Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Monday, 13 December 2010
Welcome to YouTube Trends
Ladies and gentlemen: YouTube Trends, a destination for daily insight into the zeitgeist of the world's largest video site.
The idea for YouTube Trends started with our desire to find new ways of identifying the viral and newsworthy content people love to share and packaging it in an easy to digest format. With over 35 hours of video now uploaded to YouTube every minute, we wanted one place to distill the videos people were sharing and discussing with their friends as well as understand what YouTube could teach us about our culture and current events.
Also: In conjunction with YouTube's announcement of the most watched videos of 2010, YouTube Trends will spend the next 12 days exploring the top videos and trends from the year that was, starting today with our breakdowns of the most viewed videos in news and politics, sports, and trailers.
Source: YouTube Trends
Monday, 6 December 2010
MailOnline catches eye of NYT
British Newspaper Finds Readers Flocking Online
For daily, or even hourly, updates on the life of Cheryl Cole, a British television talent-show judge and sometime pop singer who used to be married to a soccer star, there may be no better resource than the Web site of The Daily Mail.Is the comely Ms. Cole headed to America to join the U.S. version of “The X Factor”? Is she scouting around for real estate in Los Angeles? Will a seven-year-old assault conviction deny her a U.S. visa? Mail Online is on the case.
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Online, the emphasis has been on celebrity news, featuring Ms. Cole and other A-, B- and C-list figures whose every facial wrinkle or fashion choice is scoured for the possibility of extracting a headline. According to comScore, the site’s show business and television coverage drew 15.3 million visitors in October, compared with 14.9 million for the news sections.
Analysts say Mail Online’s traffic growth has been fueled by particularly adept use of the art of crafting headlines so that the Web page on which they appear secures a high ranking from Google. Google’s methodology was written by engineers rather than poets, so a straightforward approach to such search engine optimization of headlines generally works best.
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
The Pros & Cons Of The Affiliate Model
What Is Affiliate Marketing
"Affiliate Marketing is a marketing method whereby one business rewards another business for sending customers, visitors and/or sales.
"Mostly, affiliate marketing rewards come in the form of revenue share on a sale. Site A (the affiliate) funnels visitors to Site B (the merchant). If a transaction is completed by the merchant, the affiliate receives a commission on the sale. Do this numerous times a day in a high-margin area, such as loans, and both the affiliate and the merchant can make a lot of money.
"Affiliate marketing is nothing new."In the carpet markets in Turkey, you get pestered by salesmen whos job is to tempt you off the street and across the threshold of a carpet shop. He - its invariably a he - might get paid for bringing you to the door (the online equivalent is equivalent to cost-per-click), or, if you buy a carpet he receives a commission (cost per action). Or perhaps a mixture of the two.
"The benefit to the merchant is that he doesn't have to pay the full time wages of the salesman, and he only pays him on performance. The benefit to the salesman is that he doesn't have to own a shop, carry merchandise, deal with transactions, or any of the other costs associated with running a carpet shop.
Win-win. "
Sunday, 12 July 2009
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Google Operators
To find case studies from official government sites about outbreaks of swine flu in UK schools try this:
The asterisk acts as a wildcard for any words in between 'swine flu' and 'schools' and the ~ symbol searches for synonyms of 'outbreak'
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