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Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us Algorithms Exposed!
2008-07-04 18:42:00 good post from seomoz some highlights: stumble upon Formula: (Initial stumbler audience / # domain) + ((% stumbler audience / # domain) + organic bonus ? nonfriend) ? (% stumbler audience + organic bonus) + N Description: The initial stumbler “power” (Audience of the initial stumbler divided by the amount of times that stumbler has stumbled the given domain) is added ... More About: Reddit , Algorithms , Stumbleupon
Bad reputation? change your service name form industrybrains to marchex
2008-06-12 21:31:00 I was ripped off by industrybrains some time ago. My budget was used up with click fraud and industrybrains denied and refused to refund me although it was clear that some Chinese guy got a bot to click on our ads. the experience using industrybrains was so annoying that I use ... More About: Change , Service , Form , Reputation
Stupid search.live.com and form=QBHP
2008-06-08 14:39:00 I tried searching to find if msn is referral spamming others too with this new “form=QBHP” log hits. I didn’t find anyone writing about it so I guess I’ll be the first and copy what i wrote about msn/live referral spamming before: MSN search team are Idiots and Clueless. More About: Search , Stupid , Live , Form
Amazing SEO post from seobook
2008-05-02 19:56:00 you got to read it all some highlights: if ads appear above the organic search results and are exceptionally relevant they can get a 10% to 30% clickthrough rate. Ads that appear on the side of the search results are typically much more likely to be clicked on ~ 1% of the time. the relative click volume of ... More About: Post , Amazing
Network Solutions steals domain ideas
2008-01-09 19:43:00 source. I am confirming that Network Solutions steals domain ideas when people check domain availability on the Network Solutions website. They seem to have started the practice of stealing domain ideas on December 16th 2007 according to our Domain History database but I was just made aware of this practice today. I am appalled at the ... More About: Ideas , Steals
How IKEA picks product names
2008-01-09 19:38:00 Upholstered furniture, coffee tables, rattan furniture, bookshelves, media storage, doorknobs: Swedish placenames Beds, wardrobes, hall furniture: Norwegian place names Dining tables and chairs: Finnish place names Bookcase ranges: Occupations Bathroom articles: Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays Kitchens: grammatical terms, sometimes also other names Chairs, desks: men’s names Materials, curtains: women’s names Garden furniture: Swedish islands Carpets: Danish place names Lighting: terms from music, chemistry, meteorology, ... More About: Product , Ikea , Names
Google gonna find out who?s been naughty or nice
2007-12-14 11:39:00 Every geek knows that google search tracks user behavior. When you use google search engine your queries, queries time and clicked results are recorded by google in order to improve their service and if you are into conspiracy theories, to profile people. Since 70% of the people use google it’s not a small matter ? ... More About: Google , Find , Nice , Gonna
Who clicks on internet ads?
2007-12-03 09:40:00 An interesting post about ad clicking on the internet Ninety-nine percent of Web users do not click on ads on a monthly basis. Of the 1% that do, most only click once a month. Less than two tenths of one percent click more often. That tiny percentage makes up the vast majority of banner ad clicks. Who ... More About: Internet , Clicks
Label Placement in Forms
2007-11-13 18:36:00 A VERY good post about label placement in forms. Highlights: Label position?Placing a label above an input field works better in most cases, because users aren?t forced to look separately at the label and the input field. Be careful to visually separate the label for the next input field from the previous input field. Alignment of labels?In most ... More About: Forms
38% of Downloaders Paid For Radiohead Album
2007-11-07 10:21:00 “During the first 29 days of October, 1.2 million people worldwide visited the ‘In Rainbows’ site, with a significant percentage of visitors ultimately downloading the album. The study showed that 38 percent of global downloaders of the album willingly paid to do so, with the remaining 62 percent choosing to pay nothing… Of those who ... More About: Paid , Radiohead , Album , Adio
Google testing new homepage in China
2007-11-07 10:09:00 I saw it on techcrunch Beside the stupid and expected techcrunch joke about google copying yahoo design this is quite interesting. Google design has been praised endlessly regarding its simplicity of use and user focus on the search task. A white page with a form to fill in the middle … what could be better? Which ... More About: China , Testing , Homepage
Amazon?s 1-Click patent rejected by the USPTO
2007-10-18 19:28:00 This was a very famous patent and it is funny how the USPTO rejected it. More here. More About: Amazon , Click , Rejected , Patent , Tent
Stupid msnbot FORM=LVSP and FORM=LIVSOP
2007-10-10 15:42:00 I have been seeing hits from msn and live.com searches. The keywords did not relate to my site and when i followed the search referrals my site did not rank in the search results. The IP of the search visitor came from a microsoft IP block and i figured out its a test they are ... More About: Stupid , Form
Checking site trends with del.icio.us
2007-09-29 12:56:00 There are many tools to analyze site popularity trend. You probably use Alexa, Compete, Google trends, quantcast and maybe others. But have you tried using del.icio.us ? When you visit a site url page in del.icio.us (for example http://del.icio.us/url?url=www.google.com ) You can see who bookmarked google.com and when. Analyzing how many people bookmarked a site each month ... More About: Trends , Site
French Mime Marcel Marceau Dies
2007-09-23 13:53:00 He was a great artist. Google Direktvideo link More About: French , Marcel , Dies
ubuntu desktop is crap
2007-09-21 17:37:00 I run windows XP and ubuntu desktop on my laptop. I use windows 99.999% of the time and it never failed me. When I run ubuntu I usualy follow the system upgrade to keep it updated. Today I needed to run ubuntu and guess what? broken, xserver doesnt load, errors, no simple solution on google. ubunto has a long way to go till it will be a trusted desktop operating system. More About: Desktop , Ubuntu , Crap
How to keep your online buzz spending 3min a day
2007-09-20 18:55:00 Buzz comes and goes. You might have a blog, a site, a product that have gotten some attention in blogs in the past but now the novelty is gone. You are old news and no one writes about you. A more popular case is if you didn’t get attention at all. You got to keep your online presence fresh and you need to comment blogs, participate in discussions and respond to news in your area of interest (lets call it “target content”). All you need to do is to find out about new posts you need to respond to or new articles published on your target content. This sounds like a very hard task… almost impossible. Actually it is very simple to do. First subscribe to http://www.google.com/alerts With this great service Google will notify you as soon as it finds a NEW page containing your search item. I will use “pixies” as the search term because they well … rock. Then Subscribe to bloglines http://www.bloglines.com Bloglines is a free service that makes it ... More About: Buzz , Online , Spending
NYT to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site
2007-09-18 17:10:00 Some move. The NYT had 227,000 paying subscribers ? out of 787,000 over all ? and generating about $10 million a year in revenue. That is a lot of subscribers with terrific conversion of paid/free members. Good revenue as well. According to compete.com they have 7.5mil per month. they need to make $0.11 per visit. Not a simple ... More About: Site , Stop , Parts , Charging , Web site
7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable
2007-09-10 07:37:00 Great post. #1. We don’t have enough annoying strangers in our lives. #2. We don’t have enough annoying friends, either. #3. Texting is a shitty way to communicate. #4. Online company only makes us lonelier. #5. We don’t get criticized enough. #6. We’re victims of the Outrage Machine. #7. We feel worthless, because we actually are worth less. More About: Reasons , Makin , Century
Rainbow Tables
2007-09-10 07:34:00 I read this good article on how simple it is to break most passwords. As you all know most passwords are saved in hash form and not plain text. Rainbo w tables are enormous, pre-computed hash values for every possible combination of characters. The fast way to crack passwords ... More About: Tables
Amazon has set up a Mechanical Turk project to find Steve Fossett
2007-09-10 07:26:00 Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has been around for a while but I never seen/read about projects using it. This is a good cause even if the people participating in it are not pro satellite imagery readers. more here. More About: Steve , Amazon , Project , Find
How to remove Vocals from sterio Mp3s
2007-09-02 18:19:00 YouTube Direktvideo link works. I tried it on the pixies Gouge Away More About: Vocal , Vocals
Top 8 stock market plugins for wordpress
2007-08-28 14:10:00 I play the stock market and thought its time to add some stock market widgets to my blog. I rolled up my sleeves and went searching for some and here are the results: Embedded Stock Data Wordpress Plugin - http://abeautifultrade.com/?p=7 . Simply enclose a ticker in double brackets (e.g. [ [ AAPL ] ]) and it ... More About: Stock Market , Market , Plugins
Google?s social advertising
2007-08-27 19:38:00 A very interesting post about google’s new patents on sending advertisements to your friends. The ideas of coupons and affiliates are not new. The strength of google in this advertising concept is the amount of common people that use google’s services and the ease of adding advertisements to content you send / share with your friends. More About: Google , Social , Advertising , Googl , Vert
Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization
2007-08-21 22:17:00 cool. like touch graph but without the java. Now I need to find a use for it More About: Opensource , Gear , Visualization , Platform , Graph
suprnova.org back online
2007-08-21 22:10:00 It was the biggest torrent site. Tons of visitors a day. Strange that their PR is 0. I guess being offline for so long kills your PR no matter how many backlinks you have. More About: Online , Back
If this is true?
2007-08-21 21:55:00 A common virus caused human adult stem cells to turn into fat cells and could explain why some people become obese, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Amazing if true. I remember when stomach ulcer was an illness many people sufferd from. They took anti-acid had special diet and their life quality was sh*t. Then scientists found ... More About: True
Sandwich Art
2007-08-20 10:32:00 When you start making sandwiches like these for your kids go seek help. more here More About: Sandwich |
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