Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Differences?
roduct Links
Basic Display - Detail Page (Product-Preview-enhanced)
Build more 0 0.00% 0 N/A 0 0 $0.00
Basic Display - Detail Page (Impression-counted)
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Basic Display - Offer Listing Page (Impression-counted)
Build more 0 0.00% 0 N/A 0 0 $0.00
Basic Display - Offer Listing Page (Product-Preview-enhanced)
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Enhanced Display
Build more 58 0.00% 0 N/A 0 0 $0.00
Friday, January 9, 2009
Amazon Campaign Performance
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Bounce Rate
This may not be a proper metric. What if the landing page has only external links? The page may be exactly what the user is looking for.
"Use this metric to measure visit quality - a high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors"
Google looks down upon this. For example, a page may have a listing of popular DVDs with external links. The user may be looking for a DVD, find it, and click on the external link. This hurts the rankings. I may make a "learn more..." link that goes to a page all about that item and then the user can purchase it. This would be two page views and it would not constitute as a "bounce".
Traffic Zap Directory
Website Design
That service looks interesting. I wonder if it is manual or automated. A bot may crawl the web looking for sites to list. It looks like it is manual, however.
Hot Technology
Netbooks. In a weak economy, these small and cheap laptops will continue to be popular. Already loaded with Wi-fi, webcams and other features, these ultra-portable computers will soon come with GPS and touch screens as well -- all for prices under $500. Look for a new wave of them at CES.
Thin OLED TVs. You've heard of LCD and LED -- now meet OLED, which stands for organic light-emitting diode and creates a gorgeous picture. For now, they're also way too expensive -- Sony's XEL-1, the world's first OLED TV, costs $2,500 for an 11-inch screen -- but they're cool to look at. The screen panel on the Sony model is only 3 millimeters thick.
Mobile devices. Touch screens, once limited to high-end smartphones such as Apple's iPhone, are filtering down to mid-range devices as well. Cell phone manufacturers also are increasingly building phones that shoot sharper photos and better video.
Wireless home electronics. Will this mark the year we can finally say goodbye to that cumbersome tangle of wires behind our TVs and stereos? Probably not, but we're getting there.
More "green" products. Motorola is rumored to be launching a phone made from recycled tech waste. And at least several manufacturers are promising to unveil pioneering, environmentally safe batteries -- including one made without lithium or lithium ion.
Downloadable video players. "We're going to see a lot of devices that offer downloadable video, be they Blu-Ray players [or video game consoles]," said Costa of PC magazine, who believes prices of Blu-ray players will keep dropping. "All these devices can download video over the Internet, some of it in HD quality. That's the type of device we're going to see a lot more of, and it makes perfect sense when people are looking to nest [at home]."
Hackers Crack SSL Certificates
Researchers have officially cracked the MD5 algorithm that certificate authorities like Verisign use to issue the SSL certificates that help secure web communications. Find out how they did it, and what this crack means for Web security.
