Vowel Length of the Top Million Website Names

Ever thought, How many vowels are present in award winning successful website names? How are these websites named? Of-course if you think about it, the answer seems pretty clear at first. When you name a website, it has to have enough letters to make a meaningful yet logical impression on the viewer's mind. However, a name that is long taxes the memory of the viewer and it is unlikely you'll...

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Why do Black and White images look awesome?

In the world of filters I had often wondered why do black and white images look so cool. You would find them on website front pages, birthday cards, magazines and what not. But the mystery surrounding the human obsession about the binary colors seem unexplained at best. What is it in those colors that attracts us? Why do pictures in black and white look more beautiful than their colored...

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How to calculate the readability of a passage

The engine at read-able.com performs its function flawlessly when you add some text to be analyzed.  The following text is from an article on "4 crucial facts Google Analytics can tell about your readers". And the following are the results after assessing the piece of text. As can be seen from the table itself, several parameters are calculated on the text. An explanation with...

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An introduction to Content Marketing

Content Marketing or Internet Marketing is basically advertising whose main job is to direct traffic from one website to another. This might include direction of traffic from a blog to an eCommerce website or from a social network to a blog/ website.  More often than not, advertisements lead to a series of events not envisioned even by the web owner. A very simple example can be a situation...

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Interview with the geniuses at Degoo.com

Today we have with us the founders of a really interesting cloud based service, degoo.com. Often users face problems when they try to back up their computers.  Some suffer due to lack of processing power. But, our Dynamic duo Carl Hasselskog (CEO) and Mattias Nylitz (Co-Founder) worked upon their master's thesis and created degoo.com, a service that lets you automatically back your computer...

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How will my Blog Die? (New and Returning Visitors)

There are two types of visitors on a blog, an impressed one which has returned to the website and an unimpressed one which has arrived for for the first time. Note. If you think you've missed the previous part, check out the 'When will my blog die?' study from the start. Several parameters define the quality of visitors on a website, percentage new sessions and percentage returning sessions...

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Tips for Comment Moderation. What Should you keep and what should you delete? Part 2

Comment moderation is one of those important aspects of managing a blog which tells the readers about the integrity and quality of the blog.  A previous article on Tips for comment moderation talked about protecting a blog's image against comment spammers. This is the part two of the series. The Link Factory Type A very ancient breed of comment spammers often use a technique known as...

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How will my blog die? (Pages per Sessions)

Pages per Session as the name suggests is the number of internal pages visited by your reader when he browses your website in one go. But what happens to the number of pages per session when your blog starts dying? Note. If you think you've missed the previous part, check out the 'When will my blog die?' study from the start. There is a parameter known as pages per session for determining...

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How will my blog die? (Session Duration)

Session duration in simple words is the amount of time spent by a user or a reader on your website. This article will tell you what happens to that session duration when a blog is gearing towards death. Note. If you think you've missed the previous part, check out the 'When will my blog die?' study from the start. Session duration is one of the parameters that define the quality...

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How will my blog die? (Bounce Rate)

Ever wondered how will your blog die? Or What would happen when your blog dies? The article series will help you answer this question in detail. This article will discuss the changes in the bounce rate when your blog dies. Note. If you think you've missed the previous part, check out the 'When will my blog die?' study from the start. Though it has been proved more than once that...

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