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Social media sign in has become popular to use on websites, but what negatives are there with its use?
Does integration add trackers to your site?
Does it slow overall performance?
Are some social media logins better than others?
I haven't found much info on this online, and all the data I've seen is on conversions and marketing. I'd love to hear facts from the development side.
Edit: I'm feeling confused by the downvotes. How is my question bad or irrelevant? Social sharing buttons were all the rage but most people agree now that it isn't worth it, even though it seemed at first to have great results; and from the development side, it slowed page loading and added trackers to our sites.
The companies most excited about the buttons before, as I recall, were companies selling ways to add a ton of those buttons to your site; and most of the advocates I see now are similarly marketing products that allow you to add a ton of buttons. I'm asking what login does from an angle other than popular marketing.
Using OpenID for login is great because you don't have to remember many different logins, and even though there are some minor problems, I don't think you shouldn't use it (I'll use Facebook as an example here):
The user has to trust you. Maybe you want read access, so you could read what you wrote on Facebook. You could use the data for marketing, even if you just get his ID.
The user (and you) has to trust Facebook. They know on which page the user is logged on (you got a shop for dog food? the user will get ads for dog food as soon as he logs in!), and they could even log in as the user himself - theoretically, of course.
You are missing information like mail address and other things. There are workarounds, and they are working.
Don't ever (!) use only OpenID login or something similar (exception: you need to actually do things with the data you get - e.g. twitter bots)! You're forcing users to sign up for a social network they don't want. YouTube did this, and it wasn't very successful (except for the fact that there are "millions" of G+ users... Yeah.)
Except for that, I don't see anything wrong with OpenID login. Many big pages use it, and as long as the user has the possibility to log in conventionally, why shouldn't you use it?
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As all SEOs know that google is trying its very best to kill SEO and linkbacks are quite a difficult task now. Although content is the key but my boss is still possessed with linkbacks. I can not do directory posting, link exchange, paid linking, web 2.0 and blog commenting as they are spam now. I do not see what other choice i have except forum posting and article posting. Can someone suggest new method to acquire link backs ? I know almost all traditional methods so don't say press release or etc. If you really have something out of the box or not very much common please share.
Google isn't killing SEO, they trying to banish practices that your boss is so intent on doing.
If you want to build a quality reputation - you need to start creating genuine and unique content aimed at your target audience. Research your market, offer your visitors information they want to read and share. Make sure what you create is geared towards Google.
Make it relevant, current, accurate and engaging.
Of course, this all takes time and considerable effort - if you or your boss can't devote the time needed, or at least employ someone to do it for you... the business is going to suffer online.
Buy the links. The majority of online marketing agencies do this as the primary way to increase Google rank.
Or go the natural way and produce so much fine content people will naturally share it.
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Is there any official Google API for getting the number of "plus one" actions for a given URL?
There is this common method which doesn't seem to be using an official API.
Are we allowed to use this API at all? Even if we are, it could stop working anytime, right?
The API endpoints in the official Google+ API do all require some activity ID and thus can't give you the "plus one" count for any given URL, can they?
This is not currently a feature of our API. You can request the feature by filing it in our Issue Tracker (https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/entry?template=Feature%20Request%20-%20REST%20API). We use these reports and the number of Stars they receive to track developer feedback.
Also, you are correct that any method call not officially supported and documented (https://developers.google.com/+/api/latest/) may change in the future as we continue to build out our APIs. Sometimes clever developers find cool ways of doing things, but we do not guarantee that unsupported features will not change.
For site analytics on your sites, you get activity on Google +1 and Share through Google analytics. You can even set up Custom Analytics to monitor this.
For the +1 widget, there is not an official API to access the counts and the APIs referenced should probably be avoided for the reasons you mention (it could stop working, may not be working correctly to begin with). I can think of a few reasons people shouldn't be able to programmatically pull analytics from any arbitrary site on the web - probably a part of the reason that this does not exist first party from Google. If you feel it's an important feature, please add or star a feature request in the issue tracker - you should add it to the widgets section.
For in-network activity on Google+ the Activities resource documents everything that is available to you when looking at content on Google+. You can, for example, +1 a post, then share the +1 and track the analytics on Google+ watching the activity if you're doing this, you should be able to use the list of "plusoners" to determine the count of people who have made +1s on a post. See it in action using the API Explorer here:
Activities for +GusClass
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I have started writing articles for my blog recently and then realized that google was not indexing it. So I went through some articles on google on how to do SEO. I have seen certain links suggesting meta tags are no longer useful to increase your rank.
From my experiments so far:
I have found, meta tags help for the keywords and nothing more.
Get more page hits and hence increased rank on the search engine by sharing on social networking sites like FB , twitter ,etc.
I would like to know what else can I do to increase. I know its not a one step solution or there is no readymade answer, but I would like to know what has worked for people on this forum :)
Another doubt I had is that google prefers original content as much as possible. I have posted some of my sport articles on my blog and on another website which publishes articles on the same sport but I have given a link to my original blog. But since the sports website has higher page ranking my page on the blog (the articles with same content) can no longer be found on google. Is there any way to stop it? Pls dont tell post on one location only. If there is a solution, I would appreciate that :)
There are a couple of things that are really important for SEO these days: fresh, original content (which you're handling with your blog!) and social signals. You should be promoting your blog on Google+, Facebook and Twitter, as well as participating in relevant communities.
You would be well served to become a regular visitor to a few niche blogs in your area of interest, and try to get some guest blogs posted. Blogs LOVE guest bloggers, and it's a great way to drive direct traffic back to your own blog, as well as increase your SERP placement for specific keywords in your author bio.
Participating in forums and other online discussions is a good way to work on driving traffic to your site. Create good, link-worthy content, and the SERPs will follow.
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I need to help a human rights organisation to setup a donation page at their website. They have tried PayPal and GlobalGiving and they found some glitches with these services like ceiling, transaction fees, etc. They want to setup their own mechanism. So what are the possible options and how much programming is needed? Is there any free-open source e-commerce or charity modules available?
Sounds like you are looking for something very customizable here, what I would recommend you is to do some custom coding or leverage solution like wufoo. You can build as simple as a form that whole bunch of fields and sends all these result to paypal or other payment gateways. Leveraging pre-built solution like wufoo is often recommended for non-technical people and/or simple, quick tasks like this.
(Alternatively) Most well-known applications like drupal, Joomal, wordpress (you name the rest) have fairly good support/module on this area, however, most of them require some degree of customizations and often become an overkill solution (mainly because of the learning curve).
You might look into Google Checkout. It's not free, but they do have an option tailored to non-profits (link).
The main benefit of going with them is that you won't need to set up a direct relationship with a CC merchant gateway, which can be a good sized hassle, especially for a smaller nonprofit. To me, the other benefit is that it keeps you far away from Raiser's Edge / Blackbaud, purveyors of some of the most awful donation pages I've ever had the misfortune to see or use.
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I've just taken on a client who needs a subscription based ecommerce site created using ProductCart software. I'm pretty handy with PHP so I should be able to figure out the software. My question is - what are some things i should be aware of when creating a subscription based ecommerce site? What types of questions should I be asking the client? I need to get more specifics from them regarding the different subscription levels and periods, but what other specifics should I get nailed down? I appreciate any help anyone can give.
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I would highly, highly, HIGHLY (can I make it any more clear) recommend reading and understanding almost everything on this question: What should a developer know before building a public web site?
It outlines all the big things you need to know about Security and Performance for Public Websites, a lot of which apply to e commerce sites. (When people's money is involved, it needs to work right).
Furthermore, you should make sure any certificates you should have are there, encryption, etc.
For Client's Specific Needs:
Signing Up:
Do they want to have promo codes to discount stuff?
Is there a trial period?
Billing:
When does billing occur? (Probably should be doled out throughout the month)
Should there be an interface to change the billing date?
Leaving:
How long does Customer Information stick around?
How much access does a person have to the site when they unsubscribe
Is there a day of grace period (Useful for file-storage sites)
Some of this stuff might be dictated by the package you are using, but still good to have figured out.
smashing magazine has a nice article on things to look for when designing an e-commerce site.
Be sure to ask what types of payment they want to accept. Credit cards? Which ones? E-checks? Paypal? Google checkout? Are card numbers being stored on the payment gateway? If not are you PCI compliant? Do you already have SSL? If not, who's getting the SSL cert? How do you want to handle refunds? Are cancellations pro-rated? Do you want to support affiliates? Do you want to have discount codes? Do subscriptions have setup fees?