Black Friday Facts! Do you think you know what Black Friday is?

                        
Think you’re an expert on Black Friday? Here are some fun facts you probably didn’t know:
Many people mistakenly believe that the name Black Friday is derived from the fact that it’s the day when most stores’ revenues rise out of the red (net losses for the year) and into the black (net profits). The truth is that the name Black Friday probably comes from a tongue-in-cheek comparison to the chaos and confusion of Black Tuesday (the day the stock market crashed in 1929).

Black Friday is generally considered to be the busiest shopping day of the year, but this is not always the case. The last Saturday before Christmas is usually the busiest shopping day of the year, but Black Friday always ranks among the top five.

Exact figures are hard to determine, but most experts agree that over 150 million shoppers hit the stores on Black Friday weekend and they spend an average of over $300 each.

More and more people are choosing to avoid the lineups on Black Friday and to do their shopping on Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the online Christmas shopping season. Other opportunities to avoid crack of dawn lineups and still snag a great deal include check out Walmart’s pre-Black Friday sales starting Saturday, November 7 2009. Each week six exclusive items from Blu-Ray Disc players to Xbox 360 consoles are offered at deep discounts in limited quantities.

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Use Hash tags when you Tweet

 1. Use hash tags


Hash tags, keywords prefixed by “#”, beef up a tweet. They can emphasize a word, “classify” a tweet to a particular subject and make it easily searchable.
So:

“Meeting urgent hunger needs is a long term investment…in stability and world peace”

… might be nice, but better to beef it up:
“Meeting urgent hunger needs is a long term investment…in stability and world peace” #g8 #foodaid #hum

The hash tags in this example identified the tweet with the G8 meeting, with food aid and showed we were talking about a hum(anitarian) issue.

The popular hash tags in the non-profit world are

#humanitarian

#hum (as a short for the previous)

#nonprofit

#aid

#activism

#fundraising

#charity


There is no particular place to put hash tags, although most people put them at the end of their Tweet. Clever users integrate hash tags within their tweet to save space without taking away readability of a tweet:

Record level of #hunger and #poverty looms on #G8 agenda
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Chitika Research- Update: Months late, Bing Users Still Ad-Crazy

    Chitika Research- Update:  Months late, Bing Users Still Ad-Crazy  

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Back in July, we looked at how often Bing users clicked on ads when compared to Google and Yahoo! users. Bing users showed a 50% higher ad click rate than Googlers, so at the time our preliminary conclusion was that Bing’s success was being driven in a big part by Microsoft’s huge, expensive advertising blitz.



Now that December is upon us, and Bing keeps showing its ability to push Google from a technology standpoint, we decided to revisit and see how the numbers were looking. As it turns out, Bing users are still clicking on ads at a prodigious rate – in fact, the CTR of users who come to the Chitika network via Bing is over 75% higher than those who come from Google.

Now, it must be mentioned that Bing is still a distant third place in terms of traffic sent – Google dominates with 84% of search traffic, followed by Yahoo! at 7.40%, and Bing holding at 5.75% (AOL and Ask both have just over 1% of search traffic coming into the Chitika network). However, all things being considered the same, driving one Bing user (or AOL or Ask user) to your site can be more valuable than driving one Google user.

The Raw Numbers:



Search Engine Ad Clicks Impressions Ad CTR % of Search CTR Vs. Google

AOL 42,597 1,706,858 2.50% 1.27% 253.56%

Ask 34,437 1,958,490 1.76% 1.45% 178.65%

Bing 134,536 7,741,724 1.74% 5.75% 176.57%

Google 1,115,452 113,332,938 0.98% 84.13% 100%

Yahoo! 136,506 9,972,035 1.37% 7.40% 139.08%



Numbers are based on a sample of traffic from the Chitika advertising network.

about Chitika

Chitika, Inc., is a search-based online advertising network, leading the way in intent-based advertising and search engine insights. Chitika provides publishers with an innovative way to monetize search engine traffic, and advertisers a new way of generating leads with clear consumer intent. Wint over 60,000 sites and 2 billion monthly impressions, the Chitika network is the pulse of the online world. Through research and targeting, Chitika continually evolves its image as “the ad network that knows when not to show ads.” For more information, visit 

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Quick Fixes for Annoying Problems with Your Computer

Before i Get into this post let me tell my readers that the reason I have not been blogging as before is becasue I have been ill very ill with the FLU and also haveing lots of trouble with this computer that I had alredy metnion to you is giving me lots of problems and I even appealed to your charitable side nd am asking for donation to help me get a new computer or at least a better one that will work so that I may continue to blog. I understand you all have no obliigation to answer my call for help but am hoping that enought of you being as christmas is just around the corner will let your christmas spirit and brotherly love open your hearts up and you all will help me out by giving a Donation here to help me out. Its considered a Charitable donation and you will be able to deduct it form your income tax and get it back so please help me so that I may continue to keep on blogging. so plese be kind enough to give a DONATION here to help me do what I love. Thank you...   You've heard the expression, "Don't sweat the small stuff."  Unfortunately, it's often the little things that are the most annoying when it comes to your computer.  Here are the best ways to solve the  most annoying computer problems.                                                                                                                                  Q. How can I stop my keys from sticking?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A. Crumbs dust, and other debris can cause keyboard keys to stick.  Dust can also create havoc in a computer system, clogging ventilation and overheating components.  Keep  can of compressed air handy, and use it to periodically clean off your computer equipment.                                                                      Q. Why is my mouse acting crazy?                                                                                                              A. If your mouse gets sluggish and jerky, it probably needs a good cleaning. After months of rolling around on your mouse pad, it can collect a lot os dust and grit.  Flip the mouse over and remove the ball from indie. Use a soft, clean cloth to clean the ball and the inside of the mouse. You may also want to dip a coton swab in alcohol t clean the little rollers that the ball touches. If you find that you have to clean your mouse often, you may need a new mouse pad.                                                                                                                   Q. Why is everything on my screen so small?                                                                                             A. If your eyesight isn't as good as it once ws, and you have to squint at your screen, simply enlarge your text. Click on your START button, then select SETTINGS and CONTROL PANEl..  DOUBLE-CLICK ON DISPLAY to open display panel.  Click on the tab that say APPEARANCE , and you can choose the font size you want,You can also make the icons on your desktop bigger. In the DISPLAY panel, click on the EFFECTS tab and check the box that says USE LARGE ICONS.                                                                                                                                                       Q. How do I slow down my mouse?                                                                                                             A.  If you're having trouble controlling your mouse because it's just too zipy, you can change the speed.  Double-click the mouse icon in the CONTROL_PANEL. You can change the speed of the mouse itself under the MOTION tab and the speed of the double-click under the BUTTONS tab.                               Q. Where did my taskbar go?                                                                                                                   A. Move your mouse toward one of the edges of your screen- the top, bottom,left, or right- and it should reappear.  To prevent youraskbar from hiding again, click on your START button, then select SETTINGS. Click on TASKBAR&START MENU, and uncheck the AUTO HIDE box.                                              Q. Why did my computer freeze?                                                                                                             A. Freezes, or crashes, hppen for mysterious reasons.  It could be a faulty program or hard drive- or just a fluke.  If all else fails restarting the computer will usually solve the problem.  For more infomration on computer crashesdo a search for the anser on computer crashes..                                                              Be Sure to Leave Your Comments! Also be sure to subscribe to my feeds http://feeds.feedburner.com/dotblogger and Follow Me on Googles Friends connection Recommend @lilruth to @MrTweet on Twitter....VOTE FOR ME at http://bloginterviewer.com/animals/dogcents-ruth