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Why dark mode web designs are gaining popularity

30-second summary: The popularity of dark mode web design and its adoption by leading tech giants. How coders and web developers became influencers for this change. The impact of dark mode web design on users and their eyes. How dark mode web design leads to less battery consumption. Various guidelines available online to adopt this new theme. Search engines do not mind the change and thus it doesn’t affect your SEO adversely. User preferences, mood changer, and why adding space matters. In recent times dark viewing mode for websites has gained a lot of popularity from users worldwide. The followership is so strong that Google right now offers you the ‘Night Eye’ feature where you can apply dark mode on any website as long as you’re using  Google Chrome  as your browser. However, the popularity is further augmented with many applications and web designs exclusively adopting this new design feature to make users enjoy the experience that is different from conventio...
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Post-COVID-19 strategy to restore your social media reputation

30-second summary: Trends suggest that about 25% of businesses paused their marketing and advertising on social media during the first six months of 2020. Facebook reports that 89% of advertisers reconsidered their budget in response to the coronavirus outbreak. This post attempts to underline some of the strategies you can consider practicing to restore your reputation and recognition on social media. COVID-19 has had an impact on everyone and everything – starting from our lives and lifestyle to economies and businesses across the world. Business processes were forcefully shut down as a preventive measure to stop the pandemic earlier this year and the same has reflected in paid advertising, digital marketing strategies, and brands’ social media reputation management efforts. COVID-19 and digital marketing The number of people using social media has skyrocketed during the epidemic. Despite that, many organizations paused their digital marketing and even social media due to t...
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Synergized search is key to success in the new normal

30-second summary: Given that consumers run billions of searches every day — with Google estimated to process 40,000 per second it’s clear marketers need a smart strategy to cut through the competition. The question is: Will they drive the highest traffic and performance with SEO or PPC? Head of Paid Media at Tug shares insight on how perfectly balancing these two facets can lead to success in the new normal. Consumer activity online is at an all-time high. So, it’s no surprise many marketers are aiming to make the most of it by hooking their attention early, at the point of search. But deciding how best to do so isn’t necessarily easy. Given that consumers run billions of searches every day — with Google estimated to process 40,000 per second — it’s clear marketers need a smart strategy to cut through the competition. The question is: will they drive the highest traffic and performance with search engine optimization (SEO) or pay per click (PPC)? Both have their own adv...
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Navigating a cookieless future

30-second summary: On September 16, Apple launched iOS 14, which is a major overhaul of the Apple operating system and would require users to authorize information known as (IDFA). This was followed by announcements from Google that they will be following a similar path for Google Chrome, effectively turning off tracking on Safari, which commands 90 percent usage on iPhones, and Chrome, which commands five percent. These moves towards user privacy and marketing compliance are effectively a pivot away from the traditional advertising and search marketing industry, which will impact later players like Facebook to national media agencies like GroupM. More details on how marketers can navigate in a cookieless world. One of the most impactful changes to internet advertising and media has stayed mostly unspoken in agency and SEO chatter. However, like the switch from a desktop landscape to a mobile landscape, there is no reprieve from the coming cookieless world. On September 16, A...
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Top 10 Tools to facilitate web development

30-second summary: Web development is very essential for guiding you past the traditional methods of website development and approaching to other more unique and efficient prospects in the IT field. Building an app or website is real but sometimes can be better facilitated through the testing and implementation phases of web tools. Entering the new age of the digital world is just impossible without proper deployment, scaling, and database management. And this where the best web development weapons are on standby. Web development tools are necessary to adapt and integrate in the development environments since they help you create a webpage, gather metrics, discover layouts and designs. Web development is all about evolving and stepping up the game you are currently very proficient in. Along with that it doesn’t demand much money,  require enormous sources or expect big money. The only thing development tools are incorporating is your boosted ultimate website performance. Wh...
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Speed and performance of Web dev, SEO, and marketing agencies websites

30-second summary: The research shows most agencies failed when it comes to the performance of their website. Search engine ranking is a multi-factor game, and performance, while it matters for many reasons, is just one piece in this puzzle. Nebojsa Radakovic shares insights. Ever since Google announced that page speed would be a ranking factor in its mobile-first index in 2018, the need for speed became one of the most important aspects of web dev trait. A lot of businesses jumped onto the speed train.  Sure enough, one year later, Google reported that sites are faster, and abandonment rates are down since making page speed a ranking factor. With performance being one of the top-selling points of a modern-day web dev architecture Jamstack that we are so into, it was only natural to take a deep dive into the industries that tackle website performance and see how we stand against our peers. TL;DR: Key findings Don’t have the time to read through the research? Here ...
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Why behavior analysis is important online business

30-second summary: A typical consumer now owns an average of 3.6 devices which means a person’s journey may start from a laptop and end on a mobile or a tablet. In the ecommerce business, the cart abandonment rate is the thing that haunts most of the business owners. Developing analytical skills can help you better manage these obstacles. MD of SEO Discovery shares a guide to help you understand Cohort Analysis and Behavior Analysis to eliminate roadblocks and improve engagement. In today’s digital age, the customer journey is getting complex day by day and if you are doing online business then it’s vital to understand your customer journey. A typical consumer now owns an average of 3.6 devices which means a person’s journey may start from a laptop and end on a mobile or a tablet. In the ecommerce business, the cart abandonment rate is the thing that haunts most of the business owners. According to Statista , 88.05 percent of online shopping orders were abandoned in...
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Guide to using interactive 404s to boost your SEO

30-second summary: Reducing bad user experience of 404 errors by branding and customizing them. Including links to 404s allow users to navigate the website even when they come across a potential dead end. Boost SEO by placing your sitemap, homepage tab, and search bar. Usage of conversational language along with attractive visuals reduces user’s contempt and frustration. Mention of blog on your customized 404 error page promotes your intellectual prowess for possible users who might be interested in your content. Amanda Jerelyn shares some amazing methods to improve the SEO of your site even through 404 pages. Lastly, some tips to help you avoid 404 errors wherever possible. Bad  user experience  can lead to your website’s demise and can also adversely affect your website rankings. This is why 404 errors are considered deplorable when taking into their perspective regarding both user experience and the search engine rankings of your website. However, there are way...
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