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Interesting Things about Social Network

Ten years have been passed to social network website, Facebook. It has gained billions of users in all over the world but still there are some interesting things about the social network website you don’t know about them. They are given below;

1.The social network website, Facebook is being used on mobiles at extensive scale then PCs. The reports show that it makes more money from mobiles and tablets than traditional computers. According to the founder this shift of Facebook from PCs to mobile phones is not as quick as it should be.

2.In 2012 Facebook bought photo sharing application, Instagram for $US 1 billion. It was a milestone according to Zuckerberg and in last year it offered $US3 billion for Snapchat but refused.

3.The latest newspaper style application of Facebook is called Paper. It includes shared articles, photos and friend updates in uncluttered way. The content is obtained from right source and shared with others. The successful stories are picked and ordered depending on the likes. The process of storytelling has become more beautiful with wonderful design and full screen.

4.Zuckerberg has stated many goals for himself and for Facebook. The founder of Facebook tried to learn Mandarin (2010), slaughtered himself (2011), learn new things daily (2013) and for 2014 a thank you note every day by email or letter. He told that we always tried to get better and better services to our clients.

5.In 2013, “Vote” was the most common topic among Australian users.

6.In next five years, Zuckerberg wants to make Facebook more powerful and to solve the problems of users. The problems even the users don’t know about. He wants to target the 5% and 10% posts on Facebook in which information of some local dentist or restaurant is enquired. He told that social network should do much better in providing answers of such questions.

7.The users of Facebook log into the website and stay for long time. The percentage of users who log in once a day is 76% and an average user spends nearly 8.3 hours per month.

8.Now the target of Facebook is developing countries in which groups are formed with other companies including Samsung, Qualcomm and Ericsson. The main focus of the group is to simplify services so that they can be delivered economically through wireless networks using cheaper phones. According to the founder, Zuckerberg more and more users in undeveloped countries will subscribe for mobile services with the facility to use Facebook. It makes the use of different services at cheap rates using wireless networks.

9.According to a research from Princeton University it is suggested that Facebook might lose 80% of the users in 2017 which would be a rapid decline. Data engineers of Facebook try to work to get better and better results proving that Princeton was on the brink of extinction.

10.No doubt Facebook is the most popular website and king of social referred traffic. It is also true that it is losing ground due to other partners such as Pinterest and Twitter.

Cheap Internet Marketing Tips

No worries, you can improve your online position with the help of cheap marketing tips even with low marketing budget. You have to pay in the form of time only. These tips include;

1.You should demonstrate the process of buying an item from your website with the help of friend by contacting you. It is good to write down the important steps during the process as it will help to increase the customers.

2.You should add a feature in your website to collect feedback from your customers. You are not your customer so it would be difficult to guess the requirements of a customer. You should also read contact us emails to know about your customer requirements.

3.Your web pages should have proper keyword density so if there is lack of keywords then add some more keywords through your content management system. Google reads text not images so it would be a wise step to tell about you.

4.The image of your main page should be fresher and attractive when the visitors visit your website. If they come back then your website should look fresh as it will indicate that the website is alive, being updated regularly and the company is reputable.

5.You can motivate your affiliates by offering 10% incentive to promote your program as it means more sales.

6.You should add content on other pages of your website to be in notice of the Google. In this way you have more chances to move higher in Google ranking against a particular keyword.

7.It is better to change the color of your buy now button to green as it indicates to go. The buttons indicate users to go or stop so you should focus on each and everything.

8.You can invite your staff for feedback day to increase your sales although it is little political but it is effective.

9.It is very important to update your about us page regularly. Although a large number of people ignore it but your customers would like to know that with whom they want to deal.

10.You should mention functional phone numbers on your website so it is good to call and update if a number does not working.

11.You should not add content in the form of PDF because it will not be readable by Google. So it is better to add more content in the form of HTML as it will increase the chances of promoting your website on the search engine listing.

12.You should update your news section regularly and update it with some latest news.

13.No doubt customers want to see what they are buying from you. So it would be good to add images from the front and back sides of your product to convince a customer. The customers would come to know about it and it will help in making a decision.

14.You can add a subscription program by offering a DVD or some other gift on thank you page to your lucky winners. It will also help to drive more customers to your website.

15.It is good to update your 404 page because it gets traffic so it should be modified in a way that it is a useful website.

16.You can also add misspelt keywords in your website as a large number of people misspell during search. It will add some extra effort to add common misspelt words to drive more traffic.

17. You should protect your brand name by searching your brand name in the search engine. You can request your competitors politely to take them down on the search engine.

18.The site map page is very important for the Google to index your page and by users to browse your website. So develop this page properly to get maximum benefits.

19.You can assign a task to your friend by asking him to perform some work for you and provide feedback as well. If he gets you without asking then you have done well.

20.You should also use some offline marketing techniques to get maximum benefits. For example you can place ads on taxi, distribute pamphlets and so on to promote your website.