No matter what sort of business organization or company you are running, social media is one major channel for marketing your stuff and keeping the people informed about your updates and whereabouts. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and LinkedIn are the mainstream and yet the most powerful of these networks. However, running your company pages on these websites is not easy as it sounds. You have to take care of the timings and whatnot. Automating the procedure by scheduling the posts is however a great solution to this. Although there are several tools to do the job, the most efficient and diversified has to be the BufferApp because of its Google Plus support unlike many others out there.

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Alright, so who's in the mood for a little Android App development? I know, I know, that's not something you can suddenly 'do' when the mood strikes you (well, maybe not for the beginners anyways). But don't worry, it's not as hard as you might think. After all, you have to start from the beginning at one point, no? One of the best thing I like about Android is the ease of development. And that includes getting the required tools, and setting them up, ready for development. Since this is the first post on the subject, that's just we're going to talk about - getting, and setting up the Android SDK for app development. Starting from the very beginning of Android App Development!

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While the world of social networks is generally believed to be involving Facebook and Twitter only, there’s this whole other dimension, StumbleUpon that is equally beneficial from a business point of view. StumbleUpon is an online channel for discovering information from all over the internet, about your subjects of interest (set manually). With a user base of over 25 Million stumblers who are constantly looking for something new and exciting, it stands as a good platform for the advertisers. With the introduction of the Paid Discovery feature, its popularity and worth exponentially increased in the eyes of the content marketers because of the many advantages it has over other procedures.

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Search engines are always trying to return the best possible results to their readers, and you often see search rankings for websites going up and down. This is because they're regularly updating their algorithms, and changing their search ranking criteria, so that the most relevant and the best possible results can be returned to the searchers. Websites often come under penalties, some of which can be algorithmic, while others manual. Google has now introduced a new feature in Webmaster Tools that will show all manual actions against your site that directly effect your site's ranking in Google Search.

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Google Authorship helps authors get their content associated with their name, so people can recognize them. Not only that, it helps them get going with their PageRank, which ultimately effects the search rankings of their content. And besides showing your author profile picture in search results (which has an immediately positive effect on your Click Through Rate), it also makes more posts by the author accessible to the searcher, hence retaining more value from a single searcher. Since it is such an important question, people ask a lot of questions regarding rel="author" and Google Authorship. We'd like to address some of them with the help of Google in this post.

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Whether you're a casual internet surfer, or someone with a lot of free time on hand, you must have spent some time playing around with some online games to kill time or to have some fun. Game publishers are increasingly working to expand their empires, and to attract a larger audience. And with large audiences come opportunities to make money. To that effect, game publishers have been working with AdSense for distribution, download and in-game advertising. And Google sure has recognized a growing advertiser demand to reach highly engaged games audiences, as it has just announced the launch of the TrueView video ad format across its game monetization platforms.

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One of the many reasons why we like WordPress is the power and flexibility that the publishing platform provides. It offers so many customizations, and you can do so much more with it. One of the best features about it is, you can use and interact with WordPress Databases to add your own functionality, and extract some extra data that you can't normally do without installing some third party plugins. For those of our readers who're WordPress users, we'd like to share some simple (and some advanced) MySQL database queries you can run to do some advanced and useful actions.

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