Archive for December, 2010

Before diving in, we should perhaps remind everyone that trademarks don’t mean a lot in China.  Knockoffs of all sorts are produced in massive quantities.  But not long after Mark Zuckerberg toured the country and met with business leaders, Facebook’s name has been spotted in connection with a Chinese social network.

Some info to orient you: Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese tech company that reported $1.8 billion in revenue in 2009.  It owns a popular messaging platform along with a lot of other social properties.  And Tencent also owns the social network in question, PengYou.com.  So while the circumstances are doubtful, they can’t be dismissed.

Moving on, then, it seems some sort of Facebook authentication option was seen on PengYou.com.  Mobinode reader Yu Junde captured a screenshot, and writer Gang Lu explained afterward, “If you choose an oversea school/university for your education profile, the Facebook authentication will show up.”

Not much else is known because no one’s gotten the authentication process to work.  So we may be looking at an early mockup of a tie-in, or just a mistake or joke.

Anyway, now more than ever, Facebook definitely has reason to want to do business in China.  A fresh report indicates that there are 450 million Internet users in the country, compared to the entire U.S. population of 310 million.

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A lot has been said in the past few weeks about Facebook entering China, and this morning, another expert expressed his opinion that the social network will at some point make an entrance.  Gady Epstein, the Beijing bureau chief for Forbes, even used a form of the word “inevitable” to describe the move.

A little background information: Mark Zuckerberg has been visiting China this month, supposedly on vacation, but also just happening to meet with the execs of a number of important local companies.  And one Baidu representative even came out in support of Facebook doing business in China.

Epstein wrote in response, “Will Facebook eventually play nice with the Chinese government, ushering in an era of a censored China Facebook?  My guess: Yes.”

Epstein reasoned, “Zuckerberg has already answered the question of whether Facebook will go to China with a question of his own: ‘How can you connect the whole world if you leave out 1.6 billion people?’  That powerful notion – connecting the whole world – is what will trump arguments against a Facebook entry into China even in the eyes of many Western users.”

Then Epstein noted, “Will there be blowback, outrage and constant discussion of the impact of censorship on Facebook in China?  Of course.  Will much of that venting take place on Facebook?  Most likely.  Let a hundred Facebook groups bloom; Zuckerberg will welcome them.  If the viral campaign against you is taking place on your platform, you’re in good shape.”

That’s an interesting point.  Plus, in the long term, it’s hard to imagine people worrying more about a social network than the poisonous dog food and toys that were traced back to China, and protests regarding those problems have blown over.

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Do you have a website that is suffering from lack of traffic? You know what it means when there are very few visitors to a site, your income potential gets small every day. So you definitely would want to learn how to increase your site traffic. The good thing about this is that there are many ways that you can try. Often, it is a trial method wherein you just test which technique would work best for your website.

In most cases, when you are trying to get more visitors to your website, what you are basically doing is getting as much attention as you possibly can. Because that is the sure way that you can get the number of visitors that you want. And of course, the more the better. You need to find ways for people to notice what you are doing, and not just your website. Often what you do online can also affect the way people notice or view your website. If they like what you are doing, chances are they would head straight to your site and digest its content. Read or watch a Traffic Evolution Review to learn more.

To help you increase your site traffic, try these tips and suggestions. I guarantee you will see a spike in your stats.

You should continuously build more links pointing to your website. Because that is the most effective way for your site to rank higher in the search results. And if you reach the top three spots, you are guaranteed to get the best quality traffic any website owner could ever dream of. But that is if you are targeting the right keywords, and that is another topic altogether.

You must also interact with other people on the web. You can do this through the use of blogs, commenting on blogs, being active in the forums, doing some video marketing, and other similar techniques. If people get to see you more often online, then chances are they would always think of you whenever some topics related to your website are discussed.

Positioning yourself as an authority in your field is one of the best ways that you can get a lot of traffic to your site. Why? Because people tend to seek information from those that they consider as the expert in the topic. But the problem with this approach is that it will definitely take some time before you can build up your reputation. However, when you do that your website will surely benefit from it.

Your website should contain high quality articles. Because people will not stay a minute longer in a website that offers no real value for them, so always make a point that whenever you write and upload content, to ensure that it is of good quality. Another good thing with having great content is that you can possibly get links because of it. Other people would like to link to your content if they think their readers would benefit from it.

While there are many other techniques that you can do to increase your site traffic, with some of these included in seo training dvds, those mentioned here should be enough to help your stats improve. Always go for quality whenever you do anything to gain traffic for your site.

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Peter Zmijewski who is called as Innovator, investor, internet marketing guru and entrepreneur. Peter Zmijewski is also the founder and CEO at KeywordSpy. Don’t go away and stay with us.

I’ve recently been thinking more about some ranking signals that in the past, I dismissed. Some of these the engines have previously disavowed, while others don’t get the attention or discussion they potentially deserve. My list includes:

* Mentions of a domain / brand name - particularly in sources that the engine has classified as “news.” I suspect we’d find a reasonable correlation and probably plenty of examples of domains that begin ranking once they earn these mentions.

* Nofollow links from trusted sources – By running a bit of analysis across the domains on the web, engines could see, quite simply, who links to very good pages/domains and with what level of consistency. From there, it’s an easy step to simply “count” those no followed links as followed or treat them similarly to the mentions above. This metric already gets a lot of attention, and our correlation data, at least, suggests that a high number of links/linking root domains with no-follows does correlate to better rankings.

* LinkedIn + Twitter profile links – since these sites are used primarily by real humans, most of whom can’t afford to have a spammy site seen by potential employers/networkers, these links are likely golden for search engine uses.

* Traffic patterns via aggregated Google Analytics data – if the search quality team received a list of domains that sent/received traffic and the relative quantity levels, I suspect they could put this to use as a methodology to sort the spam from the real sites (spam tends not to send out traffic, nor receive it from a diverse range of good sites). It would also be an incredibly tough metric to game – how do you draw down lots of referral traffic from many unique high value sites without actually being interesting and worth visiting?

* Mobile visits, check-ins and interaction - Though still tough to determine/track compared to some other metrics, I’m thinking that a local business or relevant website only gets clicks and interactivity from mobile browsers/devices if it’s highly relevant and useful. This could be another solid way to filter spam and get data for local/maps types of rankings (presuming the engines had access to the data at scale… can you say Android/Windows Mobile?

* Links and references in Gmail - Again, it’s unlikely Google’s actually reading our email, but certainly the search quality team could get a list of the number and diversity of references to sites used in email.

* Content that garners comments - if real people are actively participating on a site around unique content, I’d wager to guess that content is likely the type engines would want to rank. Things like comment RSS feeds, trackbacks and content uniqueness analysis could all be leveraged to help sort.

* Rich media present on site and around the web – Spammers don’t make a lot of unique graphics, images and photos. Likewise, they don’t film original video, don’t post podcasts, don’t build Flash elements, upload Excel spreadsheets, graphically heavy PDFs, or the like. Real websites and businesses run by real people and businesses do. Since the engines already have the indexing and segmentation capacity, there’s nothing to stop them from examining the data as a quality signal.

I’m not saying that Google/Bing are definitely using these, but I’d suspect that all of them have practical applications in improving search quality and relevancy. And, by running correlations and analysis of these data points ourselves, we may be able to learn more about what makes a site “look natural” and rank-worthy to the engines, particularly since so much of my email and our Q+A seems to be worried about false positives of late.
Peter Zmijewski who is called as Innovator, investor, internet marketing guru and entrepreneur. Peter Zmijewski is also the founder and CEO at KeywordSpy. Don’t go away and stay with us.