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Google’s Ranking Metrics That Make a Difference for SEO – QueryClick (blog)
Jun 14th
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Google's Ranking Metrics That Make a Difference for SEO
QueryClick (blog) 2011 has been a really exciting year for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), with much more valuable ranking methods coming to the fore. In particular one of the much underhyped metrics has come to be (almost) top dog in the list of metrics that drive … 2011 Search Ranking Factors Released – What You Need to Know! |
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The Difference A Company’s Size Makes In Social Media
May 31st
Maybe the size of a company has never been pondered by the employees or consultants who are managing their social media campaigns. However, whether or not a company is considered a small business or a big company can make a significant difference in overall strategy, timeliness, and overall…
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The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO – Search Engine Watch
Feb 27th
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The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO
Search Engine Watch With all the recent fuss over what went down with JCPenney's search engine optimization (SEO) initiatives, people are freaking out. Thus Joe Silverman, CEO of New York Computer Help, an IT outsourced service company, found himself several years ago … |
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What’s The Difference Between Game Mechanics in the Enterprise and Good Management?
Jan 25th
We covered the emerging trend of gamification – the application of game mechanics outside of games – in November. A few enterprise vendors, such as Moxie and Rypple, are starting to incorporate elements of gamification into products. Constellation Research analyst and co-founder R “Ray” Wang has identified five engagement factors for gamification in the enterprise: intrigue, reward, status, community and challenge. But aren’t these common elements of a good workplace, with or without the idea of “gamification”?
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First of all – why apply gamification principles in the enterprise? Wang notes the following applications:
- Training
- Collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Customer loyalty programs
- Ad network optimization
- Virtual goods and currencies.
I can see the applications for customer-facing programs, but how well will internal programs work out?
Intrigue is obviously the hard part. “Content and story line often represent the consumer tech side,” Wang writes. “The enterprise needs to develop relevant content to keep users engaged. Content could include help topics, related information, user generated comments, etc.” Easier said than done.
When we covered gamification before we quoted Margaret Robertson:
That problem being that gamification isn’t gamification at all. What we’re currently terming gamification is in fact the process of taking the thing that is least essential to games and representing it as the core of the experience. Points and badges have no closer a relationship to games than they do to websites and fitness apps and loyalty cards. They’re great tools for communicating progress and acknowledging effort, but neither points nor badges in any way constitute a game.
And to some extent, “pointsification” is just quantification – something enterprises should be doing anyway. In fact, most the principals of a good game should apply in the workplace:
- Quantification: Tracking sales, average customer support response time, server uptime and other metrics that identify success.
- Recognition and Reward: Raises, bonuses, promotions.
- Autonomy: Robertson notes that for a game to be truly engaging players must be able to make decisions that “meaningfully impact on the world of the game.” Autonomy has been identified by Daniel Pink and others as a requirement for motivation and job satisfaction.
- Challenge: I think this should be self-explanatory.
Looked at this way, is there any difference between “gamification” and “good management”?
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3 Views on the Difference Between a Data Visualization and an Infographic
Jan 7th
The terms “data visualization” and “infographics,” are often used interchangeably. It’s understandable as the meanings often overlap. Data is often associated with information. The words visualization and graphics have a relationship that are both different and the same.
A discussion on Quora is providing some context about the terms and how they interrelate. That’s a discussion just starting, based mostly upon the rising popularity of the practices. The conversation on the Quora thread could use some more perspectives. But we expect that topics such as these will see more attention this year, especially as more of these visuals are created. This medium’s popularity will certainly grow considering its pop art nature and storytelling capability, and the cloud will continue to be an important part of its surge.
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The discourse is demonstrative of how the science of data is mixing with the narrative of storytelling and interactive technologies.
It’s also demonstrative of how new these terms are as evident in the Google Trends search results.
Data visualization:
Infographic:
Quora Discussion
Benjamin Wiederkehr of Datavisualization.ch:
While I agree with Paul Marcum that Information Graphics often display non-quantifiable information, I would not make the distinction there. Maps for example are often part of data visualization, too.
Here’s how I see the distinction:
Information graphics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge often used to support information, strengthen it and present it within a sensitive context.
They are specific, context-sensitive and often times hand-crafted.Data visualizations are visual displays of measured quantities by means of the combined use of a coordination system, points, lines, shapes, digits, letters quantified by visual attributes.
They are general, context-free and often times created automatically.Both can be static, animated or interactive.
So, I think the difference is more about the objective. Information graphics are used to tell a story or answer a question. Data visualizations are used to let the user find his own story or answer.
Considering this, what would you call this video featured on datavisualization.ch?
Hjalmar Gislason, founder and CEO of DataMarket.com:
As the debate shows, there is no clear distinction. Yet we all seem to have some sort of – somewhat personal – feeling for what is an infographic and what is a data visualization.
Here’s mine:
A data visualization is a graphical representation of quantifiable data, usually by means of well-known chart, graph or map types. Although they can be created by hand, they can always be generated by applying automated methods on top of the data.
An infographic is a graphical representation that combines one or more data visualizations with other non-data elements – such as graphics or text – to point out relationships, show a process or tell a story that cannot be automatically discerned from the data alone. An infographic requires the application of a creative process with some understanding of the underlying data and its context.
Datamarket.com provides data and statistics about Iceland.
Urbanization in Iceland from 1901 / Búseta á Íslandi frá 1901 from hjalli on Vimeo.
Kim Rees, partner at Periscopic.com:
….I would say that infographics are really a subset of data/info visualizations. An infographic is static by definition. They are graphics.
A data/info visualization may be static, but most often these are interactive and allow the viewer to explore the data/information in different ways.
Infographics and data visualizations may use the same data, multiple datasets, APIs, etc. However, an infographic is always static.
Periscopic.com is a Portland based company that develops online visualizations such as the state of the salmon in the Pacific Ocean.
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree with these statements?
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Small SEO Changes That Make A Difference – Search Engine Roundtable
Dec 21st
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Small SEO Changes That Make A Difference
Search Engine Roundtable But what about existing sites that already have done the daily SEO stuff? This thread talks about those small, tiny SEO changes that can make an impact. … |
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The difference between a like and a link – No Follow Links & SEO – Kingpin Webmaster News
Dec 16th
 Social Barrel |
The difference between a like and a link – No Follow Links & SEO
Kingpin Webmaster News The implications for SEO are enormous. This sets a baseline value for any link. Where, in the past a link was specifically lowered in value to its … What will the world of SEO look like in 2011? PSS Offers Great Holiday Discount on SEO Service The Most Popular Organic SEO Columns Of 2010 |
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Why SEO Backlinks Make A Big Difference In Page Rankings – Emailwire (press release)
Nov 17th
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Why SEO Backlinks Make A Big Difference In Page Rankings
Emailwire (press release) COM, November 17, 2010 ) Dallas, TX- Businesses looking for a way to get their websites noticed must turn to making SEO backlinks. What are they? … |
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Anonymous’s DDoS Attacks May Make Headlines, But Do They Make a Difference?
Nov 15th
Over the past few days, we’ve watched a battle unfold between two Internet giants. No, not Google and Facebook. 4chan and Tumblr. Members of the two sites have come to blows, so to speak, over who “owns” Internet memes, and some on the 4chan message board called for “Operation Overlord” – a DDoS attack targeted against the microblogging site. Tumblr users have threatened to respond by filling the 4chan boards with pictures of kittens. And both sites have taken turns over the past 24 hours being offline.
It’s easy, perhaps, to dismiss this back-and-forth of bored and disgruntled teenagers. And because one of the call-to-arms on 4chan said “We are Anonymous” and involved a denial-of-service tactic, it may be easy to confuse 4chan v Tumblr with the more recent DDoS attacks undertaken by Anonymous.
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Motivations Behind Operation Payback
The blog TorrentFreak has a “behind the scenes look at Anonymous’ Operation Payback,” examining some of the history and motivations behind the recent series of direct actions that Anonymous has coordinated against pro-copyright groups. And as the TorrentFreak story makes clear, the anarchic nature of the group makes it difficult to generalize too much about who they are or what they want.
“We can safely conclude that this Anonymous group doesn’t have a broad shared set of ideals,” writes TorrentFreak’s Ernesto. “Instead, it is bound together by anger, frustration and the desire to be heard. Their actions are a direct response to the anti-piracy efforts of pro-copyright groups.” According to interviews with TorrentFreak, some of Anonymous’ members are also frustrated that their actions have not driven media attention to their demands. These have been posted online for over a week and include short, medium and long range goals for revising copyright law.
Rethink Copyright Law… Or Else
While the demands call for an immediate end to piracy lawsuits, Anonymous’s call to wean the world away from its current copyright laws seems more measured. In fact, the group does not demand an end to copyright altogether. Within the next 2 or 3 years, Anonymous says copyright lifetime should be reduced to around 25 years. Within the next 10 years, it should be reduced to about 5 years. And in the long term, it should be reduced to between 0 and 1 year.
The list of demands makes no mention of file-sharing, even though many of the group’s targets have been those associated with the criminalization – or at least demonization – of file-sharing, groups like the RIAA and the MPAA.
“What we are now trying to do, is to straighten out ideals, and trying to make them both heard and accepted. Nobody would listen to us if we said piracy should be legal, but when we ask for copyright lifespan to be reduced to ‘fair’ lengths, that would sound a lot more reasonable,” a spokesman for Anonymous told TorrentFreak.
Shutting Down Websites, Opening Up Dialogue
It’s debatable whether or not DDoS attacks get you heard, let alone accepted. And while the FBI investigations into Anonymous’s DDoS attacks may have put a damper on the group’s actions, it may be that other forces – those very anarchic forces that gave the group its origins – also serve to undermine and fragment the message that Anonymous is trying to communicate about the problems with contemporary copyright law. And although spats with Gene Simmons make for great headlines, the DDoS attacks so far haven’t really made for great political dialogue or legal change.
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