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Annie Cushing's Must-Have Tools. 8 Excellent Tools for Optimizing Your Images. By Jacob Gube One of the easiest ways to reduce page response times is by optimizing your website images to reduce their file sizes as much as possible. Optimizing images not only makes your web pages load faster, but also reduces your bandwidth consumption, which can translate to significant savings in your hosting bills. There are several free tools available at your disposal to shrink and optimize images. In this article, you will find convenient and user-friendly tools for making your web images as tiny in file size as possible. 1. smush.it! Smush.it! RIOT – which stands for Radical Image Optimization Tool – is an image optimizer for Windows users that is available as a standalone application or as an extension of IrfanView. Created by game programmer Ken Silverman, PNGOUT is a popular, free, and no-frills tool for lossless optimization of your images. 4.

The Online Image Optimizer from Dynamic Drive is a web-based tool for compressing your images further. 5. 6. 7. 8. Related content. Some Useful Excel Templates. Some Useful Excel Templates By Neep Hazarika October 9, 2013 Compare two Lists Compare two lists. Sometimes, it may be necessary to compare data between two columns in an Excel spreadsheet. It is particularly important, when analysing backlinks for example, to de-duplicate lists of data into some kind of useful list of domains that is easier to analyse. For instance, if you have two columns of different lengths filled with URL names, you may want to compare these two lists to select all URLs that are common to both lists A and B, values that are in column A but not in column B, and values in column B but not in column A.

Extracting Domain Names from URLs Extract Domains from URLs Search Engine Optimization (SEO) frequently entails dealing with long lists of URLs. Www.majesticseo.comwww.google.co.ukstackoverflow.com Create a list of 100 random domain names. DocuBurst. Welcome to the DocuBurst website. As a part of a research project, we are conducting a usability study to investigate how people are using the website. You have been invited to participate in the data logging portion of this study! Please read the consent form below for more details. REB File #:11-102This form has been reviewed by the UOIT REB I hereby consent to participate in a research study conducted by Dr.

I understand that: The purpose of this study is to log user activity for the interest of enhancing the usability of the application and uncovering common user interaction patterns or interests. Uploaded Data Any data I upload will be publicly visible. Risks If sensitive or private information is uploaded accidentally, it will be publicly visible until removed. Benefits After using this web application the participant may gain some insight on the documents they have uploaded.

Study Withdrawal Document or Annotation Deletion Research Contact Information Ethics Compliance Officer. 40+ Tools & Tips to Execute a Winning Content Strategy. SEO Tools and Marketing Resources. Bing Launches ‘Knowledge Widget’ For Webmasters, App Linking. Microsoft has launched the Bing Knowledge Widget for webmasters and publishers. It detects and visualizes entities on your webpage, and displays rich info about the entity, providing site visitors with info about the said entities on the page.

If they hover over the objects you’ve selected in the back-end, they will see the widget’s display on the right-hand side of the screen like so: These are customizable, but come with pre-defined options for entity images, entity images and links or just entity links. “When you have chosen a visualization option that includes entity links, you can set the link style associated with these entity links,” Bing says. “You can select from a number of pre-defined options or provide a name that you have defined yourself.

The company also announced App Linking functionality for businesses. “Bing Webmaster Tools will be your interface to linking your website to your app,” it says. Image via Microsoft Bing Launches ‘Knowledge Widget’ For Webmasters, App Linking. 26 Free Must-Have Tools for PPC Success. Nearly every craft uses tools to get the job done. Carpenters have hammers and saws. Doctors have expensive medical devices like MRI machines and tests. Writers have a computer (or a typewriter, or pen and paper). PPC is no different. While it's certainly possible to manage PPC using only the AdWords and Bing Ads online interfaces, doing so will be less than optimal. I asked 20 PPC experts to share their must-have PPC tools.

When it comes to free tools, Google is king. 1. A few of us old-timers remember life before AdWords Editor. 2. The AdWords and Bing interfaces only go so far. 3. We've recently started using AdWords Scripts, and it's become obvious they're a must-have. 4. Use this plugin to help develop AdWords Scripts. 5. I love creating shared Google Docs for internal and external use. 6. Google Drive is great for storing Google Docs and other files. 7. Who wants to update thousands of product listing ads manually? 8. 9. 10. I love this Excel plugin for keyword research. 11. 12. Top 60 WordPress Plugins of 2014. WordPress powers over 150 million blogs online. It’s the fastest and easiest way to create your own website online. In fact, some of the biggest companies in the world use Wordress. Including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, People Magazine, and Yahoo. Celebrities are doing the same.

Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, Guy Kawasaki, Mark Cuban, and many others all run their blogs on WordPress. WordPress has quickly become the industry standard. But in this post, I want to show you how to power-up the engine with additional features. So without further ado, here are the Top 60 WordPress plugins (listed by Category)… Categories: The Essentials | Social Media | Content Marketing | Build Your List | Statistics & Tracking | Images, Audio & Video | Membership Sites | Marketing |Selling Your Own Products | Other Cool Stuff The Essentials: WordPress SEO by Yoast – WordPress is pretty search engine friendly right out of the box.

Both of these are excellent options. Content Marketing: Building Your List: Denis Labelle - Google+ - YouTube Toolbox 1. YouTube Creators . YouTube Creator… Denis Labelle - Google+ - Google Toolbox Blogs, YouTube, G+ Communities, G+ Pages 1.… Denis Labelle - Google+ - Google Enterprise/Entrepreneurs/Business Toolbox 1.… Denis Labelle - Google+ - Google+ Toolbox I. Google+ . Discover Google+:… Best Google+ Tools And Apps For Brands And Marketing Professionals. Do you know what makes Google+ different from Facebook or any other social platform? It’s definitely the quality of content and engagement and if you ask me, Facebook is what becoming a Ghost town now. It’s fun on Google+ when you have a question. I call it my #HumansOfGooglePlus project/activity. Instead of just saying what I think about something or sharing my favorites, sometimes I ask my friends and circles on Google+ about their opinion or thoughts on something and such posts are really interesting and engaging.

This post is because of one of such interesting discussions we had on Google+. If you’re reading this post, you’d already know how important it is for a business to have a solid presence on Google+; regardless of the niche, size, local or international, big or small. Making use of the right management, track and analytics tools is critical to improve your Google+ experience. CircleCount CircleCount is a web service analyzing different data on Google+. Circloscope Friends+Me. Top 10 Social Media Plugins for WordPress. Social media is a crucial component for any online marketing strategy. If you’re running your small business website on the WordPress platform, it’s incredibly easy to integrate social. There are hundreds of ready made social media plugins for WordPress to choose from.

Your choice of social media plugins for your WordPress website will depend on which social platforms you use actively, what kind of content you offer on your site, and the best look and placement of social tools that complements your website design. From simple to richly featured, below are some of the best WordPress plugins for social media. Digg Digg This versatile plugin by Buffer comes with plenty of customization options and integrates with virtually any social media platform. Digg Digg can be used with Twitter, Facebook, Buffer, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr – just about any social channels you might use. Flare ShareThis Share Buttons by AddThis Floating Social Media Icon Social Media Feather Shareaholic. BuzzSumo: Discover the most shared links and key influencers.

The Ultimate Guide To Successful Email Marketing. What’s this guide about? We’ve written The Ultimate Guide To Successful Email Marketing to give you a framework for setting up your email marketing from scratch and optimizing your campaigns over time. We’ve pulled together the steps in this guide based on the highly segmented and targeted email marketing campaigns we’ve seen our customers send at Vero, the campaigns we’ve tested ourselves and market-leading examples we’ve seen out in the wild. When I got started with email marketing at Vero, I always wished there had been someone to teach me many of the lessons I’ve learned from trial and error.

This guide is the guide I wanted for myself. With over 10,000 words, advice from 15+ experts and countless examples this guide will generate new ideas and give you the firepower to make your email marketing a success. Who should use this guide? This guide is written with two groups of marketers in mind: Here’s an outline of what’s included in the guide: Take me to chapter 1 Take me to chapter 2. 301 Link Building Columns, Posts, Webcasts, and Interviews from Eric Ward. Raw Download Made Easy! Raw Download Made Easy! By Dixon Jones February 25, 2014 Want to download more than a million links to a domain? More than 5 Million? More than 10 Million? It was always possible to do. Here’s the link: Raw Backlinks Export What I really like is that we have made it easy to see whether the request is going to use a lot or just a little of your monthly resources. The button will actually have slightly different behaviour depending on who you are, and the data you are requesting.

You are welcome to still get the raw report if you want to… as the output is slightly different in terms of columns, but we thought we’d help you along a bit. Keep calm and Carry On Because raw link reports can take anything from a few seconds to half an hour to build; (Our own website would generate a file of 3.8 Million backlinks – just on Fresh for example), we figure you shouldn’t HAVE to spend that time watching the screen. A UX Quandary Still Not Solved… Dilemma!? Yes… OK… we’ll fix that… What else is new? The simple image sharer. 10 Best SEO Tools To Skyrocket Website Ranking In 2014.