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Consumer barometer tool for consumer data You're planning a campaign for a new product. You’re marketing it to a range of consumers across several countries. And you need to identify the most effective channels and activities. How does 25-year-old Jack in Australia research his purchases compared with 55-year-old Jill in Denmark? Which countries are the biggest adopters of smartphones?

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO Fitbit has discontinued their Fitbit One step trackers, which seems like a good opportunity to step back and reflect on wearing one for the last decade or so. I’ve enjoyed using Fitbit trackers, but the One devices seemed like they broke down too often. I’m pretty proud that I ended up earning all the activity-related Fitbit badges though: In 2013, I ran a 50 mile race and I took 110,472 steps that day. I think I did some extra steps late that night just in case Fitbit ever increased their top step badge from 100K to 105K or 110K steps. The lifetime miles badge took care of itself as long as I wore my Fitbit.

50+ Social Bookmarking Sites : Importance of User Generated Tags, Votes and Links - Search Engine Journal Editor’s Note: This post was updated in October of 2016. Is social bookmarking still relevant in 2016? Read this updated post by Anna Crowe to learn more. The positive effects of social bookmarking for publishers of news sites, blogs, and other websites are outstanding. Social bookmarking can introduce sites to others with relevant tastes and drive traffic and valuable backlinks to your site. Some social bookmark sites pass on link juice, while some use the NoFollow attribute. The Full Value of Mobile We need a little more info to calculate ROI. To calculate your ROI we need you to upload a Google Click Type Report for your mobile campaign. We'll walk you through the process step-by-step. Not a Google Ads Display Network customer?

iPad 2 Camera Has Only 23 Active Daily Users ~ Mobile News According to Flickr’s camera usage statistics, the iPad 2′s camera is used by very few people — only 23 active daily users. And so far, 12,811 photos have been taken and uploaded to Flickr with the device.By comparison, the iPhone 4 has 4,402 daily active users; more than a million photos have been taken with the device. We don’t have exact numbers of iPad 2 sales, but the tablet has been on the market since March 11. The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript SEO While search engines have made significant steps in being able to properly crawl and index JavaScript websites, they still don’t have the resources required to keep pace – including Google. This is where JavaScript SEO comes in. JavaScript SEO is the branch of SEO that focuses exclusively on the optimization of JavaScript websites to make sure they’re crawled and indexed properly by search engines. [PLEASE NOTE: Google recently announced that they finally updated their Web Rendering Service. It is based on the most recent version of Chromium and it now supports many modern JavaScript features. All of the other information in this guide should be still accurate.

How to Find Anything Online With Advanced Search Techniques Search engines do a lot more than immediately meets the eye. If you’re getting results that aren’t relevant, if you're getting too many results, if you want to find something on a particular web site, or if you just want to do a quick calculation or measurement conversion, there are some pretty cool tricks that you can do. Some of these techniques will work in any search engine, but the coolest features work only on Google.

The Full Value of Mobile Webinar The Full Value of Mobile With mobile, we are no longer seeing consumers taking linear shopping paths that begin and end on the same device: while many users start their journey on mobile and complete purchases on the phone, many also start on mobile and end up buying in-store or on different devices. As a marketer, it is crucial that you start measuring and assigning value to all mobile conversions so you fully understand how mobile impacts your business. In this Webinar, we highlight the full range of conversions that mobile can drive and ways in which you can measure them.

Future IPhone Will Support China Mobile's 4G Network ~ Mobile News Future versions of Apple's iPhone will support China Mobile's fourth generation (4G) network, China's largest mobile carrier said, a sign that it will eventually offer the iconic device to its 600 million customers. China Mobile's chairman Wang Jianzhou reported the development on Thursday, according to a company spokeswoman. Both Apple and the carrier have reached a consensus on the development of Long-Term Evolution (LTE), a 4G technology that can allow mobile phones to exchange data at much faster rates. When Apple releases iPhones built for 4G networks, the devices will also support China Mobile's version of this technology known as LTE TDD (Time-Division Duplex), Wang said. China Mobile has been in discussions with Apple since 2007 about selling its iPhone product, but the companies have yet to reach agreement. Part of those discussions have revolved around China Mobile's third-generation technology known as TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access).

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