Gamification – motivation to play

Gamification – the application of typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, typically as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service. I would like to share some motivation to play games according to Octalisys gamification framework.
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Gamification – motivation to play

Setting up a blog that works

  1. Install all of these key SEO friendly WordPress plugins: WordPress SEO by YoastWP SmushItWP Super CacheEditorialFlareHighlighterRedirectionWP PaginateWPTouch.
  2. Utilize SEO friendly frameworks: Genesis or Thesis.
  3. Optimize your blog for email opt-in using these plugins: Dreamgrow Scroll Triggered BoxEmail List Builder & Welcome Mat & Scroll Box & Smart Bar by SumoMeLeadPagesOpt-in Content LockerOptinMonster.
  4. Run your site through W3C validatorGoogle PageSpeed Insights and fix all the errors highlighted.
  5. Setup rich snippets (images, video, ratings near a title) and Schema to drastically boost CTR from search engines.
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Setting up a blog that works

Is hidden content on mobile treated as cloaking content?

Sometimes we have to hide some content on mobile devices, because we want to improve user experience for mobile users. In SEO, there is the concept of cloaking, where you show the search engine a piece of content that is not what the user sees.  In this case, we have in our mind the question: Is hidden content fine for Google? 

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Is hidden content on mobile treated as cloaking content?

Mobile Google Index – how does it work?

First at all according to google: You Can Have Completely Different Content On Mobile Says Google.
Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed what had been known before — for many of the factors and ranking criteria around mobile, Google looks at the desktop version of a web page instead of the mobile version. E. g. when you have a page about cats on the desktop and you change the content on mobile to dogs, Google will rank the mobile version as if the page was about cats.
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Mobile Google Index – how does it work?

Why can to-dos make you good?

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Mood enhancer

When you set yourself a goal and achieve it, you feel good. Why is this? The answer is nature. Every accomplished task gives you a shot of dopamine. Not to put checking off a list on par with eating chocolate or sex, but this hormone is the neurotransmitter responsible for the “feel-good” effect of these activities.

Human brains don’t distinguish between big goals and small goals. It just rewards you for accomplishing something you set out to do. Simply seeing items crossed off triggers the release of the feel-good hormone, helping you feel motivated. And, as any human being knows, if it feels good, we’re driven to do it again.

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