applications to Enhance Your Facebook Page. Every day we are exposed to hundreds of Facebook applications, hoping to find the perfect ones to enhance our page and fan engagement. Last couple of weeks I had a good chance to explore some applications during Facebook Page Customization that I never before mentioned in this blog. I thought it would be great to jot them down and share it with my readers. If you’re already familiar with these 16 Facebook Applications to Boost Popularity of Facebook Fan Page, now learn 15 more to enhance your facebook page further!
Be pre-warned this is a lengthy post. Marketing & Brand Promoting #1: Promotions This is an application by a technology company called Wildfire. You can preview and adjust your campaign to full satisfaction prior to publish (and payment). Note: Make sure you read the Facebook Promotions Guidelines first before proceeding to avoid removal. #2: Constant Contact labs – Join My Mailing List It would be great if Aweber and Mailchimp can provide something similar too. #4: FAQ Page. Google Ranking Positions and %CTR: Estimating Search Engine Visitors. Have you ever wondered how many visitors you’ll attract if you manage to bump your site up a few ranks on Google for particular keywords — and how that will affect your click-through rate? Now that Google Webmaster Tools offers more accurate data, you can get that answer, and see if the increase will be worth the work you’d need to put in.
The new Google Webmaster Tools feature important data that can be used for effective keyword analysis in search engine optimization. This is because the new tool reveals accurate data on Google search engine result positions (SERP) and the click through rate percentage (%CTR) for all keywords for which the website is ranking in Google. The good thing is that these data can be used to characterize the relationships between Google search engine result positions and %CTR. One of the most important objectives in keyword analysis is to estimate the number of visitors coming from Google search engines if a particular keyword is ranked at a given position. New Features in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics in Late 2010. Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics are continually improving and adding new sets of features. This article is a review of these new features and how they can help the webmaster in optimizing their websites for search engines and increasing traffic.
Complete information about your “back links” There is great improvement in Google Webmaster Tools as far as providing information about your website’s back links. To see the data, log in to your Google Webmaster Tools account, and in “Home,” click the website for which you would like to see back link data. Then, under “Dashboard,” expand “Your site on the web,” and finally, click “Links to your site.” You can get the following information: Who links to your site. There are a number of common back link questions that can be answered by this feature. 1. If you see domains linking to you, but you have not asked for a link or exchanged links with them, then you are getting organic links because of your content. 2. 3. 4. Yes. 5. Blog - Gnome on the run - Joomla Web Developer. 101 Social Media Stats to Make Your Spirits Bright and Your Head Spin. Finding the right needle in the haystack that is the Internet is often times an exercise in futility and frustration.
Sure, you can find “quick tips” for just about anything, a “how-to” guide for maximizing anything you’d like to maximize, and “case studies” that illustrate someone else’s success story which you believe – for a fleeting moment – you can just as easily apply to your own situation. Most often the tips are oversimplified, the how-to guides leave much to be desired, and the case studies seem to more like exceptions than they are rules. What you really need, at the beginning, middle, and end of the day, is the truth. Or something that is almost close enough to the truth: like social media statistics. I Wanna Know Where the Stats At As you probably know, 108% of statistics are exaggerations, so be careful what you glean from this. I did not intend for this to be a be-all, end-all answer source, but rather a launch pad for further investigation.
On Twitter Behavior on Twitter.