Thursday, 19 January 2017

Why is Social Media Marketing Important?

Social media is quickly becoming one of the most important aspects of digital marketing, which provides incredible benefits that help reach millions of customers worldwide. And if you are not applying this profitable source, you are missing out an incredible marketing opportunity, as it makes it easy to spread the word about your product and mission.


Improved brand awareness
Social media is one of the most stress-free and profitable digital marketing platforms that can be used to increase your business visibility. To get started, create social media profiles for your business and start networking with others. By applying a social media strategy, it will help you significantly increase your brand recognition. By spending only a few hours per week, over 91% marketers claimed that their social marketing efforts greatly increased their brand visibility and heightened user experience. Undoubtedly, having a social media page for your brand will benefit your business and with a regular use, it can also produce a wide audience for your business in no time.

Cost-effective
For an advertising strategy, social media marketing is possibly the most cost-effective way. Creating an account and signing up is free for almost all social networking platforms. But if you decide to use paid advertising on social media, always start small to see what you should expect. Being cost-effective is important as it helps you attain a greater return on investment and hold a bigger budget for other marketing and business payments. Just by investing a little money and time, you can significantly increase your conversion rates and ultimately get a return on investment on the money that you primarily invested.

Engage with your customers
Social media is a good way for engaging and interacting customers. The more you communicate with the audience, the more chances you have of conversion. Set up a two-way communication with your target audience so that their wishes are known and their interest is catered with ease. Moreover, communication and engagement with customers is one the ways to win their attention and convey them your brand message. Thus, your brand will reach more audience in real terms and gets itself established without any hassle.

Improved brand loyalty
When you have a social media presence, you make it easier for your customers to find you and connect with you. By connecting with your customers through social media, you are more probable to upsurge customer retention and customer loyalty. Since developing a loyal customer base is one of the main goals of almost any business. Customer satisfaction and brand loyalty typically go hand in hand. It is essential to often engage with your customers and start developing a bond with them. Social media is not just limited to introducing your product, it is also a leading platform for promotional campaigns. A customer sees these platforms as service channels where they can directly communicate with the business.

Healthier customer satisfaction
Social media plays a vital role in networking and communication platform. With the help of these platforms, creating a voice for your company is important in improving the overall brand image. Customers appreciate the fact that when they post comments on your page, they receive a modified reply rather than a computerized message. A brand that values its customers, takes the time to compose a personal message, which is perceived naturally in a positive light.

Marketplace awareness
One of the best ways to find the needs and wants of your customers instead of directly communicating with them is Marketplace awareness. It is also considered as the most valuable advantage of social media. By observing the activities on your profile, you can see customers’ interest and opinions that you might not know otherwise if you didn’t have a social media presence. As a complementary research tool, social media can help you get information and a better understanding of your industry. Once you get a large following, you can then use additional tools to examine other demographics of your consumers.

More brand authority
For making your business more powerful, brand loyalty and customer satisfaction both play a major role, but it all comes down to communication. When customers see your company posting on social media, especially replying to their queries and posting original content, it helps them build a positive image in their minds. Regularly interacting with your customers proves that you and your business care about them. Once you get a few satisfied customers, who are vocal about their positive purchase experience, you can let the advertising be done for you by genuine customers who appreciated your product or service.

Increased traffic
One of the other benefits of Social Media is that it also helps increase your website traffic. By sharing your content on social media, you are giving users a reason to click-through to your website. On your social account, the more quality content you share, the more inbound traffic you will generate while making conversion opportunities.

Enhanced SEO rankings
Social media presence is becoming a vital factor in calculating rankings. These days, to secure a successful ranking, SEO requirements are continuously varying. Therefore, it is no longer enough to simply optimize your website and regularly update your blog. Businesses sharing their content on social media are sending out a brand signal to search engine that speaks to your brand validity, integrity, and constancy.

Final words
There is no denying that Social media marketing has many advantages for startups and established brands. By regular updating the right social media marketing strategy, it will lead to increased traffic, better SEO, improved brand loyalty, healthier customer satisfaction and much more. Your competition is already increasing on social media day by day, so don’t let your competitors take your probable customers. The earlier you start, the faster you see the growth in your business.

Monday, 16 January 2017

Long USDCAD

We have entered long-term trade at 1.3144 with stop loss at 1.25 and take profit at 1.40.

FED tightening is not fully priced in the market. Probable US border tax adjustment would boost USD, but also will have a negative impact on Canadian trade. Bank of Canada is will not tighten in firs half of 2017

Thursday, 12 January 2017

How to not show any posts on your blog's home page, using Blogger

You can set your blog up so that no posts are shown on the main screen - provided you have used some of the other "home page" approaches to give readers other ways of getting to your content.


Previously I've explained how to only show one post on the main page of your blog.

But some people who want to give their blog a home page go further than that, and don't show any posts on the main screen at all.   (Remember, the main screen is where people who navigate to your blog, rather than to posts within it, go.)

This sounds like a strange thing to do - after all, blogs are about posts.

But actually it's fine, provided you use some other tools to let readers move around the blog.  I've made a 150+ page blog this way, and it works very nicely because I have organised the information and used some index-pages (containing lists of bus-routes, suburbs, maps etc) with tables that link to many other posts.


How to show no (ie zero, 0) posts on the main screen

Some people want to do this, as part of the process of giving their blog a home page.  It's not possible if your blog has a Dynamic thene, but can be done for blogs with Layout themes.

There are at least two ways of doing it.

Option 1 - use a custom re-direct for your home-page

Make a new Page (Pages > New Page) and add the material which you want to show on your main screen.    Publish this page.

Take a note of the URL of the Page that you use created.

Go to Settings > Search preferences > Errors and re-directions > Custom re-directs

Click Edit then New re-direct

In the dialog box which opens:

  • Enter a back-slash (ie   /  )into the first (From) box.
  • Enter the URL of the page that you noted earlier into the second (To) box
  • In the To box, remove the blog-address, because Blogger already adds that for you.
    Eg if your URL is     http:/www.myBlog.com/p/home.html
    then just enter           /p/home.html

    (note that you keep the backslash (/) just before the P.
Click the Permanent checkbox.

Click Save just under the entry you just made - it now looks like this:



Click Save changes.


Job Done!   Anyone who goes to your blog's home page will now go automatically to the alternative page you made - and the effect is that no posts are shown on the home page.



Option 2 - use the Posts and Comments setting

Choose the Settings > Posts and Comments panel from the left sidebar.

Enter zero (0) into the Show at most field
Click Save Settings in the top right hand corner of the screen.


    About this method

    The method in Option 2 works:   no posts are shown on your home page.

    But by default, nothting else is shown, either.    Unless you take steps to avoid it, your readers will see a grey box saying "0 Posts" when they look at your blog's main URL.   



    Some of the things you can do to avoid this include hiding the "showing posts with label XXX" message, and creating a gadget that only shows on the "home" page.


    Recommended option

    The custom re-direct option is probably the best approach - and is certainly what I've used for my blogs recently:   it's clean, and doesn't need any special messing around with gadgets etc to put content onto the "home" page.

    But there may be cases where the second option is better - and I have recently confirmed that it still works.


    Whichever option you choose

    Remember that you need to set up some other way to let readers move from your home-page to see your other posts - some of the ways to do this are discussed here.




    Related Articles

    Limiting your blog to only have one post on the main page

    Giving your blog a home page

    Giving readers alternative ways to see the posts in your blog

    What are dynamic view themes?

    Blogger theme types
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    Using tables in your blog

    Displaying a gadget only on the home page

    Monday, 9 January 2017

    Why is Link Building Important?

    Now that we’ve reviewed what the heck link building is all about, we next move on to its importance. Why do we need to do link building? What are its immediate and direct effects on your website search engine results page rankings?


    The Link Rule

    We’re all trying to make our websites friendly to search engines to rank higher. It’s a no-brainer to get into the search game since it’s still the number one activity done online. So since we’re trying to rank higher, we have to play by the search engine’s rules.

    And the rule is: More quality backlinks, rank higher.

    It’s simple, really – the more links you have coming into your site just means that more people are referring you for something you’re good at. That ‘something you’re good at’ is what they put in as the anchor text – but that’s a whole new different topic altogether.

    Links aren’t easy to get – just as people’s referrals aren’t easy to get. Unless, maybe, you pay them – which I personally don’t recommend. That’s why Google used the link factor – because people will only link to you if they find value in what you have to offer them.

    Your number of Links is the only way Google can see how valuable your site is to other people. And the truth of the matter is, even if you have lots and lots of valuable content, if people don’t link to you, the search engines won’t acknowledge your site as valuable. Why?

    Because search engines are machines. They’re blind about how valuable your site is. They can only see through links.

    To sum it all up: More links -> More value -> Rank higher -> Happy Webmaster

    Updates: Over the years, Google had been stricter with link building techniques that were implemented by SEO specialists or even those who claimed to be specialists. Now, it’s not the quantity that matters, but the quality of each link – will the reader be interested with where you direct him? Will he learn something? Is it useful? Is it really necessary to put that link there?

    Don’t get me wrong here. I’m not saying that quantity doesn’t mean anything at all – of course we want links everywhere, but make sure that those are of value, and were planted on sites that are credible enough, or atleast soon-to-be credible.

    We have an article that discusses why less links is better just in case you want further explanation.

    This update doesn’t mean you don’t have to read the rest of our lessons about link building. The truth is link building is still a big factor for SEO success.

    Sunday, 8 January 2017

    SBI Debit Card Expiry for BHIM App

    Now a days a number of SBI account holders are trying to install BHIM App for cashless transactions. When they try to create a UPI Pin, the BHIM App asks for Debit card details. That's where the problem arises. Some of the old debit cards don't have expiry date (MM/YY) mentioned on it. Here we will tell you how to know your Debit Card Expiry Date.


    Once you install BHIM App on your Smartphone and connect your Bank Account to it, then it will ask you to create a UPI PIN. In the process of creating a UPI PIN, it will ask last 6 digits of your SBI debit card and Expiry Date (MM/YY). Most of the old cards have "Valid From" instead of "Valid Upto". Here the SBI Debit Card users find themselves puzzled and don't know what to enter in "Expiry Date".

    Here is a simple solution. Add 5 Years and 8 Months to "Valid From".
    For Example : If your card shows Valid From: Feb 2012 , then add 5 Years 8 Months to Feb 2012. The final date comes Oct 2017. In MM/YY format its 10/17 .

    I hope that it will solve the problem.

    If the above solution does not work and you have your internet banking activated then you can check your card detail through netbanking. There you will be able to check the expiry date of your card. This date will be accurate.

    There is one more tip. Some of the SBI debit card holders face problem with CVV code, as there is none at the back of card. In that case you may use last 3 digits of your ATM PIN as the CVV Code. For example if your debit card pin is 1234, the your CVV code is 234.