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SEO Chat Forums - Is a 301 redirect RISKY?
Date: July 9th, 2007 06:20 AM - Chris42 - Untitled Post: Domain age refers to the age of the links pointing to a domain rather than just the age of the domain (based on domain registration). This is totally new to me... can you define domain age if it is not dependent on how long a domain has...
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A number of reporters have asked me how much I think MSFT paid for Jellyfish. I’ve said $30-50m based on the ROI numbers from one of the investors which were part of the Wisconsin State Journal article: “Initial investors made about 15 times our money in 14 months and second-round participants made about twice [...] (Read on Source)
Music a passion for 89-year-old
"The voice sings and the bass answers"
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It was interesting, intense, tough, and at the end of the day, very rewarding. The MarketingExperiments optimization team condensed 7 weeks of email optimization coursework into one day with a one-hour test. Those who started the nine-hour day frisky and positive left a little less frisky, but the consensus was the jam-packed class (450 attendees) (Read on Source)
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Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3, was surprised when he found out that MediaDefender was behind the attack that took down their whole network over the weekend. MediaDefender used Revsison3 BitTorrent tracker for the fake torrents they upload to BitTorrent sites.
Microsoft Profits Fail to Buoy Share Price
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TweakVI
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Have a Good Grip on Proper Timing
" A lot of advertisements will do better or worse depending on when you release them. Consider the various advertisements people usually do centered on various holidays. Most companies have Christmas promotions along with Thanksgiving and Halloween deals.
The question is how far in advance do you start up your promotion to have the biggest impact possible? Do you wait until a few weeks before the holiday or do you go for it early and start things up a month ahead? As the years have progressed, a lot of companies have started pushing their Christmas promotions further and further up in the year. I recall when I was younger I would rarely see much for Christmas until right after Thanksgiving was over. Now I start seeing them a little before Halloween.
The only way to know what works is by testing the waters or looking at what other companies have done, and what kind of success they managed with it. One company who started a month ahead might end up with much greater sales because of it. If this is the case, then you have a good reason to consider doing it yourself.
With some forms of advertising it becomes even more important to know when you need to first get your material out there. I'm referring here to calendar printing .
Just the other day I was at a store and saw they had a free calendar they were already handing out to people. It is currently in the middle of October, and yet they were already starting to push their calendars.
Is this too early for them to have any success? That's a difficult question to answer, and I’m afraid I can't say for certain whether or not they will end up being successful with this effort or not, but I know what the mentality was behind the decision to push for early calendar printing .
People don’t typically stock up on calendars now do they? They get one or two at most for different rooms in the house and that’s it. If one company gets there calendar into a person’s home early, than the other companies handing out free calendars who don’t start passing them around until December will achieve less success, because many of their customers already have a calendar from the companies who started early.
This once again means that you need to keep a careful eye on your competition. If no one in your industry is releasing them earlier than December, than I would say introducing yours during October would be jumping the gun by quite a large margin. But what you could do is get your calendar printing done in November and start handing yours out a few weeks before anyone else.
Now you get a jump on the market without overshooting it by too much. Still, I’m not saying this will for certain achieve success. Only you are going to be close enough to your industry to understand what is likely to work and what won’t. Timing is important, and only with good research and a strong knowledge of the market, can you achieve the perfect timing.
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The author is affiliated with a company that offers calendar printing - http://www.printplace.com/mkt/newsletter-printing.aspx
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FDA Warns Against Use Of ED Supplements
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How Hasbro And Mattel Killed Interest In Online Scrabble
We've been chronicling just how badly both Hasbro and Mattel screwed up in responding to the massive success of Scrabulous on Facebook. The ridiculously popular application was attracting over 500,000 users every day and (amazingly) making Scrabble cool again, pumping up sales of the physical board game. But, of course, the intellectual property lawyers freaked out and said "this must stop." The resulting legal threats and lawsuits created quite a lot of backlash and anger (and a boycott of Hasbro games). Venturebeat is now looking at the aftermath, and shows that the fight effectively killed all momentum for Scrabble on Facebook. Part of the problem may be that the game is now fragmented, with a Hasbro version serving some countries, a Mattel version serving others and the Scrabulous makers' "modified" Wordscraper on the market as well. The end result is that each has significantly fewer users than Scrabulous had. In fact, the monthly number of users pales in comparison to the daily number of users that Scrabulous had. Great way to kill a wonderful (free) promotion that was attracting thousands of new fans to the game.
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