Archive for November, 2008

Nov
29

Ad tracking

by paul

Tracking the success of an online ad or a website is relatively easier than tracking the success of a TV or a newspaper advertisement. 

To see the popularity of your online promotional ad or website you can easily launch a counter or an ad tracking software that would count how many times your link, banner or button has been clicked or how many times your catalogue or ad has been downloaded. However, in order to measure the success of the company’s TV or newspaper advertisement, it ought to ask people either face-to-face in streets or shopping malls or any other place or through telephone calls or e-mailed questionnaires. Usually the best way for ad tracking when it comes to TV and newspaper commercials is asking people one-on-one or through the internet.

Ad tracking is done in many ways. It can be done through telephone calls or through the internet. It is much better to do it through the internet because of several reasons. First of all, phone calls are not very effective as they do not make it possible to provide any visuals. For example, if you would like to show the consumer a shot of an advertisement and ask him whether or not he knows which brand this advertisement belongs to, you can never do this through telephone because verbal description can do no good. However, contacting consumers through the internet would facilitate showing them shots or even videos and then asking them the questions. Moreover, some people when receiving a phone call from a company that asks about its advertisement campaign, they might feel the company is impinging upon their privacy and is bothering them for its own sake.

 

Nov
28

Traffickahuna

by paul

                                                                         

Traffickahuna is a site that holds links for input distribution. Traffickahuna, as the name suggests to be given by some one Indian. If you translate the meaning for the site traffickahuna, it implies that this site is for traffics. The senses of the name have double meaning like: it will generate traffics for you and itself is the traffic represented to you or call it traffic. Whatever be the objective behind the naming of the site, it still deals broadly with the traffic for sites, all are assured.

Traffickahuna has three methods posted in their site, namely they are: link exchange system, article feeder system and blog feeder system. Traffickahuna is a networked effort in getting or generating site traffic that contains direct link to more than one thousand sites and quite a few hundred blog posting sites. The operation of traffickahuna link exchange system operates through the circular referencing chain. If you put any link here, the link will refer to another link then the second link will refer to a third link and the third link will refer to your link. It is a circular referencing system. Apart from the link exchange system the blog feeding also of great meaningful work and result.

In blog feeding your posts are published through the entire network of shared blog sites without visiting them or at single time post. As the breakthrough of the traffickahuna is their ground breaking optimization scheme of on page and off optimization, traffickahuna’s feeding system enables some spinning done with the input or post. So not necessarily you will get the target result only by using the keyword, you can also get the same result by using some intended keywords as well. This is what we called beyond edge thinking and so is the result. The article feeding system is another approach in bringing the concept such overwhelming success. At article feeding system host sites are uploaded under its respective category then the article is posted on the site. To clarify this point I better say thousands of IP address is used by doing this. This eventually rates your site on top of page ranking list.

It is published as a comment that traffickahuna does not ask for any pay but it takes it software uses service charges. Whatever it be, the labeling for traffickahuna is done for their permitted entry inside the site. You cannot browse it or its content like other sites, traffic kahuna have their own tracking system whereby they allow limited number of users to get access of the site at a selected date! It may they want to kept the content secret but inside of their site is available in youtube, some curiosity must have resulted this. however, all their testimonials suggests, I better say, clearly indicates that traffickahuna is of great impact for the service buyers all of them got overwhelming result from it.

Traffickahuna as the name suggests broadly holds the meaning of its name! They have been successful enough to be positioned as a brand in page ranking or search engine optimization!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The holidays can be boring to most children, especially when they are not doing anything unusual. The usual diversions such as the television, the video games, and the board games are getting tiresome. Moreover, studies have found out that too much tv watching can lead to early obesity for children.

But because you’re saving on gas, you do not want to take your kids to the mall and do nothing but walk around. They’ll just get hungry and badger you to buy some snacks and junk food for them. So you’ll tow your kids to the kitchen and let them help you bake cookies and cupcakes that you are planning to give as holiday gifts. Let them decorate with different color of icing, candy bits, candied flowers, chocolate nips, and marshmallows.

When given a free hand on decorating, children are quite artistic. Those little hands and imaginative young minds can turn simple cookies and cupcakes into mini-gardens, flower arrangements, funny faces, geometric arts, and abstract paintings.

So, why not let them be in-charged with the gift packing, too? See what they can do with your glass jars, paper plates, and ribbons, too. The idea is to decorate the gift containers. You’ll have to supervise your little artists because some of the projects require using a pair of scissors. Children have a short attention span so they need to be reminded on tasks to be done from time to time.

Materials needed:

  • glass jars – clean and dry
  • paper plates – any size
  • stapler
  • glue
  • adhesive tape
  • scissors
  • pentel pen – assorted color
  • all kinds of paper – assorted color
  • cellophane – assorted color
  • ribbons – assorted color

Steps for the Jar Project:

1. Let the children draw their pattern on a draft paper. You do the cutting of the colored paper using these patterns. Give each one a glass jar for them to glue on their different shapes.

2. Cut the ribbons in different lengths. Show them how to tie a ribbon around the jar’s neck.

Steps for the Mini-Box Project:

1. Create mini-boxes using the paper plate to protect the designs on the cupcakes.

2. Secure the corners with the stapler. Give the mini-boxes to the children so that they can stick the scraps of colored paper on the outside.

3. Cut the cellophane into squares or sizes appropriate to cover the top of the mini-box.

4. Seal with strips of adhesive tape on all sides after you place a cupcake inside.

Let the children fill their jars with cookies. Ask them to write the recipient’s name on a scrap of paper and glue it on the jar cover. Let them do the same with the mini-boxes.

Snorkeling is a cross between diving and swimming because you are skimming over the surface of water but with your face (or whole head) submerged so you need some equipment that will help you breathe.

Snorkeling is a popular sea sport because snorkelers get the opportunity to experience ‘living’ like a fish or any other sea creatures through ‘swimming’ in their own underwater world. The natural setting often includes the coral reefs with their magnificent shapes and structures, the assortment of sea cactus, and of course, the sandy floor where sea weeds sprout everywhere.

The underwater organisms that frequented, or rather, lived inside and around the corals are small fish, cephalopods, starfish, mollusks, and sea urchins. You may catch rare sightings of flatfish and the rays in sandy areas. You will be swimming alongside jellyfish, sea turtles, shrimps, and other sea organisms that often swim near the surface. You may be lucky to witness a group of frolicking dolphins.

Unlike scuba diving, snorkeling does not require special training. You should be a good swimmer, of course. And you should learn how to breathe through your mouth because the snorkel or mouthpiece is placed between your teeth. The length of the tube depends on the water depth.

Snorkeling can be done in any part of the sea where the water is often calm or almost without waves, warm temperature, and an abundance of sea organisms near the surface.

Popular locations for snorkeling are found in the warmer parts of the world and are often rich in sea corals, such as:

  • Coral Sea
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Red Sea

Two important things to remember by a snorkeler:

1. It is recommended for snorkelers to go snorkeling in pairs or with a group, for safety reasons.

2. Snorkelers are required to observe the conservation regulations. The coral reefs are extremely fragile and they are easily damaged so there are strict local rules that protect these spectacular underwater creatures.

Other sports activities that are related to snorkeling, because the snorkeling equipment is used, are the following:

  • Bog snorkeling – is a sport popular in Britain, where snorkeling is spelled as ‘snorkelling.’
  • Drift snorkeling – is snorkeling along the direction of the ocean’s current.
  • Underwater Hockey – is played at the bottom of a swimming pool so players are wearing snorkeling equipment.
  • Spear fishing – is fishing with the use of spear and the snorkeling equipment.

The many wonders of the world are chosen because they are deemed as the most significant man-made creations, and also the most spectacular natural creations and occurrences in the world.

The New 7 Wonders of the World are named through 90 million votes cast in 21 sites on the Internet.

1.    The Great Wall of China
2.    Petra in Jordan
3.    Statue of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil
4.    Machu Picchu in Peru
5.    Chichen Itza Pyramid
6.    The Colosseum in Rome
7.    Taj Mahal in India

The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World is a list that includes mostly classical structures. Only the Great Pyramid of Giza still exists today.

1. Great Pyramid of Giza
2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
4. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
5. Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
6. Colossus of Rhodes
7. Lighthouse of Alexandria

The 7 Wonders of the Medieval World have structures that are built before the Medieval (or Middle) Ages. Some of the structures included are: Taj Mahal, Cairo Citadel, Ely Cathedral, and Cluny Abbey.

1. Stonehenge
2. Colosseum
3. Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
4. Great Wall of China
5. Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
6. Hagia Sophia
7. Leaning Tower of Pisa

The 7 Natural Wonders of the World is a list compiled by CNN.

1.    Grand Canyon
2.    Great Barrier Reef
3.    Harbour of Rio de Janeiro
4.    Mount Everest
5.    Aurora
6.    Paricutin Volcano
7.    Victoria Falls

The 7 Wonders of the Underwater World is a list assembled by CEDAM International.

1.    Palau
2.    Belize Barrier Reef
3.    Great Barrier Reef
4.    Deep-Sea Vents
5.    Galapagos Islands
6.    Lake Baikal
7.    Northern Red Sea

The 7 Wonders of the Industrial World are featured in a 7-part series by the BBC.

1.    SS Great Eastern
2.    Bell Rock Lighthouse
3.    Brooklyn Bridge
4.    London sewerage system
5.    First Transcontinental Railroad
6.    Panama Canal
7.    Hoover Dam