Looking to cater to a more international audience in your advertising? You might want to do post-by-post targetting of key search terms from other countries. The Google International Zeitgeist presents popular queries by major country (right now, they’re running a bit behind, and are showing August’s data). My suggestion? If you’re intending to cater to an international audience that does not speak English, natively, then prepare to provide a translation in your article. Place an anchor at the translation, and then place the line “This article, translated into language“, at the top of the article, linking to the translation anchor. Then, place the English translation first.
Go check out the Google International Zeitgeist for information on who is searching for what, from where. You’ll be surprised.
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Howdy folks. Yes, I know it’s been a good long while since I’ve updated MindBlog. There’s a reason or three for that… but that isn’t what this post is about (I’ll give an updated post, soon, about what’s happened over the past couple-three months). What it’s about? Well, resources, really. One of the ultimate collections of blog tools, found over at Weblogs Compendium. Now, a lot of the tools on this list are out of date, and/or simply don’t exist any more… but the majority of them are still valid, still useful, and still worth looking at. I’ve found a few new things to play with from that list. Give it a look-see at: Weblogs Compendium – Blog Tools
Speaking of blogging tools, has anyone ever used Elicit? It’s supposed to be the end-all, be-all of integration, including del.icio.us, flickr, amazon, and so on. If anyone has used it, or is using it, I’d love to read a review from you.
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The year is 2015, and The Museum of Media History has released a ten minute video presentation detailing the history of the current media style.
Beginning with the invention of the Word Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in the 1980’s, and culminating in the final face-off betwen Google and Microsoft, the joining of forces between Google and Amazon (to create GoogleZon), and a landmark case heard by the supreme court that – as an eventuality – forces The New York Times to go off line and become solely a print-only media unit, once again, this video shows not only what could happen, but actually provides a very logical possbility of what will happen
in the coming years, as media seeks to re-shape and re-define itsself, and companies like Google and Amazon spend more and more processing time exploring the social make-up and demographics of each individual user’s life and society.
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If you’ve got a few minutes, and want a good blog to read, then go check out Steve Pavlina’s blog. Known to many as a “self-help” guru, Steve Pavlina fills his blog with articles on things ranging from polyphasic sleep, to figuring out your true direction in life.
Are you a bear, or an eagle? Figure it out at Steve Pavlina’s Blog.
