Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Future of Advertising Event - DoubleClick Insights





There has been explosive growth in ad technology over the last 20 years. From each of our perspectives -- whether you are an agency, an advertiser, publisher or a technology provider -- we can all still see unprecedented opportunities as the digital world continues to grow and diversify.







We believe that as an industry, we’re on a common digital journey and that the next wave of innovation in ad tech will come from us all working better together. 








However, like all great opportunities, there are challenges and questions, such as:



  • How do we unlock the next $50 billion of opportunity for digital advertising? 

  • How do we deliver those immersive, interactive experiences to today’s empowered consumer demands? 

  • What do we, as part of the ad tech ecosystem, need to build to create even more value for our clients and consumers?




On June 5th we’re hosting DoubleClick Insights to start exploring some answers to these questions. Senior leaders from top agencies, advertisers and publishers will help lead the conversation -- and you’re invited to join via the live stream! Register here.



The agenda will include topics such as:



Adapting to the Empowered Consumer:

Neal Mohan, Vice President, Display Advertising at Google will be joined by David Kenny, Chairman & CEO, The Weather Channel Companies, and James Pitaro, Co-President, Disney Interactive Media Group, to discuss how technology is being used to deliver new content and advertising experiences to consumers.



If We Build It, Will They (Consumers) Come? 

Terry Kawaja, CEO and Co-Founder, Luma Partners (and creator of the now legendary LUMAscape chart) will lead a conversation about the ad tech ecosystem, and what it needs to do next to add value for agencies, publishers, marketers – and ultimately consumers. Terry will be joined onstage by:


  • Omar Tawokol, Chief Executive Officer, BlueKai

  • Greg Stuart, Global CEO of Mobile Marketing Association

  • Kurt Unkel, President, VivaKi 

  • Shishir Mehrota, Vice President of Product Management, YouTube


Outside the Box: Technology = Creative Friend or Foe?


Technology is supposed to make the life of a marketer easier. For our final conversation, we’re going to focus on the question of: Is this technology exploring resulting in better marketing? Or, is it just resulting in mediocre creative and complexity for both consumers and marketers? Karim Temsamani, Vice President - New Products and Solutions, Google moderates the conversation with leaders from creative agencies, iconic brands and publishers including:


  • Brad Ruffkess, Global Connection, Coca-Cola

  • Mike Lowenstern, Managing Director of Digital Advertising, R/GA

  • Peter Minnium, Head of Digital Brand Initiatives, IAB 

  • John Caldwell, Chief Digital Officer, National Geographic


The live stream will start on June 5, 2012, at 9:00 am PDT, and you’ll be able to watch from your computer, tablet, or mobile device. To learn more about our highlighted speakers go to the Speakers page on our site.



Please register for this virtual event by visiting the DoubleClick Insights Live Stream page.



DoubleClick Insights

Tuesday, June 5th 2012

9:00am - 1:00pm PST

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Following us on Google+ or Twitter (@DoubleClick and @DoubleClick_pub)? Use the #dclkinsights tag as you're watching the event to ask questions or share comments during the event?



Posted by Stephen Kliff and Scott Brown, DoubleClick Marketing


Future of Advertising Event - DoubleClick Insights





There has been explosive growth in ad technology over the last 20 years. From each of our perspectives -- whether you are an agency, an advertiser, publisher or a technology provider -- we can all still see unprecedented opportunities as the digital world continues to grow and diversify.







We believe that as an industry, we're on a common digital journey and that the next wave of innovation in ad tech will come from us all working better together. 








However, like all great opportunities, there are challenges and questions, such as:



  • How do we unlock the next $50 billion of opportunity for digital advertising? 

  • How do we deliver those immersive, interactive experiences to today's empowered consumer demands? 

  • What do we, as part of the ad tech ecosystem, need to build to create even more value for our clients and consumers?




On June 5th we're hosting the DoubleClick Insights event to start exploring some answers to these questions. Senior leaders from top agencies, advertisers and publishers will help lead the conversation -- and you're invited to join via the live stream! Register here.



The agenda will include topics such as:



Adapting to the Empowered Consumer - Neal Mohan, Vice President, Display Advertising at Google will be joined by David Kenny, Chairman & CEO, The Weather Channel Companies, and James Pitaro, Co-President, Disney Interactive Media Group, to discuss how technology is being used to deliver new content and advertising experiences to consumers.



If We Build It, Will They (Consumers) Come? Terry Kawaja, CEO and Co-Founder, Luma Partners (and creator of the now legendary LUMAscape chart) will lead a conversation about the ad tech ecosystem, and what it needs to do next to add value for agencies, publishers, marketers, and ultimately consumers. Terry will be joined onstage by:


  • Omar Tawokol, Chief Executive Officer, BlueKai

  • Greg Stuart, Global CEO of Mobile Marketing Association

  • Kurt Unkel, President, VivaKi 

  • Shishir Mehrota, Vice President of Product Management, YouTube


Outside the Box: Technology = Creative Friend or Foe?


Technology is supposed to make the life of a marketer easier. For our final conversation, we're going to focus on the question of: Is this technology exploring resulting in better marketing? Or, is it just resulting in mediocre creative and complexity for both consumers and marketers? Karim Temsamani, Vice President - New Products and Solutions, Google moderates the conversation with leaders from creative agencies, iconic brands and publishers including:


  • Brad Ruffkess, Global Connection, Coca-Cola

  • Mike Lowenstern, Managing Director of Digital Advertising, R/GA

  • Peter Minnium, Head of Digital Brand Initiatives, IAB 

  • John Caldwell, Chief Digital Officer, National Geographic


The live stream will start on June 5, 2012, at 9:00 am PDT, and you'll be able to watch from your computer, tablet, or mobile device. To learn more about our highlighted speakers go to the Speakers page on our site.



Please register for this virtual event by visiting the DoubleClick Insights Live Stream page.



DoubleClick Insights

Tuesday, June 5th 2012

9:00am - 1:00pm PST

Set event reminder today



Following us on Google+ or Twitter (@DoubleClick and @DoubleClick_pub)? Use the #dclkinsights tag as you're watching the event to ask questions or share comments during the event?



Posted by Stephen Kliff and Scott Brown, DoubleClick Marketing


Mobile Rich Media Advertising Gets Easier than Ever Before

[Cross-posted to the Google Mobile Ads Blog.]

Advertisers want to manage their mobile display campaigns with the accountability and ease provided by the DoubleClick platform. Toward this goal, in November 2011, we introduced a streamlined workflow for mobile display campaigns by adding support for a "Mobile In-App" rich media format in DoubleClick Studio and DoubleClick for Advertisers. Today we’re happy to announce that advertisers can serve mobile ads, in both standard and rich media formats, from DoubleClick for Advertisers into the AdMob network with no beta restrictions and new options for easily creating beautiful, mobile rich media ads.

This ad serving solution makes it easier to build, traffic, serve and measure mobile rich media ads, allowing easy integration of mobile into the overall workflow. Media teams gain access to interaction rate and clickthrough rate for their mobile rich media ads and can compare this to these metrics for their other ads. There is no need to fuss with multiple reports from different publishers, all information can be aggregated with our robust reporting system.

Building mobile rich media ads can start in DoubleClick Studio, where creative agencies upload HTML5 assets to build and test their creatives. Or, our services team can assemble any one of eleven mobile rich media designs ideal for showing your videos, retail locations or products via a rich ad placed within AdMob mobile apps. These designs make it easy for advertisers to create beautiful and highly interactive ads with no HTML5 expertise.

With desktop display and rich media, advertisers have enjoyed the ability to build an ad once and run it in multiple places. We are continuing to work towards making this a reality for mobile display advertising by extending our reach beyond the AdMob network and integrating with other mobile in-app networks, and are actively performing initial testing. As our reach grows, so will our ability to help advertisers manage their mobile display campaigns with accountability and ease.

To learn more about how DoubleClick’s mobile solutions can meet your needs, download the DoubleClick Guide to Mobile Rich Media.

Future of advertising event - DoubleClick Insights





There has been explosive growth in ad technology over the last 20 years. From each of our perspectives -- whether you are an agency, an advertiser, publisher or a technology provider -- we can all still see unprecedented opportunities as the digital world continues to grow and diversify.







We believe that as an industry, we’re on a common digital journey and that the next wave of innovation in ad tech will come from us all working better together. 








However, like all great opportunities, there are challenges and questions, such as:



  • How do we unlock the next $50 billion of opportunity for digital advertising? 

  • How do we deliver those immersive, interactive experiences to today’s empowered consumer demands? 

  • What do we, as part of the ad tech ecosystem, need to build to create even more value for our clients and consumers?




On June 5th we’re hosting DoubleClick Insights to start exploring some answers to these questions. Senior leaders from top agencies, advertisers and publishers will help lead the conversation -- and you’re invited to join via the live stream! Register here.



The agenda will include topics such as:



Adapting to the Empowered Consumer:

Neal Mohan, Vice President, Display Advertising at Google will be joined by David Kenny, Chairman & CEO, The Weather Channel Companies, and James Pitaro, Co-President, Disney Interactive Media Group, to discuss how technology is being used to deliver new content and advertising experiences to consumers.



If We Build It, Will They (Consumers) Come? 

Terry Kawaja, CEO and Co-Founder, Luma Partners (and creator of the now legendary LUMAscape chart) will lead a conversation about the ad tech ecosystem, and what it needs to do next to add value for agencies, publishers, marketers – and ultimately consumers. Terry will be joined onstage by:


  • Omar Tawokol, Chief Executive Officer, BlueKai

  • Greg Stuart, Global CEO of Mobile Marketing Association

  • Kurt Unkel, President, VivaKi 

  • Shishir Mehrota, Vice President of Product Management, YouTube


Outside the Box: Technology = Creative Friend or Foe?


Technology is supposed to make the life of a marketer easier. For our final conversation, we’re going to focus on the question of: Is this technology exploring resulting in better marketing? Or, is it just resulting in mediocre creative and complexity for both consumers and marketers? Karim Temsamani, Vice President - New Products and Solutions, Google moderates the conversation with leaders from creative agencies, iconic brands and publishers including:


  • Brad Ruffkess, Global Connection, Coca-Cola

  • Mike Lowenstern, Managing Director of Digital Advertising, R/GA

  • Peter Minnium, Head of Digital Brand Initiatives, IAB 

  • John Caldwell, Chief Digital Officer, National Geographic


The live stream will start on June 5, 2012, at 9:00 am PDT, and you’ll be able to watch from your computer, tablet, or mobile device. To learn more about our highlighted speakers go to the Speakers page on our site.



Please register for this virtual event by visiting the DoubleClick Insights Live Stream page.



DoubleClick Insights

Tuesday, June 5th 2012

9:00am - 1:00pm PST

Set event reminder today



Following us on Google+ or Twitter (@DoubleClick and @DoubleClick_pub)? Use the #dclkinsights tag as you're watching the event to ask questions or share comments during the event?



Posted by Stephen Kliff and Scott Brown, DoubleClick Marketing


Tuesday, May 29, 2012

New industry metrics to help publishers chart their growth plan






As the display industry evolves, we're collectively discovering and analyzing trends that point towards promising opportunities and paths to growth. This is the year where we’re doubling down on publishers, giving you the tools you need to make the most from today’s digital media landscape. One of the ways we’re helping publishers navigate their way to success is by providing new sources of industry knowledge and benchmark data. So today we’re introducing a new report, “Display Business Trends: Publisher Edition”.

The Publisher Edition will be the first in a series of publications looking at aggregated global data from across our display advertising solutions. We’re doing this to generate metrics that will answer a few of of the most common questions we hear from our partners, and put some data behind long-held industry assumptions. For example:



  • Is the banner really dead? If you mean the 468x60 banner, then it might be time to hold a wake. This ad size dropped down to 3% of all impressions. Brand-friendly “premium” units are gaining share and we’re seeing that smaller ad units are dropping in popularity. However nearly 80% of all impressions are the ad unit “three musketeers”: the medium rectangle, leaderboard, and skyscraper still comprise the vast majority of ads served.

  • What types of sites are showing strong impression growth?  In 2011, we found that Shopping, Sports, and Auto & Vehicle sites were some of  the fastest year-on-year growth verticals on the Ad Exchange and AdSense. We saw impressive figures across the board, with 15 out of 25 publisher verticals displaying double-digit growth.

  • Are your sell-through rates getting a 17% holiday bonus? Anecdotally we’ve heard that publishers’ sell-through rates increase at the end of the year, thanks to higher advertiser holiday spending. We’re now able to quantify this end-of-year shift, and we found that the global publisher sell-through rate increases from 36% to 42% in the fourth quarter. Comparing the regions in 2011, European publishers experienced the greatest sell-through boost, increasing to 47%.

  • How fast is the growth in mobile and video? Growth in mobile usage has exploded, with mobile web impressions on the Ad Exchange and AdSense platforms increasing by 250% from the third to fourth quarter in 2011. Over the same period, video ad impressions increased nearly 70% across the DFP Video platform.



  • Where in the world are you? All over, as it turns out. Of a possible estimated 245 different countries and territories, we saw publisher ad impressions from 235 of them. These included the island country of Palau - one of the world’s newest sovereign states - and the middle-African nation of Equatorial Guinea, with astounding growth rates of 1106% and 4635% respectively. And while the United States still accounts for the highest percentage of impressions overall, we’re seeing a significant representation from China and Japan, coming in at 11% and 6% respectively.




These metrics are a beginning: they give a snapshot of what’s happening in an ever-changing industry. We hope this sparks conversations across the marketplace about the trends driving these metrics, and how publishers can best capitalize on them to grow their businesses bigger, faster.


For our part, we’ll be continuing the conversation at DoubleClick Insights on June 5th, where we’ll be live-streaming our discussion on the future of buying and selling ads online. We hope you’ll join us there!

Posted by Jonathan Bellack, Director of Product Management, Display Advertising.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Advanced Wordpress SEO Secrets Part 3



                                 


Well As you have Read our previous article on Wordpress SEO secrets.We at incomefigure bring you another article related to Wordpress SEO secrets. I personally recommend the readers to read our Advanced Wordpress SEO Secrets Part 1 Advanced Wordpress SEO Secrets Part 2 So than it will be more helpful and easy to understand as I have carried some stuff from our previous post. So lets get started.Below are some key points so do read it.!. Below  are our Tips and Secrets Which we are going  to reveal.

The Title of your Blog Post:

Incorporating keywords into the title of your post is a good idea. Since I’m writing this article about optimizing your WordPress blog for SEO, I wanted to include as many of those keywords as I could while at the same time trying to create a title that would interest potential visitors. Search engines “see” this title, and you see this title.

This is an most important tip of our “Wordpress SEO secrets”. This is one of the strongest ways to get listed for a search term. However, it is again incredibly important to remember that you must not practice keyword stuffing. Only put your keyword in the title if you’re able to make it sound fun, exciting and engaging to your readers.

XHTML Code: Several reasons that you should take the time to validate your website to the standards of the World Wide Web Consortium. If you know anything about the basics of html then getting started won’t be difficult. Simply click through to the W3C Validator, type in the name of your website, and then follow the instructions that it provides you for resolving each issue. Advanced: Although Google clearly states that they will not dock a website for invalid code, you won’t ever have to worry about them missing anything if your site is semantically accurate.

Link Keywords:  Internal links are a powerful way to let Google know what your articles are about, and they’re a terrific way to increase page views across your site as they invite your readers to click through to read other articles. Do you interlink your articles?  You should. Take a tip from keyword data. However its just tells you about 50-65% of what you need to know.

Keyword data tells you exactly what customers are searching for. Using meta description tags is no longer considered to be as important to SEO as it once was. Google reports that they no longer include meta descriptions in their algorithm.  However, these descriptions still appear in the search results. Therefore, they can influence whether or not someone decides to click on your link and visit your site.

Google Sitemap:Google likes it when you provide them with an easy-to-read overview of all the pages on your site. The easiest and most effective way to deliver this much needed SEO tool is to simply install the WordPress plugin called Google XML Sitemaps. This plugin will do all the hard work for you and automatically update every time you add new posts to your site.

Link to Content: It’s always a good idea to point your users toward resources on other websites that will be helpful for them. It shows security as a thought leader in your niche when you’re willing to suggest to your readers that they leave your site, and search engines favor sites that link to other websites that it views as both generally authoritative and relevant to your articles.


Note: Don’t link to other sites with the hope of getting something in return. Find resources that are genuinely helpful and share them with your readers. People will respect you for it.  


Target Keyword Subjects and Theme for SEO: Arrange your wordpress blog in a silo or themed format, with the main subjects covered representing each silo. Focus your keyword targeting on a limited number of terms for more targeted seo.

 Focusing on siloed or themed content makes it easy for Google to index and focuses your content more on the words you really want to be ranking for. I don’t practice hyper-strict siloing, but its helpful for understanding how Google views your site via its spiders.

Optimize Images In Your Posts: When you can illustrate your topics and articles with attention grabbing artwork or photography people are more likely to view your content.  As you work to do that, be sure to use image titles and alt text that adequately describe both the image and the content of the article. Search engines don’t “see” images.

That’s why it’s so important to use the file nametitle, alternate text and description fields to help optimize your site for the search engines (SEO) Enter carefully chosen keywords that describe your post (not necessarily the picture).


Link to Related Posts:  My final piece of advice  in our “WORDPRESS SECRETS”is to install WordPress Related Posts Plugin and begin linking to 4 or 5 similar articles at the bottom of each article. This is both a terrific way to guide your readers to more of your articles on similar topics and it’s a terrific way to guide search engines around your site.

Its an important tip of our “Wordpress SEO secrets


Things To Avoid on Your WordPress Blog:  
  • What to Avoid on Your WordPress Blog
  • Avoid unethical gray and black hat search engine optimization tactics.

Check out Yahoo’s quality content guidelines that lays out how it determines user relevance and rank. The principles apply to Google and most other search engines as well.This is most important tip of our “Wordpress SEO secrets

Conclusion:

So that’s where it ends today, hope it wasn't too hard work, and you’ve seen something you might not have thought about yet, but if not there’s plenty more to come.I hope this article may have provide you enough knowledge for you people to become a champ in SEO.

As this was our motive in our article “Wordpress SEO secrets” I hope it has given you enough secrets that you may not known. Stay Tuned for more upcoming article related to “Wordpress SEO secrets”.


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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

1.6.6 SDK Released




While the Search API was a feature that was just so exciting we couldn’t wait to share it, we still have our regularly scheduled release for May full of new offerings, fixes and refinements with a little something for everyone.





Search API


For the Search API, we’ve included a change that displays the current experimental quota limits in the Admin Console. We've also made several bug fixes and small naming changes in the API to improve consistency. 





Service Refinements


As a result of the Master/Slave datastore deprecation, new users will no longer be able to create new Master/Slave applications. We strongly suggest that developers move their existing Master/Slave applications to HRD.





Feature Updates


We are always looking for ways to remove our system limits so that developers can get the most out of the App Engine platform. With this release, apps that have billing enabled can now configure up to 100 cron jobs.





Lastly, we will be prompting a small percentage of admin console users each week to participate in an optional user satisfaction survey.





Of course, we can’t get to all the new things we have for you here, so don’t forget to read the full release notes for Python, Java, and Go. Stack Overflow for App Engine is an amazing way to get technical help from the community and members of the App Engine team, and we continue the lively discussion about App Engine over on our Google Group.








- Posted by the Google App Engine Team








Interested in working with the Google App Engine team? We are hiring solutions architects to help support our premier customers and engage with the community to broaden the impact of Google's cloud offerings.