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[caption id="attachment_12141" align="alignnone" width="800"]                                               Image source: Indian School of Internet Marketing [/caption] The SEO strategy comes under two broad categories namely On-page and Off-page SEO. The truth is both are essential for an SEO campaign to succeed yet both are on entirely different sides with regards to augmenting the search engine rankings. Search engines generally consider two critical buckets while evaluating a website-On-page and Off-page SEO. Definition of On-page and Off-page SEO On-Page SEO- This refers to all those activities which you do on the page that you want to publish. In simple terms, it is the task which assists in optimizing a given page to help it appear at the top SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Its principal activities include offering quality content, handling the image SEO, insert...

Most times before starting a conversation, out of curiosity you just want to know if the person you want to chat with, or one of your friends is online at the same time as you. And now you can if you’re using Instagram. Starting today, as announced In a blog post Instagram is adding the ability to see when your friends and contacts are online. There are some important details to be aware of, though. First, you will only be able to see if someone’s online if they have added you back or if you have already had a conversation via direct message. So you won’t be able to see just anyone’s online availability. To see if a friend is online, there will be a green dot next to their profile name. You’ll be able to see it in the friend’s list, when you share a post from the feed, or in the Direct Inbox. You will also be able to change your status as you see fit, so if you don’t ever want to appear online, you can make that happen. “The goal of the f...

Tom Gruber, who served as head of Siri"s Advanced Development group and was one of Siri"s original co-founders, has left Apple. According to a reports by The Information —His departure from the company was confirmed by an Apple spokesperson, who told The Information that he was retiring to pursue personal interests in photography and ocean conservation. Gruber, along with Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, co-founded Siri Inc, the company that created the original Siri app, which Apple purchased in 2010 for $200 million. Siri was introduced in the iPhone 4S the following year, with its then-unique combination of speech recognition and “assistant” features. The incredibility of Siri lasted just a few years, but Siri has since then lost its ground to rivals like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant, till now is yet to be found.                                         ...

Its surprising how hackers can steal your phone number by assigning it to a different SIM card, then use it to reset your passwords, but now Instagram is working on a new way of authentication. The traditional 2-factor authentication method relies on an SMS to a phone number isn’t safe from hacking. According to recent reports, by Motherboard , hackers can steal your Instagram account by porting your phone number onto a different SIM card and simply requesting to change your password; all this, without you ever knowing. To thwart SIM hackers, Instagram is building a non-SMS 2-factor authentication system that will work with security apps like Google Authenticator and more, in order to prevent from SIM-based theft or hacking. The prototype version of the updated two-factor feature has been found in Android version of Instagram’s APK code, which was discovered by tipster Jane Manchun Wong. In a tweet she expressed her excitement over the new discovery, which reads: “Ins...

The long-rumoured foldable Samsung smartphone will reportedly be released next year.—it’s been one of the biggest rumoured smartphone projects of all time. If it happens, it could start the next major revolution in the mobile phone industry, surpassing the current bezel-less display trend and this is   according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal . Before that, the South Korean conglomerate’s 2017 financial report had hinted that the smartphone would be making its appearance soon – catching the attention of Samsung fans and anyone interested in what the company’s engineers could do with a foldable smartphone. “For the display panel business in 2018, the company expects OLED [organic light-emitting diode] to become a mainstream panel in the smartphone industry and will reinforce its competencies in new applications such as foldable, automotive, and IT displays,” report added. The foldable phone was initially codenamed Project Valle...

Over the years, users have been faced with a confusing situation of either clearing their cache and been faced with consequences of clearing the cache alongside clearing all their music downloads. The good news is that Spotify app now lets you clear your cache without affecting your downloaded songs. The new feature will allow Spotify to notify users that downloads aren’t being deleted when you delete your cache, which could provide additional peace of mind. After all, who wants to be stuck without music? The update has already quietly rolled out over the past few weeks to Android users, as spotted by Android Police . How it works If you use Spotify app quite often, you might have noticed that the storage space of your computer or the mobile device is dropping rapidly. That"s simply because whenever you are streaming a song from Spotify, it will save the track onto your device so that if you ever play that song in the future, Spotify will play it from the cache directly, without h...

For some time now Instagram users with private accounts have been able to remove any undesirable followers. But now the company is testing a new feature that will give public account holders more control over followers. The new feature will allow users with an open account to remove followers while maintaining their public account. According to a recent Twitter post from The Next Web’s Matt Navarra confirming it. Which reads: “Instagram now lets you manually remove followers!. When a person removes someone from the followers list, Instagram won"t send them a notification thereby keeping things discreet and flexible at the same time. The bitter truth about the feature, as confirmed by the company is that the feature currently in testing, with some accounts having already been granted access to a “remove follower” feature in recent months. Previously, blocking a user allowed you to remove unwelcome followers, although that function couldn’t prevent access to...