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While I’ll let Lorelle explain when to publish a blog post, I see a question that pops up from time to time in the form of, “When should I write posts for my blog?“. The answer, whenever you feel like it. It’s no secret that I write for not only Performancing but for a few other sites as well. Coming up with unique original content for multiple sites is quite a challenge. That’s why I rely on my RSS reader for a crutch. I try my best not to write and publish a post just for the sake of doing so. When do you this, readers can tell. Instead, I’ll browse around the various categories in my RSS feed or I’ll monitor the links showing up on Twitter until I find something that resonates with me. Some of the best articles I have ever written have come from something else which acted like a spark. Not only will the article come across with a sense of passion, but writing the actual article becomes a heck of a lot easier since you then have something to say. There are a few types of posts that I look out for that usually trigger an emotion or thought process, they are:

• Opinion pieces
• News items that I have an interest in
• Cool new discovery
• Site or service that I’m interested in reviewing
• Excellent resources worth sharing

My feedreader is filled to the brim with material and so, it serves as an excellent crutch for those times when I can’t come up with something on my own. If all else fails, ask your Twitter or social following a question in which you can compile the answers into a post. As a last ditch effort, you can publish one of those link round up articles. In general, don’t write just for the sake of writing. Let your emotions, passion, and creativity guide the way.

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What is web analytics and how is it used? I hope this post gives you a brief insight. Web analytics is commonly known as the study of online behaviour in order to improve, whether it is through collection, measurement, analysis or reporting on internet data.

There are two types web analytics. These are off-site and on-site web analytics.

Off-site web analytics This type of analytics refers to the measurement and analysis of the web, whether you own or maintain a website or not. It includes the measurement of a website’s potential audience, known as opportunity. It looks into the type of people to look at or be attracted to the website; share of voice, known as visibility; what the visitors will see on site; and comments that are happening on the Internet as a whole.

On-site web analytics measures a visitor’s journey once they arrive on your website. This includes its drivers and conversions. An example of this could be which landing pages encourage people to make a purchase. On-site analytics evaluate the performance of your website in a commercial context. This data is typically compared against key performance indicators and helps to improve your web site or marketing campaign’s audience response.

A few useful tools which help with web analytics include:

• Google Analytics
• SEOmoz
• Going Up

Kenneth Berkley
SEO Programmer

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The Financial Times has dubbed this the “Year of the iPhone”, deciding the launch of Apple’s 3g phone was the key technology event of 2008. So I’ve been looking back through the archives of this blog to work out what were the other highlights of the year.

January

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the big story was the impending victory of Blu-Ray in the battle with HD-DVD. Although HD-DVD’s backers didn’t formally throw in the towel until the following month, it suddenly became clear at the show that the high-def format war was over. That helped spread a warm glow of optimism in a technology industry which seemed confident it could weather any storms brewing in the global economy.

February

At the Mobile World Congress, all the talk was of Google’s new Android platform for mobile phones. We got a first glimpse of it in the wild, and filmed some of our coverage of the event on mobiles. And proved just how useful a professional cameraman can be.

March

This was the month the row over Phorm really got going. Three big ISPs were thinking of using the web tracking ad-serving software, provoking outrage from privacy campaigners. We asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee for his view – on the principle of web tracking rather than Phorm itself – and he told us he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system. As the year ends, BT is talking of going ahead with Phorm – so expect this row to continue through 2009.

April

The arrival of Grand Theft Auto IV was probably the biggest event of the gaming year – and one which we decided marked a new maturity for both the gaming industry and the mass media which cover it. For this launch was treated more as an artistic event than as an excuse for lots of soul-searching about violent games and their effects on the young. It has been a great year for the games business – one of the few sectors still confident it can ride out a recession.

May

The dullest story of the year was the interminable Microsoft/Yahoo takeover saga. It did come to life in April with the exchange of “Dear Jerry” “Dear Steve” letters between the two protagonists – one threatening all sorts of mayhem if Yahoo didn’t surrender, the other pointing out that Microsoft’s falling share price made its bid less attractive. But in May Mr Ballmer walked away, and Jerry Yang celebrated his victory. His shareholders weren’t quite so jubilant – the year has ended with their shares worth a third of what Microsoft was offering, and Yahoo looking for a new boss.

June

Our tour of Broadband Britain took us from a remote village on the west coast of Scotland, where they relied on home-brew broadband to Ebbsfleet in Kent, where BT was promising 100Mbps connections through fibre. Tens of thousands of you tested your own broadband speeds – and many told us you were not happy with what you were getting. Ofcom and the government both launched reports on the prospects for next generation broadband – though it is not quite clear what part dot.life played in those decisions.

July

The 3g iPhone went on sale, and we gave it considerably less coverage than the original launch. But I think the FT was right about its importance because this was the moment the mobile internet came of age. The most important aspects of the phone were not its “3g” – network coverage is still a bit patchy – but the applications and the price. Apple reached beyond the early adopters, and showed a wider market just how much you could do with a phone on the move.

August

The Scrabulous affair was one of the more entertaining stories of the year – and one which excited plenty of comment on the blog. The legal battle between the owners of Scrabble, Hasbro and Mattel, and the Agarwalla brothers they accused of violating their copyright with their Facebook Scrabulous game also shed light on some serious issues. How far should media companies go to defend their intellectual property on the web? How much responsibility do businesses like Facebook have for what happens on their networks? And what seven-letter word can you get from these letters – UUOSFIR – to sum up the reaction of the millions who whiled away the hours at work playing the game?

September

This was the month when the wheels really started coming off the world’s banking system. But as the skies darkened over the global economy, the technology firms – from giants like Intel to the tiniest Web 2.0 start-ups – were still insisting that they were well placed to weather the downturn. As the month ended we asked whether the party was over for technology. Just days later shares in Google, Apple and Microsoft were tumbling and venture capital firms were telling start-ups to batten down the hatches, cut their costs, and try to sit out the storm.

October

Cloud computing has been the hottest new phenomenon to emerge this year, though the idea of storing more and more data on an internet “cloud” has been around for ages. In late October Microsoft unveiled its Azure cloud operating system and promised online versions of some of its key products – but hedged its bets by insisting that many users would want a copy of Office on their computer as well as in the cloud. The sceptics were quick to point out that Microsoft was late to the party – both Amazon and Google have already got their heads in the clouds.

November

Twitter had first proved its worth as a news source earlier in the year when Tweeters started discussing the earthquake in China before it was reported by the mainstream media. But during the Mumbai terror attacks the micro-blogging service provided a constant stream of news and impressions from the city’s Twitter population. That then sparked a debate about the authenticity and accuracy of the messages – and whether mainstream media organisations, including the BBC, should give space to this form of citizen journalism.

December

This month has seen a flurry of stories reflecting many of the themes of the year. The “zero day vulnerability” uncovered in Internet Explorer was another example of the growing concerns about security on the web. The blocking of a Wikipedia page highlighted the continuing conflict over the limits of free expression on the web. And the launch of Virgin Media’s 50Mbps broadband service was a sign that Britain may at last be moving into the internet fast lane – but raised questions over whether ISPs will start charging more for high bandwidth traffic such as web video.

All of these issues will no doubt be the source of plenty more heated debate over the coming year. But for now dot.life would just like to wish a Merry Christmas to all our readers.

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With many new mobile phones comes the ability to display full HTML in their browsers and this means you are able to view websites as they were intended rather than a stripped down text based version. With this in mind Google has released a new feature that allows desktop ads to show on mobiles enabled with the full HTML capabilities.

Now all advertisers have an option to have ads displayed on desktop computers or mobile phones and an option for both which means advertisers can run separate campaigns for mobile if they want. All new campaigns are setup by default to run on both.

It has been reported that the iPhone has been one of the largest sources of mobile traffic in Google this year which explains their decision to implement this feature.

At the moment there are over 400 million mobile internet users and this is set to double within four years and just last month the mobile internet take up was said to be growing 8 times quicker than PC internet. So once other phone manufacturers produce browsing experiences similar to the iPhone we will all use the mobile internet in the same way we use the conventional internet.

Adam Lucking
PPC Consultant

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The holidays are here, and most of us folks will most likely be taking some time off of blogging to spend a few precious moments with friends and family, whichever religion you belong to. For those of us who don’t necessarily observe the holidays out of faith, but out of some secular reason, then you would most probably be vacationing, too. Not in the holiday mood yet? Oh don’t be such a grinch. Go have some fun, or spend time with your loved ones.

But then what happens to your blogs during those times when you take a break?

You blog through the holidays. I’ll be on break these next couple of days, but I will most probably still be publishing a few blog posts in my free time, or while on the road visiting relatives. That’s the power of mobile computing, anyway. I can either use my mobile phone or my netbook (coupled with a 3G modem) to do this. Why? Because I can!

You have posts saved in advance, and to be published at pre-defined dates. A handful of people I know have the habit of future-posting, so they can take a few days off from their blogs without their readership missing them. Some would clearly tell readers that the posts were done in advance, in case some new developments in the online world override the information in that blog post. Some would not be as transparent.

Your blog takes a break, too. This might be frowned upon by folks who believe in consistent and regular updates. But for those of us who are very much concerned about quality and thoughtfulness of posts would rather not post at all, if these are to be done in a hurry while huddled over a miniaturized laptop with a slow, unreliable Internet connection, while waiting to board your plane/train/bus. Good blogging should be done with good timing, too, right?

Which of these three are you?

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