What will happen if you stop smoking right now?
I recently found an interesting infograph from Blisstree titled “What happens to your body if you stop smoking right now?” The figure represent interesting facts that a very important to your health, so here is the quick review: In 20 min: Your blood pressure will return to normal. In 8 hours: The carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal In 48 hours: Your chance of having heart attack will begin its long decline. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level In 72 hours: Your bronchial tubes will relax, and your overall energy level will rise. In 2 weeks: Your circulation will increase, and it will continue to...
What is Google Analytics – Asynchronous Tracking
Q uite recently Google has upgraded its Web Analytics Tracking Code, and the new version is called Asynchronous Tracking. This code is different from the previous GA code, below is an introduction. Asynchronous Tracking in Google Analytics: Asynchronous tracking is an improved way to track website visitors with Google Analytics. Asynchronous tracking optimizes how browsers load ga.js so its impact on user experience is minimized. It also allows you to put your Analytics snippet higher in the page without delaying subsequent content from rendering. Although asynchronous tracking uses a different Analytics snippet and a different syntax for tracking calls, it supports the exact same tracking customizations as the traditional snippet. In fact, the asynchronous...
Turn Off Google Buzz ! How and Why ?
I have turned off Google Buzz, if you have not find a reason good enough for this, let’s firs read this article on BusinessInsider and then read the rest of this post. The article mentioned above is a bit technical, let me explain the threat in simplest words and then I will show you how to remove it. The privacy threat behind Google Buzz: Consider the snapshot beow: I you have enabled Google Buzz and when you will click on anyone of your contacts you will see this a screen like above, pretty innocent, hmmm, No! If you click on the link on the “following” link, you will instantly get all my contacts! Imagine all my contacts, family members, business contacts,friends and foes etc. Everything exposed! and the best part is that all of this has...
New Opportunites with Google Social Search
Q uite recently, I saw a video(embedded below) from Google on Social Search. Although it seems pretty impressive and good, but I have some questions/thoughts from Marketing/SEO point of view: Since users will now be able to see suggestions/blogposts/tweets etc from our contacts, so this opens are whole new platform for Social Media Marketing i.e. if you have established yourself as a friendly guy in any popular social media platform like Facebook, and you are an open Networker i.e. who adds other people as friends without any previous acquittance, then you have a very huge opportunity that you can influence and market a huge number of audience in many diverse niches, all you need is quality content on various topics with a touch of SEO and Google will do the rest...
How to exclude specific country or region from Google Analytics
H ere are the quick and easy steps to implement, if you want a report of website traffic, excluding a specific country or territory. However,it should be noted that, it is among the best practices to create new test profiles when you are testing our filters or other advanced analytics setups. The reason is that it is not unusual that some of your experiments might turn out to be wrong or do not meet your specific requirements, if you have multiple profiles, then you can safely delete the newly created one without loss of critical data. You should have one untouched raw analytics profile, always. Having said that, lets move towards our setup, I have already created a new profile for the same website and name it “Filtered Traffic” As soon as you create...
Create Your Own Brand Story
H ow to Create Your Own Brand Story? To create a compelling brand story, you need to move beyond a simple cataloging of your product and benefits and answer questions about your purpose, your identity and what exactly your position is in the marketplace. This begins with a series of questions that you ask internally: Who are we? Why do we do what we do? What do we care about? What’s our purpose? Why do we matter to the people that we do business with? What would we want people to say about us when they are satisfied? What would we want people to say about us when they are dissatisfied? What will we absolutely not do? What are we most proud of? The internal questions are followed by an examination of the external environment: Who are our...
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