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Montreal Shows/Performances Information

2011-11-23T13:35:00.001-08:00

I would like to introduce a new repository for all events in Montreal.

You can see most of Montreal concerts, shows, performances, sport and other activities in one place: http://www.montreallisting.ca/concerts-shows-events/

This section, on one of popular Montreal Classifieds website, updated daily with many events.
It is very convenient to have all events in one place, where all items sorted by event date. There is option to filter particular events:

All

Each event can be shared on Facebook, Twitter and many other networks.

You can also submit your own event by sending email to support team.

Highest Adsense Cost per Click CPC

2011-11-21T07:25:00.001-08:00

The AdSense earnings depends on many factors. I found that website niche and origin of traffic are the main factors. Of course the higher traffic is the more earnings you can expect, but niche and geographical location of your visitors is the factor.
I also found that day of the week and time of the day can have different CPCs.

Yesterday I found that one click coming from this blog gave me around $11. I wish all my clicks were like this.
I tried to figure out what what blog post and what keywords brought this high click, but unfortunately Blogger and AdSense and Analytics does not provide this kind of info.

If you would like to share your experience with AdSense and your highest CPC you received so far, leave your comments here.

10 Recent Google Algorithm Changes

2011-11-14T09:06:00.001-08:00

I just took the important parts of the blog post on http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/ten-recent-algorithm-changes.html
I put in green my questions, so if you know what it means, please comment on my post.

Snippets with more page content and less header/menu content: This change helps us choose more relevant text to use in snippets. As we improve our understanding of web page structure, we are now more likely to pick text from the actual page content, and less likely to use text that is part of a header or menu. - meaning, the text on Google search results will more likely contain page content, raiser than page title?

Better page titles in search results by unduplicating boilerplate anchors: We look at a number of signals when generating a page's title. One signal is the anchor text in links pointing to the page. We found that boilerplate links with duplicated anchor text are not as relevant, so we are putting less emphasis on these. The result is more relevant titles that are specific to the page's content. - does it means that anchor text is now less important, and page title weights more now?

Fresher, more recent results: As we announced just over a week ago, we’ve made a significant improvement to how we rank fresh content. This change impacts roughly 35% of total searches (around 6%-10% of search results) and better determines the appropriate level of freshness for a given query. - meaning fresh content will come first?

Recent events or hot topics. For recent events or hot topics that begin trending on the web, you want to find the latest information immediately
Regularly recurring events. Some events take place on a regularly recurring basis, such as annual conferences
Frequent updates. There are also searches for information that changes often, but isn’t really a hot topic or a recurring event

Refining official page detection: We try hard to give our users the most relevant and authoritative results. With this change, we adjusted how we attempt to determine which pages are official. This will tend to rank official websites even higher in our ranking. - official website will rank better? How Google will decide which website is official? Does it means the bigger is more official than small website?

Reading all this I personally not feel too exciting, like Google folks are.
You all are welcome to send your feed backs and comments. For sure all these changes are good for SEO experts, more work, more $$$.

Adobe will no longer develop Flash for mobile devices

2011-11-10T19:00:00.001-08:00

Adobe confirmed that it will no longer develop Flash for mobile devices after its next release and instead focus on HTML5 and AIR apps. But the company assured it will continue issuing "critical bug fixes and security updates" for devices running the software—like the BlackBerry PlayBook and Android devices. The move would be a major blow to Android device makers, who have long touted Flash compatibility as a key competitive advantage over Apple's iPhone and iPad.

Google Toolbar PageRank Update

2011-11-07T19:15:00.000-08:00

Google PageRank (PR) Update

Today, November 7th, 2011 we found that for almost all our websites Google PageRank was updated.
In fact the PR update is constant process, but Google toolbar getting updated several times a year.

Our Twitter AutoResponder website received PR4!

Google plus - don't be excited for search results

2011-11-03T14:59:00.000-07:00

If you Google +1 your own websites, next time you search on google, your website may come on a first page. Don't be too excited, as it can be just because you +1 it, and such good result is only for you and your circles.

To check if this is not related to Google plus, simply logout from your google account/Gmail and query Google again.

Twitter Auto DM's are not for Auto Follow/Unfollow users

2011-10-30T14:04:00.000-07:00

Are Twitter Auto DM's are good or will hurt my followers?

After researching the internet, so far all bloggers who point against Twitter auto DM's using same reasons again and again: looks spam and people will unfollow.

Well, this is pure myth! I'm using Twitter AutoResponder and so far just gaining traffic and new followers!
If you want to see all reasons why Twitter Auto Replies will stay forever, read it here: http://www.vicconsult.com/surveys/Auto-DMs-on-Twitter-Where-Robo-DMs-go-to-die-auto-dms-tumblr.html

Today I want to concentrate on one blog that I found, really this is state of art blog - total BS (http://auto-dms.tumblr.com).

From the name of this site and every second word in their content we can see what it is all about:
hate die hell.I'm linking using these words in purpose so that they will perform best for these keywords, anyways for Twitter Auto DM's they are page 13.
So, what this blog is about? Well calling it blog making me laugh. They have only 13 posts and last from June. Looks like someone got inspired during that month and put his useless reviews only that month.
All posts is same crap - reviewing different Twitter posters that used automated replies.
Hey @autodmsfromhell, who you thing you are to give your stupid, useless feedback's? Really your crappy blog sounds like mental support group for people who know only to complain, and cannot do anything else in their miserable lives. Your twitter user has nothing, but just re-tweeting others.

So lets review few re-tweets from your mental support twitter user:

@M0TMX I love getting an Auto DM when I follow someone, it allows me to determine "immediately" whether I've made a mistake or not, and unfollow!

In other words, you love Auto-DM and un-follow people just because of that? My question how you found these people in a first place? Are you only criteria is: whoever not uses auto DM's I will follow them? Looking on your twitter user, you just following 1736 people that you so far was able to find that not using Auto Replies. Keep going, and good luck!

@tommytrc I just got an AUTO DM telling me to "Stay Awesome"Clearly he has no idea how consistent I already am!

I really happy for you. You've made your point, but not sure why that was re-tweeted? He just made his point, or just had nothing to tweet in his mind at that moment.

@Comprendia Pretty much now I just unfollow those who autoDM on principle... :O

Hey, you have 3.1k followers and you following 3.3k others. You are using automated tools to follows others - don't complain about auto DM's, look on yourself first!

@DatingRev I want to know once and for all, who's brilliant idea was it to teach people to AutoDM new followers?

This is not new idea, we have voice-mails, we all use email auto reply, so this is very old idea, for decades and we all using it - do you? O,I see you also have 3.2k followers and following 3,.4k others. May be just stop auto follow people and your auto DM's problem also will be resolved.

@SVRank Do not auto-DM others when they start following you. Your first impression will be: Another marketer who needs money.

And you provide ranking services for free?

Well, guys just stop using auto follow tools and auto DM's will not bother you anymore, but if you use - don't complain.

Now, the most interesting part, the blog itself, useless reviews:

This may be the most egregious DM I’ve encountered in quite a while. You’ve included the handle of your autoresponder provider, which is actually helpful in that I can now block them too. You’ve also included a link to their service promise, which includes a big ol’ LIE:
“Our AutoResponder will send a direct messages IF AND ONLY IF your user follows our Twitter user vicconsult. If you unfollow vicconsult, we will stop sending messages!”
I do not follow their Twitter account, and I still got the freaking DM.
Sadly, it’s not even the most offensive part of this tired tale.
A quick inspection of your timeline, to figure out why the heck I followed you in the first place (I still can’t remember) shows that you average two tweets per month.
You use an auto-DM and you don’t even tweet?

I'm reading this review several time and still not getting the point. Really, or you are totally out of your mind or I need to improve my English. You not follow their account but still received DM? Oh, you so good, you actually found bug in Twitter that allows to send DMs to people that you have no connection with. Wait a minute, a few lines after you saying that now you remember why you followed this account. Here we go, you have sclerosus, and that explains a lot. BTW, how many tweets you posted? All I see is just re-tweets. Don't judge others if you doing same!

Reading all posts, they all seem to me written by the same blogger, who got inspired for 2 weeks. All posts are simply repeating each other, same idea, same facts, same conclusions. Really very boring blog, and that is not surprise me why they have almost 0 traffic and ranking so far from first google pages for their main keywords. They probably saw boost yesterday and today, but it was me, yes my 2 click on your only 2 pages blog with 0 replies.

As matter of fact I'm using Auto DM's and number of my followers simply grows, just proves my point that most of Twitter users are OK with auto replies.
For popular Twitter users, auto DMs are really helpful. such users receiving many new followers everyday, and spending time to welcome each of them requires full time job!

Now ask yourself a question: if today you started to follow actor that you love the most, and you got auto reply from him, which thanks you for following him, telling you about his website or new movie, will you un-follow him? I assume if you normal, you will not.

There is nothing wrong with automatic reply on Twitter, if you simply what to extend your BIO, or thank for following you. It is just normal behavior of 2 educated sides to exchange welcome messages. If your twitter user receives very few new followers, you can manage it yourself, but when it comes to hundreds a day, automation just saves your time, when you want to be nice to others. If people will un-follow you just because they got Auto-DM from you, trust me you don't need them, and let them go to Hell (http://auto-dms.tumblr.com/).

Since we started using Twitter Auto Reply service, our traffic from Twitter simply went up:


Traffic from Twitter after we started using Twitter Auto-DM

Above graphs simply show that Twitter AutoResponders good for gaining visitors to your website, good for SEO and good for your business. This is fact and you cannot argue that, the numbers show ALL.

YOU all should understand that Twitter today is not only for private people, but many companies are there too. Auto-Reply is part of every business, which stay with us for a good.

Twitter is aware of such auto-reply services, and the fact they expose APIs helping doing that, means Twitter itself is OK with Auto-DM's.

PS: if some of you want to user twitter auto responders, which look more personal, VicConsult Twitter autoresponder offers such feature to all it's users for free!

All About Free Services and SPAM. Just be realistic.

2011-10-26T13:39:00.000-07:00

I'm running several Twitter services, like Twitter AutoResponder, Auto Follow and Delete direct messages.
I always trying to improve our services and looking on the web what others say about features I'm providing.
Recently I found one thread where people say following:

Regarding Vicconsult, the twitter user you want to send a message to MUST HAVE REGISTERED WITH VICCONSULT to receive the message, which is so improbable. I believe this service is useless.
I am still looking for a free autoresponder and a free autofollow back, which is quite difficult.
If anyone knows if we can find these 2 services for free, please let us know

.......

In addition also Vicconsul at http://www.vicconsult.com/twitter-autoresponder-auto-reply/
has a tricky functionality.
In order to use the free autoresponder you need to grant them the availibility to post on your wall they ads messages. From a marketing POV is a good idea but it is not what I m looking for for my users.

Seeing such posts makes laugh. How these folks are far from reality and in which world are they live?!
I've made in bold the funny points of their statements and will extend each of them:

Registered - of course you need to signup for the service, otherwise how we can send auto replies to your new visitors? We are not asking for any information, all it does is OATH (OpenID) authentication with Twitter where user grants permissions to send DMs on his behalf. I want to see someone else offering this service without it. These are Twitter APIs and there is no other way to work. So, if you are looking for service without "registration" go ahead, you can spend rest of your life looking for such, while smart users already using my services for free :-)
Useless - You can consider this service useless, while thousands other found it useful, hundreds lefts their positive feedback and number of users simply grows every day. Thousands people around the world cannot be wrong, but you ARE.
Tricky functionality - why it is tricky? Tricky is when someone tricks you, when you not aware of what will happen. There is disclaimer very close to "sigh in with Twitter" button explaining what will happen when you will sign in. Very explanatory, clear and no one yet complained. If you not read it, DON'T call it tricky, and don't complain.
Ads messages - we are not posting ads messages. All we post is only once at your signup that you are using this tool. BTW, this also mentioned in disclaimer. Don't call this ads, don't call this SPAM. This is the way to let other know about us. Same happens when you start using facebook apps, when you follow someone or become his friend. But, really these are not ads. This is part of your agreement with us. You not agree, continue searching for free service.

Now, just be realistic. There is no free services, simply no such thing. It is always someone should pay for it. If not you, then someone else. You should understand, running website or providing services has associated costs behind: development costs & operating costs. If you not earn, you loosing your money, and at the end you disappear. If you want to be on the market for a long term, you MUST be profitable.

We decided to go with 2 streams, FREE and PAID. Of course majority want free, and start with free features. We are giving free service, but also want to get something in return. If not money, then something else. Letting your followers know about our service, brings us more visitors and eventually some will choose PAID option. If you not ready for that and only expect to get free services and nothing give in return, then keep searching for other free providers.

If you disagree, go ahead and continue looking for totally free services. I'm doubt you will find one, and if you will do, this service simply will disappear one day.
We are on the market for less that a year and sow far gained almost 4,000 users, 7000 followers and sent more than 1,100,000 direct messages. Our thousand users are happy with our services and we increasing our user's database every day on average of 3.5%.

We are proud of our services and our customers. Our customers referring other to our service in person.
One of our testimonials says:

@bettydravis on 2011-10-17 23:17:02.0
Just started, so can't really say how well it works, but it has been recommended to me by a number of author friends. Thanks! We all can use time-helpers. :-)

As soon as we see such feedback's we know that we are on a right path.

AdSense earnings vs Chitika vs Chango vs InfoLinks

2011-10-04T15:57:00.000-07:00

If you weighting which program to choose or looking to switch, I will help you to make the right decision.

All comparisons are for the same websites.

CTR - click through rate
AdSense around 1.5%
InfoLinks around 3%
Chango around 2%

So, CTR winner is InfoLinks. Since InfoLinks is inline advertising people are more tend to click. Second place is Chango, and it is because they show images along with text ads. This is eye catching and people more likely to click on them.

CPC - cost per click
Due to term and conditions, I cannot disclose that information. But I will give you some relative numbers which will help you to understand.
InfoLinks - X
Chango - 2X
AdSense - 4X
In simple words, Chango pays twice higher than InfoLinks, and AdSense pays twice higher than Chango. Of course it depends which niche your site is. For InfoLinks and Chango the CPC looks like fixed, while AdSense doesn't. I saw clicks for $7 each, it is very rare.

I didn't put numbers for Chitika, because they tooooo low, few cents per click and showing mostly amazon. Chitika not recommended.

getyourtrafficfly: the silence on twitter

2011-10-02T20:03:00.000-07:00

getyourtrafficfly: the silence on twitter: welcome Already know that the twiter is a perfect place to share ideas, Pasion and interests but also the business. I think there is no ...

Google AdWords getting more aggressive

2011-09-26T17:08:00.000-07:00

Lately I'm receiving promotion letters from many Internet resources, like VistaPring, Netfirms, Website Magazine. The letters include AdWords coupons of $100 or $75 with promotional code.

All these coupons valid to the new Adwords users only. You will say who cares, I will create a new google user and will use this coupon. The catch is that initial Adwords setup costs $10. So, it is not really free. Google gives away free coupon, but earns $10 instead, plus wif you will not stop campaigns on time, you will pay for it as well.
Looks like Google is looking to expend their advertisers database, because this is from where the money are coming from. I will defenetelly use it, because I'm running campaigns anyways and in my case I will get $100-$10=$90 which is good.

I hope google does these steps to increase their revenue, and not because they loosing advertisers.

Adsense old interface soon retire

2011-09-26T16:51:00.000-07:00

Just got notification from Google Adsense that their old interface will retire soon.
Actually I switched to the new interface almost right after accepted for Adsense, so I cannot really say much about old interface. The new interface has more features, but made troubles running from iPad. From my iPad I was switching to the old interface. I also found that old interface showed data slightly delayed, compared to the new one.

Goodbye old interface, welcome to the new one. And how about mobile app?

Google AdSense Gambling Related Ads

2011-09-23T13:34:00.000-07:00

Just received email from Google AdSense. In few days publishers will be able to show gambling ads.
Here is the email:
We're constantly reviewing the categories of ads available to our AdSense publishers in order to provide access to a wide range of possible advertisers. Towards this goal, beginning on September 27, we're expanding the inventory of Google ads eligible to show on the AdSense network to include gambling-related ads from trusted advertisers.

Please note that the AdSense program policies will continue to prohibit the placement of ads on sites that accept money or allow users to place bets in exchange for an opportunity to earn cash or other prizes, directly from the site. In addition, these new ads will only be shown to users in regions where gambling is legal, which is determined by the location of the end-user. A full list of these locations can be found at the following link: http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176014. Finally, publishers may not opt in to receiving ads from this new category if their sites are intended for individuals under 18 years of age.

If you're interested in allowing gambling ads to appear on your site and you feel it's a fit with your content and audience, you can opt into this category within your AdSense account. As a reminder, you have control over the categories of ads that can appear on your site. You can always check your category filtering options and make changes. Again, please keep in mind that by opting into the gambling category, you confirm that the site(s) on which you place your ad code aren't intended for individuals under 18 years old.

If you don't wish to receive gambling ads on your site, no action is required on your part. We recommend checking your category filter on a regular basis to see what new ad categories may become available.

It is very strange that from one side Google allows gambling ads, but from other side does not allows publishers from gambling websites. What websites will show gambling ads if not gambling related websites?

BTW, recently I'm getting many emails from Google AdSense, improving/expending their service. Looks like the fact that Facebook coo-founder is richer than Google's folks, makes Sergey and Larry more aggressive :-)

AdSense display ads will now feature the +1 button

2011-09-21T17:07:00.000-07:00

AdSense display ads will now feature the +1 button

Today I received email from Google notifying about new feature in AdSense ads:

Hello,

In the next month, we'll introduce the +1 button and personal recommendations to display ads. The +1 button will begin to appear on AdSense for Content and AdSense for Mobile Content display ad formats -- image, animated gif, and Flash. +1s will be one additional signal to help determine an ad's relevance and we'll continue to show the ads that will generate the most revenue for you.

We previously launched the +1 button on Google search and for publisher sites to make it easier for people to share and discover content across the web. Soon, your users will be able to endorse specific ads and make the ads more likely to appear to their social connections. We believe that these recommendations could help your readers notice ads on your site more, leading to higher returns for you over time.

Of course my first thoughts are will it really incease my revenue, or just Google's? So, I went to AdSense Blog to get more details:

Starting in October, the +1 button will begin to appear on display ads on your site. With a single click, people will now be able to endorse specific ads and make them more likely to appear to their social connections. We believe that these recommendations could lead your readers to notice ads on your site more, leading to more clicks and higher returns for you over time.

For example, take Susan, who sees an ad for a good deal on flights. She +1’s the ad, thinking her friends might value this deal. Now, when Susan’s friends and contacts are signed in to their Google accounts, they’ll be able to see Susan’s picture across the bottom of the ad, with a note saying she +1’d it.

Susan’s friends and contacts will also be more likely to see the ad. While the dynamics of our ad auction aren’t changing, the ad will now be included in the auction for the pages Susan’s friends visit, as we know recommendations from friends can be a strong signal of an ad’s relevance.

+1’s will be one additional signal that help determine an ad’s relevance. All eligible ads will continue to compete in the ad auction, and we’ll continue to show the ones that will generate the most revenue for you. +1 button clicks are not counted as clicks on ads. Although you won’t receive any revenue for +1 button clicks, +1’s will help AdSense to deliver more useful ads to your users, which we think will result in higher returns over time.

Here we go, "which we think will result in higher returns over time". This actually sounds like Facebook "like" button. Will people from my Google+ circles will click on ads that show someone from our circle marked this ad? Most likely yes, the chances they will click are high. But what are chances that people from my circle will visit my website? In my case are low, and as such I do not expect any increase in returns in my case.

Display ads become much more powerful when people can see which of their connections have chosen to endorse them, leading to a better advertising experience and higher returns for you.

But why to copy Facebook? Come with something new and fresh - Google you can do it!

AdSense Policy Webinar coming to North America on August

2011-08-12T20:09:00.000-07:00

AdSense Policy Webinar coming to North America on 8/31

Hello,

Are you new to AdSense? Have you ever received a policy notification and were unsure how to proceed or seek support? Are you unfamiliar with our program policies and want to learn more to ensure that your account remains in good standing?

On Aug 31 at 11am-12pm PST, our AdSense policy specialists will be hosting an online seminar for North American publishers that will cover the following topics below:

General overview of content and ad behavior guidelines
Our enforcement process
What to do when you receive a policy notification
Live Q&A

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 with Gingerbread at Rogers

2011-08-11T08:05:00.000-07:00

Recently Sony Ericsson released the new upgrade to Xperia X10 to Gingerbread.

Source: http://www.sonyericsson.com/update/?lc=en&cc=gb&pid=xperiax10

Android 2.3 for Xperia™ X10 is here

The latest Android platform for smartphones, Android 2.3.3, is now available for your Xperia™ X10. Update your phone to enjoy the following benefits:

Facebook inside Xperia – a series of unique integrations of Facebook into your multimedia apps, phonebook and calendar
The possibility to use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot
Music player with equalizer
USB tethering – share your 3G data connection via the USB connector
Photo widget – one click access to your photo gallery app
App tray sorting – arrange your apps in the order you want them

Important! Read this before you update.

The update will replace the software in your phone. This means:

User data, such as contacts, messages and more, saved in your phone memory will be overwritten. User data saved on the phone’s memory card is not affected.
DRM content will be overwritten.
The Backup and Restore app will be overwritten and cannot be used to restore data. Check out Android Market for alternative apps to back up and restore your data, such as MyBackup.
The Creatouch, Neoreader and Quadrapop apps will be removed.
Mediascape, homescreen operator customization and app tray operator customization will no longer be supported.
Moxier Exchange will be replaced by Android 2.3 Gingerbread Exchange support

As of now not all markets received this update.
As per Rogers the update will be rolled out soon (https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=16122&post=72817&uid=175772339270#post72817):

Rogers
Hi Everyone,

The update is coming. We're just as excited as you all are. The testing is to ensure all elements of the device are optimized for the Rogers network. We get the updates out as soon as we can. Wont be too much longer.

Update - August 31st, 2011

Sony Ericsson Canada
Great news Canadian Xperia X10 users. The update issues have been resolved. The Android 2.3 update for the X10 is now available via the PC Companion. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Top 20 most expensive keywords in Google AdWords

2011-07-21T09:45:00.000-07:00

The 20 keyword categories with the highest search volume and highest costs per click, thereby netting Google the most money, are:

Insurance (example keywords in this category include "buy car insurance online" and "auto insurance price quotes")
Loans (example keywords include "consolidate graduate student loans" and "cheapest homeowner loans")
Mortgage (example keywords include “refinanced second mortgages” and “remortgage with bad credit”)
Attorney (example keywords include “personal injury attorney” and “dui defense attorney”)
Attorney (example keywords include “home equity line of credit” and “bad credit home buyer”)
Lawyer ("personal injury lawyer," "criminal defense lawyer)
Donate ("car donation centers," "donating a used car")
Degree ("criminal justice degrees online," "psychology bachelors degree online")
Hosting ("hosting ms exchange," "managed web hosting solution")
Claim ("personal injury claim," "accident claims no win no fee")
Conference Call ("best conference call service," "conference calls toll free")
Trading ("cheap online trading," "stock trades online")
Software ("crm software programs," "help desk software cheap")
Recovery ("raid server data recovery," "hard drive recovery laptop")
Transfer ("zero apr balance transfer," "credit card balance transfer zero interest")
Gas/Electricity ("business electricity price comparison," "switch gas and electricity suppliers")
Classes ("criminal justice online classes," "online classes business administration")
Rehab ("alcohol rehab centers," "crack rehab centers")
Treatment ("mesothelioma treatment options," "drug treatment centers")
Cord Blood ("cordblood bank," "store umbilical cord blood")

We found that that 97% of Google's revenue comes from advertising on Google sites. In the last four quarters alone (Q3 2010-Q2 2011), Google brought in $32.2 billion in total advertising revenue.
Google AdWords is a dynamic, auction-based marketplace where advertisers bid on keywords to compete for top ad placement. The minimum bid per keyword is 5 cents, but this research shows that in highly competitive categories, Google can make up to $50 per click. Despite a diversified product portfolio, advertising on Google sites accounts for the vast majority of its billions in annual revenue.
The keyword categories with the highest volumes and costs represent businesses with very high lifetime customer value – in other words, these industries can afford to pay a lot to acquire a new customer. These businesses include lawsuits, mortgage applications, and server hosting. Some high-volume keyword categories have lower CPCs because advertisers have slimmer margins to expend on PPC advertising.

Today, one of my websites got click related to Insurance, and cost per click was $12.09.

I wish I had all such clicks :-).

Google SERP: US Digital Millennium Copyright Act

2011-07-16T12:22:00.000-07:00

Never saw this before, just did today search for: free auto reply on twitter and at the end of the page got message:
In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.

What is: Chilling Effects

A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.

Well, every time I search I discover something new!

Rogers lights up Canada's first LTE network

2011-07-07T09:45:00.001-07:00

Rogers lights up Canada's first LTE network!

Today I have some fantastic news to share with you about another Rogers first!

I'm pleased to announce that today we successfully launched Canada’s first LTE network in Ottawa. Our customers will be among the first in the world to experience Long Term Evolution (LTE), a next gen network that will transform our customers' mobile experience. This is a very big deal that we can all celebrate and be proud of.

LTE is a next generation technology that will deliver speeds that are significantly faster than any other wireless network available today. It will deliver a better experience for customers using highly interactive applications, like multi-player gaming and rich multi-media communications. It’s important to recognize that LTE is in fact the foundation required to deliver our vision of Connected Life.

Starting today, Ottawa residents at four Ottawa-area Rogers retail stores can order Canada’s first LTE enabled device, the Rogers LTE Rocket stick manufactured by Vancouver-based Sierra Wireless. Later this year, we’ll offer customers the first LTE enabled smartphones from HTC and Samsung. At launch, the Rogers LTE network will be capable of download speeds of up to 75 Mbps. This will evolve over time to maximum speeds of 150 Mbps. In addition, with the LTE Rocket stick, customers can expect typical download speeds between 12 Mbps and 25 Mbps, which is significantly faster than the speeds they experience on any other wireless network today.

As announced back in April, we said that we would launch commercial LTE network services in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in 2011, followed by the top 25 markets in 2012 and we’re on track to deliver against those timelines. Today’s announcement is a significant milestone in our proud history of innovation, and it demonstrates our commitment to deliver industry-leading networks across Canada.

Without question this is an outstanding accomplishment that reflects fantastic teamwork across many areas of the entire organization. On behalf of the Executive Leadership Team, I’d like to thank each and every employee who helped bring LTE to Canada, and to our customers, first. Congratulations and let’s keep the LTE momentum going!

Google Analytics Benchmarking Newsletter

2011-07-02T12:11:00.000-07:00

Today (July 2nd, 2011) I received first email from Google Analytics with stats from data shared by the users.

Here is the content:

Google Analytics Benchmarking Newsletter

2011, Volume 1, July 2011

1. Introduction
Welcome to the first volume of the Analytics Benchmarking Newsletter!

This month, we are replacing the standard "benchmarking" report in your Google Analytics account with data shared in this newsletter. We are using this newsletter as an experiment to surface more useful or interesting data to Analytics users. Data contained here comes from all websites which have opted-in anonymous data sharing with Google Analytics.

You may be wondering, how many websites are in this "anonymous data sharing" pool? Currently, hundreds of thousands, and we've endeavored to make all of the metrics here statistically significant.

The date range of comparison for this newsletter is from 1 November, 2010 to 1 February, 2011. Comparison is done with data from 1 November, 2009 to 1 February, 2010. Absolute metrics such as total number of visits, pageviews or conversions for all opted-in websites are not reported.

To simplify the prose, the phrase "websites" will represent "websites which have opted into anonymous data sharing with Google Analytics" for the rest of this newsletter.

2. Site Metrics
Compared to a year ago, websites have seen reduced pages / visit, average time on site as well as bounce rate.

1/11/09 - 1/2/10 1/11/10 - 1/2/11 Difference
Pages/Visit 4.9 4.5 -0.4
Bounce Rate 48.2% 47.0% -1.2%
Avg. Time on Site 5:49 5:23 -0:26

2.1 Breakdown by Geography
Our anonymous database has aggregated geographic breakdown at the country level. Here are a few representative countries and their respective aggregate metrics. The first number in each cell represents the metric for the date range 1/11/10-1/2/11. The parenthesized number is the Year over Year delta compared to a year ago.

Country Pages / Visit Bounce Rate Avg. Time on Site
United States 4.7 (-0.1) 42.5% (-6.1%) 6:06 (-0:10)
United Kingdom 4.9 (-0.3) 41.5% (+0.2%) 5:38 (-0.27)
France 4.4 (-0.4) 49.7% (+1.4%) 4:40 (-0:08)
Brazil 4.1 (-0.1) 47.8% (-2.9%) 5:20 (+0:03)
China 4.1 (-0.1) 58.2% (+1.0%) 3:46 (+0:37)
Japan 3.9 (-0.1) 48.6% (-9.0%) 3:47 (-2:59)

For bounce rate, the distribution by country is plotted below:

The distribution above is annotated with some countries -- which seem to indicate a story of leisure and stage of economic development. For a related metric: average time on site, the distribution by country is plotted below:

The type of countries annotated in the average time on site graph above seem to be in reverse order as those in the bounce rate distribution.

2.2 Breakdown by Traffic Sources
Traffic sources below are identified by how the "source" and "medium" parameters are received by the Google Analytics collecting servers. Here is an article [http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60126] describing what these designations refer to.

Traffic Sources Pages / Visit Bounce Rate Avg. Time on Site
Direct 4.0 (-0.5) 47.2% (-4.0%) 5:21 (-0:07)

Referral 5.0 (+0.1) 43.1% (-1.1%) 6:36 (-1:48)
Organic Search 4.9 (-0.1) 47.9% (-1.1%) 4:43 (+0:06)
CPC Search 5.6 (+0.0) 41.4 (-1.7%) 3:57(+0:07)

2.4 Conversion Rate Distribution
Many marketers' favorite metric is conversion rate. Here is the worldwide distribution of Google Analytics "goal conversion rate" by country.

Would anyone have guessed that states that are known for conversions are also high for their citizens' goal conversion rate? Note that for some states with small population, the statistical significance of the conversion metric comes into doubt.

3. Traffic Sources
Traffic sources below are identified by how the "source" and "medium" parameters are received by the Google Analytics collecting servers. Here is an article [http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60126] describing what these designations refer to.

% Visits from Sources 1/11/09 - 1/2/10 1/11/10 - 1/2/11 Difference
Direct 36.5% 36.8% +0.3%
Referral 21.0% 19.4% -1.6%
Search Engines 27.0% 28.0% +1.0%
Other 15.5% 15.8% +0.3%

4. Operating Systems
Browsers and Operation Systems (OS) are identified by the "referrer" string sent by users' browsers.

% Visits from OS 1/11/09 - 1/2/10 1/11/10 - 1/2/11 Difference
Windows 89.9% 84.8% -5.1%
Macintosh 4.5% 5.2% +0.7%
Linux 0.6% 0.7% +0.1%
Other 5% 9.3% +4.3%

Google Analytics Benchmarking Newsletter
2011, Volume 1, July 2011

1. Introduction

Welcome to the first volume of the Analytics Benchmarking Newsletter!
This month, we are replacing the standard "benchmarking" report in your Google Analytics account with data shared in this newsletter. We are using this newsletter as an experiment to surface more useful or interesting data to Analytics users. Data contained here comes from all websites which have opted-in anonymous data sharing with Google Analytics. Only those website administrators which have enabled this anonymous data sharing will receive this "benchmarking" newsletter.
You may be wondering, how many websites are in this "anonymous data sharing" pool? Currently, hundreds of thousands, and we've endeavored to make all of the metrics here statistically significant.
The date range of comparison for this newsletter is from November 1, 2010 - February 1, 2011. Comparison is done with data from November 1, 2009 - February 1, 2010. Absolute metrics such as total # visits, pageviews, or conversions for all opted-in websites are not reported.
To simplify the prose, the phrase "websites" will represent "websites which have opted into anonymous data sharing with Google Analytics" for the rest of this newsletter.

2. Site Metrics

Compared to a year ago, websites have seen reduced pages / visit, average time on site, as well as bounce rate.

	11/1/09 - 2/1/10	11/1/10 - 2/1/11	Difference
Pages/Visit	4.9	4.5	-0.4
Bounce Rate	48.2%	47.0%	-1.2%
Avg Time on Site	5:49	5:23	-0:26

2.1 Breakdown by Geography

Our anonymous database has aggregated geographic breakdown at the country level. Here are a few representative countries and their respective aggregate metrics. The first number in each cell represents the metric for the date range 11/1/10-2/1/11. The parenthesized number is the Year over Year delta compared to a year ago.

Country	Pages / Visit	Bounce Rate	Avg Time on Site
United States	4.7 (-0.1)	42.5% (-6.1%)	6:06 (-0:10)
United Kingdom	4.9 (-0.3)	41.5% (+0.2%)	5:38 (-0.27)
France	4.4 (-0.4)	49.7% (+1.4%)	4:40 (-0:08)
Brazil	4.1 (-0.1)	47.8% (-2.9%)	5:20 (+0:03)
China	4.1 (-0.1)	58.2% (+1.0%)	3:46 (+0:37)
Japan	3.9 (-0.1)	48.6% (-9.0%)	3:47 (-2:59)

For bounce rate, the distribution by country is plotted below: The distribution above is annotated with some countries -- which seem to indicate a story of leisure and stage of economic development. For a related metric: average time on site, the distribution by country is plotted below: The type of countries annotated in the average time on site graph above seem to be in reverse order as those in the bounce rate distribution.

2.2 Breakdown by Traffic Sources

Traffic sources below are identified by how the "source" and "medium""" parameters are received by the Google Analytics collecting servers. Here is an article describing what these designations refer to.

Traffic Sources	Pages / Visit	Bounce Rate	Avg Time on Site
Direct	4.0 (-0.5)	47.2% (-4.0%)	5:21 (-0:07)
Referral	5.0 (+0.1)	43.1% (-1.1%)	6:36 (-1:48)
Organic Search	4.9 (-0.1)	47.9% (-1.1%)	4:43 (+0:06)
CPC Search	5.6 (+0.0)	41.4 (-1.7%)	3:57(+0:07)

2.4 Conversion Rate Distribution

Many marketers' favorite metric is conversion rate. Here is the worldwide distribution of Google Analytics "goal conversion rate" by country.
Would anyone have guessed that states which are known for conversions are also high for their citizens' goal conversion rate? Note that for some states with few population, the statistical significance of the conversion metric comes into doubt.

3. Traffic Sources

Traffic sources below are identified by how the "source" and "medium" parameters are received by the Google Analytics collecting servers. Here is an article describing what these designations refer to.

% Visits from Sources	11/1/09 - 2/1/10	11/1/10 - 2/1/11	Difference
Direct	36.5%	36.8%	+0.3%
Referral	21.0%	19.4%	-1.6%
Search Engines	27.0%	28.0%	+1.0%
Other	15.5%	15.8%	+0.3%

4. Operating Systems

Browsers and Operation Systems (OS) are identified by the "referrer" string sent by users' browsers.

% Visits from OS	11/1/09 - 2/1/10	11/1/10 - 2/1/11	Difference
Windows	89.9%	84.8%	-5.1%
Macintosh	4.5%	5.2%	+0.7%
Linux	0.6%	0.7%	+0.1%
Other	5%	9.3%	+4.3%

Google new look, Google new layout.

2011-06-29T20:26:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I paid attention on Google's new look. It is now looks more like a Web 3.0

I cannot say I really impressed, but also cannot say anything negative. I would say I like it, and I will call it Google's refreshing look.

Also found another interesting search results from Google (picture of Danny Sullivan):

I see this comes from profiles.google.com
Whoever not really understand what I'm talking about, I referring to the black top menu as well as new look of search button and some colors on left side menu.
I also checked on internet if people already responded on that change, and was really impressed, yes they did. People already don't like Google's new look/layout.

But my question: who cares? Will it impact SEO or search results? No! This is what I care about.

Netflix in Canada and how much bandwidth it consumes

2011-06-26T19:58:00.000-07:00

Netflix allows to watch TV shows & movies online or streaming to your TV via Wii, Xbox, PS3 & many other devices. It cost only $8 a month, compared to $70 that main cable/satellite companies charge.
Once you register for Netflix services, you can watch movies and selected programs on many devices, including ipods, ipads, iphones, android OS phones and many other smartphones.

Netflix provides pay in advance service, or in other words prepaid service. I registered with Netflix about 6 months ago and was really impressed from:

quality of streaming
price
big selection of movies

With the time I found that selection of movies is big, but movies are old or lets say classic movies. There is no new releases of high demand Hollywood movies. Most of the movies offered on Netflix are low budget, unknown or old/classic films. Usually such movies you can buy CD for few bucks in Blockbuster.
Another problem I found is bandwidth. Yes, Netflix service consumes a lot of your internet bandwidth. I found if you watch 3 movies a day, you will consume 100GB of your bandwidth. Since most of Canadian ISPs offer services with cap on bandwidth, the average bandwidth cap is about 70G, meaning you can afford to watch only one movie a day, assuming you using your internet connection not only for Netflix. Since I'm on unlimited DSL Internet service with WebTelecomm, that was not an issue for me, but for most Canadian consumers it will be.

So, if you are fan of classic movies and have good internet connection with no bandwidth cap, Netflix is for you, you will never find such service cheaper than $8 CAD a month.

TeamViewer - Remote Access and Support over the Internet

2011-06-25T14:29:00.000-07:00

TeamViewer - Remote Access and Support over the Internet

TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it.

I just installed it on my PC and on Sony Ericsson running Android 2.1. Very nice, I really impressed from this apps.
It is easy to operate and setup just took few minutes.
I tried it from my smartphone and it is working! Well, all is so tiny on smartphone, but in "emergency" you can connect and do what you need to do.
From PC it is totally different story, you see all naturally. I tried their web interface connecting to my computer. Now I can connect to my PC at home from any place, and from work bypassing all FWs..

I found small BUG on smartphone, when I connected to my PC from my PC, it started looping screens endless. So I guess TeamViewer developers should fix this by detecting endless loops.

But in general, TeamViewer great, very impressive application.

The Google +1 button for websites is here! Help your users promote your content.

2011-06-20T18:37:00.000-07:00

Help your users promote your content

As you may know, people can already +1 your site on Google search to highlight your content to their Google contacts. We know users aren't always familiar with sites they first see in search results, and may want to recommend them after their visit. You can now make it even easier for them to do so by integrating the +1 button with your content. As a result, this makes your pages stand out in Google search, which may increase CTR on paid and organic search listings.

All you need is to implement a short string of code where you want the +1 button to appear on your pages

Copy and paste the following code into your site:


<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>


<g:plusone></g:plusone>

Boston Bruins wins Stanley cup - my traffic is down

2011-06-15T20:08:00.000-07:00

It is really good news to Boston Bruins, who won Stanley cup tonight, beating Vancouver Canuck.
But this is not good news for me, most of my websites lost traffic, because people watching the game and celebration right after.

The good news that NHL playoffs are done, and now I expect the business as usual.

Hey, stop watching TV, search internet and post free classifieds!