10+ Useful Articles You May Have Missed – I.

 
When you are looking for interesting content, this article contains a collection of useful articles.
 

1. Be Less Annoying: Reduce Bounce Rates through Better Web Design

A properly designed site can reduce bounce rate and increase engagement significantly. In this article, six important elements are introduced that are important for reducing a site’s bounce rate.

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2. 6 ways to improve your blog’s design

Blogs can often be left out in the cold when it comes to design. A lot of us discount the need for intensive design when it comes to our blogs—whether for our companies, or ourselves.

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3. Social Search Result Rankings for Top 500 Tech Writers [Study]

Considerable attention has recently been paid in the search industry to Google’s Search Plus Your World. The release, which went live January 10, has shaken up the search engine results pages (SERPs), as Google has begun mixing in Google+ results with greater frequency.

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4. Implementing Google Authorship Markup On Your Website

A few weeks back Google announced they were supporting authorship markup—a way to connect authors with their content on the web.

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5. 7 Ways To Get Traffic To A New Blog

A few weeks back Google announced they were supporting authorship markup—a way to connect authors with their content on the web.

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6. Duplicate Content in a Post-Panda World

Ok, maybe we’re starting to get a bit melodramatic about this whole Panda thing. While it’s true that Panda didn’t change everything about SEO, I think it has been a wake-up call about SEO issues we’ve been ignoring for too long.

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7. Thoughts On How Social Networks Impact Search Results

A few weeks ago Nikos asked if I would offer my opinion on social networks and their effect on search results, particularly now that Google+ is on the scene. Who am I to say no?

As it happens I’ve been answering this same question often enough on forums lately. Seems like a popular question.

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8. The 21 Greatest SEO Myths of the Modern World

They say that ignorance is bliss and knowledge is power but somewhere between these clichés there’s a spot reserved for individuals who possess a little too much knowledge to be blissful but still only enough knowledge to be dangerous.

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9. An Easy Design Trick: Using a Photo’s Natural Lines

Today we’re going to explore a super easy design trick for combining text and photos in interesting ways. I’ll teach you four methods for using the directionality of a photograph to determine a corresponding design layout.

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10. 7 Steps for the Perfect Landing Page

When I design landing pages I don’t try to cram everything above the fold and clutter up the top 500 pixels of my design, but I do like to design so that images, headlines or text teeter on the line. This creates a ‘teaser’ for the user to scroll down more and check out the rest of the page.

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11. Hacking Facebook

With over 800 million active users (if it was a country, it’d be the third largest in the world), Facebook is undoubtedly a major player in the internet. Which, of course, makes it a target for hackers; the Holy Grail, some may say.

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