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miercuri, 18 mai 2011

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Brazilian Prisons
Epic Fails - Part 13
Extreme Weight Loss
Obama Corrects ‘Obama bin Laden’ Slip
Real-Life Locations in ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ Video Game

Posted: 18 May 2011 02:08 PM PDT

Brazilian prisons are notorious for their overcrowding, corruption, voilence and torture. For many years Human Rights groups have cited overcrowding as being the cause of many of the brutal riots in Brazillian prisons and report that it has now reached 'inhuman levels'.

Medical care for detainees, including those with terminal illness or severe disability, is generally inadequate or non-existent. HIV is reported to effect as many as 1 in ever 7 prisoners, with many more being infected with other sexually transmitted and/or bad hygene related diseases.

Prisoners have complained of being routinely beaten and subjected to methods of torture including the "parrot's perch" (suspension by the legs and arms from a metal bar), near- asphyxiation and electric shocks.

Let's take a look inside a Brazilian prison. It looks even worse than Sona in "Prison Break" series.

Image Source: tt.mop.com

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Epic Fails - Part 13

Posted: 18 May 2011 12:49 PM PDT

It's оk tо mаke mistаkes аs lоng аs yоu fail thе funny way. This nеw selection оf hilarious аnd thе mоst notable fails will keep yоu еntertained.

Previous parts:
Epic Fails - Part 1
Epic Fails - Part 2
Epic Fails - Part 3
Epic Fails - Part 4
Epic Fails - Part 5
Epic Fails - Part 6
Epic Fails - Part 7
Epic Fails - Part 8
Epic Fails - Part 9
Epic Fails - Part 10
Epic Fails - Part 11
Epic Fails - Part 12

Extreme Weight Loss

Posted: 18 May 2011 12:08 PM PDT

It's hard to believe but this girl lost more than 111 lbs (50 kg) over one year. She used to weigh 214 lbs (93 kg), then she went to 103 lbs (47 kg) and realized that this weight loss was to extreme for her and she looks very skinny and unhealthy. So now she is trying to gain back some weight.

Obama Corrects ‘Obama bin Laden’ Slip

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:56 PM PDT

Barack Obama quickly corrected a slipup about his name Monday at the Associated Press' annual luncheon in Washington, DC.

Dean Singleton, board chair of the Associated Press and a longtime newspaper executive, asked Obama about the possibility of shifting troops into Afghanistan to fight against the al Qaeda leader.

Real-Life Locations in ‘Fallout: New Vegas’ Video Game

Posted: 17 May 2011 09:54 PM PDT

London copywriter Chris Worth, inspired by the futuristic role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas, set out to explore the Mojave Desert and discover just how close to reality the game really is.

Source: falloutnewvegastour

Nominate an Everyday Hero for the Citizens Medal

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Nominate an Everyday Hero for the Citizens Medal

President Obama is asking for nominations for the 2011 Citizens Medal, our nation's second-highest civilian honor. If you know someone who has performed exemplary deeds of service outside of their regular jobs, be sure to nominate him or her before May 30, 2011.

Learn more about the Citizens Medal and submit your nomination.

Chasing Keywords vs Chasing Conversions Graywolf's SEO Blog

Chasing Keywords vs Chasing Conversions

Posted: 17 May 2011 11:18 AM PDT

One of the first questions that I like to talk with new clients about are their keywords: what are the keywords they want to rank for and why. The answers are consistently surprising.

Client: We want to rank for terms “x,y, and z.”
Me: Are those your best converting keywords?
Client: Well, I’m not really sure, but they do have the most search volume.
Me: You don’t really care about search volume unless you sell CPM based advertising. You really want to know which keywords convert the best and go after those first.

This can often be a big friction point because egoes come into play whenever you talk about vanity keywords. Agencies are notorious for telling clients what they want to hear and letting them dictate a course doomed to fail. Affiliates, on the other hand, usually have a better handle on this concept. If these pages don’t convert into sales, they don’t get paid, so they tend to chase conversion-centric keywords.

If you are merchant and you “own the cart,” you really should be using your own custom solution. Track the original keyword that a customer used to reach your website and write it into a cookie. When they complete a transaction (or other desired event), write it to the database. Then on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, run a report on those numbers.

If you don’t “own the cart,” then you are stuck with an analytics solution. The key thing to remember is that a data driven cart is always going to be more accurate than any analytics. No, I don’t care who your analytics provider is or how much you are paying per month. Web analytics is always going to be a guesstimate. Some guesstimates will always be better than others–but they will still be guesstimates, no matter how fancy the Ajax driven reporting is.

So the question is: are you chasing keywords for visibility, or are you chasing them for conversions?

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