Internet and gaming rehab for Brits with addiction
I was travelling in the UK recently and saw on the front page of the London Evening Standard news about the UK being the first country to open up a rehab centre for Internet and computer game junkies. What was shocking (but not surprising) was how young the kids were that needed to go into rehab because of their Internet addiction. As stated in the paper children as young as twelve will need to go “cold turkey” in a residential unit to help them fight their addiction and to help them take on the world again they will be taught face to face social skills.
So now we will have people going to IA and GA meetings as recovering Internet/Gamingholic. Good luck!
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5 simple steps to optimize your website for Bing, the new Microsoft search engine
After all the rumours, Microsoft and Yahoo finally agreed to merge their search services to compete with the grand search engine, Google.
Microsoft’s new search engine – Bing will power the Yahoo search engine, while Yahoo Search Marketing will be powered by Microsoft AdCenter. Yahoo rankings are going to change once it is replaced by Bing, so if Microsoft's search offerings have not been of any concern to you before, now is the time to become familiar with it’s rules and ways to optimize your website for Bing.
Do search engines trust your website?
Five years ago, Yahoo engineers wrote about TrustRank, an algorithm used to fight spam in the search results. TrustRank works in such way that it semi-automatically separates trustworthy and good quality pages from spam.
Spam-pages get higher-than-deserved rankings in a search engine's results and today any professional SEO optimizers, Google or any other search engine uses Trust Rank or similar techniques against spam.
Yahoo! Web Analytics Consultant Network, Nordic eMarketing eligibility for acceptance
Yahoo has announced that Nordic eMarketing is one of the companies eligibile for the Yahoo! Web Analytics Consultant Network or the YWACN, which is scheduled to launch by the end of this month.
Yahoo! Web Analytics, aka Indextools, has been upgraded to version 9.5 and is loaded with nice new features such as the user demographics and some 50 customizable actions. These are but few of the new features that we at Nordic eMarketing are learning how to use and work with in behalf of the projects we are managing.
Where do Yahoo! Web Analytics get its Demographic data?
Well first of all Yahoo! has some 550.000.000 unique visitors every month and those visitors are giving their data away by signing and out of various services such as Flickr, del.icio.us, Kelkoo (a shopping search engine which operates in 10 European countries), Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Mail serving over 260 million users, Yahoo! GeoCities, and Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Gallery, Yahoo! Buzz and more. This data is a sample of information collected across the Yahoo Network.
A list of some of the Yahoo! owned sites and services:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081007214624AAfLXEF and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services+Yahoo+owned+web+sites
Yahoo! Web Analytics on the fly
Yahoo! Web Analytics are going through huge changes and I am really excited what is on the horizon over the next months. The data migration is taking place from the old Indextools data-centre to the new Yahoo! Data-centre.
There are also some new YWA features on the horizon and am really hopeful that we will be seeing some of the promising Rubix features, that is more data mining options and if Yahoo! has inherited some of the old Indextools mentality I am hopeful that we will see some nifty enhancements to functionality based on feature requests from users.
On my wish-list is that we will see some light behavioural targeting options. Now I just need to hold my breath for couple of weeks and see what the future has stored for Yahoo! Web Analytics and my clients. You might want to follow up at the Blog of Dennis Mortensen http://visualrevenue.com/blog/ .