Why should you try Google+ -- especially if you are already using Facebook and Twitter for social media marketing? Following are nine ways Google+ can help your business.
1. Improves your search engine ranking. Which company do you think is going to get ranked higher on Google's search engine, the one using Google+ or the one just using Facebook? (That would be a rhetorical question.) "When you Google our company name - Brandignity -- the Google+ profile appears right at the top of the search results, which really helps," says Maciej Fita, SEO Director, Brandignity, LLC, an SEO and social media marketing company. "Clients and potential clients will often search a company name before inquiring further, so this has helped us spread our digital voice that much more efficiently."
2. A plus for collaboration. "Google+ is a must for CIOs trying to encourage collaboration," states David Politis, founder, BetterCloud, which provides third-party products for Google Apps. "In a flat world, social tools like Google+ support fast and easy domestic and cross-border sharing [of documents, images and so on], enabling productivity at a fraction of the price of conventional meetings" or videoconferencing.
3. Video chat with customers, colleagues and media -- for free. Speaking of collaboration, one of the most buzzed about features on Google+ is Google Hangouts, Google's video chat tool. "Google Hangouts works well for video conferencing with members in your circle," says Kenneth C. Wisnefski, founder and CEO ofWebiMax, a search engine optimization (SEO) company, who has used Google+ to video chat with up to six people (the service can host up to 10 parties currently). "The 'screen share' feature works great," he notes. However, "ensure you have a secure and fast internet connection, otherwise the video can be low quality and lower resolution."
Google+ Hangouts is particularly useful for those organizations with workers in different offices. "I manage employees and freelancers in North America, Asia and Europe," explains Casey Armstrong, partner and COO, webbbROI, an online marketing business. "Through Google+ Hangouts, we are able to collaborate in real-time through screen sharing, on Google Docs, and via video chat. In addition, even if I'm on the move, I can video chat through my iPhone on Google+. Talent is everywhere and Google+ removes the location barrier."
4. Get your message to the right audience with just a click. "Circles are invaluable," state Ross Kimbarovsky and Mike Samson, co-founders of crowdSPRING. "Think of circles as your customer groups. Most businesses will have a variety of different customer groups and sometimes you want to communicate separately with each group," they explain.
With Google+, you can put customers into different groups or "circles" (by geography, by age, by interest) and then easily communicate with each circle separately, or with multiple circles at the same time. "For example, we created a group of loyal customers. We can customize offers and deals specifically for those customers without sending the same offers generally to the rest of the world or to other customers."
5. Free focus groups. Why pay for focus groups when you can use Google+ to get answers to questions or elicit customer feedback? That's what SEER Interactive, a search marketing firm, recently did. SEER used its Google+ page to host an hour long Q&A session covering SEO and PPC topics. "The result was a lively conversation on Google+ with more than 100 comments over the course of an hour," says Wil Reynolds, founder, SEER Interactive.
6. Good for B2B marketing. If you are looking to connect with other businesses, Google+ Your Business is designed to help. "We have found Google+ to be useful for acquiring new customers," explains Mike Rheaume, co-founder, SnapKnot, an online wedding photographer directory.
"Google+ is visual and participatory, meaning that photographers can easily share and comment on others' work. For us, this means it's easy to share photography-related content and connect with individual photographers [SnapKnot's target customers] beyond the major social media tools like Twitter and Facebook." Since using Google+, SnapKnot has achieved a high member conversion rate - and Rheaume considers it an excellent B2B marketing tool, especially for visual- and/or content-heavy businesses.
7. A potentially powerful PR tool. Using Google+ circles, you can target your public and media relations. "If we deliver a message, we know that it is going to be picked up by users who are more likely to respond, including key industry personalities and publishers," states Mike Essex, online marketing manager at Koozai, a U.K. digital marketing agency. Indeed, because Google+ allows users to tailor their message to a specific group (or circle), Essex has found Google+ to be a more effective PR tool than Twitter.
8. Can help promote brand awareness. "With the emergence of the social web, it has become essential for brands to build their reputation online," states Karim Guessous, founder and CEO of Tradepal, a peer-to-peer trading network. "Google+ gives a unique opportunity for an emerging product, such as Tradepal, to assert our personality and engage our user base." Through its Google+ page, Tradepal shares original content and tips, and has had dialogues with users, helping to solidify and promote its brand.
9. Another way to advertise promotions. With Google+, it's easy to offer promotions to those in your circles. For example, Arby's recently offered a coupon to Google+ users for a $2.99 Fish Sandwich & Small Curly Fries
Useful JQuery Forms and AJAX Forms . submit without page load or refresh the page
JQuery Form Wizard is a jQuery plugin for creating form in wizard format to submit form without refreshing /loading the webpage, This JQuery form wizards plugins help you to create different routes to be taken in the form depend on user input, also its support AJAX request while posting the form so its will help to save time to send data to server and loading page again
there are lack of features on these each JQuery plugins to modify the form...so user friendly and developer friendly ,also css friendly..so its will be stylish..all the JQuery Form wizards having documentations and examples too.. so if you have any doubts also no problem...
here im going to give you some JQuery Form Wizard Exmaples and links... i test each links and list here based on my rating...start from my 1st choice..
1. http://thecodemine.org/ - soo simple and very easy to understand..with documentation and 21 examples .. all are once live and downloadable..stored in github too @ https://github.com/thecodemine/formwizard
2.http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/formwizard.htm - collections of java script and css files with examples.. they have simple , quick and understandable script and can edit simply..
3. http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/09/28/webform-wizard-jquery.aspx Similar to Dynamic Driv.
there are lack of features on these each JQuery plugins to modify the form...so user friendly and developer friendly ,also css friendly..so its will be stylish..all the JQuery Form wizards having documentations and examples too.. so if you have any doubts also no problem...
here im going to give you some JQuery Form Wizard Exmaples and links... i test each links and list here based on my rating...start from my 1st choice..
1. http://thecodemine.org/ - soo simple and very easy to understand..with documentation and 21 examples .. all are once live and downloadable..stored in github too @ https://github.com/thecodemine/formwizard
2.http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/formwizard.htm - collections of java script and css files with examples.. they have simple , quick and understandable script and can edit simply..
3. http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/09/28/webform-wizard-jquery.aspx Similar to Dynamic Driv.
Web Based Excel Spreadsheet , alternative to Google, Microsoft
There are several excel/spreadsheets alternatives you can download and install on your server or signup for services , here are the best picks, that do their job well
dhtmlxSpreadsheet open source Ajax spreadsheet widget written in JavaScript and PHP also available as a plugin for WP, Joomla, It allows you to quickly add an Excel-like, editable data table on a web page.if you need to display some data in a table view and would like to put it on the web for sharing or further editing, you might consider using online spreadsheet services. However, what if you want to keep data on your own server? With dhtmlxSpreadsheet, you can store the data on your side and show it in a web-based spreadsheet in edit or readonly mode.
http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxSpreadsheet/index.shtml
Simple Spreadsheet is a web-based spreadsheet program written in Javascript, HTML, CSS and PHP. It features formulas, charts, numeric formats, keyboard navigation, etc. Javascript is used for the default data format and for the macros and formulas. Simple Spreadsheet is Free Software, released under the GNU GPLv2 License.
Simple Spreadsheet is bundled within the Simple Groupware package, but can be also run as a standalone program.
http://www.simple-groupware.de/cms/Spreadsheet/Home
EditGrid is an online Spreadsheet service delivering Data on Demand. With majority of Excel features, EditGrid allows you to start working easily. With sharing, collaboration & publishing features, EditGrid serves a big set of use cases better than Excel. Connected to live data sources, EditGrid delivers data on demand.
dhtmlxSpreadsheet open source Ajax spreadsheet widget written in JavaScript and PHP also available as a plugin for WP, Joomla, It allows you to quickly add an Excel-like, editable data table on a web page.if you need to display some data in a table view and would like to put it on the web for sharing or further editing, you might consider using online spreadsheet services. However, what if you want to keep data on your own server? With dhtmlxSpreadsheet, you can store the data on your side and show it in a web-based spreadsheet in edit or readonly mode.
http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxSpreadsheet/index.shtml
Simple Spreadsheet is a web-based spreadsheet program written in Javascript, HTML, CSS and PHP. It features formulas, charts, numeric formats, keyboard navigation, etc. Javascript is used for the default data format and for the macros and formulas. Simple Spreadsheet is Free Software, released under the GNU GPLv2 License.
Simple Spreadsheet is bundled within the Simple Groupware package, but can be also run as a standalone program.
http://www.simple-groupware.de/cms/Spreadsheet/Home
EditGrid is an online Spreadsheet service delivering Data on Demand. With majority of Excel features, EditGrid allows you to start working easily. With sharing, collaboration & publishing features, EditGrid serves a big set of use cases better than Excel. Connected to live data sources, EditGrid delivers data on demand.
Powerful and Best Tools to check your WebSite WebPage Performance
There are many online performance check service providers out there. all are providing Free web-based service that is great to hear , just see what they do. most of their services are similar and simpler that checking page loading speed , each images,html, css and js files loading time, they are advising and suggesting to improve the files and images once they complete the loading time checking. its a good point for all developers that they can improve their site even more and easy loadable. its good enough for web developing service provider to deliver good and best web pages. here we go for the List of Useful Tools.
1.PageSpeed Tools
Analyze and optimize your website with PageSpeed tools to implement the web performance best practices.
Fast and optimized pages lead to higher visitor engagement, retention, and conversions. The PageSpeed family of tools is designed to help you optimize the performance of your website. PageSpeed Insights products will help you identify performance best practices that can be applied to your site, and PageSpeed optimization tools can help you automate the process.
Google Chrome Store : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gplegfbjlmmehdoakndmohflojccocli?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
2.YSlow
YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. Feature highlights:
Google Chrome Store : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ninejjcohidippngpapiilnmkgllmakh?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
3.Neustar Web Performance
Traditional load testing is done inside the firewall. But many of today's applications are found externally—ad servers, news tickers or Web analytics engines. That's why Neustar takes your customer's perspective and tests from the inside out. It's the best way to see if your website is ready for peak usage.
Link ; https://browsermob.com/free-website-performance-test/
4.WebPageTest.org
Run a free website speed test from multiple locations around the globe using real browsers (IE and Chrome) and at real consumer connection speeds. You can run simple tests or perform advanced testing including multi-step transactions, video capture, content blocking and much more. Your results will provide rich diagnostic information including resource loading waterfall charts, Page Speed optimization checks and suggestions for improvements.
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Link : http://www.webpagetest.org/
5.GTmetrix
GTmetrix can help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users.
Link : http://gtmetrix.com/
6.
We built this Full Page Test tool to help you analyze the load speed of your websites and learn how to make them faster. It lets you identify what about a web page is fast, slow, too big, what best practices you're not following, and so on. We have tried to make it useful both to experts and novices alike.
In short, we wanted it to be a free, easy-to-use tool to help webmasters and web developers everywhere optimize the performance of their websites.
Link : http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
7.site-perf.com
With Site-Perf.com, you get an accurate, realistic, and helpfulestimation of your site's loading speed. The script fully emulatesnatural browser behaviour downloading your page with all the images, CSS, JS and other files – just like a regular user. Spot bottlenecks, reach perfect performance and balance your site load with Site-Perf.com, a smart and flexible testing tool. Focus on important things while Site-Perf.com delivers the speed facts straight to your screen. Try it right now!
Link : http://site-perf.com/
8. The page analyzer analyzes your web page performance by emulating how a web browser would load your page and all resources referenced in it. The page and the referenced resources are loaded and important performance metrics are measured and displayed in a waterfall diagram along with other per-resource attributes such as URL, size, compression ratio and HTTP status code. Each load time bar has parts of different color corresponding to a performance metric
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