Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Free PSP game downloads are fun, but these videos are funnier
Awesomest Kid in the World - This kid gets stuck in a vending machine, seriously...Kid Gets "Owned" by Boogie Board - This dude gets worked over by his board. OuchGymnast Wipeouts - This is the kind of stuff we want to see on NBC OlympicsExercise Balls Gone Psycho - Giant exercise ball and the world-class moron meetFor more gaming news and polls:Castlevania Judgement Becomes a Fighting Game?Rate Secret Agent ClankRate Hellboy the Science of EvilShould SEGA begin to make iPod Game Titles?
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008
易中天先生的推断也会失误
提到胜者为王，我又想起了易中天先生品诸葛亮的一段，提到诸葛亮的“粉丝”编造的四个历史故事，其中就一个是空城计！自马谡失街亭后，司马懿高歌猛进，诸葛亮来不及撤离，于是耍空城计以延时间，当时情况是，诸葛亮在城楼上扶琴起歌，面对司马懿形色不变，这使得中计数次司马懿以为有计，于是转头回撤....
易中天先生品的很的理由：
1, 既然连面都看得见，何不一箭射之；
2, 那小一个城，大军已至，围困之，他诸葛亮也跑不了啊；
3,再说，当他回撤后，发现没有追兵，为何不回马再攻。
所以这个故事有明显的漏洞。 是的，如果诸葛亮真的在城楼耍这游戏，纵一般懂兵法小将的也可将其拿下，何况司马懿 但是问题就在这里 司马氏是成功的，用成者为王这一理论，我们不妨肯定司马懿当时的决定是有道理的。
那么道理在哪里呢？
试想，如果司马懿真采用易品天先生说的任意一招，定叫诸葛进黄泉，
但是，如果诸葛真死了，司马懿会如何?诸葛一灭，等于灭了蜀，以魏的实力，再灭吴也指日可待，那么很快就三国统一。到时的司马懿也就是一大功臣了，可谁都知道，和平时的将军，特别是功劳大的将军，肯定不会有好下场。
所以司马懿没想过做和平时的功臣，他想的是正如他告诉他的两个儿子“烈士暮年,壮志不已！”——在曹操手下干过活的人，当然是想它日也能当权！
所以，诸葛亮不能死，时机还未成熟——司马懿出征就没有杀诸葛亮的念头！
那么，这个空城计的存在，按照易中天先生的品说，是不能否定的，而是有大智在里面。
谁的智慧更高一筹？是诸葛亮，还是司马懿？ 是诸葛亮在冒险，还是他知道司马懿不会杀他；是司马懿真的中了计，还是他故意让诸葛亮高兴一回；甚至是他们俩都清楚情形，故意弄的个儿戏糊弄大伙！？
因为成者为王，所以我说是司马懿故意让诸葛亮高兴了一回！
易中天先生品的很的理由：
1, 既然连面都看得见，何不一箭射之；
2, 那小一个城，大军已至，围困之，他诸葛亮也跑不了啊；
3,再说，当他回撤后，发现没有追兵，为何不回马再攻。
所以这个故事有明显的漏洞。 是的，如果诸葛亮真的在城楼耍这游戏，纵一般懂兵法小将的也可将其拿下，何况司马懿 但是问题就在这里 司马氏是成功的，用成者为王这一理论，我们不妨肯定司马懿当时的决定是有道理的。
那么道理在哪里呢？
试想，如果司马懿真采用易品天先生说的任意一招，定叫诸葛进黄泉，
但是，如果诸葛真死了，司马懿会如何?诸葛一灭，等于灭了蜀，以魏的实力，再灭吴也指日可待，那么很快就三国统一。到时的司马懿也就是一大功臣了，可谁都知道，和平时的将军，特别是功劳大的将军，肯定不会有好下场。
所以司马懿没想过做和平时的功臣，他想的是正如他告诉他的两个儿子“烈士暮年,壮志不已！”——在曹操手下干过活的人，当然是想它日也能当权！
所以，诸葛亮不能死，时机还未成熟——司马懿出征就没有杀诸葛亮的念头！
那么，这个空城计的存在，按照易中天先生的品说，是不能否定的，而是有大智在里面。
谁的智慧更高一筹？是诸葛亮，还是司马懿？ 是诸葛亮在冒险，还是他知道司马懿不会杀他；是司马懿真的中了计，还是他故意让诸葛亮高兴一回；甚至是他们俩都清楚情形，故意弄的个儿戏糊弄大伙！？
因为成者为王，所以我说是司马懿故意让诸葛亮高兴了一回！
搜索引擎也是"炒"出来的
十一国庆期间也没想玩的..... 只能看看书扩展眼界....
几日下来，过得倒也快..
有点小事却浮上心头
9月29日高中同学来深圳，本是到他表弟边来玩，我也胜情相邀，算是见着了五年多没见的老同学了，见老同学本是谈谈心，倒也畅快，可他这个老表，却让我纳闷了好一阵子.....
晚上吃饭时，经同学介绍，他表弟是做Asp.net技术 ERP方面的，表弟比他小二个月。因此咱们有得一谈，在谈到我是干啥的时候，我说SEO，并解释说是搜索引擎优化，他不解，细问到，具体工作是干什么，我说 就是搜索引擎优化，提升网站的排名。
他思索起来说，在国内的百度，谁有钱，谁上，没钱的人永远上不去，有钱的人不知花钱值不值，一点意思也没有....
一听这话，就知道是没做营销推广的纯技术分子，因为现在的网络营销，是肯定会分析出你的钱是用在了哪里；花钱值不值，市场话了算；中国人喜欢排名这玩意，而且而促成了一个百度，所以，它肯定有意思。
这又让我想起了以前的同事，他知道我在做搜索引擎优化方面的工作后，一日居然真的问我怎么把一个很复杂的SQL查询语句优化一下！一个是对搜索引擎营销的误解，一个是对SEO 的全然不知！
我说Google有些不一样，它有原则，可以通过技术做优化，提升排名，可以提升网站形象与网站流量，带来客户。
“可原则是Google定的，只有他们知道，你们哪会有什么技术呢？”
“是的，算法是他们定的，但他们也会公布一些算法，我们可以查找最新信息，去做一些适合排名的优化工作，根据长期的经验积累，是可以做出很大效果的”
“但是，你们的这些工作，还是依赖于Google，它想怎样排名就怎样，做的也没多大意义。”
“Google能做到今天这么大，就因为他有一定原则，为了让用户能更快的搜到他想要的信息，原则是不会改变的，正是这些原则才让千千万万的人用它，才让它积累成2000亿美金的资产，相当于微软帝国的一半....”
“‘搜’只是概念，是一种抄作，我就很少用搜索引擎！”
“但70%的用户每天都在使用搜索引擎啊...”
“那也是抄作！”
“晕，两千亿美金难道都是抄出来的.....”
......
下面的话是越址越远了.....
争论的话题其实并不重要，而是让我上心的是——面前说话的青年人看事务到底有没有原则！ 就算是一个外行说话，也不该这么没有见第啊！
存在即有道理，诺大的一个搜索引擎市场，硬要说是在抄“搜”的概念；搜索引擎的一些原则硬是说“它”想换就换......
址到百度，它在中国的成功，很多人贬它，贬它什么，大家都很明白，但是它却是一个胜者为王的又一典范。
提到胜者为王，我又想起了易中天先生品诸葛亮的一段，提到诸葛亮的“粉丝”编造的四个历史故事，其中就一个是空城计！
自马谡失街亭后，司马懿高歌猛进，诸葛亮来不及撤离，于是耍空城计以延时间，当时情况是，诸葛亮在城楼上扶琴起歌，面对司马懿形色不变，这使得中计数次司马懿以为有计，于是转头回撤.... 易中天先生品的很的理由：1, 既然连面都看得见，何不一箭射之；2, 那小一个城，大军已至，围困之，他诸葛亮也跑不了啊；3,再说，当他回撤后，发现没有追兵，为何不回马再攻。所以这个故事有明显的漏洞。 是的，如果诸葛亮真的在城楼耍这游戏，纵一般懂兵法小将的也可将其拿下，何况司马懿 但是问题就在这里 司马氏是成功的，用成者为王这一理论，我们不妨肯定司马懿当时的决定是有道理的。 那么道理在哪里呢？ 试想，如果司马懿真采用易品天先生说的任意一招，定叫诸葛进黄泉，但是，如果诸葛真死了，司马懿会如何?诸葛一灭，等于灭了蜀，以魏的实力，再灭吴也指日可待，那么很快就三国统一。到时的司马懿也就是一大功臣了，可谁都知道，和平时的将军，特别是功劳大的将军，肯定不会有好下场。所以司马懿没想过做和平时的功臣，他想的是正如他告诉他的两个儿子“烈士暮年,壮志不已！”——在曹操手下干过活的人，当然是想它日也能当权！ 所以，诸葛亮不能死，时机还未成熟——司马懿出征就没有杀诸葛亮的念头！ 那么，这个空城计的存在，按照易中天先生的品说，是不能否定的，而是有大智在里面。 谁的智慧更高一筹？是诸葛亮，还是司马懿？ 是诸葛亮在冒险，还是他知道司马懿不会杀他；是司马懿真的中了计，还是他故意让诸葛亮高兴一回；甚至是他们俩都清楚情形，故意弄的个儿戏糊弄大伙！？ 因为成者为王，所以我说是司马懿故意让诸葛亮高兴了一回！
什么是原则，现在也许更明了。历史在演变的开始，大家还不知道成王败寇的规律，等到现在，成王败寇已成铁的规律，那么，我们就可以用这一规律做为定理去分析事务！
因为司马懿成功了，所以我们得从他做的每一件事都是成功的角度去分析！ 因为百度成功了，所以百度就是中国的搜索引擎，不容疑虑，你还去否定它，就是错误的！ 因为搜索引擎的市场已非常大了，所以它绝不是在“抄”，而是实实在在的市场，搜索引擎形成的标准规则，是不会随便改的！
几日下来，过得倒也快..
有点小事却浮上心头
9月29日高中同学来深圳，本是到他表弟边来玩，我也胜情相邀，算是见着了五年多没见的老同学了，见老同学本是谈谈心，倒也畅快，可他这个老表，却让我纳闷了好一阵子.....
晚上吃饭时，经同学介绍，他表弟是做Asp.net技术 ERP方面的，表弟比他小二个月。因此咱们有得一谈，在谈到我是干啥的时候，我说SEO，并解释说是搜索引擎优化，他不解，细问到，具体工作是干什么，我说 就是搜索引擎优化，提升网站的排名。
他思索起来说，在国内的百度，谁有钱，谁上，没钱的人永远上不去，有钱的人不知花钱值不值，一点意思也没有....
一听这话，就知道是没做营销推广的纯技术分子，因为现在的网络营销，是肯定会分析出你的钱是用在了哪里；花钱值不值，市场话了算；中国人喜欢排名这玩意，而且而促成了一个百度，所以，它肯定有意思。
这又让我想起了以前的同事，他知道我在做搜索引擎优化方面的工作后，一日居然真的问我怎么把一个很复杂的SQL查询语句优化一下！一个是对搜索引擎营销的误解，一个是对SEO 的全然不知！
我说Google有些不一样，它有原则，可以通过技术做优化，提升排名，可以提升网站形象与网站流量，带来客户。
“可原则是Google定的，只有他们知道，你们哪会有什么技术呢？”
“是的，算法是他们定的，但他们也会公布一些算法，我们可以查找最新信息，去做一些适合排名的优化工作，根据长期的经验积累，是可以做出很大效果的”
“但是，你们的这些工作，还是依赖于Google，它想怎样排名就怎样，做的也没多大意义。”
“Google能做到今天这么大，就因为他有一定原则，为了让用户能更快的搜到他想要的信息，原则是不会改变的，正是这些原则才让千千万万的人用它，才让它积累成2000亿美金的资产，相当于微软帝国的一半....”
“‘搜’只是概念，是一种抄作，我就很少用搜索引擎！”
“但70%的用户每天都在使用搜索引擎啊...”
“那也是抄作！”
“晕，两千亿美金难道都是抄出来的.....”
......
下面的话是越址越远了.....
争论的话题其实并不重要，而是让我上心的是——面前说话的青年人看事务到底有没有原则！ 就算是一个外行说话，也不该这么没有见第啊！
存在即有道理，诺大的一个搜索引擎市场，硬要说是在抄“搜”的概念；搜索引擎的一些原则硬是说“它”想换就换......
址到百度，它在中国的成功，很多人贬它，贬它什么，大家都很明白，但是它却是一个胜者为王的又一典范。
提到胜者为王，我又想起了易中天先生品诸葛亮的一段，提到诸葛亮的“粉丝”编造的四个历史故事，其中就一个是空城计！
自马谡失街亭后，司马懿高歌猛进，诸葛亮来不及撤离，于是耍空城计以延时间，当时情况是，诸葛亮在城楼上扶琴起歌，面对司马懿形色不变，这使得中计数次司马懿以为有计，于是转头回撤.... 易中天先生品的很的理由：1, 既然连面都看得见，何不一箭射之；2, 那小一个城，大军已至，围困之，他诸葛亮也跑不了啊；3,再说，当他回撤后，发现没有追兵，为何不回马再攻。所以这个故事有明显的漏洞。 是的，如果诸葛亮真的在城楼耍这游戏，纵一般懂兵法小将的也可将其拿下，何况司马懿 但是问题就在这里 司马氏是成功的，用成者为王这一理论，我们不妨肯定司马懿当时的决定是有道理的。 那么道理在哪里呢？ 试想，如果司马懿真采用易品天先生说的任意一招，定叫诸葛进黄泉，但是，如果诸葛真死了，司马懿会如何?诸葛一灭，等于灭了蜀，以魏的实力，再灭吴也指日可待，那么很快就三国统一。到时的司马懿也就是一大功臣了，可谁都知道，和平时的将军，特别是功劳大的将军，肯定不会有好下场。所以司马懿没想过做和平时的功臣，他想的是正如他告诉他的两个儿子“烈士暮年,壮志不已！”——在曹操手下干过活的人，当然是想它日也能当权！ 所以，诸葛亮不能死，时机还未成熟——司马懿出征就没有杀诸葛亮的念头！ 那么，这个空城计的存在，按照易中天先生的品说，是不能否定的，而是有大智在里面。 谁的智慧更高一筹？是诸葛亮，还是司马懿？ 是诸葛亮在冒险，还是他知道司马懿不会杀他；是司马懿真的中了计，还是他故意让诸葛亮高兴一回；甚至是他们俩都清楚情形，故意弄的个儿戏糊弄大伙！？ 因为成者为王，所以我说是司马懿故意让诸葛亮高兴了一回！
什么是原则，现在也许更明了。历史在演变的开始，大家还不知道成王败寇的规律，等到现在，成王败寇已成铁的规律，那么，我们就可以用这一规律做为定理去分析事务！
因为司马懿成功了，所以我们得从他做的每一件事都是成功的角度去分析！ 因为百度成功了，所以百度就是中国的搜索引擎，不容疑虑，你还去否定它，就是错误的！ 因为搜索引擎的市场已非常大了，所以它绝不是在“抄”，而是实实在在的市场，搜索引擎形成的标准规则，是不会随便改的！
Monday, 10 November 2008
Yahoo!全球站推出1.99美元国际域名
今天像往日一样进入Yahoo.com , 不小心发现网站右侧栏提示$1.99域名，进去一看果真事实，并进行了一系列操作以下是截图！
1、进入网站首页：（如果你没见着此图右下角的部分，请刷新网站或重新打开网站，网站每次显示的内容不一样）
2、填写域名并进入，提示域名(http://www.egeee.com/)已注册，但同进可以注册其它更多顶级域名
3、重试域名wondershare.com也被注册，随便填写一个域名wondersharecn.com，成功！
4、点击“继续”，进入，显示$1.99元
当然，这个是域名第一年的费用（接近14元），续费需$9.9美金，也就是接近70元人民币，想想国内60元/年的费用，Yahoo!库存域名更划得来，在三年内是肯定能省点钱的！
-----艾瑞专家：刘学军
首次发表：艾瑞网
Thursday, 16 October 2008
The Most Important Nine Word Sentence in Advertising
Your site advertising is a wonder to behold, and you're attracting plenty of traffic. Strangely, though, you don't seem to be getting any more conversions than you did before your campaign. What's the problem? Sad to say, your problems could be deeper than marketing. Keep reading for some tips on where to look.
As the commercial sector expands, the competition also increases. With globalization taking on humongous proportions, it would be safe to say that no manufacturer today enjoys a monopoly. This competition has given rise to the concept of marketing and advertising.
Marketing is a crucial aspect of the sales figures of almost any commercial activity. How the product is presented to the prospect is considered as important as the product itself. But what most advertising businesses seem to overlook is the most important nine word sentence in advertising. In the words of Rosser Reeves, "A gifted product is mightier than a gifted pen."
The star of the advertisement is the product, not the ad itself.
The central idea behind this nine word sentence is reinstating the importance of the product, which is the ultimate weapon in winning over your client. Rosser Reeves was most remembered for his annoying Anacin advertisement, which was so excruciating for the viewer that the headache medicine's name was embedded in his/her mind. In fact the sales of Anacin tripled after this advertisement went on the air.
Rather than focus on the quality of the advertising, Reeves believed that the product should be the star of the advertisement. Instead of focusing on creating a beautiful and fancy advertisement, the focus should the on imprinting the product's name in the prospect's mind.
Finding the USP of the product and propagating it is the name of the game
It is the unique selling proposition (USP) of the product that should be elaborated in the advertisement, so that it is imprinted in the viewer's mind. Reeves adopted the use of slogans to ensure that prospects remembered the product along with its USP. The Dettol antiseptic company launched a soap which was propagated as an antiseptic soap. While it is known that all soaps are antiseptic in nature, Dettol managed to create a niche for itself by advertising its USP as being an antiseptic soap. So creating a unique selling proposition for the product and imprinting it in the prospect's mind is the trick to effective advertising.
Good advertisements must generate sales in order to be effective
The ultimate idea behind any business-related activity is to make profits. Absolutely no energy should be wasted in undertaking any activity that fails to deliver in support of this ultimate goal of profit making. Profits are made when products are sold. Advertising is a marketing strategy that helps draw the attention of possible buyers towards the product. However, if the advertisement is unable to add to the sales and therefore the consequent profits of a venture, then regardless of the quality of the advertisement, it fails in its aim.
There are several noted ads that are remembered and honored for their great creativity; however, sadly, in many ads, the product seems to be forgotten completely. So while the ads were lovely, they were at the same time useless. Unless the advertisement can compel your prospects to remember the product and maybe even buy it, it is a bad advertisement, no matter how creative the concept behind it may be.
Repeat sales make the real profits
Marketing is a combination of four Ps, namely "product," "price," "placement" and "promotion." Most advertisers seem to forget this combination and interpret the meaning of marketing as only "promotion" of the product. It is imperative to understand the logic of business if one is to develop a coherent advertising strategy. Profits are made when clients return for the product repeatedly. If a soap manufacturer manages to sell one bar of soap to everyone in the vicinity, the business will start a downward trend as soon as the last customer has been attended to. It is only when users of a product buy it once, use it, are satisfied with it and come back repeatedly to purchase it, that a company can grow indefinitely.
Even in the virtual world, advertising strategies are developed in order to not only lure the prospect once, but have browsers return to the site often. eBay has earned a reputation for itself which makes shoppers return to the site for various products. Similarly, there are holiday package-providing sites like makemytrip.com that have plenty of clients returning to look for affordable and interesting holiday packages on the site. The success of these sites lies in clients returning to use their services over and over and over again.
The product itself and not the advertising is what creates repeated sales
No matter how efficient the product advertisement is, it can only raise the prospect's interest in the product and do absolutely no more. A good ad that places the product in the right light and focuses on its USP will only manage to make the prospect pay attention to the product. An interested prospect may buy the product once.
But from that point on, it is the quality of the product, its value for money and other such intrinsic attributes, that will come into play. The "repeat sales" wealth-creating formula can only be executed and implemented by the product. The copywriter can in no way help in adopting or executing this plan. So unless the product is satisfying the customer's needs, the buyer will not return to purchase it again, regardless of how good the advertising strategy of the product is. The best of advertisements cannot make a customer buy a product repeatedly unless the client has been satisfied by the product.
Continuing with the Anacin example, the advertisement made people remember the annoying jingle and therefore by default remember the name of the medicine. But it was when they tried the headache pill that users realized how effective it was. This made them return to the product repeatedly. So what the Anacin advertisement did was embed the name of the product in the prospect's mind -- and that's it. The repeated sales were only created by the pill itself.
The product quality should not take a back seat to the advertising strategy
When pumping large amounts of money into your advertising strategy, never ignore or compromise on the quality of the product. It is the product that will help you cash in on the major profits that can be generated by repeat sales.
Ignoring product performance at the cost of advertising strategy is sure to spell doom for the venture. Since it has been proved that it is the product and not the advertising that causes repeat sales, it is of course crucial that the product be given its due attention.
Repeat sale statistics are like life saving drugs
Successful business ventures give due attention to maintaining regular and correct "repeat sales statistics" because these send out several signals that are crucial for the business. Repeat sales statistics warn the manufacturer early that the product is not faring well against the competition. Armed with this knowledge, corrective measures may be taken in time to pull the product up to mark once more.
For this reason, it is highly advisable that these statistics be maintained month after month and year after year. While almost all commercial ventures understand the importance of advertising, many of them fail to recognize the life-saving effects of "repeat sale statistics."
It is an obvious conclusion now that, while advertising is essential in today's day and age of communication and exposure, it should not take away the focus from the product itself. Simply hiring a creative copywriter is not the solution to good and effective advertising. A good copywriter is not one who creates original ads, but one who is able to bring out the USP of the product. It is the USP of the product that will help create a niche for it.
Advertising agencies that can use the USP of the product in a magnetic manner to bring the prospect to the point of making the first purchase shall be considered effective. From then on it is the product that will perform.
At no given time should the quality of the advertisement awe the viewer to the extent that he or she ignores (or forgets) the product been advertised. So while the temptation to out-perform the product is usually difficult to fight off for a copywriter, a good copywriter must at all times keep the product as the prime and only star of the show.
The M&M slogan "melts in your mouth, not your hands" is a classic example of how the product USP was portrayed in such a way as to keep the product itself as the highlight of the advertisement. Prospects remembered the product and their curiosity was also heightened enough to want to try it out. M&M still rules the market today, and the slogan has lasted for decades now. It was the advertisement created by Reeves that got the prospect's attention, but it was the quality of the product that retained this interest over the years.
Making Your Blog Pay
Making Your Blog Pay
If you write, you can make money online – or so you’ve probably heard. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as it looks; you may make money, but getting rich, or even a living wage, is a little trickier. This article collects some ideas for your consideration.
If you write, you can make money online – or so you’ve probably heard. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as it looks; you may make money, but getting rich, or even a living wage, is a little trickier. This article collects some ideas for your consideration.
First, you’ll want to make sure that your own writing is up to snuff. Sure, you can name any number of places online with deficient writing, and so can I for that matter. But bad spelling and grammar gets in the way of your message, and web users with short attention spans will not want to cut through the chaos. This should be basic, but some of the sites I visited while researching this article reminded me that it isn’t.
Beyond the actual writing, there are certain matters of formatting you might want to consider. Jennifer Osborne, writing for Search Engine People, completed a very good article called “10 Golden Rules of Blogging.” Much of it involves keeping in mind the special points that make writing for the web different from any other kind of writing. For example, there are things you can do to encourage more people to read what you’ve written, such as including buttons for submitting the article to social networking sites. And remember that short attention span I mentioned? You’ll want to cater to it with:
- Killer headlines every time that grab the reader.
- Blog entries that are short and succinct, perhaps 400-700 words long, and mostly substance.
- Posts that are easy to scan, with bulleted lists, bold text, and enough white space to allow the content to “breathe.”
- Pictures and images that help convey your point. Clip art does not look professional for a business blog, but an on-topic image, regardless of the topic, is not hard to find.
Osborne lists a number of important rules, and I recommend you follow the link. But even she admits, “They’re just table stakes to make it even possible to sell.” I’ll come back to that point later in this article. In the next section I’ll discuss a couple of firms that actually pay bloggers to write.
Pity the Starving Writers
One of the best-known ways to make money from your blog, if you’re specifically producing content and not trying to use it to sell anything, is AdSense. This Google program lets web sites earn revenue by allowing the search engine to place relevant text ads on their pages. Your content must be acceptable; Google provides a long list of rules which a web site must follow to be approved for AdSense. You’ll still have to promote your site on your own to get enough views and click-throughs on AdSense ads for this to make money for you.
There are also affiliate programs. Practically everybody knows about Amazon.com’s program; it was launched back in 1996, making it perhaps the oldest such program on the web. Three of our sister sites regularly run items with affiliate links to Amazon. If you’re an avid reviewer, this might be a way for you to make a little income on the side. Once again, though, you’ll have to promote your own web site.
If you’re not averse to promoting advertisers within your blog, you might want to look at Pay Per Post. The Pay Per Post business model matches advertisers with bloggers, letting advertisers sponsor specific blog entries if the entry’s content meets with their approval. The blogger then gets paid.
It’s a little more complicated than that; every Pay Per Post blogger is expected to follow a code of ethics under which they are required, among other things, to reveal when their post has been sponsored by an advertiser. The amount of money a “Postie” makes varies depending on the opportunities they choose to accept, whether their posts are accepted, and many other factors. Top posties can make $2,000 or more in a month, but the average seems to be closer to $200 or less for casual bloggers.
Associated Content offers an interesting business model. It encourages bloggers to write on any topic and submit the post to its “yield management system.” It then pays the writer an up-front fee that usually runs between $4.00 and $20.00. Contributors get another $1.50 for every thousand page views their post receives. AC puts the post on its own web site, and also distributes it directly to specific web sites in its network. AC will also put out “calls for content;” a recent check of the site revealed 83 of them for subjects ranging from celebrity gossip to health issues (such as appropriate exercises for multiple sclerosis).
There is some controversy surrounding Pay Per Post and Associated Content. Some complain that these kinds of companies reduce the quality of content online. Others say that paying bloggers for content, especially the way Pay Per Post does, may cause them to be dishonest in the opinions they express, thus causing problems with the online signal-to-noise ratio. At least one blogger has accused Associated Content of unethical business practices.
Be that as it may, a number of professionals have observed that a good writer can make more money writing their own blog for their own purposes than they can if they write for Pay Per Post or Associated Content. In the next section, I’ll talk about some of the things to keep in mind if you’re using your blog to sell.
The Blog as Sales Tool
Let us assume that, rather than getting paid for your content or advertising around your content, you’re selling a product or service. Your blog then becomes a sales tool. Blogs can be great for building traffic; people are always searching for information on the Internet. If you provide them with the information they’re looking for, they’ll not only stop by and read it; they’ll subscribe to your blog and tell their friends about it. That doesn’t automatically mean they’ll purchase from you, however.
You need to change readers and browsers into customers. How do you accomplish this? Osborne recently wrote about five steps a blogger can take, after mastering the ten golden rules of blogging, to get readers to convert. Some of these also make sense if you’re focused on content and your goal is to boost traffic.
For example, the first step is to build your authority. Are you an expert? Make sure that your readers know it – not from you saying so, but from your sharing your knowledge. Is there one aspect of your field that you know better than anyone else? Write about it. Read about it, too, and link to other blogs in your industry that contain information useful to your readers.
Speaking of links, you can use them proactively to get your readers to convert. Osborne calls this following the “loop strategy” in your posts. Link your reader to the logical “next step.” If you’ve shown them interesting content, link to the next thing they’re likely to find of interest.
Serve Your Reader’s Interest
Here’s something you might not expect: one of the things your reader might find of interest is who YOU are. That’s why your third step is to make sure you have an “About Us” page in your blog. I’ve written about the “About Us” page before, so I’m not going to rehash all my arguments here. I’ll agree, however, with the one Osborne makes.
To put it simply, if I read a blog on a topic that interests me, and I’ve never heard of the writer, I’ll want to know something about them. If you don’t have an “About Us” page, you will leave me wondering – and you’ll pass up an opportunity to build my trust in you. People don’t buy from those they don’t trust; they can’t trust you if they don’t know who you are; and, while there are lots of ways they can find out who you are, isn’t it easiest for you to just tell them?
Now, earlier I said that it’s a good idea to have a “loop strategy” that takes your reader to the next page in which they’re likely to be interested. That could very well be a landing page for your product or service. There’s nothing wrong with linking to a product if it’s related to your blog entry or article and you’ve given the reader useful, related content. For example, who writes articles about the weight loss benefits of green tea? Those who want to sell you green tea, that’s who. “Does that bother me? Not if the article was useful,” Osborne notes. (And if you're really observant, you'll notice I used the loop strategy myself in the first paragraph of this section).
Here’s another good reason to link your blog entry to a landing page: it means that you can have your “call to action” for the purchase somewhere other than in your blog post. A blog, ideally, lets you provide information; it’s not a direct salesman. Leave that to your landing page. There are a number of ways you can ask for the close on that page; I’ve written about landing pages as well. But your blog is not a landing page.
Your blog can bring you money in a variety of ways. I’ve listed only a few here, and given you some tips for using it in conjunction with selling a product or service. I hope I’ve given you enough ideas to work with. Good luck!
Qassia: Intelligent Link Building?
Everyone talks about building links in the SEO Chat forums, so when I saw someone asking about Qassia and its link building potential, I knew I had to take a look. The self-described intelligence engine is in closed beta at the time of writing, but invitations seem easy to obtain. What is Qassia all about? And is it worth your while? In this first part of a two-part article, we'll explore these and other questions.
Qassia describes itself as “a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based directory.” You sign up with Qassia and add knowledge, what the site refers to as “intel.” Kimsolutions, the SEO Chat user who first brought Qassia to my attention, explained that the intel can be your own or something you are legally distributing. I want to emphasize the word “legally,” by the way; the company is pretty strict in their terms of service about that.
They're also very strict in their ToS about each user having only one account, ever, in their lifetime. If you ever make more than one account you will be barred from their site. And if you don't understand their terms of service, they tell you not to use Qassia. I can understand the strictness; this is intellectual property we're dealing with after all.
Anyway, for every piece of intel you add to Qassia, you get a link back to your site. These are dofollow links, not nofollow links – so you can see how this might help you in the link juice department. Every time you create an intel, read and rate an intel, and/or invite a new user you gain Qassia dollars. This is “funny money” that can't be turned into any other currency – but “The more Qassia dollars you have, the better your websites will rank,” according to Qassia's FAQ. You never have to spend real money to use Qassia; the company plans to keep that totally free, and make its money from advertising (Google ads pop up in lots of places throughout the site, and of course next to many pieces of intel).
“Eventually we will introduce auctions for front-page advertising, site-wide links, and other novel ways for you to burn through your hard-earned Qassia dollars,” the company notes. And there are ways to earn real dollars with Qassia, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's see what it takes to set up an account, and what it's like to use Qassia.
This part was very easy. All I had to do was click through the link left by Kimsolutions in the SEO Chat forum, which took me to Kim's profile page on Qassia. At the upper left was a big button that said “Sign up today!” I clicked that and came to a standard-looking sign-up page: After I registered, Qassia served up a dashboard. I'm almost hesitant to do a screen shot, because it's so full of information that a single image won't do it justice. It's clear that Qassia intended the dashboard to be your starting point and a place for you to get many of your questions answered. It's laid out in the familiar three-column format, with the center column being the largest. Down the left side were several boxes that seemed especially of interest to newcomers. The first one told me that I was eligible for a bonus – that for the next 12 hours, if I got someone to sign up for Qassia, I'd get $500 Qassia dollars instead of the usual $100. The second box led to a link that explained how to earn Qassia dollars. The third box explained a special promotion. The fourth box contained a list of intel for screening, and the final box gave links to the latest updates (the most recently approved intel, from the looks of it). Now that I've described the left side, I don't feel guilty about cropping it out in the following screen shots of the dashboard: As you can see from this top part of the dashboard, Qassia subscribes to the sensible idea of giving a user several ways to do things. I can add intel from either the center column of my dashboard or that box on the upper right. There's also a user's manual right at the top, which I'll probably be discussing later. Oh, and as you can see, they're making money – or trying to – from Google ads. Here's the bottom half of the dashboard, sans ads: Okay, right away we see at least one similarity to a social networking site: you get a user profile. You don't have to put anything in your profile at all. If you do choose to edit it, you can tell it to display a number of things: After signing up and looking at a few things, I found myself wondering who is behind Qassia. Unfortunately, I was in for a little frustration. Under Qassia's FAQ, all it says is this: “We are an international web development outfit you've probably never heard of. Chances are, though, that you've come across our sites while browsing the net, because we've been putting out good, useful and sometimes crazy sites since 1996. Qassia is, needless to say, our far most ambitious project yet.” Okay, this is going to drive me crazy not knowing who they are! And the only press release on the site itself, at this time of writing, is one announcing that Acreon, Inc., has taken a five percent stake in the company. There is no mention of how much that comes to in money, since Qassia is still privately owned. So what other information can we glean from the site itself? Qassia was launched in January of this year. At the time of writing, it has accumulated more than 19,000 members, who are trying to promote a like number of sites. Users have submitted nearly 30,000 items of intel, with nearly 11,000 of these items being “original” (I couldn't immediately find any explanation of the difference between plain intel and original intel). They have banned 97 users, which is not a bad record. It will be interesting to see if they will scale well once they come out of private beta. That's all I have time and room for now. In the second part of this article, I plan to explain how to find intel, submit and screen intel, and cover other interesting topics about Qassia. I might even have some useful quotes about the site. See you then!
What got cut off in this screen shot were the three items that I was required to check: that I was over 16, that I have never had any other Qassia accounts, and that I had carefully read and understood their Terms of Service. I'm quite certain that the rule about no multiple accounts, ever, is intended as a spam control mechanism, and it probably isn't the only spam control feature the site has in place. I don’t know how they police that, however.
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Monday, 29 September 2008
Link Building Outside the Box
If you’ve used traditional link building strategies and find yourself running out of ideas, maybe it’s time to do a little brainstorming. To help you get started, this article will clue you in to some underused but powerful ideas for generating buzz and traffic for your web site. Feel free to mix and match or use them as jumping-off points. I owe a lot of the ideas I’m about to describe to Kim Roach at Zany Pixel. Roach wrote an amazing article on unusual link building strategies. I won’t have room to examine them all here, so I urge you to pay a visit to the site. You may come away with just the idea you need to really kick-start your traffic.My first idea, however, comes from Hamlet Batista. He advocates giving something away. Giving goodies away is a time-honored tradition when it comes to marketing, from the little prizes in cereal boxes to the swag-filled days before the first dot-com bust. But how is giving something away going to get you links? It depends on how you do it.Say you run a content-based site that features reviews. If you’ve just run a really good review of something – a restaurant perhaps, or a video game, or an electronic device – why not contact the manufacturer (or game designer, or restaurant owner) and let them know? They’ll be delighted to hear about the good review…and if you suggest that they accept a virtual “badge” or “trophy” that links back to the good review on your site, you will more than likely get a very nice one-way link. This idea can be adapted in a variety of ways. Here’s a spin for not-for-profit educational organizations: in addition to all the educational data you provide on your site, include a number of tests. Let visitors take the tests. If they score particularly high, give them a virtual “award” at the end of the test that they can post to their blog. It gives your site another link, and gets the word out to the blog’s readers. True, not everyone who is online has a blog, but they’re common enough these days to make this worthwhile.
A Strange Place for a BlogYou know about Blogger and WordPress and LiveJournal, of course, and then there are the blogs on social networking sites that aren’t quite as blog-focused. But did you know that you could start a blog on eBay? I didn’t either, but here’s the home page for eBay Blogs. If you think nobody would use eBay Blogs for anything more than getting the word out about the latest items they’ve posted for sale, think again. SEO expert Jim Boykin started an eBay blog. He has only one entry, but it’s very informative for anyone who is trying to sell goods on eBay and is looking for an edge. The entry links back to his main blog, so anyone who’s really interested can find out a lot more. It’s worth noting, by the way, that eBay apparently doesn’t force bloggers to use the rel=”nofollow” tag. Just keep your desired keywords/anchor text in mind and get to work.I talked about giving virtual trophies away earlier. Trophies tend to imply contests of some kind, and holding a contest in your blog is a great way to attract traffic and links. There are even specific sites set up where you can promote your blogging contest. Roach lists no fewer than 15 sites, including Contest Blogger, The Prize Blog, SYC and My Blog Contests. Don’t underestimate the potential benefits of running a contest on your blog. Ben Cook wrote an article a few months ago in which he explained the benefits of the contest he’d just finished running in his blog. The contest’s explicit purpose was building links to help push his site up in the SERPs. Thanks to the contest, he got his site ranked as high as fourth for his chosen key phrase in Yahoo. At the time he wrote the article, he’d settled down to 46th in Google and 37th in Yahoo for the phrase, but that gave him a good base to build on. The contest also brought hundreds of visitors to his site at a time when it was less than three months old. If you want to inspire some interesting responses and conversation along with those links, try to think of a way to make the contest just a little off-beat. Make your contestants work, but not too hard. Photo contests seem more likely to go viral and inspire lots of entries than other kinds of contests, perhaps because digital photography has made it so easy these days. Encourage your entrant to send in a short description along with the photo – search engines can’t see images without something in the alt tag, but they can crawl any other text you put on the page, so this way you get relevant text along with the image.
Sites with Special AppealSome link building ideas work best for particular kinds of sites or businesses. For instance, if you’re one of the many people out there who are running or involved with a startup, you might want to give Killer Startups a look. The site reviews 30 Internet startups every working day, and lets its users vote on which ones they think will be successful. You can submit your startup for review using their slightly lengthy form; in addition to links, it’s possible that you’ll attract an investor.If you have tried using social media optimization, you already know that creating resource lists for sites like Digg can get you links and traffic. But there’s another kind of site you might want to look at. It’s typified by The List Universe. The entire site is devoted to lists, such as “15 Lousy Video Games That Should Never Have Been Made.” As with other social networking sites, you have to register, but here’s a link to their submission form. The site also has its own forums. As with any social networking site, make sure the content you provide adds real value to the community; you don’t want to be perceived as a spammer. Do you think you have a really cool site? You might want to submit it to Cool Site of the Day then. This site specializes in reviewing the most interesting sites around the web that they can find. It’s a great chance for you to get a link – and hopefully lots of visitors as the site’s readers stop by to check you out. Cool Site of the Day has inspired imitators; the Sci Fi channel features a Cool Site in its newsletter, for instance. So if you’re not sure your own site is “cool” enough, you might be able to find a site that does the same thing as “Cool Site,” but covers your own field.Of course, one of the coolest aspects of Cool Site of the Day is that it’s just well-known enough to have the kind of “ripple effect” you see for Digg. Journalists looking for something to put together quickly may check out the Cool Site of the Day and write it up. And since it’s on the Internet, the journalist could be anywhere in the world. Roach mentioned that sites featured on Cool Site of the Day have turned up on the BBC News website, USA Today, and other media outlets.
Working with Formats
You probably have a blog for your company, but do you do a podcast? “But that’s so much trouble!” you say. Actually, it might be less trouble than you think. Odiogo.com offers a free service that lets you turn your blog or any textual content into an audio format. Once you have a podcast, you can submit it to all of the podcast directories. Like magic, you’ve gained lots of new, legitimate links.Do you sell software? Is it available for download only from your web site? You can do better than that. You don’t have to give your software away, but you can create a demo version of it and turn it into a Portable Application Description (PAD) file. Here’s an article that explains what they are and why you’d want to use them. There are even free tools that will create PAD files for you. Once you have a PAD file, you can submit it to more than 1,000 download web sites, spreading the word far and wide about your cool software. They will link back to your site for the actual download.Maybe, like me, you write content rather than code. Do you have an ebook under your belt? You’re in luck. There are a ton of ebook directories out there as well, and you’ll want to submit your work to these directories. Some examples are ebook2u, Wisdom ebooks and Published.com; there are many others.Above all, remember that you’re dealing with the Internet. If you have an idea, someone else may already be doing it on the web. Sometimes that’s a bad thing, but other times it may work in your favor to help you promote your site. Good luck!
A Strange Place for a BlogYou know about Blogger and WordPress and LiveJournal, of course, and then there are the blogs on social networking sites that aren’t quite as blog-focused. But did you know that you could start a blog on eBay? I didn’t either, but here’s the home page for eBay Blogs. If you think nobody would use eBay Blogs for anything more than getting the word out about the latest items they’ve posted for sale, think again. SEO expert Jim Boykin started an eBay blog. He has only one entry, but it’s very informative for anyone who is trying to sell goods on eBay and is looking for an edge. The entry links back to his main blog, so anyone who’s really interested can find out a lot more. It’s worth noting, by the way, that eBay apparently doesn’t force bloggers to use the rel=”nofollow” tag. Just keep your desired keywords/anchor text in mind and get to work.I talked about giving virtual trophies away earlier. Trophies tend to imply contests of some kind, and holding a contest in your blog is a great way to attract traffic and links. There are even specific sites set up where you can promote your blogging contest. Roach lists no fewer than 15 sites, including Contest Blogger, The Prize Blog, SYC and My Blog Contests. Don’t underestimate the potential benefits of running a contest on your blog. Ben Cook wrote an article a few months ago in which he explained the benefits of the contest he’d just finished running in his blog. The contest’s explicit purpose was building links to help push his site up in the SERPs. Thanks to the contest, he got his site ranked as high as fourth for his chosen key phrase in Yahoo. At the time he wrote the article, he’d settled down to 46th in Google and 37th in Yahoo for the phrase, but that gave him a good base to build on. The contest also brought hundreds of visitors to his site at a time when it was less than three months old. If you want to inspire some interesting responses and conversation along with those links, try to think of a way to make the contest just a little off-beat. Make your contestants work, but not too hard. Photo contests seem more likely to go viral and inspire lots of entries than other kinds of contests, perhaps because digital photography has made it so easy these days. Encourage your entrant to send in a short description along with the photo – search engines can’t see images without something in the alt tag, but they can crawl any other text you put on the page, so this way you get relevant text along with the image.
Sites with Special AppealSome link building ideas work best for particular kinds of sites or businesses. For instance, if you’re one of the many people out there who are running or involved with a startup, you might want to give Killer Startups a look. The site reviews 30 Internet startups every working day, and lets its users vote on which ones they think will be successful. You can submit your startup for review using their slightly lengthy form; in addition to links, it’s possible that you’ll attract an investor.If you have tried using social media optimization, you already know that creating resource lists for sites like Digg can get you links and traffic. But there’s another kind of site you might want to look at. It’s typified by The List Universe. The entire site is devoted to lists, such as “15 Lousy Video Games That Should Never Have Been Made.” As with other social networking sites, you have to register, but here’s a link to their submission form. The site also has its own forums. As with any social networking site, make sure the content you provide adds real value to the community; you don’t want to be perceived as a spammer. Do you think you have a really cool site? You might want to submit it to Cool Site of the Day then. This site specializes in reviewing the most interesting sites around the web that they can find. It’s a great chance for you to get a link – and hopefully lots of visitors as the site’s readers stop by to check you out. Cool Site of the Day has inspired imitators; the Sci Fi channel features a Cool Site in its newsletter, for instance. So if you’re not sure your own site is “cool” enough, you might be able to find a site that does the same thing as “Cool Site,” but covers your own field.Of course, one of the coolest aspects of Cool Site of the Day is that it’s just well-known enough to have the kind of “ripple effect” you see for Digg. Journalists looking for something to put together quickly may check out the Cool Site of the Day and write it up. And since it’s on the Internet, the journalist could be anywhere in the world. Roach mentioned that sites featured on Cool Site of the Day have turned up on the BBC News website, USA Today, and other media outlets.
Working with Formats
You probably have a blog for your company, but do you do a podcast? “But that’s so much trouble!” you say. Actually, it might be less trouble than you think. Odiogo.com offers a free service that lets you turn your blog or any textual content into an audio format. Once you have a podcast, you can submit it to all of the podcast directories. Like magic, you’ve gained lots of new, legitimate links.Do you sell software? Is it available for download only from your web site? You can do better than that. You don’t have to give your software away, but you can create a demo version of it and turn it into a Portable Application Description (PAD) file. Here’s an article that explains what they are and why you’d want to use them. There are even free tools that will create PAD files for you. Once you have a PAD file, you can submit it to more than 1,000 download web sites, spreading the word far and wide about your cool software. They will link back to your site for the actual download.Maybe, like me, you write content rather than code. Do you have an ebook under your belt? You’re in luck. There are a ton of ebook directories out there as well, and you’ll want to submit your work to these directories. Some examples are ebook2u, Wisdom ebooks and Published.com; there are many others.Above all, remember that you’re dealing with the Internet. If you have an idea, someone else may already be doing it on the web. Sometimes that’s a bad thing, but other times it may work in your favor to help you promote your site. Good luck!
Qassia: Intelligent Link Building
Everyone talks about building links in the SEO Chat forums, so when I saw someone asking about Qassia and its link building potential, I knew I had to take a look. The self-described intelligence engine is in closed beta at the time of writing, but invitations seem easy to obtain. What is Qassia all about? And is it worth your while? In this first part of a two-part article, we'll explore these and other questions.
Qassia describes itself as “a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based directory.” You sign up with Qassia and add knowledge, what the site refers to as “intel.” Kimsolutions, the SEO Chat user who first brought Qassia to my attention, explained that the intel can be your own or something you are legally distributing. I want to emphasize the word “legally,” by the way; the company is pretty strict in their terms of service about that.
They're also very strict in their ToS about each user having only one account, ever, in their lifetime. If you ever make more than one account you will be barred from their site. And if you don't understand their terms of service, they tell you not to use Qassia. I can understand the strictness; this is intellectual property we're dealing with after all.
Anyway, for every piece of intel you add to Qassia, you get a link back to your site. These are dofollow links, not nofollow links – so you can see how this might help you in the link juice department. Every time you create an intel, read and rate an intel, and/or invite a new user you gain Qassia dollars. This is “funny money” that can't be turned into any other currency – but “The more Qassia dollars you have, the better your websites will rank,” according to Qassia's FAQ. You never have to spend real money to use Qassia; the company plans to keep that totally free, and make its money from advertising (Google ads pop up in lots of places throughout the site, and of course next to many pieces of intel).
“Eventually we will introduce auctions for front-page advertising, site-wide links, and other novel ways for you to burn through your hard-earned Qassia dollars,” the company notes. And there are ways to earn real dollars with Qassia, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's see what it takes to set up an account, and what it's like to use Qassia.
Getting Started with Qassia
This part was very easy. All I had to do was click through the link left by Kimsolutions in the SEO Chat forum, which took me to Kim's profile page on Qassia. At the upper left was a big button that said “Sign up today!” I clicked that and came to a standard-looking sign-up page:
What got cut off in this screen shot were the three items that I was required to check: that I was over 16, that I have never had any other Qassia accounts, and that I had carefully read and understood their Terms of Service. I'm quite certain that the rule about no multiple accounts, ever, is intended as a spam control mechanism, and it probably isn't the only spam control feature the site has in place. I don’t know how they police that, however.
After I registered, Qassia served up a dashboard. I'm almost hesitant to do a screen shot, because it's so full of information that a single image won't do it justice. It's clear that Qassia intended the dashboard to be your starting point and a place for you to get many of your questions answered. It's laid out in the familiar three-column format, with the center column being the largest.
Down the left side were several boxes that seemed especially of interest to newcomers. The first one told me that I was eligible for a bonus – that for the next 12 hours, if I got someone to sign up for Qassia, I'd get $500 Qassia dollars instead of the usual $100. The second box led to a link that explained how to earn Qassia dollars. The third box explained a special promotion. The fourth box contained a list of intel for screening, and the final box gave links to the latest updates (the most recently approved intel, from the looks of it).
More on the Dashboard
Now that I've described the left side, I don't feel guilty about cropping it out in the following screen shots of the dashboard:
As you can see from this top part of the dashboard, Qassia subscribes to the sensible idea of giving a user several ways to do things. I can add intel from either the center column of my dashboard or that box on the upper right. There's also a user's manual right at the top, which I'll probably be discussing later. Oh, and as you can see, they're making money – or trying to – from Google ads. Here's the bottom half of the dashboard, sans ads:
Okay, right away we see at least one similarity to a social networking site: you get a user profile. You don't have to put anything in your profile at all. If you do choose to edit it, you can tell it to display a number of things:
A particular name. Your user name will be displayed here if you don't pick one.
An image, such as your photo, which will be resized to 500 x 500 pixels.
An introduction, into which you can embed links. Double check your formatting; when I tried to embed a link, I got an error that said “Thou shalt close thine [url] embedded link [/url] formatting” with the second bracketed item in red. Okay, so they have a sense of humor – and I need to be more on the ball for tagged formatting! At least I didn't have to re-enter the whole page, just fix the problem.
Your location; it's an open text box, so you can enter a city or country (or possibly even an imaginary location, though I didn't go that far).
Your email address; this is controlled by a radio button that lets you choose whether or not to publish it in your profile. By default, your email address is NOT published, so kudos to Qassia for having a clue about privacy.
Your contact information through various messaging services, including Skype, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, and AIM.
So Who Are These People
After signing up and looking at a few things, I found myself wondering who is behind Qassia. Unfortunately, I was in for a little frustration. Under Qassia's FAQ, all it says is this: “We are an international web development outfit you've probably never heard of. Chances are, though, that you've come across our sites while browsing the net, because we've been putting out good, useful and sometimes crazy sites since 1996. Qassia is, needless to say, our far most ambitious project yet.”
Okay, this is going to drive me crazy not knowing who they are! And the only press release on the site itself, at this time of writing, is one announcing that Acreon, Inc., has taken a five percent stake in the company. There is no mention of how much that comes to in money, since Qassia is still privately owned.
So what other information can we glean from the site itself? Qassia was launched in January of this year. At the time of writing, it has accumulated more than 19,000 members, who are trying to promote a like number of sites. Users have submitted nearly 30,000 items of intel, with nearly 11,000 of these items being “original” (I couldn't immediately find any explanation of the difference between plain intel and original intel). They have banned 97 users, which is not a bad record. It will be interesting to see if they will scale well once they come out of private beta.
That's all I have time and room for now. In the second part of this article, I plan to explain how to find intel, submit and screen intel, and cover other interesting topics about Qassia. I might even have some useful quotes about the site. See you then!
DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this article is not warranted or guaranteed by Developer Shed, Inc. The content provided is intended for entertainment and/or educational purposes in order to introduce to the reader key ideas, concepts, and/or product reviews. As such it is incumbent upon the reader to employ real-world tactics for security and implementation of best practices. We are not liable for any negative consequences that may result from implementing any information covered in our articles or tutorials. If this is a hardware review, it is not recommended to open and/or modify your hardware.
Qassia describes itself as “a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based directory.” You sign up with Qassia and add knowledge, what the site refers to as “intel.” Kimsolutions, the SEO Chat user who first brought Qassia to my attention, explained that the intel can be your own or something you are legally distributing. I want to emphasize the word “legally,” by the way; the company is pretty strict in their terms of service about that.
They're also very strict in their ToS about each user having only one account, ever, in their lifetime. If you ever make more than one account you will be barred from their site. And if you don't understand their terms of service, they tell you not to use Qassia. I can understand the strictness; this is intellectual property we're dealing with after all.
Anyway, for every piece of intel you add to Qassia, you get a link back to your site. These are dofollow links, not nofollow links – so you can see how this might help you in the link juice department. Every time you create an intel, read and rate an intel, and/or invite a new user you gain Qassia dollars. This is “funny money” that can't be turned into any other currency – but “The more Qassia dollars you have, the better your websites will rank,” according to Qassia's FAQ. You never have to spend real money to use Qassia; the company plans to keep that totally free, and make its money from advertising (Google ads pop up in lots of places throughout the site, and of course next to many pieces of intel).
“Eventually we will introduce auctions for front-page advertising, site-wide links, and other novel ways for you to burn through your hard-earned Qassia dollars,” the company notes. And there are ways to earn real dollars with Qassia, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's see what it takes to set up an account, and what it's like to use Qassia.
Getting Started with Qassia
This part was very easy. All I had to do was click through the link left by Kimsolutions in the SEO Chat forum, which took me to Kim's profile page on Qassia. At the upper left was a big button that said “Sign up today!” I clicked that and came to a standard-looking sign-up page:
What got cut off in this screen shot were the three items that I was required to check: that I was over 16, that I have never had any other Qassia accounts, and that I had carefully read and understood their Terms of Service. I'm quite certain that the rule about no multiple accounts, ever, is intended as a spam control mechanism, and it probably isn't the only spam control feature the site has in place. I don’t know how they police that, however.
After I registered, Qassia served up a dashboard. I'm almost hesitant to do a screen shot, because it's so full of information that a single image won't do it justice. It's clear that Qassia intended the dashboard to be your starting point and a place for you to get many of your questions answered. It's laid out in the familiar three-column format, with the center column being the largest.
Down the left side were several boxes that seemed especially of interest to newcomers. The first one told me that I was eligible for a bonus – that for the next 12 hours, if I got someone to sign up for Qassia, I'd get $500 Qassia dollars instead of the usual $100. The second box led to a link that explained how to earn Qassia dollars. The third box explained a special promotion. The fourth box contained a list of intel for screening, and the final box gave links to the latest updates (the most recently approved intel, from the looks of it).
More on the Dashboard
Now that I've described the left side, I don't feel guilty about cropping it out in the following screen shots of the dashboard:
As you can see from this top part of the dashboard, Qassia subscribes to the sensible idea of giving a user several ways to do things. I can add intel from either the center column of my dashboard or that box on the upper right. There's also a user's manual right at the top, which I'll probably be discussing later. Oh, and as you can see, they're making money – or trying to – from Google ads. Here's the bottom half of the dashboard, sans ads:
Okay, right away we see at least one similarity to a social networking site: you get a user profile. You don't have to put anything in your profile at all. If you do choose to edit it, you can tell it to display a number of things:
A particular name. Your user name will be displayed here if you don't pick one.
An image, such as your photo, which will be resized to 500 x 500 pixels.
An introduction, into which you can embed links. Double check your formatting; when I tried to embed a link, I got an error that said “Thou shalt close thine [url] embedded link [/url] formatting” with the second bracketed item in red. Okay, so they have a sense of humor – and I need to be more on the ball for tagged formatting! At least I didn't have to re-enter the whole page, just fix the problem.
Your location; it's an open text box, so you can enter a city or country (or possibly even an imaginary location, though I didn't go that far).
Your email address; this is controlled by a radio button that lets you choose whether or not to publish it in your profile. By default, your email address is NOT published, so kudos to Qassia for having a clue about privacy.
Your contact information through various messaging services, including Skype, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, and AIM.
So Who Are These People
After signing up and looking at a few things, I found myself wondering who is behind Qassia. Unfortunately, I was in for a little frustration. Under Qassia's FAQ, all it says is this: “We are an international web development outfit you've probably never heard of. Chances are, though, that you've come across our sites while browsing the net, because we've been putting out good, useful and sometimes crazy sites since 1996. Qassia is, needless to say, our far most ambitious project yet.”
Okay, this is going to drive me crazy not knowing who they are! And the only press release on the site itself, at this time of writing, is one announcing that Acreon, Inc., has taken a five percent stake in the company. There is no mention of how much that comes to in money, since Qassia is still privately owned.
So what other information can we glean from the site itself? Qassia was launched in January of this year. At the time of writing, it has accumulated more than 19,000 members, who are trying to promote a like number of sites. Users have submitted nearly 30,000 items of intel, with nearly 11,000 of these items being “original” (I couldn't immediately find any explanation of the difference between plain intel and original intel). They have banned 97 users, which is not a bad record. It will be interesting to see if they will scale well once they come out of private beta.
That's all I have time and room for now. In the second part of this article, I plan to explain how to find intel, submit and screen intel, and cover other interesting topics about Qassia. I might even have some useful quotes about the site. See you then!
DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this article is not warranted or guaranteed by Developer Shed, Inc. The content provided is intended for entertainment and/or educational purposes in order to introduce to the reader key ideas, concepts, and/or product reviews. As such it is incumbent upon the reader to employ real-world tactics for security and implementation of best practices. We are not liable for any negative consequences that may result from implementing any information covered in our articles or tutorials. If this is a hardware review, it is not recommended to open and/or modify your hardware.
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Ease of use - getting set up is simple and completely automated to the point you can begin selling in a matter of minutes. Custom builds from developers are not required and all approvals are performed online, in real-time, eliminating unnecessary delays and lost sales.
Categorization - Products are submitted to our affiliates.esellerate.net "catalog" site where you can easily search by categories or keywords for the publishers products that interest you most. This is made available to you prior to setting up any account with eSellerate to ensure you find what you are looking for prior to getting started with us.
Online terms and conditions - All terms are provided to you for acceptance online in our continuing effort to simplify your experience.
Digitally signed downloads - the EST file is digitally signed by eSellerate to help instill consumer confidence when they initially run the software.
What is the cost of being part of the eSellerate affiliate program?Absolutely nothing! Once you have signed up you will have access to a catalog of products available to be sold through your web store. Everything is managed by you from within an online sales manager, where you will be able to monitor all transactions in real-time. You can sit back and watch the commissions roll in.
Getting startedSimply click the button below and sign up using our simple online affiliate account creation form.
Affiliate marketing is when a software publisher offers the opportunity for others to sell their products from their host web sites in return for a commission on sales. This provides tremendous sales opportunity to the software publisher as they develop their own virtual sales force, with each affiliate pitching the publisher's products to their specific audiences.
eSellerate's Affiliate ProgrameSellerate's affiliate program makes it simple for you to start selling some of the hottest applications available and increase the profitability of your web site. With commerce solutions not found in other conventional affiliate programs, the eSellerate program includes features such as:
"Try and Buy" options - One of the most powerful and unique features available in any Affiliate solution, eSellerate enables publishers to submit their products for sale with a Trialware or Try and Buy option. This greatly expands the manner in which the Affiliate can promote these products by enabling downloads and post-download sales from your sites, but always retaining the credit for the sales using the eSellerate SalesTrac Technology (eST). No more efforts going unrewarded or limitations on how you can promote products. This is critical within the Shareware Industry.
Multiple distribution methods - as an affiliate you will have access to offer multiple options to your customers for sale and distribution. These options include direct purchase URLs, downloadable eST files that you can host on your own site, and eST files that are hosted on eSellerate servers.
Branded product landing pages - qualified products in the eSellerate Affiliate Program have pre-filled landing pages that you will be able to direct your customers to. These pages relieve you of having to do the marketing efforts yourself.
Detailed sales reports and admin tools - as an affiliate, you are provided a secure account offering access to all of your sales information and reporting, administration tools, statistical reporting, accounts receivable and payment history, and tools that make the management of your partnerships very easy. More importantly, this information is available 24/7 and is provided real-time, including event driven notifications (order, approvals, etc).
Exportable product data - information on the products that you are selling is available for download as XML. This data can be used in any way you see fit to help you with your sales initiatives.
Accurate sales executions and tracking - with our exclusive eSellerate SalesTrac Technology (EST), we utilize tracking mechanism that assure you are credited with the sales you initiate and deserve.
Automated payments - In addition to providing you all of the supporting information and reporting for the payments you are to receive, eSellerate settles directly between you and your publisher partners and provide guaranteed payment terms. Settlement is done electronically via ACH, Non-U.S. ACH, and International Wire Transfer as applicable.
Increased exposure to developers - eSellerate hosts an affiliate web site that is a virtual "meet" market, placing you in contact with multiple developers, increasing your number of affiliate partnerships.
Ease of use - getting set up is simple and completely automated to the point you can begin selling in a matter of minutes. Custom builds from developers are not required and all approvals are performed online, in real-time, eliminating unnecessary delays and lost sales.
Categorization - Products are submitted to our affiliates.esellerate.net "catalog" site where you can easily search by categories or keywords for the publishers products that interest you most. This is made available to you prior to setting up any account with eSellerate to ensure you find what you are looking for prior to getting started with us.
Online terms and conditions - All terms are provided to you for acceptance online in our continuing effort to simplify your experience.
Digitally signed downloads - the EST file is digitally signed by eSellerate to help instill consumer confidence when they initially run the software.
What is the cost of being part of the eSellerate affiliate program?Absolutely nothing! Once you have signed up you will have access to a catalog of products available to be sold through your web store. Everything is managed by you from within an online sales manager, where you will be able to monitor all transactions in real-time. You can sit back and watch the commissions roll in.
Getting startedSimply click the button below and sign up using our simple online affiliate account creation form.
ImTOO MOV Converter v5.1
ImTOO MOV Converter is powerful QuickTime MOV converter software which can convert QuickTime MOV to WMV, MOV to MPEG and MOV to AVI format. It also supports converting MOV files to popular video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV and DivX, and convert MOV files to audio formats MP3 and WAV.If you are searching for software to convert MOV to other videos, ImTOO MOV Converter is definitely your best choice.ImTOO MOV Converter is powerful and easy-to-use QuickTime MOV converter software which helps you convert QuickTime MOV to MPEG, QuickTime MP4 to MPEG, etc. It supports video formats including AVI, MOV, MPEG4, MEPG1 and MPEG2. If you get trouble with Windows Media player in playing your MOV file, the QuickTime MOV Converter is really what you need! All conversion processes, such as MOV to AVI and MOV to MPEG, are very easy and fast with high quality with this MOV conversion tool. With various settings and high conversion speed, it is an affordable and qualified audio extractor and MOV converter
You can download:
http://download.imtoo.com/mov-converter-standard.exe
New Functions in Version 5.0
How to upgrade?
Not only support general video/audio settings, but also provide advanced settings for meeting various users' demand. For example, you can customize the size of output file and its Bitrate will be calculated automatically.
In addition to abundant corresponding profiles for your digital devices, the MOV converter also supports setting several profiles for the same video.
ImTOO MOV Converter supports creating a video from pictures.
Support running in background and lower the priority automatically.
Key Functions
MOV to WMV Converter - convert MOV to WMV
ImTOO MOV Converter is an MOV to WMV converter. It can convert Quick Time video file to WMV. The software supports a lot of video and audio codec, such as MPEG4 and WMV. MOV to
AVI Converter - convert MOV to AVI fileYou can use ImTOO MOV Converter to convert QuickTime MOV to AVI file. A lot of settings you can set to achieve high quality.
MOV to MP3 Converter - convert MOV to MP3, WAV, AAC, etc.ImTOO MOV Converter can also convert most audio files such as converting MOV to MP3, converting MOV to WAV, converting MOV to AAC, and so on.
Supported formatsInput: Quick Time MOV files.Output: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, DivX, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC.
Key Features
All encoders/codec are built-in for you to finish the supported conversion directly.
Automatically select another proper codec for you once any problem occurs during the conversion.
Any clip or segment can be converted by ImTOO MOV Converter.
Support multithreading and batch conversion. The more files you convert, the faster ImTOO MOV Converter works than other MOV converters.
Easy to use as all properties and settings are displayed in the interface which are easily handled.
You can select video size, bit rate, NTSC/PAL, frame rate, audio codec, sample rate, etc.
Preview is supported and you can preview the input files before conversion.
Output files can be renamed and the output path can be easily defined.
Excellent output quality is offered.
MOV Converter 3.4.0220
MOV Converter is a powerful and splendid tool for MOV to AVI, MOV to MPEG, MOV to WMV, MOV to DVD, MOV to VCD and MOV to SVCD video converter. The main features include: Batch convert MOV, QT files to AVI, MPEG, VCD,SVCD,DVD,WMV formats;
Support different AVI video Codecs, such as DivX, Xvid, MPEG4; NTSC/PAL setting options for DVD, VCD, SVCD exporting;
Change the framerate, image size etc as you like. Very user-friendly interface and easy to use. Very quick in conversion speed and no quality is lost!
Key Features:
Convert MOV to AVI, MOV to DivX, MOV to Xvid Convert MOV to MPEG1, MOV to MPEG2 Convert MOV to VCD, MOV to SVCD, MOV to DVD Convert MOV to WMV, MOV to ASF Support .mov, .qt files Support Batch convert NTSC/PAL setting option Support large video files, even large then 2GB Very fast and without any quality loss Very user-friendly interface
Download!5.8 Mb
http://www.gold-software.com/9363.exe
Publisher: Allok Soft Inc.
Product: MOV Converter
Version: 3.4.0220
License: Shareware, $39.95
File size: 5949 Kb (5.8 Mb)
OS: Win98,WinME,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003
Keywords: MOV Converter, mov converter, mov to avi, mov to mpeg, mov to dvd, mov to wmv, vcd, svcd, quicktime, asf, mpg, divx, xvid, video
Support different AVI video Codecs, such as DivX, Xvid, MPEG4; NTSC/PAL setting options for DVD, VCD, SVCD exporting;
Change the framerate, image size etc as you like. Very user-friendly interface and easy to use. Very quick in conversion speed and no quality is lost!
Key Features:
Convert MOV to AVI, MOV to DivX, MOV to Xvid Convert MOV to MPEG1, MOV to MPEG2 Convert MOV to VCD, MOV to SVCD, MOV to DVD Convert MOV to WMV, MOV to ASF Support .mov, .qt files Support Batch convert NTSC/PAL setting option Support large video files, even large then 2GB Very fast and without any quality loss Very user-friendly interface
Download!5.8 Mb
http://www.gold-software.com/9363.exe
Publisher: Allok Soft Inc.
Product: MOV Converter
Version: 3.4.0220
License: Shareware, $39.95
File size: 5949 Kb (5.8 Mb)
OS: Win98,WinME,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003
Keywords: MOV Converter, mov converter, mov to avi, mov to mpeg, mov to dvd, mov to wmv, vcd, svcd, quicktime, asf, mpg, divx, xvid, video
Xilisoft MOV Converter
Xilisoft MOV Converter is powerful and easy to use MOV video converter software which helps you convert MOV to AVI, convert MOV to MPEG, convert MOV to WMV, etc.
The MOV converter, as QuickTime video converter, supports the converting of QuickTime MOV to all popular video formats including convert MOV to AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, DivX, e.g. convert MOV to MPEG, convert MOV to WMV and convert MOV to audio formats MP3, AAC, WMA and WAV. If you get trouble that Windows Media player cannot play your MOV file, the MOV converter is really what you need!
With the MOV to AVI converter & MOV to WMV converter, all MOV converting processes such as MOV to MPEG, MOV to WMV, MOV to AVI are very easy and fast with high movie conversion quality. Free Download Xilisoft MOV Converter and have a try on converting MOV video now!
http://www.xilisoft.com/downloads/x-mov-converter-standard.exe
What's new in latest version:
How to upgrade?Provide both general and advanced settings of video and audio conversion in the MOV converter, such as customizing output file size to convert MOV video with video bit rate obtained accordingly;
Support setting divers output profiles for one video source at the same time to convert MOV video;
Allow to create and convert MOV video from pictures; Support run the MOV converter in background for more efficiency.
Main Functions:MOV converter, MOV to AVI converter, convert MOV to AVI, convert MOV to MPEG, convert MOV to WMV, and convert MOV to DivX; Convert QuickTime MOV movies to video formats including MPEG4, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2. Extract audio from QuickTime MOV, and convert MOV to MP3, AAC, WMA and WAV.
Key Features:
Offer preview, Zoom and split functions for converting MOV video in the MOV converter. You can specify the output file name;
During movie conversion, you can pause, stop and continue the MOV converter at any moment;
Support APE, CUE decoding and audio CD ripping;
Support batch conversion and multithreading with the MOV converter;
Provide >200% converting speed, so fast MOV converter/MOV to AVI converter beyond your imagination.
Why choose Xilisoft MOV Converter?
Convert MOV to AVI, MOV to MPEG, MOV to WMV, convert QuickTime movies, so to play in Windows Media Player; Provide high MOV converting speed to convert MOV to AVI MPEG WMV; Using Xilisoft MOV Converter, you will get output files with excellent quality of movie conversion; Such easy-to-use MOV converter/MOV to AVI converter that only a few clicks are enough to convert MOV files; Support converting popular video and audio formats in the MOV converter. Protected files purchased from iTunes or other online stores are not supported.
System Requirements:
Microsoft® Windows XP Service Pack 2,
Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate;
Intel Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor;
512 MB RAM or more;
More than 30 MB free hard disk space;
800x600 or higher Resolution, 16 bit or higher Graphic card.
The MOV converter, as QuickTime video converter, supports the converting of QuickTime MOV to all popular video formats including convert MOV to AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, DivX, e.g. convert MOV to MPEG, convert MOV to WMV and convert MOV to audio formats MP3, AAC, WMA and WAV. If you get trouble that Windows Media player cannot play your MOV file, the MOV converter is really what you need!
With the MOV to AVI converter & MOV to WMV converter, all MOV converting processes such as MOV to MPEG, MOV to WMV, MOV to AVI are very easy and fast with high movie conversion quality. Free Download Xilisoft MOV Converter and have a try on converting MOV video now!
http://www.xilisoft.com/downloads/x-mov-converter-standard.exe
What's new in latest version:
How to upgrade?Provide both general and advanced settings of video and audio conversion in the MOV converter, such as customizing output file size to convert MOV video with video bit rate obtained accordingly;
Support setting divers output profiles for one video source at the same time to convert MOV video;
Allow to create and convert MOV video from pictures; Support run the MOV converter in background for more efficiency.
Main Functions:MOV converter, MOV to AVI converter, convert MOV to AVI, convert MOV to MPEG, convert MOV to WMV, and convert MOV to DivX; Convert QuickTime MOV movies to video formats including MPEG4, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2. Extract audio from QuickTime MOV, and convert MOV to MP3, AAC, WMA and WAV.
Key Features:
Offer preview, Zoom and split functions for converting MOV video in the MOV converter. You can specify the output file name;
During movie conversion, you can pause, stop and continue the MOV converter at any moment;
Support APE, CUE decoding and audio CD ripping;
Support batch conversion and multithreading with the MOV converter;
Provide >200% converting speed, so fast MOV converter/MOV to AVI converter beyond your imagination.
Why choose Xilisoft MOV Converter?
Convert MOV to AVI, MOV to MPEG, MOV to WMV, convert QuickTime movies, so to play in Windows Media Player; Provide high MOV converting speed to convert MOV to AVI MPEG WMV; Using Xilisoft MOV Converter, you will get output files with excellent quality of movie conversion; Such easy-to-use MOV converter/MOV to AVI converter that only a few clicks are enough to convert MOV files; Support converting popular video and audio formats in the MOV converter. Protected files purchased from iTunes or other online stores are not supported.
System Requirements:
Microsoft® Windows XP Service Pack 2,
Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate;
Intel Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor;
512 MB RAM or more;
More than 30 MB free hard disk space;
800x600 or higher Resolution, 16 bit or higher Graphic card.
FREE MOV (Quicktime) Converter
Convert your exsisting MOV (quicktime) video files to WMV, ASF, MPEG, FLV, DIVX, XVID and more with a click of a button with our free MOV video converter.
Compress your MOV videos and change vital settings to your video quality including video bitrate, frame-size, audio bitrate and more.
Intergrated with Windows Explorer allowing you to 'quick convert' desired files. Just right-click on the files, select Convert using FXBear video converter and them click Convert using the predefined settings.
Just how good is the MOV converter?
- Convert MOV to ASF, VOB, DIVX, XVID, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.- Quick convert your MOV files with the integrated Windows Explorer.- Drag & Drop your MOV files to the software- Compress your MOV videos- Batch convert MOV videos
View the detail
http://www.fxbear.com/free-mov-converter.php
Compress your MOV videos and change vital settings to your video quality including video bitrate, frame-size, audio bitrate and more.
Intergrated with Windows Explorer allowing you to 'quick convert' desired files. Just right-click on the files, select Convert using FXBear video converter and them click Convert using the predefined settings.
Just how good is the MOV converter?
- Convert MOV to ASF, VOB, DIVX, XVID, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.- Quick convert your MOV files with the integrated Windows Explorer.- Drag & Drop your MOV files to the software- Compress your MOV videos- Batch convert MOV videos
View the detail
http://www.fxbear.com/free-mov-converter.php
FREE MOV (Quicktime) Converter
Convert your exsisting MOV (quicktime) video files to WMV, ASF, MPEG, FLV, DIVX, XVID and more with a click of a button with our free MOV video converter.
Compress your MOV videos and change vital settings to your video quality including video bitrate, frame-size, audio bitrate and more.
Intergrated with Windows Explorer allowing you to 'quick convert' desired files. Just right-click on the files, select Convert using FXBear video converter and them click Convert using the predefined settings.
Just how good is the MOV converter?
- Convert MOV to ASF, VOB, DIVX, XVID, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.- Quick convert your MOV files with the integrated Windows Explorer.- Drag & Drop your MOV files to the software- Compress your MOV videos- Batch convert MOV videos
View the detail
http://www.fxbear.com/free-mov-converter.php
Compress your MOV videos and change vital settings to your video quality including video bitrate, frame-size, audio bitrate and more.
Intergrated with Windows Explorer allowing you to 'quick convert' desired files. Just right-click on the files, select Convert using FXBear video converter and them click Convert using the predefined settings.
Just how good is the MOV converter?
- Convert MOV to ASF, VOB, DIVX, XVID, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.- Quick convert your MOV files with the integrated Windows Explorer.- Drag & Drop your MOV files to the software- Compress your MOV videos- Batch convert MOV videos
View the detail
http://www.fxbear.com/free-mov-converter.php
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