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Reach and Frequency: SEO Secret to Brand Building on Google?

SEO has reached a point where you could make an argument that some traditional metrics of building a brand should be incorporated into reporting of “success” for SEO. If you can build the brand, shouldn’t it help natural search engine rankings?

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Reach and Frequency: SEO Secret to Brand Building on Google? – Search Engine Watch

Reach and Frequency: SEO Secret to Brand Building on Google?
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Why the iPad is Big Cable’s Secret Weapon Against Its Own Irrelevance

We’ve been hearing it for a few years now. With the proliferation of Web video and the continued improvement of its quality, the cable business is totally screwed. Many of the most popular shows are streamed on Hulu or the network’s website the next day and if you never get around to checking out a buzzed-about series, it’s okay. The entire thing will be on Netflix before you know it. There’s a small but growing contingent of cord-cutters, as well as a new generation of those who just won’t ever subscribe to cable in the first place.

They may not like to publicly admit it, but cable company executives realize that this looming threat is real, even if it’s not overwhelming just yet. That’s why they’ve taken a series of defensive measures to ensure they they don’t get left in the dust. Lately, it’s the iPad and tablets in general that are serving as big cable’s next battleground for the attention of consumers.

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As much television content as people can manage to find online, one thing they can’t easily get their hands on without pirating it is new episodes of HBO shows, many of which are wildly popular. Thanks to HBO’s established relationship with cable companies, that’s not likely to change anytime soon. Even the premium channel’s beloved iPad requires a cable subscription to access. No, you can’t sign up for an HBO Go account and pay $20 per month to watch “Game of Thrones” and “Boardwalk Empire.” You have to have cable.

This week, Showtime joined its premium cable channel competitor in this space by launching its Showtime Anytime app for the iPad. The application offers access to the channel’s library of original content but, again, you need to be signed up for Verizon FiOS or AT&T’s U-Verse to access it.

Cable behemoth Comcast has wasted no time expanding its online and mobile offerings under its XFinity brand (formerly Fancast). Most recently, the company launched a pilot program for something called AnyPlay, which will let subscribers stream live TV to their iPad or Motorola Xoom tablet. This enables people to tune in from anywhere in their home, even if somebody else in the household is currently watching a different program on the bigger screen. This is something the company started testing out last year in an effort to one-up online streaming sites like Hulu and Netflix.

Offerings like this make a cable subscription much more convenient and worthwhile to certain consumers, despite its rising prices and the existence of a host of Web-only content alternatives. For now cable companies retain the upper hand, with millions of subscribers and increasingly aggressive innovation designed to help it avoid the fate of other pre-Web media industries. Whether these efforts succeed in the long run remains to be seen. If not, there’s always money to be made in selling access to the Internet itself.

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Seo In Young’s Secret to Preventing Puffy Face After Late Night Ramen? – Soompi

Seo In Young's Secret to Preventing Puffy Face After Late Night Ramen?
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If so, you may want to take Seo In Young's advice—Drink lots of milk with it. On the December 19 episode of KBS “Star Life Theater,” Seo In Young showed off her hotel room full of late night snacks, particularly cup noodles.

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Secret Santa “Tech” Gift Suggestions for Your Office

Geeky Secret Santa Suggestions for Your Office

For work or play, and sometimes both, here’s a collection of uncanny gifts perfect for the tech-savvy guy or gal in your life!

1. Smartphone Touchscreen Gloves

$19.99 on Amazon.com

Don’t freeze your hand or fingertips just because you hav…

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Searching for a Secret Millionaire – MarketWatch (press release)

Searching for a Secret Millionaire
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Search Laboratory provided the charity with free Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) recommendations, to help improve its online position. After taking these recommendations on board and implementing them, Simon on the Streets' website leapt up the search

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The Big Secret About Cats On The Internet

Cat-Internets-150.jpgNew research from Bit.ly shows that people share more links about dogs than cats. Using their internal search engine, Bit.ly data scientists looked for the number of pages with content containing the term “cat” and “dog.” They included the plural and any variations. While it’s clear that dogs are the most popular animal on the Internet, the data shows that the majority of people want to cuddle multiple dogs at one time, whereas people would rather cuddle with one cat at a time. What makes people want to share links about dogs more than links about cats?

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This data counters the fact that viral videos like “I love every cat” and the horrendously addictive “Welcome to Kitty City” proliferate on the Internet.

Why Do Dogs Rule The Internet?

Sam Gosling, a psychologist at the University of Texas in Austin and his graduate student, Carson Sandy, conducted a study to determine the differences between cat people and dog people. They surveyed 4,565 individuals via the Web, asking them whether they were dog people, cat people, neither or both. The results may shed further insight into why links about dogs are shared more often than links about cats.

Just on the basis of the nature of dogs being more sociable than cats, one might expect that the personalities of dog lovers would also reflect higher sociability. The results showed that dog people were generally about 15 percent more extroverted and 13 percent more agreeable, both of which dimensions are associated with social orientation. In addition, dog people were 11 percent more conscientious than cat people. “Conscientiousness” is a tendency to show self-discipline, to complete tasks, and aim for achievement. The trait shows a preference for planned rather than spontaneous behavior.

Could it be that more people share links about dogs because dogs, like their owners, are just friendlier?

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Google X: A Secret Lab Where Google Plays With Crazy Ideas & Robots

Light bulbs that connect to the internet? Elevators that reach into space? Robots that show up for work in your place? These are a few of about 100 ideas that Google is reportedly toying with inside Google X, the name of a “top-secret lab” somewhere in the Bay Area. The New York Times…



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