Miscellaneous Category

How to Beat 90+% of Meta Advertisers

Why It’s Important To outperform most Meta advertisers, do these 3 things: Optimize for high-value goals like purchases. Ignore individual ad metrics. Study top-performers. Identify the winners and iterate. Create similar variations to keep content fresh. Here’s what that looks like. In this Article Data, users & automation. To break down this advice and explain […]

How to Grow a Blog, as Demonstrated by Someone Who’s Done It 1,200,000 Times (it’s not me)

Use short intros Reply to every comment Focus 100% on QUALITY. Not quantity Cover trending topics Publish long-form content (4k+ words) Make your blog design look great Promote via email (outreach and newsletters) I wanted to analyze his methodology and put it into practical terms. Let’s dive in. 1. Use short intros Done. […]

Increasing Your Reach: What are Nofollow & Dofollow Links?

What is a do-follow backlink? In 2005, Google introduced the term “do follow the link,” which aims to reduce spam indexing and improve the results of search engines. As implied by the SEO term, a do follow backlink passes the so-called link juice or authority from the referring site to the linked website. These […]

Does Keyword Research Really Help SEO?

Let’s get right to it— Keyword research is an integral practice in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and one of the many things you need to know about SEO. What Is Keyword Research? To simply understand how keyword research helps in SEO, think of keyword research as a treasure hunt. But instead of looking for pots […]

How Good SEO Has Changed Online Success For Businesses

The majority of consumers consult search engines before purchasing products or availing of services. The increased use of smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices gives consumers easy online access to relevant information, so having optimized content is a must. Search engine optimization or SEO refers to optimizing web content, so your web page appears on top […]

Extract PDF Text with Google Drive

Here's how to extract PDF text online for free with Google Drive. The whole process takes 2 minutes. Here's how it works.

Westboro Baptist Church UMass Amherst Picket

Today's the day for the Westboro Baptist Church UMass Amherst picket/protest. See what happens to a hate group in one of the most liberal places in America.

List of Websites Affected by Heartbleed Bug

Heartbleed websites: a list of websites affected by the Heartbleed bug, as of April 8, 2014, 12:00 UTC. List compiled by Github user Musalbas. This list is confusing at first. Please read carefully.

I can’t wait until LinkedIn gets serious with their mobile app

I can't wait until LinkedIn gets serious with their mobile app. Right now it’s garbage. The least LinkedIn could do is not make their interface terrible.

Survivorman Drinking Game

Rules to a made-up Survivorman Drinking Game. Standard TV-based rules: drink when X happens. Want to play the Survivorman drinking game?

Dear LinkedIn: WTF is this?

I know LinkedIn is for "professionals" and all, but it's still a social network, right? Ok, so maybe its connections are designed to follow professional or industry lines, rather than purely friendly or social ones. But on a screen called "People You May Know," why are these suggested connections in such a backwards order?

Dr. Timothy Anderson, New UMass Band Director

UMass Amherst Music Department just announced the new Minuteman Marching Band director, Doctor Timothy Anderson, formerly of Cal State Fresno.

Trying out Storify

What is Storify? Funny you should ask. By their own description, “Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context […]