September 29, 2020
Good Morning & Happy Coffee Day!
A few cool facts on coffee:
1) There are over 30,000 Starbucks cafes worldwide selling over 3 billion coffee cups a year.
2) Kopi Luwak is the world’s most expensive coffee and it’s made from poop. Or rather, it’s made from coffee beans that are partially digested and then pooped out by the civet, a catlike creature. A cup of Kopi Luwak, as it’s known, can sell for as much as $80 in the United States.
A Few Things Happening:
1) Wikipedia is getting its first desktop redesign in 10 years.
2) Namecheap is now accepting Bitcoin payments.
3) Twitter to start testing voice Direct Messages.
4) Amazon finally announced Prime Day date: October 13-14.
Have an awesome day!
— Itay Paz
In the 2020 “US Digital Trust Survey,” consumer perceptions of the major social networks were evaluated within five categories of trust: security, legitimacy, community, ad experience and ad relevance. Facebook was the least trusted social media platform regarding data privacy. Nearly one-third (32%) of US Facebook users at least somewhat disagreed that they had confidence in the platform to protect their data and privacy. Just 10% of LinkedIn’s users said the same of the professional network.
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Source: Basecamp
The homepage is the most important page on your website. It’s where most of your traffic will land, and where new visitors will form their first impressions of your business.
And first impressions are everything.
To help you create excellent experiences for EVERY new visitor to your site, we’ve pulled together 16 of the BEST homepages by some of the top online businesses and brands to provide you with some inspiration and key takeaways.
Read more here.
Guest blogging is a great way to positioning yourself as an authority and well-known name in the industry, getting exposure (traffic) back to your website and building backlinks (SEO) to your website.
With the right kind of content on the top blogs, you can do all three of these things and by knowing your goals in advance will help you in determining which blogs will be the best for you to submit guest posts to.
Read more here.
Amazon Prime Day Will Begin October 13th, Multiple Sources Say (The Verge)
4 Trends Changing The Marketing Landscape In 2020 & Beyond (Social Media Today)
Age-Restricted YouTube Videos Will No Longer Play When Embedded On Third-Party Sites (9 to 5 Google)
Best Billing and Invoicing Software (The Crazy Egg)
Jobs in Ecommerce: Everything you Need to Know to Enhance Your Career in a Booming Industry (BigCommerce)
12 Best Privacy Policy Generators That Won’t Cost You A Cent (Digital.com)
About 500 million tweets are created every day on Twitter by 145 million active daily users. With so much out there in the fast-paced Twitterverse, navigating around and finding specific information can be a challenge. The standard Twitter search bar just isn’t enough.
Twitter users provide a never-ending supply of opinions, current news, hashtag campaigns and humorous memes. With roughly 5,787 tweets shared each second, users need a way to weed through this vast pool of information. Enter: Twitter Advanced Search. This tool allows you to hone in on tweets and users that have the most personal and professional value to you.
By applying detailed filters (such as date range, words and people) to users’ search inquiries, Twitter Advanced Search refines the user’s results.
Read more here.
Source: Backlinko
It’s never too late to shape your website and implement SEO strategies. Even if you’re doing it already, going back over everything you need to know and do, can always benefit you.
The ultimate SEO tutorial covers the top 8 most important activities for your website search engine optimization: Find Keywords That People Search For, Choose a High-Value Keyword, Publish Content That Google Searchers Want, Optimize Your Content for UX, Implement On-Page SEO Best Practices, Promote Your Content, Build Backlinks to Your Site and Monitor and Improve Your Technical SEO.
Read more here.
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