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Today’s Puzzle

“Bluetooth is a wireless technology, but the term originally referred to a king who erected two runic stones. What are these stones called?”

Yesterday’s Puzzle

“If you draw a line between the capitals of the last two world countries (alphabetically by name), you can find a UNESCO World Heritage waterfall equidistant to the southwest. What is the name of the waterfall?”

Answer

“Get a list of countries by searching [countries in alphabetical order]. Zambia and Zimbabwe are the last two. Find a map including both countries and their capitals by querying [Harare to Lusaka] on Google Maps. Zoom out to the southwest and search the map with [UNESCO waterfall] to find Victoria Falls.”

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Today’s Puzzle

“If you draw a line between the capitals of the last two world countries (alphabetically by name), you can find a UNESCO World Heritage waterfall equidistant to the southwest. What is the name of the waterfall? ”

Yesterday’s Puzzle

“Which is faster: a detonation or deflagration?”

Answer

“Search [detonation] to find that it involves a supersonic exothermic front. Search [define:supersonic] to learn that it is the rate of travel that exceeds the speed of sound. Search [deflagration] to learn that it involves subsonic combustion. Search [define:subsonic] to learn that it refers to travel that is slower than the speed of sound. The correct answer is detonation.”

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Today’s Puzzle

“Which is faster: a detonation or deflagration?”

Yesterday’s Puzzle

“You’re riding the fastest roller coaster in the world. What currency did you use to buy your ticket?”

Answer

“Search [world’s fastest roller coaster] to get the Formula Rossa roller coaster in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Search [Abu Dhabi currency] to find that it’s the dirham.”

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Today’s Puzzle

“Which pie flavor should you order to taste the official fruit of this U.S. state that borders only one other?”

Yesterday’s Puzzle

“In the 18th century, women’s fashion transitioned from bulky bodices and petticoats to sleeker silhouettes. Regency gowns didn’t provide room for pockets. What is the name of the handbag with a drawstring in which they carried their necessary items?”

Answer

“Search [regency gown pockets] to find a number of articles showing such gowns with accompanying “reticules” that women would carry in lieu of using pockets.”

Twitter strength, they say, is measured by the volume of followers you attract in relation to those you follow….. Is this a right judgement to pass when considering who to follow on twitter? If not, what do you use to judge who to follow when all and sundry keep following you?

Have you paused to consider the fact that some follow you to get a reciprocate follow from you, then un-follow you afterwards? How do handle such situation? May be you’ve not logged in to see 100 followers shrink to 80, 70 or even 60 overnight? Don’t be surprised if it’s happening to you for the first time! There are 1million+ dodgy social media users out there. There are some tools out there you can use to screen out such dodgy followers… an example is the friendorfollow application.

How do you then distinguish real profile from the dodgy ones? There is actually no single rule to identifying fake Twitter account other than carefully checking the profile for tweets, followers, “following” before following such tweep. This is summarised in the two points below:

1. Check the number and nature of tweets. For example, check if there are dodgy tweets with spam links and the rest

2. Compare the percentage of followers to those the tweep is following

This might seem time consuming for some people to do. Why not contract out your Twitter account management? You can entrust it to an efficient and trustworthy Social Media company like Binamic. Kindly contact us for quotes on your social media optimization.

As good as Links building is, as a practice in SEO, it should be done with caution so that it would not amount into wasted efforts and even a minus in the long run. Some websites offer links for a fee while some request for reciprocal links in return. For any link you’re planning to link to, the following principles could serve as guide:

1. Target quality links: It is important to target quality links, mostly links with higher page ranks (PR) than yours. If at all you want to go below that, you can go for link with same PR as yours or links with quality contents. This would assure you of no negative effect of the page losing its quality, in the future.

2. Make your page linkable: Nobody would like to link to a website that does not have good quality. Therefore, work on your website, let it have good and optimised contents as well as SEO friendly taxonomy. This would ensure that your website is search engine friendly and ranks high too.

3. See what competitors are doing: This can be a source of inbound links for you too and it should be done with caution so as not to look like a spammer.

4. Watch your anchor text: Ensure the anchor text you used for link building is one of your keywords, but don’t overuse a keyword in all your links. Search engines can find out and penalise you.

5. Keep track of your links: It is good to know that your link building strategies are working. Example of tools that could be used for tracking is Google Analytics…

6. Don’t rest on your oars: Link building is a continuous activity. Keep doing it and don’t stop, even when you’re seeing some good results. Keep building links!

1. Engage your followers and fans actively – This can only be done by ensuring that interesting posts, discussions and questions are brought up. In doing this, you’re doing yourself good by ensuring that your fans always see reasons to stay back and new fans find reasons to follow your page.

2. Make your contribution viral by using multiple social media platforms to publicise your ideas. It’s interesting nowadays to know that all the social media platforms could be updated by just a click when you opt for linking the accounts together. For example, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo can all be updated within Facebook. All you’ve got to do is to link them up.

3. Reward your followers and fans by re-tweeting, re-posting and writing comments on their status messages and posts. By doing this, you’ll gain some friendship and attention from your followers and they will be willing to share your posts too.

4. Make re-posting and linking easy. Once you’ve made your posts available on most social media, include links to the different social media platforms on your page so that your fans can find it easier to share with their friends than copying and pasting the url.

Social media optimization is the cheapest and one of the highly effective marketing blessing that has ever happened to business. Why don’t you ring us on 020 8133 5444 or email us to give you that highly desired competitive advantage using social media optimisation!

Don’t think it’s only Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, MySpace, and recently Google+1 that can be embedded into your business marketing and customer relationship management. Linkedin, unlike the other social media platforms mentioned earlier, serves as a platform for connecting professionals where recommendations could be made and your business could be promoted. It represents your curriculum vitae as it provides room for stating information about you, what you do, recommendations from your past and present colleagues / superiors, and provision for including your website url – and you know what this means to Internet marketers?..

There are some unique facts that make LinkedIn stand out from the other social media platforms –

• Represents over 150 countries and over 170 different industries

• Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are members

• There are 60 million available connections in LinkedIn

• A new member joins approximately every second

The inference from these outstanding features is that it is possible to get serious minded customers and business partners via LinkedIn. It’s for the professionals!

Other benefits that stand LinkedIn out are:

• Increased visibility of your company and products

• Easy collaboration with colleagues, customers, and industry thought leaders

• Excellent source of SEO-friendly links. Google loves LinkedIn and you have the ability to create great anchor text for your website links, which are given the do-follow attribute.

• Allows you the ability to research your competition, customers or partners.

Source: http://bee-social.com/linkedin-business/

Facebook has successfully come up with an interesting version of their website ‘Like’ button. When a user likes a webpage, this appears on the user’s news feed on Facebook and made known to his (her) friend – an approach that makes website go viral! The good news is that it serves as a viral marketing tool for business owners at no price – absolutely free!!!!

The improvement in the Like button has been able to build a stronger user expectation and ultimately fashioning a better user experience. Also, as discussed in the first paragraph, businesses benefit from this free offer from Facebook. The good thing is that they don’t need to have Facebook account to include the ‘Like’ button on their page. All that is required is the few lines of code and Facebook does the awareness for them in the users’ news feeds.

There are two approaches to including the ‘Like’ button on website – iFrame and JavaScript. The iFrame is the easier version and does the like and include on the users’ news feeds, but the information disappears after some time when the user does so many activities to be included on the news feeds. That is, the decay rate is high.

The JavaScript approach requires extra tweaking by programmers with the use of XFBML and JavaScript SDK. The good part of this approach and its advantage over the iFrame approach is that it leaves the website url as part of the users’ interests on Facebook besides showing it in the news feed. Therefore, the users’ friends could see the url anytime they are viewing the users’ interests. Going deeper might sound confusing to the non-technical folks. Why don’t you contract this out to a dedicated Social Media company like Binamic? Simply email us or give us a ring and we’ll give you the best that you always deserve!

Binamic has been in the business of liaising with the popular media and web agencies like rtfacts, hill Solomon, blue cube and so on…, to deliver the best for you in digital solutions. Our work has made us the toast of them all! That is why we always say ‘let our work speak for us’ Our range of services to them span from web design to web development, SEO tasks to multimedia and touch screen design.

Is it not amazing that we’ve got excellent interpretations of clients needs, gotten through agencies, without having one-on-one interaction with the clients? Needless to say that we’ve been tried and trusted because a web development agency would never come back to a web design company messing up their reputation with their clients. We’ve been working with most of these agencies for some years now and they are always proud of our job, always eager to offer more!

Binamic is open to more web development agencies. Let’s make your headache ours with outstanding results! Kindly contact us via email or phone today, for the unbeatable quotes on all your jobs!