The Danger of Identity Theft

Any business owner or even every single person should be well-conscious of the current state of identity theft. And we all must know how important it is to to protect your customers and your own business from fraud to maintain its well-known reputation and stable development.

What is identity theft?

Identity theft is defined as the fraud of someone to make money from using your confidential document or illegally enter any transaction under your identity. An example can be the “credit card cloning”. The culprit may use someone else’ information and apply for credit cards, bank accounts to buy items through the Internet, One other of the most common identity theft cases is tax fraud and scams that may be greatly damaging under any tax season no matter how safe and secured your personal info is. Specifically, the identity thieves use made-up Social Security Numbers (SNN) randomly and file the tax forms to try to claim any possible return. And sadly, the chances of being the random victim can be you.

The consequences can be terrific and time-consuming for anyone, which which can lead to nonstop amount of unknown debts, bankruptcy, etc. Even worse, solving your identity theft case or reversing the harm from the fraud is also as troublesome as it can go for years to settle.

Facts of Identity Theft

Frank Agagnale once said, ‘the police can't protect everyone. Individuals should be more mindful and instructed about identity fraud or theft. You should be a little bit wiser, and smarter; plus, nothing is wrong with being skeptical. We live in a world where if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, they will eventually.’ And I believe this always stays true. Up until now, there have been over 8,513,000 identity theft victims worldwide, which is happening every two seconds. Identity theft is a growing serious issue in the United States which has risen alarmingly over the last decades. Another surprising fact is that currently, medical sector has been on top of those that have data stolen by identity thieves since five years ago. Hence, protecting your own health insurance is as crucial as your SSN.

How do you protect your identity from being theft?

This question must be constantly asked right after the frightening facts above have been shown.Fortunately, there are many easy and effective ways to protect yourself. First of all, having the  best paper shredders  can be the foremost solution to dispose of any sensitive information and that info will stay safe and secured within your organization. Other possible ways can be regularly checking your credit reports to let your bank know about any suspecting spending amount, strengthening your passwords and well securing any of your contact information or important accounts. Personally, I would recommend that you change your passwords for any highly-secured accounts every 6 months. Also, you should be smart and wary in using social media because there have been plenty of scams online. Social media has become tremendously so popular that even a company will look at the profiles of their job candidates through those media sites. Hence, people tend to upload most of their personal data but forget that they themselves make it easier for scammers to duplicate their information.

By implementing these steps, any top secret documents such as employee files, social security numbers, banking details, medial insurance information, and addresses cannot be stolen and frauded. If you can secure yourself first, the chance of the information being stolen can be surely eliminated. And your company can avoid being sued for violating regulations on information protection. Likewise, Bill Nelson once said, “If we don’t act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become the victims of identity theft”.

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

Facebook Will Now Translate Page Posts

You don't need to post bilingual posts on facebook as the social media giant brings a new technology that will allow users to read posts on their preferred languages.

The AI-powered translation tool has been tested from the beginning of the year by the company owners and had been made available to certain facebook users and now has been made available to the public. The company already had a translation engine as many frequent users have noticed on the social network but this move by Facebook will bring an improvement to translation of text into a variety of languages to allow easily accessibility to some pages and services on the platform.

This amazing tool by Facebook is currently limited only to desktop users which lets users select from a variety of languages while composing a post. The post will be published in the language that has been selected by the the composer but it will appear to readers in the language that they prefer for example, English will be automatically to translated to Spanish to a Spanish Facebook user, so users will receive posts in the languages that they prefer.

The translation feature is available to those who are managing pages already, so if you are using a page then you check activate it on your page setting as the feature going through even though it is made available to use. the feature can be enabled in the language section on Facebook settings and also on the page settings.

If you have something interesting to add to this story please feel free to share with us in the comments box below and wish you the best week ahead.

10 Effective Tips on Creating Shareable Social Media Content

What makes content go viral on social media? Is it the shock value or is it relevance? Think about why you remember some posts and not others, and you will see that there is no simple answer. If you have a definite purpose for sharing content other than sheer exuberance, then you need to know how to create effective social media content that suits your needs. Here are some tips to which you should pay attention.

Target your audience

Social networks are geared for particular types of people. Some prefer one social network over another. When you are creating your content, you have to identify your target market so you know what social network will respond more readily to your posts. However, more importantly, you should know your target market thoroughly. You should know their habits, needs, wants, prejudices, and psychology. In other words, you should know where the buttons are so you can push them.

Write stuff they want to read

If you know your target market, you can create content that they will read. You should still keep in mind your purpose for posting (brand awareness, content marketing etc.) but make sure that it is a good fit for your audience. It should offer useful advice, interesting information or entertainment.

Aside from utility, you should strive to get your audience to make an emotional investment in your post. Encourage them to participate in the conversation and to air their opinions. Respond promptly to them and always conclude with an open-ended question. It keeps them coming back for more. You will get more shares that way, which is what you want.

Keep it bite-sized

Create several short posts as opposed to one long chunk. You can overwhelm your audience, if you give them too much information in one helping. Some important information of what you want to say may also get lost in the crowd. Isolate one or two ideas, expound on it in detail and lead them to check your next post for more information. It is easier to digest and remember, and, more importantly, it is much more shareable.

Make it visual

Content is not just about what you say, but what other people see. Pay close attention to how your post looks; it should be easy to scan and follow. People have a tendency to abandon articles that look too hard to read. Avoid long paragraphs; it should have no more than three to five sentences. Lead off with an interesting visual or break up long entries with an illustration. Giving your reader’s eyes a break will keep them engaged.

Use high quality language

You may have something really important or valuable to say, but may not have the skills or time to put a great article together.  They say the mark of a good leader is the ability to delegate. For example, you target Australian women for your marketing campaign and you have a difficult time choosing the right words that would appeal to them. You can outsource content creation at Australian writings to native speakers and professional writers to ensure that you are turning out high quality work. You may also write the content yourself and contract an expert to edit and proofread your content. 

Encourage sharing

You want your content to get as much exposure as possible. That is the whole purpose of social media marketing. You can make it easy for your reader to share your excellent article with their friends by providing them with a Share button. You can even encourage them to do so by offering incentives such as giving them freebies for sharing.

Provide a sharing platform

There is nothing easier to create than a post that gives your audience a chance to share their own accomplishments or experiences. Solicit them to submit photos or videos of their creations, travels, families, and so on. You can make it a contest of it if you want, but it is not always necessary. People enjoy attention, and take every opportunity to get it, even for a little while. When they tag your post or share it so their friends and family can see it, it gives you more exposure.

Engage influencers

There are people who have the credibility and ability to sway public opinion. As a social media marketer, one of your most important tasks is to identify these individuals and get on their good side. Persuade them to share or endorse your content by following them, quoting them or otherwise stroking their ego. At the very least, avoid antagonizing, contradicting or challenging their opinions. They can either make or break you, so tread carefully.

Build trust

You can also become an influencer in your particular niche, if you build a relationship with your audience. Many people engage in social media to get expert advice, so a good way to build trust and rapport with the audience is to provide them with what they need. You can give troubleshooting advice or point them in the right direction to solve their issues. Cultivate a personal approach when answering questions or inquiries so that you appear friendly and approachable. Avoid the temptation to pitch to them at every opportunity; this can harm your credibility. Always provide objective advice; they are more likely to believe you when you do make a pitch.

Tag away

Do not hesitate to tag other people in your post, even if they are not influencers, if they posted something you can connect to your business. Most people find it flattering, and very few will pass over content that specifically mentions them. It will encourage them to like, comment on, or share your post. Tagging is also a good way to get the attention of potential clients if they are already looking for your product or service.  It gives you a foot in the door, and you are doing them a service besides. Nothing is more satisfying than mutual satisfaction.

Creating content that will make a splash on social media is not easy. There are flukes, of course, but in most cases, it requires patience, careful study and a sound strategy to build a presence that can positively affect your business. If you follow the tips given above, and get professional help when you need it, there is no reason why you cannot create content other people will share on social media. 

  

Stephanie Norman from Sydney has been a content marketing specialist and professional writer for 4 years already. She writes business, creative, and academic content as a freelancer. You can follow her at Facebook and Google+.


 

Pinterest Hits 100 million Users

Pinterest has hit a very huge growth recently after its marketing campaign in March 2015, which has made them to break the 100 million daily users milestone.

The addiction to the pinterest network has increased as it had on imstagram as the app has reached over 100 million active monthly users which has increased it market value to over $11 Billion USD which has it to

It is confirmed that about 70% of the 100 million monthly active users on Pinterest are not there for pins and other related things but usaully visit the social network for saving links or clicking on to learn more. The number of Pinterest searches has grown to 70% last year as confirmed by the company.

With this increase of monthly active users, the number of daily pins have increased to 24 million pins shared by the users.

Pinterest has become more of a place where users want to share the products they want to buy online and sharing online for reviews on what they want to purchase online while at the other hand advertisers have been finding Pinterest useful when it comes to promoting products on the internet. Pinterest has introduced sponsored pins which appear on the users news feed, the sponsored pins are usaully used by businesses to share their products on the app.

Pinterest has shown a big growth but it probably far from the rivals Twitter and Instagram which are above three times as Pinterest. Follow us on Pinterest @ajaxsurf, wish you the best user experience on the App.

Facebook Working on a 'Dislike' button

The long waited for 'Dislike' button which many Facebook users have been waiting for, has been confirmed by the CEO Mark Zuckerburg as one of their plans for development.

In 2009  Facebook was tempted by some users who were suggesting the company to bring out a "Dislike"
Button which will look like an inverted like button. Facebook did not accept the 'Dislike' button because it was believed that the button would not sound good to other users as many may feel bad or harassed when their posts were disliked, but due to many requests by the social network users Facebook has no choice but to make the 'Dislike' button to all of the app users.

This button is believed to be a disaster by many media houses as they believe that this button will not go well as other social networks have used it before but did not work very well as planned, this button will eventually cause a reduce on the self esteem of some users causing them to not post often on their walls as they might fear of getting more dislikes than likes.

Mark Zuckerburg believes that the Dislike should not be used to express discouragement but instead it should be used to impress sympathy, not to make others feel bad about their post. The 'dislike' button is designed to show compassion not to show hatred or any form of disrespect towards other users. As Zuckerburg confirmed that with the dislike button they are surely not intended to turn facebook into a forum where users will like or dislike, but to use the 'dislike' button to show compassion.

With the Facebook 'Dislike' button rolling out in the next months, what do you have to say about this great move by Facebook. Please feel free to leave your views in the comment box below.

Google and Twitter team up to Bring Instant Articles

Google and Twitter team up to bring instant articles, which will be displayed only for mobile users.

Recently Facebook, Apple and Snapshot have introduced an “instant article” feature which is designed to give instant articles to the site mobile users. This move by Google and Twitter will allow mobile users to get instant content delivered to their mobile smartphones without having visit the publishers sites.

This move by Google will favour many bloggers and publishers online as the instant articles will be snapshots which will be taken from different online sources, this move has not found favour with some sites from around the world as it is believed that it will cause many sites to lose traffic as readers will not have visit the internet for articles but will have to read articles from snapshots.

There are critics by many publishers as it will cost them a lot of revenue as readers might not be able to to visit the home pages of these sites, which will cause high drops of traffic.

Publishers also had to criticize this move as Facebook introduced instant articles which caused many publishers to complain about this move by tech companies as they use Facebook and Twitter to get traffic, and with the introduction of instant articles many sites are to be affected.

This automatic articles will not be branded or have any attributes on them but will rarely be snapshots that could be easily read by the mobile users.

The plans of Google and Twitter are far more different than those by Facebook and Apple as they are have not stated about the revenue that can be given to the publishers as they will be using snapshots. The Good news about the Facebook instant articles is that publishers will get 100% of the Ad revenue generated by their content.

Facebook will be turning Pages into an Online Mall

The social media giant Facebook has made things easier for marketers and companies as they have made headlines as by turning the app into an estore.

At first it was shopify which allowed users to promote product through facebook which was not a success, now Facebook pages will now have services and shopping section which will allow companies to easily sell both their products and services without leaving the social network.

Facebook which is a home to over 50 million pages will now make things easier for page administrators by allowing them to sell on Facebook, this was tested by Facebook two months ago and the implementation has been confirmed by the company COO, Sheryl Sandburg. The company is believed to change the way ecommerce works as it will cause many clients to abondone many ecommerce sites into joining Facebook and using it to sell their services and prices.

This will allow retailers to sell their products on Facebook and many other services such as plumbing, garden services and many other things will be easily done on Facebook. The new features are currently being tested by a group of retail businesses and some of the features will be released to Facebook in the next comming weeks.

Facebook will surely takeover some blogs with this move as they will be adding some special estore features such as the "add to cart" , "Buy now" and the "donate button" which will allow non profit organisations to recieving funds directly from Facebook.

Facebook is looking forward to improve the seller and customer relationship by including contact buttons which will appear on the page, Facebook as a social network will allow customers to contact, call or send messages direct to the retailers. This imptovements by Facebook are believed to improve the user rate of facebook as many bloggers and online retailers will be turning into Facebook due to its wide upcomming ecommerce services.

Governments want your personal data, Twitter Confirms Requests have increased by over 52%

Well user privacy cannot be guaranteed these days as governments have seen social networks as an advantage of which they can easily access user data. Social Networking sites have been attacked by governments requesting user data for conducting investigations. These sites includes Twitter, Facebook, Google plus, Linkedin and Whatsapp.

In the recent months facebook was made to release the data which belonged millions of users to the united states government and to the other regions of Europe and now Twitter is getting the sting to do the same. Twitter has confirmed that the requests have increased by over 52% in the first half of this year.

The senior manager of Twitter   Jeremy Kessel have confirmed on the Twitter Blog stating that this is the biggest data request ever to be submitted to twitter, within the June to August period request have increased 56% internationally as governments want to access peoples profile data.

The largest requesters of user data has been USA, Japan and China with USA having over 50% of the data request followed by Japan and China both sitting at 10% while the other international governments fill the the remaining 30% of the data requests. The United Kingdom and Turkey maintian an avarage of 8% data requests making them one of the major countries that are forcing Twitter to release user data.

Twitter has refused to give user data to some international countries as they had to strongly protect the user privacy, Turkey and Brazil are among the countries with rejected orders, Turkey standing with over 768  court orders and Brazil with only 17 court orders.

The Twitter live streaming service Periscope have received over 1391 copyright takedown which have been made by Governments which are fighting for the release of user data for investigations. These takedowns have been done in the last six months since the beginning of 2015 to an unbelievable 1391 requests in a short amount of time.

Twitter publishes most of thesevgovernment takedowns on the web site known as the Chilling Effects which you can use to see recent data requests sent on Twitter.

Facebook Launches Live Streaming For Famous People

It is one of the Biggest moves by Facebook as they had launched their first Live video Streaming at it launch which was done on Wednesday.

The Live video streaming will be restricted to famous people only which will mostly depend on the the number of followers you have on your facebook page. This video streaming service will be added in the Facebook mentions which was launched in 2014 to improve engagements between the celebrities and the their fans whereby they can respond to their followers questions and comments.

The Facebook Live feature will show up in you timeline whenever a celebrity that you are following decides to go live and while watching the broadcast you will be able to  like, share or comment without having to get desrupted.

Accessing the Facebook Live feature will really be  easy as the celebrities will only have to go the the mentions feature, select the post option and from the option they will have to select Live Video to start broadcasting their video whenever they feel like. Celebrities will also be able to see how many users are tuning in the broadcast by easily toggling with their rear camera. Broadcasted videos will be automatically saved to the Facebook Page after the live broadcast. The broadcasts will show on the News Feed as seen on the image below and whenever the fan clicks on the video, the video will start playing.

Facebook had a video hosting service which was available all users which was hosted by a 3rd party service not Facebook, Celebrities were able to share video on Facebook until the Facebook Live feature was introduced to Facebook which will fully be controlled by Facebook.

The First Celebs to use the live video sreaming service were Dwayne Johnson aka "The Rock", Serena Williams,  and Martha Stewart who were to promote the Facebook video Streaming service on it wednesday launch by going live using the Facebook live feature.

Google Plus to Split up in The Next Months

On Monday Google plus have confirmed that they will be improving the quality of their service by splitting their social network into different categories to improve growth.

This development by Google plus has been sparked by the social media improvements that have been brought by Facebook and Twitter to help them improve user commitment as they have added new customizations which has divided the social network. Things that were done on services like youtube using a Google profile will no longer require a Google profile which means that Youtube users will not use a Google account to comment on the youtube streaming service.

This change was being inspired by Google after it social network failed to match up with the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin which are the most broad growing networks as they have even improved recently making Google plus to stay behind as one of the least networks. These changes by the Google plus team are believed to bring its network to a good position as they are to seperate the Well known Photos, Youtube and Hangouts, away from the social network itself making it a stand alone.

The well known Google plus profile will not be visible on search engines which means that you profile searchable or followable which is the biggest change by Google plus . Among the major changes by Google plus is Youtube as the video sharing service will be one of the big companies to experience the changes as the comments made on youtube will no longer be linked to the users Google+ profiles as confirmed on the Youtube Blog . Youtube users will continue be allowed to use the Google plus profile to share videos until Google confirms the deadline date.

Google plus users are currently motivated not to stop using youtube, Photos and other services to be affected by the updates as the big changes will take months before they are implemented on the network.

Facebook will allow retailers to sell from Facebook

Facebook has brought in an improvement to their App which will allow users to buy products directly from the App without having to leave the App.

Facebook is no longer only focused on chats, likes, sharing but have seen an importance of increasing their online revenue by making eCommerce available on Facebook. With the eCommerce development by Facebook twitter was the first social network to integrate buy buttons which are well known as the twitter buy button which made users to buy without leaving the social network.
If you think that Facebook is behind well you you got it wrong because Facebook has been working on it plan to integrate shopping buttons that will look very similar to the ones used by Shopify as reported by Buzzfeed concerning the Facebook buy buttons which are very much likely into becoming a success.

Facebook has been fully experimenting the buy and checkout features of the buy now buttons as a plan to integrate eCommerce to its social network. This has been a big move buy Facebook which can negatively affect social media marketing strategies as the customers will not have to leave the App to make a checkout which will exclude from having to visit the merchants site.
The shopping feature by Facebook is currently being tested on a couple of users as confirmed on Wednesday on a press conference that the new eCommerce features will be made available soon as the tests will be working very well as shown in the mock image Below.

The Facebook spoke person Mike Manning said it wont be a predictable experience for the buy buttons and ecommerce features as it is not really known when will retailer get to use these features because many may take time to Adapt to the changes made by Facebook. There adaptions are made on Facebook but has been only visible to certain retailers for testing the improvement of the App. The Facebook spokesperson Mike Manning has refused to give the names of the current participating ecommerce retailers but has confirmed that the service is used by both small scale and large scale ecommerce retailers and ecommerce stores.

With these new features it does not seem like Facebook is looking forward in the revenue behind these eCommerce features as they will be giving these  customization freely without any charges. The company has confirmed that the improvements are designed to increase user engagement in their app not to make revenue.
With this improvements in social media and ecommerce has made making money online as one of the easiest ways for both blogger and ecommerce sites, this the biggest improvement by Facebook.

Facebook opens its first African Office in South Africa

Just before the Facebook internet.org was established in southern Africa, Facebook has opened its first African Office which will focus on the African continent.

Facebook with having over 120 million users in the African continent has opened it first office in Johannesburg which is the countries biggest city well know as "EGoli ,the city of Gold" which is well known for its mining. The purpose of Facebook building its first office in the African continent was to focus much more on the emerging markets of Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.

According to Facebook 20% of the African population has internet access which is believed to reach 50% by the year 2020 as big companies and other network operators are working together to bring developments in the African continent which will boost the levels of internet access in the continent.

Facebook has also joined hands with Cell C which is the leading telecom company in bringing developments which will boost the project of improving the levels of internet access in the continent.

By certain calculation it has been estimated that 80% of South Africans access the internet through a mobile phone while the remaining use Personal Computers.

Facebook has seen Africa as the biggest investment opportunity which they believe as having the potential of reaching over 1 billion users because currently the African continent has over 100 million users out of a remaining 1 Billion potential users who hardly have internet access. The new Facebook of will be lead by Nunu Ntshingila-Njeke who will overseer the success of the development.

This is a big development plan by facebook in the African region and believed to bring a huge global impact to the African continent and will it work as they have planned.

Best Proven Ways To Turn Facebook Fans into Blog Promoters

Facebook is currently the best network that bloggers can use to promote blog content as it has been the best leading blog promotion advantages.
Does your blog have a social media presence and yet lacks the traffic you want then this tutorial will be the guide to using facebook fans, friends or followers  to get your blog traffic running above the stakes.

Facebook has been the major marketing strategy for many sites on the internet by bringing in quality traffic and sales, big blogs like Mashable and Techcruch have got most of their traffic from social media more particularly Facebook and Twitter which are the current leading social media sites which shows a great growth potential for sites that have been able to market their sites. Facebook has been expanding itself to webmasters by producing widgets that can be embedded on blogs to bring about the best user experience that allows readers to easily share on facebook.
With social media being on top of the ladder whereby Facebook has been the second most used site after Google there is a great potential for your site to do well on social media. With looking at Mashable only it is noted that the site gets most of its traffic from social media .

How to turn Facebook fans into blog promoters
Turning your Facebook fans into blog promoters is nothing hard at all as it is only a matter of will and skill.
Recently some blogger mentioned that creating many facebook pages on one name will boost the blog which I would say that it indeed sounded promising but yet not true at all because it was never tested and secondly merging multiple pages will not increase the blog followers as because Facebook is smart they can easily see duplicate likes and they are counted as a single like so it wont work.
Facebook is currently the best social marketing site on the web with Billions of daily active users that on can get a stake of.

• The first thing that you have to do is to open a Page that will be based on your blog and get it updated daily with whats happening on your blog which will inlude updates and advertising offers that are being offered by the blog,
This how it works, The more they share your posts the more are the chances that your followers friends will get involved with your blog whereby they will start following your blog. It is simple you just have to keep you facebook page updated frequently to improve your blog and the readers will do the rest.

• As a blogger you probably Should have a Facebook account, but if it happens that you do not have one the I would motivate that you register your account at the Facebook home page and get to invite new friends from the options that are given by Facebook.
Once your account is fully setup and running then you will have to invite your friends into liking your page and if it happens that you dont have enough likes then ask your friends to invite their friends only and you will see a very great improvement on your site. There are also some sites that one can use to increase the Facebook page likes.

• Add Facebook share buttons on your blog posts and sidebars to increase social interactions on your your blog which will ensure more page likes. Also on Ajaxsurf we have have made social media the most important part of getting our blog content to as many readers as we could get from facebook and other social networks.
Social media is taking the world by storm and the only way to get something out of it is by getting involved in it.

How to use Free internet on CellC

With Cell C you can free uncapped internet access to selected websites due to Facebook's internet.org partnership with Cell C and other telecom companies around the world to bring free internet which will allow mobile users to free internet access, this project by Facebook has finally reached the Southern African region together with Australia.

The free Cell C internet service was launched last week on 1 July 2015 which was to allow the network subscribers to free internet access on a selected range of websites including Bing, Facebook and many other helpful websites that can become handy. This partnership by Cell C and Facebook is believed to bring a huge improvement to help many students access the web without a hustle.

How to Use Cell C Free internet on a Mobile Phone

Cell C has launched a campaign that allowed it users to free social media websites such as Mxit and Whatsapp, and now the allowance has been given to Facebook and many other websites.

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• Download the internet.org android app and install it on your phone, the App can be found on Google play store, Apple store or you can simple get the apk file from  ApkMirror .

• After installing the App on your mobile phone you will have to open it and you will see a page with a lot of websites that you can visit. If the mobile phone you are using is not registered then you will get a message telling you to Have a Cell C sim on your phone.

• Once you have opened the app on your smartphone having a Cell C sim then you will be able to access the internet, it is that simple.

Please leave your questions on the comment box below. Wish you the best internet access.

The Future of Twitter Reviewed

Is Twitter doomed? This is a question asked by many users online as the social network has not been performing very well which has resulted in a huge share price drop in the recent months years.

Twitter was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey when he just sketched out an idea of a mobile SMS service that would be easily be used by mobile users which with the help of investors grew into being twitter which is now the worlds most active social network after facebook with over 200 million active users. The speculation about the loss of Twitter has been spreading around as many people wanted to to know what is happening on twitter which caused the quarter revenue details of Twitter to get leaked in April 2015 which has slamed the share price by over 18% which had made many websites around the world to had to think that Twitter is doomed !

Yes probably I may agree with some of their points because twitter has been having slow growth related problems which made market watch to confirmed that twitter is the next giant social media company to follow blackberry smartphones fall, a leak of their net earnings have really cause a huge damage by revealing the slow growth and revenue which has caused a huge share fall making a lot of traders in the New York Stork Exchange.

The Twitter stork drop has made many of the network fans to think that it is over with the social network as it has failed to show it ability of being the next facebook because of the rate of decrease in the number of new users signing up on the service. It is confirmed by Mashable that twitter has a very less number of active users which is about 255 million after it had a growth of 15 million users in the January-April 2015 period which has disapproved many people who thought the network was getting doomed, this move by twitter has shocked many as the company continued to grow irrespective to the problems they were having in the stock markets.

Twitter is believed to make a revenue of over $1 billion in this year which is believed to grow over a few years to come as the social network is undergoing some improvements which includes Advertising, Twitter business and Ecommerce which is believed to incease twitter revenue to over 100% , Twitter is still fresh and has the potential of increasing from it current $25 billion market value back to $45 billion value it hard before the revenue leak.

Blogging Advise from Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington

Techcruch is a multi-millionaire Technology Blog with more than 9 million monthly visitors, which started as a one man blog ran by Michael Arrington into being a leading blog in it niche.

Today we I will be sharing with you Michael Arrington success secrets into successful blogging which had made made Techcruch a leader in Tech news.

Make a follow up on Niche Related Rumours - following up on rumours will really help you to create a solid background for your blog and mostly upon that you have to respect your blog sources. The best way to get a hold of the common rumours is by getting involved with famous people on your niche will improve your blog as they will consider sharing stories with your blog and most importantly respect what they may require you in exchange.

Have a Proper Sleep as a Blogger - Most Bloggers tend to sleep a very short time which is not healthy for their bodies as improper sleep will really cause a lack of concentration which will negatively affect the way a blogger works causing him not to post some posts at the best potential. Michael Arrington believes that bloggers should sleep for atleast 8 hours because he was once Admitted by his doctor due to a lack of sleep whereby the doctor recommended that he should start his day at 9am as he slept very late getting his blog running. But most importantly try to keep a healthy 8 hour sleep and don't "Die" because of blogging.

Post on your Blog regularly - Posting on your blog is simply the best way to get your blog running and active as it will boost the reader activity of your blog. This will not boost only the reader activity but will ensure a good alexa rank for your blog or website which will help boost the public authority of your blog making it a huge success.

Michael Arrington says the reward of posting regularly is to get the blog readers into commenting on your site which will boost the way in which your blog readers will be working on your site. This skill was also used by Pete Cashmore the founder of Mashable to make his site a masterpeace as it is valued at $300 million.

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You will have Enemies online - In business there is always a potential for having enemies that would try to bring you down, Michael Arrington  has been having public enemies who would probably try to bring down your blog as they may fear that you are taking their blog readers but that should not stop you because you don't really need them and with or without them you can become a successful blogger.

Upon receiving his threats he mentioned that at a certain public conference somebody spat on his face which made him not to blog for about a month until he evantually went back into blogging. So you got to know that enemies are always there.

It hard to be a player and a coach - The greatest difficulty that  Michael Arrington has struggled with is playing two roles which is both blogging and coaching, I will highly agree with him because it comes out naturally, and learning to master both skills will require a skill.

Develop good relationships with bloggers you like - Blogger and wordpress are currently the biggest platforms that are used by many professional bloggers which shows that there are many potential bloggers and bad bloggers. Choosing a blogger that fully understand the operation of your blog will really help improve your blog, because spamers are not just on spam websites but also on blogger there is a great number of spamers. Michael Arrington has made it clearly that he does not want to have any relationships with spamers.

Having an interview with Michael Arrington has been very great for us as Ajaxsurf, please feel free to ask us some questions in the comment box below.

Bing Rises as Google Biggest Competition

Bing is really gaining its momentum as a potential competitor to the Google search Engine in getting most searches from USA as the numbers of Bing users users have been increasing at a great rate compared to the other search Engines which shows that Bing may be the biggest competitor to Google as it owns over 20% of the  searches made in USA which indicates that the leading search engine Google still dominates with the most searches made on the internet. The growth of Bing is very promising as was at no position to compete with Google as of today Bing is nowhere to compete with Google, but at a promising position.

 

When it was first launched in 1 June 2009 as Live search it wasn't successful as planned by Microsoft which caused them to replace the normal Live search with Bing which was a bit smarter as it was a great change that was brought by Microsoft.
Looking at Bing's so much success, we have to ask much on whats was the key strategy that was made by Bing it rising from being a failed search engine into being a leading search engine after Google. The Vice president of Bing Search team Derrick Connell has confirmed that the secret of Bing was to simply display the best  search results compared to the Google Search Engines as they are bringing some best improvements compared to Google which has made many internet users to use Bing instead of Google.

Bing has gone from being a joke, because seriously it was not treated or respected when its was launched as it was the result of a failed live search engine by Microsoft and today has become the second best. The upcomming windows 10 software is expected to have the Bing's data-crunching software technolgy intergrated in its Software as confirmed by Seattle Times on their website.
This shows that as a blogger or a webmaster should take a huge consideration into the bing search engine as it is increasing in popularity and works together in hand with the Yahoo search engine to bring quality search results to it users. This merge also brought an Advertising service known as media.net which is the closest competitor to the Google Adsense advertising network. Like Adsense media.net is very strict when it comes to approvals as they have some polices that helps manage approval, for sites with more than 1000 daily pageviews get easily approved as they are looking foward to overcome Google Adsense in the near future.

Companies have joined hands with Bing to start selling Ads using its advertising network which is not really expensive to use and it has been a great source of traffic for many blogs after Google in providing quality search traffic. It is also used by Ajaxsurf as we have registered ealier this year on the Bing webmasters tools to get our site on their Index.
Bing is growing into by a great rate and I would motivate that you submit your site to their webmaster tools and you will really love getting traffic from them. Suppose you got any questions and information regarding this post please feel free to submit to us on the comment box below.

Facebook to invest €200 million in Ireland data Centre

The World's leading social Media company Facebook is planning to put it €200 million($224 million) investments into Data Centre which will be powered mostly by renewable power energy. This move is one of the biggest done by Facebook in Ireland after creating it huge duplin offices.

The Facebook data Centre is designed to cover over 50 000 meter squared which will be Facebook second data centre to be built after the data centre which was earlier built in Lulea, Sweden.  The Irish data centre is expected to increase the number of Ireland's Facebook employees to over 1000 according to a data that was shared by Mashable research team. The data centre is planned to be located in in Clonee a small town situated in the West of Duplin the home of the Facebook Europe centre, the plans for the Centre has been confirmed by the Irish government as they will be supporting the development of Facebook Irish data Center.

This Investment by Facebook has attracted the eyes of the world which has made Ireland to be seen as the biggest data centre investment country after the Tech giants Apple were reported to build a $1,9 Billion data centre within the west coast of Ireland in a town of Athenry  which will also be entirely be powered by renewable energy.

If you have any detail to share with us concerning the Ireland data centre, please feel free to share with us in the comment box or visit our contact page.

The Secret Behind Mashable Success

I am quite sure that almost every blogger is familiar with Mashable, A Blog which was founded by Pete Cashmore as Tech blog which focused mostly on social media and later grew into being one of the most followed sites in the world such that it has received a recognition by the the United Nations(UN). So much Success by Mashable has to be taken into a special consideration because mashabe was started by a Pete Cashmore as a single blogger who had a passion for blogging and writing social media related posts whereby he got to a point where his blog was making more than $3000 per month which gave him a chance to hire another writer and more writers he hired and as of today the site has more than 40 employees which are working together to keep the blog running.
If Mashable grew at a great rate then that shows that any blogger is capable of achieving that level of success only if that blogger would know the secrets behind the Mashable success and also have the confidence that made Pete Cashmore to Start Mashable, Mark Zuckerburg to Start Face and the confidence that Sifiso Nkwanyana had to start Ajaxsurf , bringing a better world of blogging experience.

In June 2009 Masable has become the leading technology blog as it overcomed Techcrunch which was the leading techblog at that time and has until today been the leading blog, mashable is indeed a tech giant but the most surprising part of it is that mashable was started without any money and but with a purpose. Starting a blog can be done with or without money, but the most important part of started a blog is nothing more but purpose, As a blogger you must have a purpose for starting the Blog.

•Having a definite purpose into starting something will help elevate the success rate of your site or online business, it is not my law or my rule but it is the strategy that is used by many successful people around the world, when mark Zuckerburg started Facebook he was not much interested in making monet from The Facebook but his purpose was to create a social network in which he would communicate with his friends and after a moment his app was getting downloads in the whole of the United States and from the other parts of the world. His purpose attracted him wealth and fame as big companies like Microsoft Corp. Had invested with more than $250M which shows that Facebook today is worth more than $100 Billion.
Apart from looking at the big Facebook we have to see the Power behind having a purpose into something and following it, as Pete Cashmore had a purpose to start a blog that speaks much more about social media and Technology , he followed his purpose and got the best out of it.

•The second most important part that has to be taken into consideration is that a blog should have a name not a "sub-name" because this is the mistake that most bloggers make when naming their blogs, Having a blog that is using a "sub-name" is not that bad but it is a clear defination of about how far you want to take your blog and at what position do you want your blog to be in the near future.

What is a sub-name?

A Sub-name is simply a name that that is reffered to another name, it is any name used under a certain brand name for example we have Adidas as a brand therefore a sub-name would be anything like Adidas wear, Adidas fashion and so on.
The use of sub-names is not that bad at all as it can be good for Search Engine Optimization the use of sub-names carry the keyword of another site which which can appreciate or depreciate the value of your site.

I have recently moticed many people using title blogger tips, Blogger widgets to name their blog which is an indication of how much they want their sites to rank online, when using a name that is from another site then that will give a negative impression about your blog to the readers as your blog will not seem to be unique due to the sun-name that is being used by the site.

When Pete Cashmore named mashable he came up with an idea which led him to naming his site as mashable instead of using the common sub-names used by blogger newbies and other bloggers but instead he came up with something real and unique.
Giving a site a unique Name not a "sub-name" will really boost your site and also improve it appearance on the social networks and also on the search engines. You should Come up with something new and amazing to the world by bringing a brand with a professional name which will soon become a keyword as I have seen some bloggers try to name their blogs after Mashable, they have named their sites with names such as Mashabletips, Mashablegeeks, mashableblog etc. thinking that using the word "Mashable" will boost the rank of their blog in the search engines. This spread of sub-names is all over on blogger and wordpress, people should look up to sites like Mashable when it comes to naming.

The type of domain used by a site was once a ranking factor on Google but not anymore as Google has been changing it policies to rank sites according to their work not because of the name they are using.

•Mashable is most known for its amazing use of social media in the past years and they were the first sites to master search engine optimization before most sites had an idea about it, this should give us a hint about the success of Mashable by using social media because today in the 21st century you have to know the important of social marketing as social media has the ability to bring fresh new visitors to your blog.

The impact of social media in the internet is so huge as of today and social marketing is the core to the online money making skill.

•Mashable is one of the most Addictive sites on the internet to both new readers and old readers it is very addictive, this is questioning about how do they got to be so addictive. There are many sites that have been functioning the same as Mashable but we got to ask about the factors that had put mashable right on the top of the corperate ladder.

Mashable has a beautiful  unique responsive template and uses a lot of attractive social media buttons to help improve and to motivate readers into sharing their post online through social media,

Mashable has been known also for its spreading of links on the internet which has improved it ranking because we as bloggers a blog does not only need backlinks to rank but it will also have to create internal links and also link to other giant sites on the internet, by doing so your site is creating what is called structured data which is the same principle that is used by google.

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The use of linking benefits a site rank on the search engines , Mashable has taken an advantage of this factor by distributing links all over the internet by getting to feature links from other articles across the globe. This shows that linking to other sites is very important.


The most important part that one should learn from Mashable is that apart from just linking to various sites on the internet they have made good relationships with a lot of sites and webmasters resulting to mashable receiving a huge number of backlinks and also some partnerships which helped increase the site revenue and it traffic.