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Social Media Assessment: Part 2

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Social Media Assessment: Part 1

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What is SEO and how does it work?

1. How can you make your website stand out between more than 130 million registered websites on the Internet today? Optimizing your website for search engines or doing SEO is the key! Read the next tweets to find out how search engines work and what SEO is all about! #SEO

2. Over 83% of users that search information on the Internet use @Google. Out of that, more than 94% only search the first page and prefer to adjust their search terms rather than click on the second page! That's why your website has to appear on the first page or you’re gone!

3. When they click on the first page results, most people (63%) only click on the “Golden Triangle” which is top 3 or so results. These are your #IdealVisitors, the ones that are looking for your product or service and are the most likely to convert into #customers! SEO is vital!

4. The question is how do you get to be and stay at the top of the page? A site’s position in search results is determined by #pagerank. Every website has one! Until 1996 a website’s ranking was only determined by the highest number of keywords.

5. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google changed the game in 1996 when they introduced #backinks as another, more relevant criteria to determine a website’s #pagerank. The more other websites refer to yours, the higher you are on the search list!

6. Search Results rankings change constantly based on websites’ #keywords and #backlinks. This is called #OrganicListings. So even if your website appears on the last Google pages, that can change if you do these two things!

7. Optimize your keywords #onsite and have websites refer to you #offsite! Keywords make your site visible on @Google and backlinks allow @Google to trust your website. These are the two components of SEO!

8. Quality SEO takes time and effort, but the sooner you start, the sooner you can move to the top of relevant search results. The #formula to #greatSEO is not secret, but is not easy, either: Great SEO = Many Relevant Keywords + Many Influential or Legitimate Backlinks + Time

9. #SEO is the most effective way to increase traffic to your website. Have the most relevant keywords to your niche and work to generate backlinks through #Articles #SocialMedia #BlogPosts #DiscussionBoards! SEO works, make it work for you! #SEOworks4u

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Wow- Fantastic Product!

Thank you for introducing me to this app. It’s very creative and task specific. I can envision creating a mind map more efficiently than creating it in photoshop. The software seems user friendly and intuitive. After reading your review, I did a search for Scapple and I found a very informative Introduction to Scapple video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvP6c7AFx_c

I will definitely download the free version and give it a try.

From your research, what feature of Scapple do you like the best?

Great review!

Tommy

Scapple App Review

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Amazing review!

I’m sensitive to the light and often get headaches when reading, so this app can really benefit me. Sometimes, I cover reading material with blue overlays to reduce eye fatigue and headaches. Thank you for the informative review. I’m definitely going to investigate this app.

By the way, I went to the Blue Light app sight and it states there are in-apps purchases, do you know what they are?

Great work, especially the layout and design of your page.

Tommy

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Children’s App Review

You can download the app here.

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A Chocolate Revolution

Welcome to the wonderful world of chocolate! If chocolate is your favourite treat, you are in for an exciting experience!

The World’s Finest

We at XOXO (Hugs & Kisses) are introducing some of the best chocolate you can find on the market! Fairly traded with farmers in the Peruvian valley, our many flavours bring joy both to your taste buds and your wallet, as well as offering you peace of mind.

XOXO’s mission is to improve the world by reinventing everyone’s favorite dessert – chocolate! We make chocolate the right way – from ingredients to the way we treat our farmers and processors. With three flavours sure to delight you: Raspberry Explosion, Pistachio Mountain and Peruvian Dark, join us on an incredible journey!

Wholesome Peruvian Ingredients

Every ingredient is non-GMO, always real, with no artificial flavouring. Additionally, our chocolate has no added gluten, corn, or soy. We use sustainably sourced, fair-traded ingredients and each chocolate and candy are made with wholesome ingredients that make every bite healthy and tasty.

From Farm to Table

We believe in farmers’ rights; no big factories here. Directly from your purchasing power to their hands, this is a revolution in chocolate! The profits from the chocolate sales are invested back into the farming communities in order to help them build better lives.

Join the Revolution

Join us in making the world a place where you can enjoy your favourite treat knowing that your purchase is contributing to making the world a better place! You can start by visiting a Peruvian chocolate farm and meet local growers.

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One Dive, One Garbage!

Is our planet dying, is the water we swim in safe?

As a professional diver for the past 25 years, globetrotting around the world, I have seen the impact humans have on the environment, especially the sea. Around 71% of our planet is made up of water. According to plastic-pollution.org, about 260 million tons of plastic is produced each year and roughly 10 % of that ends up in our seas and oceans. I have recently discovered an informative article that discusses the quantity of garbage being dumped in landfills and the impact it has on our environment. According to Kadir vab Lohuizen and Noor, authors of “Drowning in Garbage”, approximately 3.5 million tons of garbage are being produced each day and around 300 million tons per year. Unfortunately, our waterways have become a hotspot for getting rid of garbage; “out of sight, out of mind.” One question that is always on my mind is what can we do about it?

I am a PADI Master Instructor and Course Director (Instructor Trainer) and have made my living from the sea for the past 25 years. As a scuba instructor, I have lived and worked in over 14 countries around the world and have logged approximately 10,000 dives. I was certified as a diver in 1990 and from day one, I spotted trash beneath the sea. From plastic, to rubber tires, to car batteries and bathtubs, there is no discrimination when it comes to what is being dumped. I was taught early in my dive career that the ocean is our friend and we must take care and respect it.

Many times, I have come across full bags of garbage during a dive; it really saddens me to see people treat a friend that way. Thus, I began a quest to educate divers on safe diving practices and responsible waste management. When I started teaching in 1994, I incorporated the “One Dive-One Garbage” rule, which meant that every time I went diving, my students and I, each removed a piece of trash.

In 1993, I participated in my first PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) Underwater Clean-Up event and from that day on, I have organized and taken part in underwater clean-ups in Canada, Honduras, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta and Romania. PADI created a foundation in 1989 that is dedicated to preserving and protecting the oceans called The Project Aware Foundation. AWARE is an acronym that stands for Aquatic World Awareness Responsibility Education. It’s very important to think about responsible waste management and participating in beach clean-ups and underwater cleaning events is a positive start.

Recently, my wife and I had a baby and we decided to name her Maya, which means water in Arabic. After Maya’s birth, I have become even more concerned about the environment and how we are treating our planet. What will we leave to future generations and what can we do now that will ensure a healthy planet for them?

One initiative that got me excited last year was the creation of 4 Ocean, a non-profit organization with a sole purpose to clean up the oceans and stop the dumping of plastic. One key feature of their ambitious campaign is that when you donate a minimum of $20 to their cause, they send you a 4Ocean bracelet made from the plastic collected during ocean clean-ups. I found out about this project via social media and I believe social media plays a crucial role in spreading the message, educating on ways to protect our oceans and the planet, while at the same time, bringing people together.

Over the next few months I will be exploring responsible waste management: underwater clean-ups events, recycling, reuse and re-purposing techniques, public awareness campaigns, because I believe everyone can make a difference and “to make a change, we have the be the change.”