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Make sharing your app easy - Jeff Harward

Great apps make social sharing easy and seamless. They make sharing an effortless part of how the app works so that users don't even need to think about it.

Here are some suggestions that will help you design an app that eliminates obstacles and doubts that users might have about using your app and sharing it with friends. 

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Mums doing what they do best – TALKING (Blog Brunch Event)

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WHAT DO 40 DIGITAL MUMS AND 13 BRANDS HAVE IN COMMON?
They love talking and sharing new information. This was the case at the recent Talk to Mums blog brunch in London at Bloomsbury House on Friday, 24th April where an intimate and personal networking session was held to bring mums and brands together face to face.

This invaluable face time enables everyone to understand each other goals and work out a way in which they can work together to deliver better online content and communication.

Over 4 hours the program interspersed between live speakers and 1 to 1 conversations giving everyone a good mix of talk time and listening time. Each brand had 5 minutes to disseminated 1 or 2 key messages to mums and excite them to come over to their stands and engage in a longer dialogue.

The brands in the room all represented health or happiness, with a diverse mix of brands to give variety to the digital mums in the room. Many of the bloggers attending where their in an editorial capacity to find new information to share with their readers and to develop relationships with brands and products they love and want to talk about.

Talk to Mums helps brands talk to mums offline to create better content and conversations online.

Our mission is to get mums and brands across Britain talking more. We offer consultancy, product trial, a calendar of events and a range of bespoke services. Get in touch with sally@talktomums.co.uk

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Movers and Groovers : Barry Adams joins Eyeota as Chief Revenue Officer

Eyeota - the global leader for local audience data with over 1 billion uniques from publishers across Asia Pacific, Australia, Europe and the Americas - is growing and hiring senior staff in line with its expansion. Former Experian Marketing Services GM Barry Adams has joined Eyeota as Chief Revenue Officer, based in its London office.

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Need to know news - Google's algorithm change : adconnection

MOBILEGEDDON: GOOGLE’S MOBILE-FRIENDLY UPDATE

As of tomorrow, 21st April, Google will be rolling out a significant mobile-friendly ranking algorithm, expected to be complete within a week.

The algorithm, which has been referred to as ‘mobilegeddon' amongst webmasters and SEOs, is predicted to have a major impact on mobile search results.

How will it work?

This algorithm will label sites as being mobile-friendly and use this information to determine where a site should rank in the search results.

Statements from Google indicate that it will be an on or off algorithm, this means that websites will simply be labelled as being mobile friendly or not.

It will be run on a page-by-page basis. If a site is 12 pages with 6 pages that are mobile friendly and six that are not, only pages that are mobile-friendly will benefit.

Where mobile usability is a particular concern or if you are looking for advice on how to test the algorithms for your site, adconnection's digital team can put together a report on potential mobile-usability issues. We can also outline what can be done to fix these issues by accessing the site's Google Webmaster Tools account.

Conclusion

From a media perspective, the benefits of mobile advertising on a mobile-friendly site or app are clear. Ad viewability will surge as mobile-friendly companies climb the search rankings and those companies without a good mobile site will suffer.

The rise of mobile and mobile advertising has placed increasing pressure on brands to make their sites more mobile-friendly. Google's new algorithm will encourage those brands yet to crack mobile to now make it a priority or else see their search rankings deplete in the face of their mobile-savvy competitors.

For more information on the above, and to ensure your site is mobile-friendly and Google optimised for SEO and PPC, contact our Digital Performance Manager, Dan Harrington. 

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