Every human has intelligence and emotions by nature. Both should be united united to create stories on why you do what you do. That story is called marketing. No marketing means no business. BTW, what is marketing? Marketing is defined by many academicians and industrialist in so many ways. There is no concrete one definition for marketing. Everyone is right in their own experience. Because marketing makes or breaks the business. In my opinion, marketing is nothing but the process of making as much as happy customers for your product or service and converting them as your brand ambassador. Every one knows the word of mouth is the best and proven marketing. But now days word of mouth has become electronic. Electronic word spreads faster at a lightening speed. Word of mouth becomes viral. The first tweet from first show of a super star movie decides its box office fate. That is it. It spreads electronically at an unimaginable speed even before first show gets over. In fact, the second show of a movie by a popular hero is decided by one first tweet from a fan while watching the first show. Most of the time, main stream and traditional medias nowadays depends upon the things coming from social media. During this digital era, making customers happy became more than ever. Making initial adapters to your service and product has become predominant as it has direct influence over your top line.
Everyone is an innovator by nature.
Every human has intelligence and emotions by nature. That natural intelligence pushed man to cross oceans, discover new continents, conquer new lands, touch down on moon, invent steam engines, create abstractions like country, continent, UN, world bank, international court etc Everything has happened because of one word Innovation! Innovation:Startups are born based on new innovation. To be an innovator, everyone thinks that we have to become a Elon mask or Bill gates or Steve Jobs etc. Actually, they were like what we are today. They became innovators and changed the world order by using their common sense. According to me, innovation is nothing but identifying an obstacle in our life and removing the obstacle by using our common sense. Let me explain this little further with an example. Assume that you are on a road travelling. While travelling on a road, we notice a big stone or a rock obstructing our path to proceed further. 99.99% of the traveller would complain that rock and make a small diversion left or right that blocked road and start to move on. Other would follow the diversion and new path is made. That new diverted path might be a longer one consuming and not smoother consuming more fuel and more time. This majority crowd continues to blame that stone for sometime. After sometime they get habituated to that new road and stop complaining about that stone which is obstructing the way. Gradually, that stone would disappear from the mind of people. This majority crowd is just a complainers and follow the path made by someone. When this continues, one day one person thinks that because of this block of stone, every one suffers taking a diversion. Everyone spends more fuel and time. He decided to slice that rock into pieces by hammering it. One fine day he comes to that location with a hammer in his hand and start to break that rock. When he was doing that, many would brand him as he is a sick person. What is the necessity for him to spend time every day to break that stone. But without giving ear and eye to others, he keeps on breaking and one fine day, he has broken the stone and removed all debris and make a straight road and construct a toll booth also. Now he comes up with a story that you can sane fuel, money and time if you pay little toll here and take this straight root. Seeing that advantage of using straight and smooth road, passengers start to pay toll. Now this person has become an entrepreneur. This person has become an innovator. He is not a Steve Jobs or Elon Mask. But he used his common sense to remove that obstacle. This is the innovation. This is the startup. So in order to become an innovator, look around closely and observe the society and things around you. There might be a pain for people but habituated to that. There might be an obstacle. Now use your common sense to remove that obstacle to become an entrepreneur and innovator.
Everyone has a passion naturally. What is it?
Every human has intelligence and emotions naturally. That natural intelligence pushed man to cross oceans, discover new continents, conquer new lands, land on moon, invent steam engines, create abstractions like country, continent, UN, world bank, international court etc Everything happened because of one word Passion! The word passion is the most misunderstood word. Everyone has a different definition and understanding. In my opinion, finding an emotional attachment to the what we do is passion. I am an average student till 8th grade at my school though my parents insisted a lot on studies and continued to push me study well. But I never listened to their advise and continue to perform in subpar level. When I was in 8th grade, my parents arranged some function at my home. Around 130 of my relatives did attend that function. Being lived in village, most of my relatives live in village doing farming as their prime work. Among that 130 people, almost 110 people were farmers. Remaining small set of people studied and got married to nice girls from decent family. I was able to see the clear difference between people who do farming and people who work as doctors and engineers. The educated people got married to nice girls with good family background, their children were speaking good English, dressed up nicely and some owned cars also. So I quickly learned that education made that difference. So to change the life style as I was also born to a farmer, I decided to study well. Now I got the reason for why I had to study. As soon as I found the reason for why I had to study, I got so attached to that emotional reason. After that realisation, I started to goto to school regularly, took the teachers and studies more seriously. Became a different person focussing on studies. Because of that, I did score 100 out of 100 in mathematics in my government school. I did well in +2 also and joined engineering to study electronics and communication. In the college also, I ended up scoring first mark in the college and over all second in the university. Finally I say that passion is nothing but finding an emotional attachment to what you do. As soon as I found my passion for studies, I started to study well and earned engineering degree. So I am asking you to be more attentive and observe deeply into yourself to find why you do what you do. if you find that, that is the passion. The crowd really cheered for this definition.
Why Schema or structure data should be implemented in your webpage?
Schema is a type of microdata (code) you use on your website that helps search engines to interpret the information on the website more efficiently so search engines can serve relevant answers to the user’s search query. Schema.org is a collaboration between Google, yahoo, bing, and Yandex to standardize structured markup. Schema mark up is one of the greatest evolution in SEO. Since 2011 Schema is the primary project of major search engines. Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex are using schema markup even today. Search engines are smart, we all know that however, search engines are struggling to categorize items from the huge collection of data on the websites. Schema categorizes items in the website for the search engines. To be clear schema feeds data in a structured manner to search engines. How this affects SEO is by increasing the click-through rates, because it is easy for the users to identify the events, dates, etc through rich snippets, moreover, the information they are searching can be visible just on the search engine. Adding schema to your website will also aid a direct increase in ranking. Because we already know feeding structured data to search engines will help the search engine to understand your website quicker and easier, it will result in ranking How does schema work? Schema code is applied to the content on the webpage to define exactly what it is and how it should be treated. Schema elements and attributes can be added directly to the HTML code of the webpage to provide additional information to the search engine crawlers. Date and time can be very difficult to interpret by the search engine. This is because the date and time are formatted differently. Including schema microdata in your HTML tag can help search engine crawlers interpret the information on the website efficiently. This will result in improved visibility. However, never think that including schema to the HTML code as a hack to improve SEO, consider it as a best practice to make it easier for the search engine to find and display the content effectively. The inclusion of schema microdata is not considered as a factor for increasing the rank in the SERP. It improves the website’s rich snippet, which can help your site to appear in the SERP prominently. It is a fact that clear, concise, and rich snippets can result in enhanced click-through rates as users can easily determine the information provided on your website is what they are really looking for. Although Schema mark up is not included as the part of Google ranking, it is considered important for SEO. Google has announced that structured data or schema mark up will be included in the ranking algorithm in the near future. It is something that is developing and gaining its place. The other factor is structured data enhances your website’s presence on the SERP with rich snippets. This means the impression of your website will be great with attractive information and description and thereby increasing the chances of higher CTRs and more visitors to your website. Schemas are great for local SEO. With structured data, you can provide search engines more information about your local business including the address and contact details. Creating a well-optimized Google My Business Page will help to boost local SEO. How to add schema markup on your webpage Blog: In the case of blogs, you can use webpage schema to give information about your website, logo, name, etc and also article schema for your articles and blog posts. E-commerce: For e-commerce websites, you can use product schemas which include the details of the products, name, price, offers, etc. Local Business: Local business schema can be used in the local business as well as the website schema. You can use more than one schema on your website as long as the implementation is correct. In order to test the implementation, there are tools available online like structured data testing tool. How to implement structured data on your website There are two ways to implement structured data on your website. The first one is the manual way. That is editing the HTML code and adding the required code and the second way is through a plugin or through a combination of plugins. To make the manual process a bit easier there is a tool available called Structured Data Markup Helper. Using these tools, you can visually tag your pages and generate the required HTML code, but you still have to edit your HTML files or templates. It is recommended to use JSON-LD (JavaScript Option Notation-Linked Data) Markup Format. The generated output is a script you can insert in the HEAD section of your webpage. Adding structured data using plugins If you are on WordPress the easiest way is to use the plugin. Fortunately plenty of plugins available on WordPress. In most of the cases, you need to add schema information to the home of the website, and to the article page if you are running a blog, or to the product page if you are running an e-commerce page. How to check for Structured Data errors? Other than checking your website with a structured data testing tool there are two other methods to check the structured data errors within Google Search Console. You can use the URL inspection tool to inspect any page from your website. Among other things, the result will show you structured data-related issues. Clicking on the error message will give you more details. Enhancement Report View the report under the enhancements section of the Google Search Console. Google will show you details about various features such as Logos, products, Sitelink search-box, and many more. Conclusion Structured Data is important for SEO and it is something you will have to consider sooner or later if you want to stay in sync with modern SEO practices. The first step is to check whether your site is using markup data and the easiest way to do this is to use the