Duplicator – Plugin de WordPress foarte rapid pentru transfer site-uri

TL;DR: Dacă doriți să transferați un site din locația a în locația B (mutați hostingul, de exemplu; sau schimbați domeniul; sau ați instalat WordPress într-o locație temporară pentru configurări și apoi îl lansați „live”), un plugin foarte bun pentru asta este Duplicator ». Detalii despre folosire și instrucțiuni detaliate: How to Move or Backup Your Website with Duplicator Plugin. Mai multe pluginuri pe tema asta: 8+ Awesome Plugins for Safely Moving WordPress – WPMU DEV sau 3 Plugins For Easily Migrating A WordPress Site, Tried & Tested. Așadar, Duplicator ». :)

How to mass delete your backup photos from Google Plus (and why would you want to do that)?

TL;DR: below, a solution on how to mass delete your backup photos from Google Plus (and why would you want to do that)? I recently got into the problem of having too much data in my Google Drive. You know the situation – you add some things in your Google account, and, at some point, you have so much data in there that you are required to pay for a premium account. I wouldn’t generally mind to do so, but I prefer to pay when I choose to, not when I’m forced to. The 2 USD / month for 100 GB / year is a tempting one, but there are alternatives which are free, and after one year of usage, it’s generally hard to switch. To understand my problem, see the below graph, which shows my current space usage on Gmail: I used to have around 2-3 GB more in my Gmail and 5 GB more on Google Drive. For Gmail, it was simple. Using some search parameters, I just searched for Google Calendar appointment emails, newsletters, and emails with attachments sent within some timeframe. I then mass deleted emails. Simple. For Google Photos, the main issue was that I have in there a few hundred albums and most of them should have photos stored at the „right” image size, which is, according to Google, 2048 x 2048 pixels. So, I tested, randomly, some folders in there, and couldn’t find the albums which, supposedly, had images with bigger resolution than these. Then, I’ve found a …

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Câteva idei după SEM Days 2015

TL;DR: Cum a fost la SEM Days 2015? Idei rezumate de Izabela-Maria Catiru: Prezenta speakerilor internationali a adus un plus de valoare. A fost foarte usor sa ii abordezi si sa pui intrebari pe campaniile locale pe care ei le desfasoara. Sesiunile au fost interactive, speakerii incercand de fiecare data sa implice audienta. Au fost prezente foarte multe studii de caz cu goodcase practices si tips pentru a putea avea o prezenta cat mai buna si mai mare in online. Discussion panelurile au abordat teme precum native ads si au clarificat multe confuzii pe care oamenii le au pe aceste teme. Cifrele prezentate nu au fost pe Romania (cifre pe care putem sa le obtinem si noi fain frumos) ci pe tarile din care veneau speakerii si a fost foarte interesant sa vezi cum functioneaza marketingul in cifre pe diverse piete: restaurante in UK, pe ce device-uri stau oamenii in diverse tari, faptul ca in UK si Slovenia cele mai mai multe volume de vanzari vin de pe tableta. Prezentarea de tooluri folositoare in PPC. Eu am fost doar la sesiunile de PPC in ziua a doua insa in prima zi am reusit sa prind si cateva insighturi de la SEO si content: contentul trebuie sa crawlable , faptul ca o persoana are deja instalata aplicatia ta te ajuta sa cresti in rank etc. (photo credits)

Marketing digital sau promotii offline? Raspunsul l-am aflat la cea de-a 7-a editie MID!

TL;DR: Joi, 24 septembrie, la Stejarii Country Club, a avut loc cea de-a 7-a editie a conferintei Marketing in Direct. Alaturi de specialistii de top din industrie si cei 200 de participanti s-a cautat raspunsul la intrebarea ”Marketing digital sau promoții offline?” Pentru ca de acum incolo alegerile in dezvoltarea si extinderea unui business sa fie cele corecte, s-au prezentat si discutat notiuni si practici noi, s-au schimbat idei, inovatie si multa creativitate. Speakerii au discutat si au dezbatut un subiect care ne framanta in industria de business: care sunt instrumentele pe care le folosim pentru a ajunge cat mai repede si eficient la inima consumatorului.

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How to save lots of money on big purchases?

TL;DR: So, if you plan to buy something of high value: Have patience. Do price comparisons. Do research. Visit at least two places. Consider being aggressive in negotiations. Through surveying more than 1,400 car buyers, Silva-Risso and his co-authors, Fiona Scott Morton, of Yale University, and Florian Zettelmeyer, of Northwestern University, found buyers could save about $800 if they find out what a dealer pays for a car, visit two dealerships, like to bargain and like to do research and price comparisons before making a purchase. The research also found that a consumer who doesn’t like to bargain or do a lot of research can save $230 by doing just two things: finding out what the dealer pays for the car and visiting two dealerships. „This really shows that even the consumer who doesn’t like to bargain can get the price reduced if they are informed,” Silva-Risso said. „And, if they are aggressive, and like bargaining, they can save even more. Source & More details: How to save $800 on a new car | EurekAlert! Science News »

20 de motive pentru care să participi la SemDays 2015, dacă ești interesat de marketing online

TL;DR: SEOmonitor şi 2Parale organizează în 24-25 septembrie 2015, în Bucureşti, SEM Days 2015, ediția a 4a, pe tema search engine marketing. Vor fi 19 speakeri: Hannah Smith, Kaspar Szymanski sau Alexandra Tachalova. De asemenea, îi puteţi întâlni pe Matt Beswick, Yiğit Konur, Jack Norell, Cosmin Negrescu, Cristian Ignat sau Radu Marcusu, și alții. Este cea mai mare conferinţă de SEO şi PPC din Europa de Est. 20 de motive pentru care să participi la SemDays 2015, dacă ești interesat de marketing online? Pentru că e o șansă unică – Pentru că pierzi o ocazie care nu se va mai repeta. Da, sunt și alte conferințe, în România și internaționale, dar lucrurile pe care le vei afla la *această* conferință nu le vei mai auzi în altă parte. Pentru speakeri – Printre speakeri se află și Kaspar Szymanski, fost angajat Senior Google (un interviu cu el: Interview with Kaspar Szymanski for SEM Days 2015). Pentru speakeri – Poți afla despre cum să faci conținut online de la Hannah Smith, o doamnă care este asociată Moz.com (Interview with Hannah Smith for SEM Days 2015) Pentru speakeri – Înveți cum să faci o analiză tehnică din punct de vedere SEO de la Mark Thomas, care face parte din echipa DeepCrawl, una din cele mai bune soluții ale momentului pentru audituri tehnice (SEO Audit tips from Mark Thomas (DeepCrawl)) Pentru speakeri – Vezi perspectiva unui director de agenție cu 130 de angajați din Germania (Interview with Andre Alpar for SEM Days 2015) Pentru speakeri – 19 speakeri internaționali …

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Despre butonul de „Dislike” pe Facebook (sau „Disliking the dislike button”)

TL;DR: Cred butonul de „Dislike” pe Facebook că va aduce un spirit critic care va bloca unele mesaje pe Facebook. Adică, în loc să public un note pe Facebook, sau să pun un video sau să pun o poză, sau să scriu un status, sau să pun un link, o să mă gândesc bine de tot dacă chiar vreau să fac asta, și, eventual nu voi face asta. Paradoxal, asta e rău. Seth Godin: I believe that everyone should write in public. Get a blog. Or use Squidoo or Tumblr or a microblogging site. Use an alias if you like. Turn off comments, certainly–you don’t need more criticism, you need more writing. Do it every day. Every single day. Not a diary, not fiction, but analysis. Clear, crisp, honest writing about what you see in the world. Or want to see. Or teach (in writing). Tell us how to do something. (Sursa ») Știrea:  Despite previously saying the social network wasn’t planning to build a “dislike” button, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during a Tuesday Q&A session that his company has indeed been working on one. “I think people have asked about the dislike button for many years,” Zuckerberg said. “Today is a special day because today is the day I can say we’re working on it and shipping it.” (Sursa »)

The best way to learn online marketing

TL;DR: As far as I suggest, you should learn online marketing by practicing, not by attending classes.

There are two ways of learning programming:

  • Studying for 4 years in a College and then practicing somewhere.
  • Learning by doing. You get a problem, you learn how to solve it, and you increase, step-by-step, the difficulty of programming.

If you’re 18, I think it’s a good idea to learn programming by going to a college. If you’re 30, and want to work full-time, though, I think the former option is the better one. You’ll not be as great a programmer in the beginning, but you’ll learn on the fly.

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Despre blender – ar trebui să folosești așa ceva (pentru suc de fructe, sau mix de legume tocate mărunt)?

„Blending, however, does chop fiber into smaller pieces.  How this affects its activity in the body depends on what kind of fiber we’re talking about. An article Lee dug up for me in The Journal of Food Science  notes that grinding up wheat bran reduces its ability to hold water, which presumably decreases its effectiveness in promoting regularity. In fact, one study found that supplementing the diet with very finely ground wheat bran actually caused constipation!

Oat bran on the other hand soaks up more water when you reduce the particle size. There’s also some research suggesting that grinding up vegetable fiber into smaller pieces makes it more effective in reducing cholesterol.

So, I don’t know that we can say that blending „destroys” fiber. But we can certainly conclude that blending „changes” fiber in foods and how they affect the body. Based on my brief tour through the literature, I think I would avoid putting wheat bran in my smoothie.  Flax seed, on the other hand, is really only useful as a source of fiber if you grind it (or chew it up really well). Coarsely ground flax appears to be slightly more effective than finely ground flax…so don’t overdo it.

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I’m afraid there’s no simple answer. Blending or juicing foods can make certain nutrients more absorbable.  It may decrease the effectiveness of some fibers but increase the effectiveness of others. Honestly, I think this falls into the (rather large) category of things that probably aren’t worth worrying about.”  (sursa afirmațiilor e discutabilă, dar aproape fiecare afirmație din articol e pe bază de studii; ai în articol multe surse »)

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