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Ikroh SEO Has Been Named as a Leading SEO UK Firm for the Month of November 2011 – PR Web (press release)
Nov 11th
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Ikroh SEO Has Been Named as a Leading SEO UK Firm for the Month of November 2011
PR Web (press release) Ikroh is identified as an outstanding SEO UK firm in the month of November 2011 by topseos. Ikroh SEO has secured the 12th rank on this month's list of the leading SEO UK firms. Ikroh SEO has secured the 12th rank on this month's list of the leading … |
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How To Win National Novel Writing Month Using Google Docs
Nov 1st
Tomorrow marks day one of National Novel Writing Month, a 30-day, Web-enhanced festival of writing in which thousands of people force themselves (and encourage each other) to finally write that novel they’ve always had in the back of their brain. The NaNoWriMo website gives participants analytics to track the goal of writing 50,000 words in 30 days, and anyone who finishes is a winner.
We’re longtime fans of NaNoWriMo here at RWW. Editor-in-Chief Richard MacManus documented his NaNoWriMo experience back in 2003, at the dawn of our site, and we checked back in after NaNoWriMo 2008 for its 10th anniversary. With the fun starting tomorrow (surprise!), Google Docs has offered some tips about how its free, cloud-based document suite can help us all win at NaNoWriMo.
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Google Docs is just one of many tools we can use to crank out our 50,000. I also highly recommend Scrivener, a desktop application from Literature & Latte that gives writers everything they need to work without distractions and stay organized. Scrivener is also a steadfast supporter of NaNoWriMo.
But the ability to work from anywhere without worry is a huge bonus for Google Docs. Any effort to use the Web to encourage more creative writing is all right by us, so we’re glad to pass along our take on how Google Docs can help us all write a novel this month.
Write While You’re On The Go
If you have a smartphone or tablet, you can write your novel from anywhere by visiting docs.google.com in your mobile browser. Here’s how it works:
Android users also got a handsome update to their native Google Docs app, but iOS users can get their words in using the mobile site. Remember, every word counts, so even if it’s just a sentence that pops into your head at the supermarket, it’s vital to write it down.
Track Your Progress and Manage Versions
Google Docs lists a revision history of your document on the right-hand side. This will help you keep track of the work you’ve done each day, and if you end up regretting some huge rewrite, you can always step back.
But try not to do too much of that; the key to winning NaNoWriMo is to stop editing yourself and just keep moving the cursor to the right (or the left, if your language swings that way).
Make It Visual
No, pictures don’t count towards your 50,000 words, but sometimes you’ve got to illustrate, and Google Docs makes it easy. It added some new features last month, like drag-and-drop images, that make visually sprucing up your novel a snap. Another new feature is format painter, which helps quickly change the style of highlighted text, useful for working on your story’s formatting.
Just Write It.
Of course, the only way to write your novel is to do it, so don’t spend too long tweaking your settings. Keep making the clackity noise on your keyboard, and you’ll get to 50,000 this month. Don’t worry. It’s so worth it.
Learn more about National Novel Writing Month at NaNoWriMo.org, and sign up to start writing your novel! You can also follow @NaNoWriMo on Twitter and commiserate with all the other slogging writers using the hashtag #NaNoWriMo.
Are you writing a novel this month? Share your NaNoWriMo profile in the comments!
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Report: Nearly Half Of Tablet Owners Made Purchases on Their Devices Last Month
Oct 13th
In September 2011, a whopping 48% of tablet owners made a purchase on their tablet while 52% did not, according to a recent comScore whitepaper report called Digital Omnivores: How Tablets, Smartphones and Connected Devices are Changing U.S. Digital Media Consumption Habits. This is part of a growing trend in tablet usage, ignited by the launch of Apple’s iPad in January 2010.
Of those who did use their tablet to make a purchase, it’s notable that they fully used their tablets to do everything, from product and store research and price comparisons to the final transaction.
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From this chart, it appears as if the devoted tablet users are using their devices for all their shopping activities, whereas the less-frequent tablet users will casually use their devices for shopping.
The same held true for tablet users who perused coupons and daily deals on their devices.
This data isn’t very surprising considering Forrester’s prediction earlier this year that one-third of U.S. consumers will be tablet users by 2015. With Amazon’s release of the Kindle Fire tablet at the end of September, we can only predict tablet popularity continuing to grow.
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Google Offers Bounces Back, On Pace to Double Revenue This Month
Sep 23rd
Aided by higher revenue per deal and increased voucher sales, Google has already surpassed its August revenue and could double it by the end of the month. Offers is also closing the gap in markets where it competes with Groupon and LivingSocial.
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More Life Insurance Tips for Life Insurance Awareness Month – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Sep 19th
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More Life Insurance Tips for Life Insurance Awareness Month
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) InternetMarketingCompany.biz, an experienced leader in search engine optimization (SEO), provides even more tips for life insurance during the Life Insurance Awareness month in September. Individuals who are interested in purchasing over 30 Year Term … More Life Insurance Tips for Life Insurance Awareness Month |
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YouTube Posts Biggest UK Traffic Month Ever
Aug 12th
Experian Hitwise reports that YouTube just had its biggest month of traffic ever in the UK. In July, YouTube accounted for 1 in every 35 UK Internet visits, period. The boom in traffic is due to massive growth in mobile viewing.
Since January, mobile visits to YouTube have doubled in the UK. Hitwise estimates that smartphones and tablets account for as much as 10% of UK YouTube views. Across platforms, YouTube received 22.5% of UK visits to social networks, placing second after Facebook, which received more than half.
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Worldwide, YouTube receives some 3 billion views per day. The video sharing network, whose old “Broadcast Yourself” motto is no longer visible on the homepage, has been in talks to broadcast NBA basketball games. To put that in perspective, that means Google, YouTube’s parent company, could be in a position to outbid the major TV networks for fabulously expensive licensing and contracts.
YouTube used to be known for its weirdos and amateurs, and while they’re still abundant on the site, maybe more popular than ever, YouTube is becoming something other than a social network. It’s now a mass medium.
Do you upload YouTube videos, or mostly just watch?
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Mobile Advertising Explosion: Nexage Hits 8 Billion Impressions Per Month
Aug 10th
There is no question that mobile advertising is exploding. Yet, the numbers that are starting to emerge from some of the mobile advertising firms are eye-popping. Mobile advertising company Nexage is serving up eight billion ad impressions per month, a 50% growth over a three-month period from May to July 2011. Those are some serious numbers. The growth comes as more consumers interact with the Web through their mobile devices but also as more publishers and app developers start pushing ads through their mobile platforms.
Nexage is a real-time bidding (RTB) exchange provider. The impressions it serves are through its Nexage Revenue Platform that allows publishers to use its consolidated software developer kit (SDK) to create rich media ads. Nexage has some big clients, but its most influential to date has been a partnership with Rovio to deliver ads to Angry Birds. It also has partners with other premium brands, such as the National Football League and the Associated Press.
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Nexage is carving a nice niche for itself in the mobile advertising market. The Angry Birds contract should help drive a significant amount of ad impressions to Nexage as the game has been downloaded 250 million times on platforms across the world.
“This is really just a marker on the road,” said Ernie Cormier, Nexage president and CEO to ReadWriteWeb.
The RTB process is similar to the way that Google manages AdWords and AdSense on the Web. It enables advertisers to bid on sources on an impression-by-impression basis. This includes allowing Demand-Side Platforms, agency trading desks and other RTB ad networks to bid on impressions through a machine-to-machine interface. It servers between 170 – 180 publishers and developers with 600 different properties between them with about 80 different buyers.
“It is a Google market,” Cormier said. “We are able to compete because we scale efficiently and scale well.”
Outside of Google, which serves mobile ads through its acquisition of AdMob, which has been integrated into Google’s mobile AdSense. In the RTB market, Mobclix is a competitor and long-tail sellers like Smaato compete with lesser known developers and publishers.
Eight billion monthly impressions is a lot, but Cormier believes that there is still quite a bit of room to grow.
“It is a huge market, there is quite a bit of head room. From the supply side, we are just now starting to dip our toe in the water,” Cormier said. “We could grow a lot with existing customers by scaling and creating new capabilities for suppliers and bidders.”
Nexage also plans for international expansion. Though it serves ads all around the world, it does not yet have feet on the ground in locations like South America, where Nexage plans on expanding soon.
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One Month In, Google+ Sees First Traffic Dip As Total Visits Drop 3%
Jul 28th
New numbers released by Experian Hitwise show the first traffic drop for Google’s social networking service, Google+. The drop occurred on the week of July 23rd as Google+ saw 1.79 million total visits compared to the 1.86 million the previous week. Google+ had been steadily building…
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