John Oliver: April Fools’ Day

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From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996

From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996 – The Washington Post.

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How to Improve the SEO of your Tweets

Google and Twitter recently struck a deal that will help Google surface relevant Tweets in searches. As a result, Twitter gains valuable free traffic and Google gains valuable real-time content.

Why should you care? You can spend significant time on SEO to gain access to FREE traffic. The same is true for Tweets and social media. Tweets that appear in Google increase exposure to your brand. So how do you increase the odds that your Tweets get indexed? Let’s get started.

The deal between Google and Twitter is early but Danny Sullivan, a widely cited authority on SEO, believes that Google will stick to its guns and value the criteria to surface Tweets that it uses to surface other content. Furthermore, Stone Temple Consulting did a preliminary dive into factors that improve a Tweets indexability.

via How to Improve the SEO of your Tweets.

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I love Chromebooks. Do you?

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How to Be a Minimalist Without Missing Out

How to Be a Minimalist without Missing Out

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Life is short. Do stuff that matters.

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Are you having a bad day?

Use this handy flowchart to figure it out…

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The Grass Is Greener Where?

Kemi Nekvapil writes:

The grass is greener where?

As a child, I was often told, “The grass is always greener on the other side.”

I think I grasped the idea, and I would try to be happy and content where I was, rather than thinking that things were better “over there” than where I stood.

As an adult, this quote directly connects to gratitude for what I have.

But now I prefer another quote about grass: “The grass is always greener where you water it.”

We all have moments when we feel that life would be better “if only”: If only I was thinner, richer, more successful, more something other than I am. This feeling is part of the human experience.

But it is only when we decide to take responsibility for the life we are living now that we have the choice to make this life — the real one — greener.

Complaining about a situation in our lives and doing nothing other than wishing it was another way, or believing that “the grass is greener,” will never shift or transform anything.

We always have the power to water our own grass.

If you are feeling that the grass is greener over there, and perhaps a little dry and arid over here, here are some ways to start watering your own grass today: The Grass Is Greener Where? | Kemi Nekvapil.

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Know The Difference Between Queries And Keywords via @neilpatel

In casual conversation, the terms “keyword” and “query” mean roughly the same thing. We know what someone is saying (or writing) when we see the word “query” where it should be the word “keyword.”

But there is a difference between the two. A query is different from a keyword.

This seems like a semantic and rather annoying little difference. In some ways, it is. But as search professionals, it helps to be informed about the difference, so we can better communicate with our clients, our service providers, and our team members. What’s more, knowing the difference between queries and keywords helps us to become better at our jobs as SEOs.

via Know The Difference Between Queries And Keywords | SEJ.

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Decluttering

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Stay patient and trust your journey

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Let’s Play a Minimalism Game Together

A new month is approaching. Let’s play a little game together.

Find a friend or family member. Someone who’s willing to get rid of some of their excess stuff. This month, each of you must get rid of one thing on the first day of the month. On the second, two things. Three items on the third. So forth, and so on. Anything can go! Clothes, furniture, electronics, tools, decorations, etc. Donate, sell, or trash. Whatever you do, each material possession must be out of your house—and out of your life—by midnight each day.

It’s an easy game at first. However, it starts getting challenging by week two, when you’re both jettisoning more than a dozen items each day. Whoever can keep it going the longest wins. You both win if you can make it all month. Bonus points if you play with more than two people.

Win or lose, we’d love to hear about your game on Twitter or Facebook. #MinsGame

Ready? Go!

via Let’s Play a Minimalism Game Together – The Minimalists.

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The Internet you can’t Google

Google has placed in its index an estimated 35 trillion Web pages across the Internet worldwide. While this is an amazing statistic, believe it or not, 35 trillion is barely the tip of the iceberg.

Google’s index represents only an estimated 4 percent of the information that exists on the Internet.

This is not a typo or misprint. The actual information that exists on the Web is impossible to know, but is estimated to be 500 times what is currently available through Google. Hard to believe, but true.

via The Internet you can’t Google.

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My granddogger and me

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She’s my Catahoula cutie!

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Professional vs Personal Social Media

Interesting perspective on a great article…

Max Hemingway's avatarMax Hemingway

Having read an article from HBR on “How to Separate the Personal and Professional on Social Media” I decided to look at the Social Media tool I often use and in what part of my Professional and Personal life they fall.

Working on from my Personal Knowledge Management System there are a couple of others shown in the diagram. This is just my quick classification of SMT (Social Media Tools) – everyone else may have a different view such as Facebook for business to reach consumers in particular markets. However it is worth looking if you class the tools as Professional or Personal. A few do sit in the middle for me as they have a place on both sides of the page.

Some of the tools are clearly for Professional use, but some do step either way across the line.

One potential way of keeping things apart…

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What’s hot in visual marketing: 2015

Are images important? You betcha!

Not all visuals are created equal. While visual content plays a huge role in making your marketing efforts more effective, some visuals are hotter than others. In an effort to keep you hip and your visuals up-to-date, Shutterstock released its 2015 Creative Trends report this month. We were digging the great information, so we put some of the most important pieces in an infographic, below. Which of these will affect you and your business this year?

via What’s hot in visual marketing: 2015 | Allée.

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Kid Letters: Tonight Show Desk Dance

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~ Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ( Dalai Lama )

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How to Create a Great Morning Routine

The first hour is the rudder of the day. A great morning routine makes for a great thought leader…

Lidiya Kesarovska's avatarLet's Reach Success

Knowing the benefits of having a morning routine is the first step of the process. After that comes the decision to create one, and the many trials until you find what works best for you.

A great morning routine starts with getting up early, and then you add a few positive, healthy and successful activities that will get you energized and ready for the day.

But what should these be?
And in what order do you need to do them?

There’s no ideal routine, of course. It takes time and experiments so that you can create the perfect one and make it a daily habit of yours.

But if you are looking for an example, for a step-by-step guide, for an exact morning ritual that has all the important elements it should, then here’s one.

The following infographic (which is my first one, by the way) contains all the things…

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The WordPress.com Reader: Follow Your Feeds, Discover Great Reads

This is a very powerful feature that many people overlook. WordPress.com is not only a great publishing platform, but it can be a great source of content as well. Look into it…

Cheri Lucas Rowlands's avatarWordPress.com News

As you may have heard, Google Reader is shutting down on July 1. As readers ourselves, we understand the importance of a go-to space on the internet for your daily feeds and regular reads — and a place to discover new finds. If you’re looking for a new reader (or are not using it already), we hope you’ll take the WordPress.com Reader for a spin. Check out what you can do:

Import your subscriptions

The WordPress.com Reader can import and export OPML, so you can transfer subscriptions over from another feed reader. Google Reader users can import their subscriptions directly from Google Reader into the WordPress.com Reader. Visit the import page to get started:

Reader Import page

Google Reader users will be asked to select the appropriate Google account (or sign in with a different email address) and grant WordPress.com to access it. For those importing from another feed reader, click on Choose File and then…

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