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SEO tips from HighersitesGroup.Com

 SEO tips from HighersitesGroup.Com

“INTEGRATE FACEBOOK ‘LIKE’ AND GOOGLE ‘+1’ BUTTONS INTO YOUR SITE”

Google +1 is here, and it’s huge, but that fact has nothing to do with evaluating Google+ as a social network. Google has a billion people per month who search on their site. All of those results, paid and organic, are now able to be combined by Google with what we call “social endorsements”, otherwise known as those little pictures of your “friends” and an endorsement that they have‘liked’ or ‘+1’d’ some piece of content.

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Happy birthday!! Mobile Phone calls hits 40 years old

Believe it or not the first ever mobile phone call was made on April the 3rd 1973.

A senior engineer named Marty Cooper at Motorola called a colleague at a rival telecommunications firm and announced he was calling from a “real cellular telephone”

The DynaTAC 8000x was slightly bigger than today’s tech; it weighed 2.5 pounds, measured 10 inches long, and was soon nicknamed “the brick”, the battery lasted a mere 20 minutes and took 10 hours to charge. His Inspiration was star trek captain kirks flip up communicator.

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Online retail searches boom in Q4 2012, led by massive smartphone and tablet growth

Smartphones and tablets are changing how people shop for goods and services. More than ever, consumers have near constant access to information from their mobile devices. This global trend opens up new opportunities for businesses to influence purchasing decisions — at anytime or place, at home or on the go.

“The latest BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor for Q4 2012 finds that retail searches on tablets and smartphones are growing rapidly, with tablet searches of retailers up by a whopping 238% and smartphones up 76% year on year – faster than any other device or channel. Continue reading →

HTML Meta Tags & Search Engines

HTML is the underlying code used to create web pages. Search engines can pick up ranking signals from specific HTML elements. Below, some of the most important HTML tags you should pay attention to.

Title Tag

Imagine that you wrote 100 different books but gave them all the same exact title. How would anyone understand that they are all about different topics?

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2013 – The year of responsive web design

With tablet sales expected to exceed 100 million this year, media companies are seeing a huge move towards mobile traffic. Responsive web design is the most popular way to accommodate this change allowing users to access the one website on various devices.

http://mashable.com/2012/12/11/responsive-web-design/

Prince William leaks RAF passwords

Login details for an RAF computer system have been released on Prince William’s official website. As the Prince and colleagues pose for photographs the login details can be seen clearly in the background…

This may start ringing alarm bells and make people rethink what they should photograph and share on the internet, or at least double check the photos before sharing them with the rest of the world. It is believed that no harm has come from the incident.