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Keeping Client Testimonial On Website: Is It Right & Still Effective!

Is it really possible that the addition of single element can revamp the graph of profits multiple times and create engagement of your business with more reliable customers influentially? The answer is yes as you can do it by putting client testimonials and reviews on your website. It is considered as the fundamental task to elevate the number of sold products and attain appreciable traffic & search engine ranking. However, it is simple task and important too, but a few people are still confused that does it really work for the business growth?

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How to Fix and Avoid WordPress Blank Page on NGINX

On Windows OS – the most popular opearting system for personal users, we have Blue Screen of Death as most common error screen. And with Nginx – the one of most popular web server softwares, we have White/Blank Screen of Death too. Unlike Windows Error Page, you won’t find useful information when facing with that problem because the it’s set hide from public by default, you need research the nginx and php logs to solve it.
If you don’t have a lot of experience with nginx, you will confusing with this common error like 403 Forbidden problem. In this post, I will explain about the solution to fix and avoid White/Blank Page when running WordPress on Nginx.

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Responsive Web Design

All that you need to know about responsive web design

Web design and development, the ever evolving field where it has become almost impossible to keep up with the new resolutions and designs. It is unfeasible for most websites to come up with separate versions for each new resolution and device. Responsive Web design makes sure that we do not have to lose visitors from one device for the sake of gaining them for the other.
Responsive Web design (RWD) is an approach to web design, it aims at designing sites to provide the best possible viewing and interaction experience. It suggests that the response of the design and development should be based on the user’s screen size, platform, orientation etc. Let’s say that if the user switches from Laptop to Mobile, the website would have the technology to respond to user’s preference. This removes the need for fresh design and development for each new gadget in the market.

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Write Effective Email Subject Lines

15 Quick Tips To Write Effective Email Subject Lines

The success of your email campaign largely falls on the subject line—a chance to make your first impression to the reader. For subscribers to open, read, and click through your email, you’ll need something that quickly grabs their attention. On average, I receive about 100 emails in a day, but I end up reading only 7 emails out of the 100 emails in my inbox. So what happens to the rest?
Having a powerful subject line may not be the perfect hook, but it’s without question the first step toward reducing opt-outs and increasing open rates. Find out what email marketing experts rate highly for your subject lines.

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HOW TO Unblocked resources with Google Webmaster Tools

For a several weeks before. The Google Webmaster reports has been forgotten. So I wasn’t encountered the blocked resources from GoogleBot which was increased everyday causing of Google Panda 4. With its ‘Fetch as Google’ feature within Google Webmaster Tools (GWT), it shows how these blocked resources matter.
The blocked resources follows the robots.txt directives for all files that Googlebot fetches, include JavaScript, CSS and image files. If your site’s robots.txt file disallows crawling of these assets, it directly harms how well their algorithms render and index your content.
In this post, I will explain how can I diagnosing blocked Googlebot issues and solve them with Google Webmaster Tools.

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Compare HHVM and PHP-FPM

Move from PHP to HHVM to improve websites performance

For a long time ago, I’m not writing any article about the server (nginx) optimization because my VPS that’s powered by Digital Ocean is working flawlessly on the lowest plan with just $5/month.
Do you know? If you do over optimization on the lowest VPS hardware on Digital Ocean, it will decrease your server performance instead the good results which you’ve expected. Although it can’t improve by itself, you really want to make it… better by switch from php-fpm to hhvm.

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14 Essential Tips To Deliver A Better Code

14 Essential Tips To Deliver A Better Code

For the tech professionals who endeavor to become a better programmer, there are great ways to boost your productivity and enhance your code.

To ensure an outstanding performance and deliver great productivity, developers can always follow a few consummate steps and improve their programming skills. In this article, I will offer you a list of best practices that can help you stay ahead of your competitors. By adhering to these tips, not only you will be able to augment your programming skills and speed, but you will also be able to ensure a quality code.

Let’s distill an array of useful tips that can add to your programming skills.

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How to Start WordPress Blog in 10 Minutes

How to Start WordPress Blog in 10 Minutes for Beginners

You will wondering why I write this post because I’m running our networks on Digital Ocean. Yes, it’s hard to manage a VPS for who you are begginer or don’t know too much about system management. So suggest that you getting a hosting service instead start from the begining. We were all newbies at one point, right? Continue read on!

Here is a step by step tutorial on how to start WordPress blog that over 100 people who has sent me an email and they have now used to start blogging properly!

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HOW TO Solve Common NGINX Problems

Fist of all, I write this article to collect all the ways which I used for solved most common Nginx problems during VPS / Server setup process. That mean this post will continuing update until I move to another web server softwares for example: lighttpd, litespeed, ...
If you’re new or old to Nginx, you’ll facing with some problems, some of them can be solve easy with simple steps but we spend a lot time to research and fix it. Why? Did you know? The most frequent issue we see happens when someone attempts to just copy and paste a configuration snippet from some other guide. It’s the answer. Don’t follow the guides out there unless you can understand what they’re trying to do and can clean it up. You’ll solving almost common problems of Nginx.

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How to Use Twitter for B2B Digital Marketing

Companies involved in the B2B industry are looking out for leads rather than individual customers. They are focused more on making long term leads than gathering many one-time end users of their product. B2B marketing is a marketing method where companies are looking to connect with other organizations that will purchase and use their products before reselling them – probably to another company or to the end user. This is why B2B marketing is much different from B2C marketing.

The former does not rely on flashy traditional advertising campaigns and B2B marketing caters to a more mature audience as companies involved are experts in the field. The internet is an excellent platform for B2B marketers and various social media websites are excellent channels for networking and finding B2B customers. Here are some tips to help companies nail B2B marketing on Twitter.

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HOW TO Avoid Being Slowed Down by Social Media Buttons

HOW TO Avoid Being Slowed Down by Social Media Buttons

I’m planning decrease the number of social media buttons on this website because it’s slowed down the load time.
To load the Facebook, Twitter and Google social media buttons for a total of 19 requests takes 246.7k in bandwidth. Holy crap! If a third-party website is slow this will hold up your page from loading.
Have you known, Google has been using site speed as a search ranking signal since 2010. So a faster websites means more money, better rankings, and happier users.

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