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OUTSOURCING TIPS 2017

This is a guest post by Jeff Trippier. He is an experienced freelance writer with a background in SEO and web design. In this post-Jeff offers helpful SEO tips for WordPress blogging for boosting your blogging success.The SEO landscape is highly exposed to winds of change that sweep across it more often than not. Each year brings forth new trends and tactics that empower bloggers to move up in rankings and attract more visitors to their websites. Like it or not, SEO is the only way to improve the visibility of the pages for people who are looking for keywords associated with your blog. Capitalizing on it is no cakewalk, though. There are a plethora of SEO tactics under the digital sun and trends come and go at a rapid pace.

SEO TIPS FOR WORDPRESS BLOGGING: A LIST FOR 2017 AND BEYOND

Hi Guys! Greg here saying welcome to another great guest post from Jeff. In this WordPress SEO blog post we’ll cover beginner SEO strategies you can use right away on your blog. Simply using a good SEO strategy here or there can result in 1000s more visits on your blog per month, which in turn can help you actually blog for a living and reach new blogging heights…as opposed to sitting in the same place.I hope this makes blogging SEO a little easier, let us know in the comments!

MOBILE OPTIMIZATION IS A MUST: IT’S OUR #1 SEO TIP FOR WORDPRESS BLOGGING SUCCESS

A bulk of visitors today utilizes mobile devices to access your blog and providing them with a seamless experience is paramount to success. Google itself promotes mobile-first indexing and proposes Responsive Web Design as the most effective solution for optimizing your pages. You can also follow the search engine’s instructions on how to create a responsive digital environment. Do not fail to make your blog mobile-friendly and you will be able to reap immense benefits.Additional Blog SE0 tips for WordPress blogging from Greg: Just find a reliable responsive WordPress theme you and your users enjoy. Don’t be like me and hang on to the old look for 2 years after mobilegeddon.

THE NEED FOR SPEED: PAGE LOAD AFFECTS AUDIENCE RETENTION

Web page speed is another crucial element you have to consider. Namely, the time it takes for a page to load has a profound impact on retention and bounce rates of your blog. For better or worse, the attention spans are shortened and if the page does not load within a few seconds, the visitors decide to move on. To prevent this from happening, increase the speed by removing excess JavaScript, CSS, and media elements like images.Additional Blog SE0 tips for WordPress blogging from Greg: You can accomplish this with a cheap CDN, or at the minimum, WP super cache plugin.

SMOOTH OPERATORS: OPTIMIZE YOUR URLS AND META DESCRIPTIONS

Experts fromDomains Index recommend bloggers to develop a deeper understanding of how Google bots crawl your pages. For instance, the first element that they factor in to discover what your post is the URL. So, optimize it and try to include a keyword in it. Meta descriptions have a huge role to play as well because they give both search engines and visitors valuable information on the content: They are widely used by search engines as telltale signs and they also appear in SERPs.Additional Blog SE0 tips for WordPress blogging from Greg: It takes a few more minutes, but it’s worth it. Just use Yoast WordPress SEO for their free SEO checklist.

STELLAR CONTENT: CONTENT IS ALWAYS KING

Content is hands down, the most vital piece of the blogging success puzzle. To stand out in the crowded blogosphere, one has to stand out with useful, original, and relevant posts. Therefore, come up with great headlines to grab attention right off the bat. Always include images to spark interest and drive more social signals and interaction. Include only links that make sense in the context and lead to quality websites or an internal page.Additional Blog SE0 tips for WordPress blogging from Greg: Long form list posts work great.

SMART USE OF KEYWORDS: POPULAR PHRASES IN GOOGLE

Figure out the best and most related keywords to deploy in the text. You can do this with the help of handy tools such as Adword planner. They allow you to gain insights into keywords that people search for. Just avoid going overboard with this SEO staple element because that could hurt your ranking. In general, the keywords density should not be higher than 1% of the total word content. Hence, it is a good idea to focus on 1 or 2 long-tail keywords.Additional Blog SE0 tips for WordPress blogging from Greg: Once you find a good 2-5 word keyword phrase, insert it a few more times than you would think necessary into your blog post content.

VISUAL STORYTELLING: USE REAL IMAGES WITH ALT TEXT

It has never been more important to emphasize the visual side of things. Images are the crown jewels of your blog, but as people from Senatorpoint out, generic and unrelated ones do not cut it. They have to add to your storytelling and capture the imagination of the user, taking the whole experience to the next level. At the same time, to enable search engines to “see” what your images are about, you have to include alt text.Additional Blog SE0 tips for WordPress blogging from Greg: te to your other images, you’ll be fine. I still use when I need a quick fix (which is almost always!)

RAMP UP ENGAGEMENT: SHOW OFF YOUR SOCIAL STATUS!

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Make good use of topic clusters, never size enriching content, and keep things fresh and interesting. Always share your content across your social media profiles. Although social signals such as likes and shares are not officially ranking factor, they influence your rankings by boosting your authority. So, add backlinks from social sites and social share buttons to your blog. Engage and interact with your audience to nurture lasting trust and loyalty.Additional Blog SE0 tips for WordPress blogging from Greg: If you’re out of ideas or drained from social media, just keep writing. Guest post and create new blog drafts in your dashboard. You’ll get there!

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THESE SEO TIPS FOR WORDPRESS BLOGGING?

To rise above the competition, bloggers have to keep up the pace with constant algorithm updates and dynamic SEO trends. Organic search is a humongous, invaluable source of traffic, social signals, and revenue. Thus, optimize your blog for mobile users, use visual media to your advantage, and let bots crawl your pages nice and easy. Fostering a good user experience and delight your readers. Stay on top of the never-ending game in SERPs to get ahead of the pack.

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Weekly Digest

Dec 16, 2017, 3rd issue.

A roundup of stuff I consumed this week. Published weekly(ish).

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Whoever your graphic design portfolio site is aimed at, you have to remember that people’s time and attention is limited. Employers, to take one example, may look at dozens of portfolios in the space of 10 minutes. So you only have a few seconds to really grab their attention and enthuse them.

—8 great graphic design portfolio sites for 2018

Paying for more than 3,500 daily drinks for six years, it turns out, is expensive. The NIH would need more funding—and soon, a team stepped up to the plate. The Foundation of the NIH, a little-known 20-year-old non-profit that calls on donors to support NIH science, was talking to alcohol corporations. By the fall of 2014, the study was relying on the industry for “separate contributions to the Foundation of the NIH beyond what the NIAAA could afford,” as Mukamal put it in an e-mail to a prospective collaborator. Later that year, Congress encouraged the NIH to sponsor the study, but lawmakers didn’t provide any money. Five corporations—Anheuser-Busch InBev, Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Heineken, and Carlsberg—have since provided a total of $67 million. The foundation is seeking another $23 million, according to its director of development, Julie Wolf-Rodda.

—A MASSIVE HEALTH STUDY ON BOOZE, BROUGHT TO YOU BY BIG ALCOHOL

When Starbucks (SBUX) announced that it was closing its Teavana tea line and wanted to shutter all of its stores, mall operator Simon Property Group (SPG) countered with a lawsuit. Simon cited in part the effect the store closures might have on other mall tenants.

Earlier this month, a judge upheld Simons' suit, ordering Teavana to keep 77 of its stores open.

—America's malls are rotting away

The Dots claims to have a quarter of a million members and current clients include Google, Burberry, Sony Pictures, Viacom, M&C Saatchi, Warner Music, Tate, Discovery Networks and VICE amongst others.

—Aiming to be the LinkedIn for creatives, The Dots raises £4m

The Cboe's bitcoin futures fell 10 percent Wednesday, triggering a two-minute trading halt early Wednesday afternoon.

—Bitcoin futures briefly halted after plunging 10%

Through a very clever scheme, the people behind Tether can continue to send Bitcoin into the stratosphere until it reaches a not-yet-known breaking point.

—Bitcoin Only Has One Way To Go If This Is True

—Bitcoin Price Dilemma: Bull and Bear Paths in Play

—Botera – Free Font

"He is being a huge assh*le and avoiding you so it literally forces you to be the one to break up with him because he's too much of a coward to do it himself. GOD, I HATE GUYS."

—"Breakup Ghosting" Is the Most Cowardly Way to End a Relationship

—Britain rejected the EU, and the EU is loving its new life

“Although the science is still evolving, there are concerns among some public health professionals and members of the public regarding long-term, high use exposure to the energy emitted by cellphones,” Dr. Karen Smith, CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer, said in a statement.

—California Warns People to Limit Exposure to Cellphones

There is a way CSS can get its hands on data in HTML, so long as that data is within an attribute on that HTML element.

—The CSS attr() function got nothin’ on custom properties

“The recent coverage of AI as a single, unified power is a predictable upshot of a self-aggrandizing Silicon Valley culture that believes it can summon a Godhead,” says Thomas Arnold

—Former Google and Uber engineer is developing an AI 'god'

Here are two facts: 1) Throughout the tail end of Matt Lauer’s tenure at NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America beat it in the ratings, and 2) In the two weeks since Lauer was kicked to the curb for sexual misconduct and replaced by Hoda Kotb, Today’s viewership has surpassed GMA’s by a considerable margin.

Here are two opinions: 1) No one ever really liked Matt Lauer, but tolerated him as you would a friend you’ve known for 20 years but have nothing in common with anymore, 2) Hota Kotb makes everything better.

—A Funny Thing Is Happening to Today Now That Matt Lauer Is Gone: Its Ratings Are Going Up

The game challenges you to build an empire that stands the test of time, taking your civilization from the Stone Age to the Information Age as you wage war, conduct diplomacy, advance your culture, and go head-to-head with history’s greatest leaders.

—Get the newest game in 'Sid Meier’s Civilization' series for 50% off

Amazingly, despite the mind control and hypnosis, the girl resisted being totally drawn into her father’s “cult of three.” But she suffered from self-loathing and took to self-harm as a coping mechanism.

—Girl’s father tortured her for a decade to make her ‘superhuman’

The most searched for dog breed was the golden retriever.

—Google's top searches for 2017: Matt Lauer, Hurricane Irma and more

"A few months ago, I started collecting stories from people about their real experiences with loneliness. I started small, asking my immediate network to share with their friends/family, and was flooded with submissions from people of all ages and walks of life.

"The Loneliness Project is an interactive web archive I created to present and give these stories a home online. I believe in design as a tool to elevate others' voices. Stories have tremendous power to spark empathy, and I believe that the relationship between design and emotion only strengthens this power.

—Graphic designer tackles issue of wide-spread loneliness in moving campaign

While the Windows 10 OpenSSH software is currently in Beta, it still works really well. Especially the client as you no longer need to use a 3rd party SSH client such as Putty when you wish to connect to a SSH server.

—Here's How to Enable the Built-In Windows 10 OpenSSH Client

In America we have settled on patterns of land use that might as well have been designed to prevent spontaneous encounters, the kind out of which rich social ties are built.

—How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult

Today was "Break the Internet" day, in which many websites altered their appearance and urged visitors to contact members of Congress about the pending repeal (see the gallery above for examples from Reddit, Kickstarter, GitHub, Mozilla, and others).

—How Reddit and others “broke the Internet” to support net neutrality today

“He’s the Usain Bolt of business for Jamaica,” Richards said. “For each Jamaican immigrant, Lowell Hawthorne is me, he’s you. He was the soul of Jamaica, the son of our soil, and all of our struggles were identified with him.”

—How the Jamaican patty king made it to the top — before ending it all

—How to break a CAPTCHA system in 15 minutes with Machine Learning

After the trap has snapped shut, the plant turns it into an external stomach, sealing the trap so no air gets in or out. Glands produce enzymes that digest the insect, first the exoskeleton made of chitin, then the nitrogen-rich blood, which is called hemolyph.

The digestion takes several days depending on the size of the insect, and then the leaf re-opens. By that time, the insect is a "shadow skeleton" that is easily blown away by the wind.

—How the Venus Flytrap Kills and Digests Its Prey

Back at The Shed, Phoebe has arrived. She's an intuitive waitress who can really get across the nuances of our menu, like how – by serving pudding in mugs – we're aiming to replicate the experience of what it's like to eat pudding out of a mug.

—I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor

In order to create a candlestick chart, you must have a data set that contains open, high, low and closevalues for each time period you want to display. The hollow or filled portion of the candlestick is called “the body” (also referred to as “the real body”). The long thin lines above and below the body represent the high/low range and are called “shadows” (also referred to as “wicks” and “tails”). The high is marked by the top of the upper shadow and the low by the bottom of the lower shadow.

—Introduction to Candlesticks

The object in question is ‘Oumuamua, an asteroid from another star system currently zipping past Jupiter at about 196,000 miles per hour, too fast to be trapped by the sun’s gravitational pull. First discovered in mid-October by astronomers at the Pan-STARRS project at the University of Hawaii, the 800-meter-long, 80-meter-wide, cigar-shaped rock is, technically speaking, weird as hell—and that’s precisely why some scientists think it’s not a natural object.

—Is This Cigar-Shaped Asteroid Watching Us?

I tried out LinkedIn Career Advice and Bumble Bizz over the course of a work week and compared them in terms of how easy they are to use and the kind of people they introduce you to.

—I tried LinkedIn's career advice app vs. dating app Bumble's version and discovered major flaws with both

“The Bitcoin dream is all but dead,” I wrote.

—I Was Wrong About Bitcoin. Here’s Why.

—Jessen's Orthogonal Icosahedron

In the study, depressed patients who got an infusion of ketamine reported rapid relief from suicidal thoughts—many as soon as a few hours after receiving the drug.

—Ketamine Relieved Suicidal Thoughts Within Hours in Hospital Study

We are trying to create an Open Source Website that searches through an open database of Interactive Maps focused on learning in a linear way. It leverages all of world’s knowledge in a unique way. It takes the Wikipedia model of curating knowledge but applies it to curating links in a meaningful and visual way.

—Learn Anything White Paper

"It was a very new word [in 1841]," Sokolowski said. "[Noah Webster’s] definition is not the definition that you and I would understand today. His definition was, 'The qualities of females,' so basically feminism to Noah Webster meant femaleness. We do see evidence that the word was used in the 19th century in a medical sense, for the physical characteristics of a developing teenager, before it was used as a political term, if you will."

—Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2017: 'Feminism'

The Wall Street Journal issued a new note on its style blog earlier this week, suggesting the publication not write about millennials with such disdain.

"What we usually mean is young people, so we probably should just say that," the new WSJ note reads. "Many of the habits and attributes of millennials are common for people in their 20s, with or without a snotty term."

—'Millennials': Be Careful How We Use This Label

As of writing, the CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) is at $16,743 levels. The world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has appreciated 0.72 percent in the last 24 hours, going by CoinMarketCap data.

—No Stopping? After New High, Bitcoin Price Eyes $20k

People who tested as being more conscientious but less open were more sensitive to typos, while those with less agreeable personalities got more upset by grammatical errors.

"Perhaps because less agreeable people are less tolerant of deviations from convention," the researchers wrote.

Interestingly, how neurotic someone was didn't affect how they interpreted mistakes.

—People Who Constantly Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Scientists Find

Hydrogen particles are made up of an electron and a proton. Exciton particles, then, are made up of an electron that’s escaped and the negative space it left behind when it did so. The hole actually acts like a particle, attracting the escaped electron and bonding with it; they orbit each other the same way an electron and a proton would.

—PHYSICS BREAKTHROUGH: NEW FORM OF MATTER, EXCITONIUM, FINALLY PROVED TO EXIST AFTER 50-YEAR SEARCH

For reasons that people are now trying to determine, this weekend the internet turned its collective gaze to a short story called “Cat Person.”

Response to the story has varied from praise for its relatability to flat dismissal to jokes about how everyone is talking about a—Who’da thunk it?—short story of all things.

—The reaction to “Cat Person” shows how the internet can even ruin fiction

—Regular Icosahedron

—Repeal Day Poster – Summit Brewing Co.

[Dr. Simon Bramhall of the UK] pleaded guilty to charges that he etched his initials, “SB,” onto the livers of two transplant patients with an argon beam in 2013. Bramhall admitted the assaults in a hearing in Birmingham crown court on Wednesday, according to several news outlets.

—SB WUZ HERE: Surgeon pleads guilty to burning initials into patients’ organs

I get what you’re doing. Really, I do. You’re trying to shit on people’s musical tastes to either appear more well-versed in music than them or you just want to see the shocked look on people’s faces as you besmirch their favorite band. And listen, I don’t blame you for either. They’re both fun activities that I partake in on the reg. If you name me a band you like, I will find a hundred different ways to judge you on your taste. If the band happens to feature a white guy with dreads, make it three hundred. But The Beatles, dude? The fucking Beatles? You are really scraping the barrel if you are knocking people for liking The Beatles, you moron.

—Shut Your Dumb, Stupid Mouth about the Beatles Being Overrated

—Sonakinatography I Movement #III for Multi-Media

The font the menu is written in can convey similar messages; for instance an italic typeface conveys a perception of quality. But using elaborate fonts that are hard to read could also have another effect – it could alter how the food itself tastes.

A study conducted by researchers in Switzerland found that a wine labelled with a difficult-to-read script was liked more by drinkers than the same wine carrying a simpler typeface. Spence’s own research has also found that consumers often associate rounder typefaces with sweeter tastes, while angular fonts tend to convey a salty, sour or bitter experience.

—The secret tricks hidden inside restaurant menus

On Allison Benedikt, Lorin Stein, and the perils of extracting universal principles from fairytale endings...

“My career, at the time, was in his hands,” Allison Benedikt wrote at Slate this week, about the beginning of her relationship with John Cook, her husband of 14 years. They were colleagues at a magazine when they first kissed, and he was her senior. That kiss took place “on the steps of the West 4th subway station,” Benedikt writes, and Cook did it “without first getting [her] consent.” The piece is an intervention into the conversation on office sexual harassment, with Benedikt fearing “the consequences of overcorrection” on this issue.

—So You Married Your Flirty Boss

“We encourage the use of Teslas for commercial purposes and we’ll work proactively with these customers to find charging solutions that work best for them,” the statement said.

—Tesla Tells New Taxi, Uber Drivers Not to Use Its Superchargers

The deep web refers to anything you can’t access in a search engine, either because it’s protected behind a password or because it’s buried deep within a regular website. The dark web is a subsection of the deep web that you can only access with a special browser like Tor to mask your IP address.

—Things You Can Do on the Dark Web That Aren't Illegal

—This Graphic Explains Just How Crazy The Cryptocurrency Bubble Is

One such study published in the journal Neuroimage and highlighted on PsyBlog actually found that some forms of daydreaming cause measurable changes in the brain. This suggests that, done right, daydreaming actually requires attention and control.

—This Is the Correct Way to Daydream, According to a Harvard Psychiatrist

"VR can be stored in the brain's memory center in ways that are strikingly similar to real-world physical experiences," said Stanford's Bailenson, author of the forthcoming book "Experience on Demand," about his two decades of research on the psychological effects of virtual reality. "When VR is done well, the brain believes it is real."

—The very real health dangers of virtual reality

Respect for children means respect for the adults that they will one day become; it means helping them to the knowledge, skills, and social graces that they will need if they are to be respected in that wider world where they will be on their own and no longer protected. For the teacher, respect for children means giving them whatever one has by way of knowledge, teaching them to distinguish real knowledge from mere opinion, and introducing them to the subjects that make the mind adaptable to the unforeseen.

—The Virtue of Irrelevance

—You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think

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—Jessen's Orthogonal Icosahedron

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Optimized website for Local Search on Mobile.

A combination of these convenient solutions among local and mobile search will assist you with improving your search rankings and deals results. Connect with Local SEO Agency in New York, USA to incorporate these tips into the creation of your mobile site and become the ruler of local mobile search.

Numerous individuals that are new to SEO are often wondering whether mobile and local search go connected at the hip. The specialists realize that the appropriate response is certainly yes!

Mobile and local search are an incredible SEO couple. While streamlining your website for mobile gadgets as a general SEO practice, you ought to decide on local search optimization. Individuals have inquiries, for example, how to optimize the mobile site for local search.

In view of a comScore study, 61% of mobile clients are searching for local things, and 58 % of respondents consider local search results dependable. Which implies that most of the websites must be optimized for local SEO and mobile search.

Very often, the reason for the poor search results is a disadvantage of essential settings. By doing the accompanying handy solutions, you will ensure that your mobile website is well-optimized for local search. The tips recorded beneath will really assist them with knowing the importance of mobile website optimization and furthermore convey thorough information on

Tip #1 – Localize your SEO efforts

Everyone who serves their business networks up close and personal should think about their local SEO. Among these are physical organizations with physical locations (dental specialist offices, hairstyling salons, land offices, and so on.) and service zone organizations working in a specific geographic region (circuit repairmen, fix services, etc).

Today localization has a somewhat extraordinary significance. It isn't just about changing an express, a city, a land region or a feature of your business, it should concentrate more on an area or a little locale. It incorporates everything from asserting a professional resource to confirm that your business location shows up in Google Local search. While likewise overseeing surveys, online appraisals, and local-driven web-based life commitment.

On-page factors

Every single localized website, regardless of whether they have an open area, ought to make header labels and one of a kind URLs for their particular location. Including your region in your URL is a strong sign, however, it isn't constantly convenient for a website. Don't forget to Optimize Your Site for local search on mobile.

All things considered, you ought to have a greeting page for your location, determine the region name in the URL, and add toponym to the semantic center. On the off chance that you have various locations, you can make a page where you can list every one of your locations with a connect to a guide or with an H1 tag.

Google My Business

Once you are done with on-page factors, you should watch out for Google My Business to stand out for users to the furthest reaches.

Your Google My Business Page ought to incorporate your location, working hours, phone number, pictures, mainstream times, surveys, and connections to your pages.

Ensure that the content on this page is consistent with your image, the classes and description are on point, and the pictures are in high resolution.

Social signals

Connections from online networking sites are getting increasingly more squeeze, so refreshing your business social profiles all the time is significant. Including social sharing buttons for a particular location could likewise conspicuously increase your local Google-search unit.

Online surveys

Once clients discover your business, they may check the surveys from your customers posted on various online directories, web-based life, forums, and so forth. In view of a BrightLocal overview, 93% of consumers read local surveys to choose if a business is great or not. That is the reason it is critical to watch out for audits and respond to them opportune and suitably. The more audits you get in your region, the better your local SEO will be.

Local search outer location signals

Outer location signals include the perceivability of your NAP and different business information on online directories. It is basic to have the correct NAP, as these online directories will extricate your information from that. A few people likewise monitor your surveys on these websites, and you ought to likewise focus on them.

Connection Signals

Connections are significant for your local SEO, so you should connect to different assets, local organizations, government websites inside your content. The primary concern is important. It ought to be valuable and important to your website and your clients. To acquire great connections, you can be associated with facilitating occasions in your locale.

Tip #2- Be mobile-Friendly

Today a growing number of mobile clients search for local organizations consistently. Be that as it may, they don't know How To Increase Your Local Search Rank. In light of comScore's 2016 Mobile App Report, total computerized media time increased by 53% in 2016, and 80% of that increase was because of mobile applications. That implies that we have to change in accordance with this new world with mobile-centered efforts. This can be the best option for how to optimize website for local search on mobile

Online organizations need to make content accessible to their spectators where they invest the greater part of their energy. The center is to have a mobile responsive website that will really wind up aiding SEO and drawing in with mobile users.on how to optimize website for local search

Make your mobile clients fulfilled and tail one of these techniques:

Responsive website architecture (RWD) – the server consistently sends a similar HTML code to all gadgets and CSS.

Dynamic showing – the server responds with various HTML (and CSS) on a similar URL relying upon the client specialist mentioning the page.

Separate URLs – various URLs for showing the site on the desktop and on mobile gadgets (for example example.com and m.example.com)

Once Google reported that they began testing their mobile-first record, mobile rankings have gotten significant for everyone. This bodes well as mobile rankings contrast from desktop.

Tip #3 – Promote the correct pages

At the point when search motors recognize various URLs prompting a similar site page, it makes an assortment of issues for the website in the end bringing about a rankings drop and conceivable punishment. Attempt a couple of the systems beneath to help search arachnids discover the page that is pertinent for a particular search inquiry.

Canonical quality

To forestall copy content issues, you should add to significant pages the component with rel="canonical". The search motor decides this site page as the essential one, and it will be shown in the search results.

Tip: However, utilize the canonical quality if all else fails to maintain a strategic distance from copy content. Before attempting this component, you should attempt the accompanying solutions:

Use various CSS documents to make mobile versions of your website pages.

Put 301 sidetracks from your old pages to your new pages.

Update your robots.txt record with the rundown of superfluous directories from search motors.

It is fundamental to utilize the canonical trait in the correct way. On the off chance that you put the wrong URLs, it can detrimentally affect your search motor rankings.

Breadcrumb navigation for item pages

Breadcrumbs fill in as an extraordinary visual guide showing the location of the client inside your site's chain of importance. Without breadcrumbs on an item page, it's hard to discover a collection of items that often make clients stall out on the item page.

It is fundamental for clients to discover certain items paying little respect to whether they are arriving at the item page from an alternate piece of the website or from another website.

Pecking order breadcrumbs function admirably for search, non-straight ways and promotions since clients can without much of a stretch direct their concentration toward direct item perusing. At Glasses Gallery, you can without much of a stretch explore to an item's class to discover related items with every single past channel and settings.

Make the titles of the items special

Item titles make the initial introduction about the merchandise. On the off chance that they are long and confusing, it can imperil the deal. For this situation, Amazon can be a genuine model that qualities the correct title formatting on item titles that help to characterize importance.

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#local seo tips #local seo agency #localseo

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allcontent · 6 years ago

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OUTSOURCING TIPS 2017

SEO TIPS FOR WORDPRESS BLOGGING: A LIST FOR 2017 AND BEYOND

MOBILE OPTIMIZATION IS A MUST: IT’S OUR #1 SEO TIP FOR WORDPRESS BLOGGING SUCCESS

THE NEED FOR SPEED: PAGE LOAD AFFECTS AUDIENCE RETENTION

SMOOTH OPERATORS: OPTIMIZE YOUR URLS AND META DESCRIPTIONS

STELLAR CONTENT: CONTENT IS ALWAYS KING

SMART USE OF KEYWORDS: POPULAR PHRASES IN GOOGLE

VISUAL STORYTELLING: USE REAL IMAGES WITH ALT TEXT

RAMP UP ENGAGEMENT: SHOW OFF YOUR SOCIAL STATUS!

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mercadosadaf · 7 years ago

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Swimming The 23km Kvarken Strait For The First Time

This week on the blog we have a special story from Lennart Flygare, a Swim Smooth follower who used our coaching to set a world first - swimming the Kvarken Strait from Finland to Sweden! This super-tough swim has never been completed before but that didn't stop Lennart and two friends believing it could be done. Our take on this is that even if you're not a super-fast swimmer yourself, you shouldn't let that stop you taking on some big challenges yourself. Research, plan and prepare well (including appropriate safety cover) and there's nothing to stop you achieving something amazing like Lennart, Pavio and Tore. Congrats guys on your special achievement!

Before and after - tired but exhilarated!

Lennart takes up the story:

It was at 7.30 pm with 3km to go when the ice-cold head-on current working against us set in. That was when for the first time I started to doubt if we would make it.

But let's start from the beginning. Some four years ago at the age of 53 I took up triathlon. I had suffered bilateral frozen shoulders and an injured knee and realised I couldn't just run in the woods for training. Variation was needed. As almost all beginner triathletes I dreaded the swim - only being able to swim breast stroke without any clue how to swim crawl for more than 15 meters. After a few months of struggling in the pool I finally got the hang of front crawl and then progression was fast for a year. Then it all levelled out, I just didn't get anywhere with my swimming despite 3 weekly swim sessions. Yes, I know, it is a common tale… However, one day one of my triathlon friends Anna Jonsson who had been to Gothenburg and trained under Swim Smooth Coach Anna-Karin Lundin gave me a book, which she thought would suit me. And so it did, the book of course being The Swim Smooth Book. Suddenly everything fell into place about my swimming. Identifying myself as a slim Arnie I soon found ways to work on my technique in a more structured manner. I didn't swim more but my sessions became structured with a set aim every time. I skimmed Youtube for the Swim Smooth videos and also bought the training plan for Olympic/Middle Distance Level 1 and started to follow it. Suddenly swimming become my favourite discipline and I longed for every swim session. That first summer I entered my first Ironman in Copenhagen. Stepping out of the water at 1:16 I soon realised that swimming had changed from my weak spot to my real strength in triathlon. Since then I have continued to use the training plan. I am still a mediocre swimmer with a CSS of 1:55/100m* but my stamina and endurance have grown each season. I live in Sweden, in the city of Umeå by the coastline of the Gulf of Bothnia. At our latitude, 63° North, Sweden and Finland is separated by a strait named “Kvarken”. Although only 23km wide at its narrowest point no one had ever succeeded to cross it swimming although several attempts had been made. Freezing cold water, strong currents and windy conditions had stopped every endeavour even from some pretty good swimmers. Nevertheless, after one of our swim sessions in the pool last winter me and two friends came to chat about it and decided we should give it a try. I think the others soon forgot our chat but I could not stop thinking seriously about it. I even bought a new Huub Archimedes wetsuit with the crossing of Kvarken in mind. This year we had an exceptionally warm summer and I spent lots of time studying the weather forecast, and chart of currents and water temperatures. Every day it seemed the wind was too strong and the waves to high due to strong sea breeze in the strait. Finally, my friend Per Edlund and I decided to try a night swim on the 18th July in search for calm waters. As we slipped into the water at 10pm we knew that this was going to be tough. The charts had said 17 °C in the water but it was more like 12-13 °C and surely enough, as the sun set below the horizon the cold soon creeped through our bones. After 2½ hours and just 5½km due to a current working against us, we realised this was not going to work and so we had to abandon our try. We understood that the next attempt had to be daytime although good weather usually results in a strong sea breeze. Per went away on vacation and in an ironic twist of fate the weather report forecasted perfect conditions 7 hours before Per was to return. So, with much hesitation and sadness we had to leave Per at bay and set out for the next try, this time with Pavio Grzelewski and Tore Klingberg in the swim-team. We decided to start in Finland and swim towards Sweden in order to match the predicted wind and currents. During the night, there was a strong wind force 6-7 and as we set out for Finland in the boat in the morning, the waves in the straight were still at a considerable height. The waves settled quickly however and by the time we reached Vallasaaret in Finland the conditions were close to perfect. Sunny and 18-19 °C in the water and a south-easterly wind force 1-2. We set out at 9.30 AM. The first hour we clocked almost 3½km on the GPS without much effort, probably due to a good tail-current. We took turns to stay in the lead ½ an hour at a time with the two others enjoying the wake of the lead swimmer. Soon the initial excitement wore off, the distance gained dropping to the expected levels of around 2½ km/hour and it all became a matter of keeping the pace, concentration on breathing and holding the course direction.

Beautiful conditions 1 hour into the swim

Erik and Urban in the support-boat stayed ahead of us directing us to the finish at Holmön in Sweden. At around noon the sea breeze started to set in but as it was from the left side and just a tiny bit from behind we thought we could manage as long as it did not get too strong. However, as the sea breeze built up to force 4, Pavio became seriously seasick and I was not feeling too good myself. Rye sandwiches and Coca-Cola from our supply vessel combined with a decreasing wind got us through though. It was not until afterwards that Pavio admitted he was seconds from giving up right there and then! After 5 hours, we were exactly halfway according to our calculations having swam some 12½ km, the extra km due to our slithering course. Apart from some neck chafing that had to be covered with duct tape, we still felt good and as the wind died out everything went as planned. We were out of sight of land, minutes became hours, swim strokes became kilometres and after 8 hours, we began to see the Swedish coastline. It didn't get much closer though and after 9½ hours and 22 km on the GPS I asked our friends in the boat how much was left, anticipating their answer to be 1-1½km. When the reply was 5½km we were not too happy realising we had forgot to calculate for our inability to swim a straight course topped off with a slight head-current. Still, the weather was nice and we were still in a good mood so this should be all right as long as we could cross the shipping channel safely. We were lucky and managed to cross just between two big freighters without having to stop. By now the coastline started to come closer but the sun was getting near the horizon. Remembering our try from the week before I desperately wanted to finish before the sun set. That was the moment when we came into the freezing head current and I thought: "No - this is not happening. We have not´ swam more than 23 km just to give up with the finish in sight!". Tore was totally exhausted by then, battling with cramps in his calves, and I secretly decided to take his turns in the lead should it come to that. Pavio had however made a remarkable recovery after his seasickness and made good turns at the front. I could slowly feel my limbs getting heavier and stiffer but as the coastline started to come nearer with every stroke our spirits lifted.

25km done - and spirits still high

Just 2km to go!

With 2km to go, we suddenly heard some cheering and there was Per with our good friend Anders on jet skis greeting us. What a nice surprise! Their support was so welcome and with a final effort, we pushed through the last km to arrive at Holmön 12 hours and 2 minutes after the start.

The finish! Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/297083073

As we climbed out of the water on pebbles and rocks, the whole world kept rocking, the way it does for ocean sailors coming ashore. I guess the feeling of relief even overwhelmed our joy to have made it! So, what were our experiences of long open water swims like this:

• Preparation is everything. Follow the weather reports closely and never cheat on safety. We had orange swim buoy's attached to us and all swimmers were connected to each other with long rubber cords, just like the ones used in swim-run events. The service-boat always stayed within 100 meters of the swimmers. • With time you will get cold. We used neoprene swimcaps, as well as neoprene swimgloves and socks. I also had a thin woollen t-shirt under my wetsuit acting as insulation. Still our body temperature dropped fast in the last hour. • Don't start out too fast. It is just like the swim sessions in the pool. One really needs to hold back in the speed from the start. Fatigue will come for sure anyhow. Think a Red Mist Session x-plenty! • Train for endurance, not speed. I have personally found the Swim Smooth training plans for triathletes ideal in this respect. • Finally, if someone in the team gets seasick – put them to the back of the pack. 😉

Lennart Flygare “Swim Smooth Prospect” Umeå, Sweden

* Actually that's a perfectly respectable CSS pace. Nothing to be ashamed of Lennart!

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