(Wireless technology laboratory) The Increasing Popularity of Solitaire Among Women
No commentsBy Andrew Collins
Video and online games are usually focused on male market. However, online gaming is slowly penetrating the female psyche according to market analysts. As a result, there is an increase in women playing online games like solitaire addiction, free solitaire, solitaire game, card games, or word games. Experts conclude that is the non-violent nature of these games that attract the women to play. The intellectual exercise also deviates from the usual female domestic pursuits. Studies actually show that a majority of female gamers play while on break from doing housework. Market-conscious developers and publishers are taking this advantage seriously with the development of these card and word games. Also, they are exerting efforts to attract more customers, particularly women, aside from the regular male gamers.
The increase in female gamers does not entail that the women are all for pay-per-play gaming unlike their male counterparts. The developers recognize this problem associated with the women’s limited means of income. Thus, the development of free online games such as the free solitaire. The developers of these games agree that the limited means available to the bulk of their female customers (most of these female customers are baby boomers or middle-aged) make free games an exciting option. It doesn’t matter whether their games are played for free or not, according to developers. This site’s income is derived from the advertisements posted on their sites. Steven Koenig, an industry analyst, asserts that the advertisers recognize the power of advertising to females, who, as studies on American society show, usually manage the family income and do the shopping for family needs. Koenig explains that most games played by women are “casual games”. But the middle-aged and baby boomers crowd spend a whooping 20 hours more than men playing online games per week. This gives the site advertisers steady “air time” to advertise their products. Studies have proven, again and again that shoppers usually buy things that are frequently visible to them.
Koenig stresses that the point is, the sites are also making money from the ad revenues. Plus, they do not have to maintain statistics, or scores, and pay-out systems. The casual female gamers who stay at home play solitaire addiction, free solitaire, solitaire game, card games, or word games, thus, providing a widely untapped market for products and services. Koenig further emphasizes that non-recognizance of the growing female gaming market on the internet causes advertisers to miss a potentially large and powerful consumer segment. As a call to other gaming sites, he encourages developing games which these women can play for free. This not only guarantees that your site has a steady consumer base which will eventually try paid online games, but you are also assured of income from advertisers.
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The SEO’s Toolkit Part Two of Three: Tools
By Roberto Garabell
Welcome to part two of this three part series on SEO tools and resources. In the last article we discussed the variety of Firefox extensions used for SEO. In this article we’ll discuss some of the free and affordable tools you can use to better your organic optimization efforts. To make sure that when I say affordable I mean for virtually everyone I’m going to set the bar at $100/yr or ownership. Admittedly, we use tools that cost more than this but many of those tools will be out of some people’s price range.
Here are some of the key tools you need to use to help insure the successful optimization of your website.
Google Keyword Tool
Many of you are likely familiar with Google’s keyword tool but it needs to be noted. This is a great resources to researching keywords. As with all keyword tools, it has it’s limitations and most would agree that it seems to overestimate search volume but nonetheless - it is probably the best of the keywords tools out there, especially at the price.
Keyword Discovery
No individual set of data is perfect and no stage of the SEO process is more important than keyword research and selection. Keyword Discovery is a great tool to compare with the Google keyword data. Where you find commonalities you know that 2 independent sets of data agree. With a free trial that may itself work for many - it’s certainly worth looking into.
Keyword Spy
While the paid version of this tool is more than the $100/yr max I noted previously - the free version provides some great data. Simply enter a competitor URL and you’ll find out some valuable data about the keywords they rank for both organically and AdWords. This is great for competitor analysis as well and finding keywords you might not have thought of.
Xenu Link Sleuth
A fantastic free tool that crawls websites, reporting back all the broken links. Over time almost all sites get broken links - running this tool periodically will help you find them so you can fix them.
Google Webmaster Tools
Arguably one of the most important of the SEO tools. Google Webmaster Tools allows webmasters (and SEO’s of course) to see their website the way Google does. With this tool you’ll get to see what your site is appearing for in the results, what pages on your site are linked to but don’t exist, and a wide array of errors and statistics.
With this information you can repair a number of issues. If your site is appearing for phrases that you’re not getting traffic from you can review your titles and descriptions to see if you can improve your clickthrough rate. Xenu won’t show you the links from other sites that are pointing to pages that don’t exist - Google Webmaster Tools will. You’ll also find good backlink information for your site as well as a lot more.
Page Prowler
Page Prowler is a backlink research tool that allows the user to collect large amounts of potential backlink information, sort that data by site strength, and then proceed to pursue these backlinks. The use of this tool is primarily in the way of saved time. There is no function of it that cannot be done manually however it can compile data that would take a person hours or days to collect quickly and easily.
Full disclosure - Shawn (the developer) asked me to advise on the development of this link building tool and I’m also assisting in it’s marketing. I was extremely impressed with Shawn’s first version (PR Prowler) and this new software includes additional functions and information. I felt the need to note this but I’ll also note that we at Beanstalk use this tool regularly. I would not include it here if it didn’t deserve to be and I’d include it here if I had nothing to do with it other than my using it.
Advanced Web Ranking
Advanced Web Ranking is probably the most affordable of the better rank checking software programs. It has a ton of great features including scheduling and auto-report generation. You can set the searches to take place slowly to reduce the impact on the search engines. I still recommend to run it in the evening to further minimize your impact during high-volume search periods.
Multiple Keyword Rack-Checking Tool
This is probably one of the most popular tools on the Beanstalk site. One of the pet peeves I always had with online rank checking tools was checking rankings one-at-a-time. This tool allows you to check your rankings on Google ten at a time. Apparently other agree as it’s the most used tool of our set.
136 SEO Tools
While in this list we’re tried to include a solid set of very affordable tools, you might mind value in tools we don’t use. This list is regularly updated and includes some very interesting (though not part of my daily arsenal) tools. Highly recommended to visit at least once. I have it in my bookmarks and check back every couple months to see what new tools have launched.
In part three we’ll be taking a look at a slough of invaluable SEO resources that you need to visit regularly to keep up-to-date on this ever-changing industry. While there are more than can be listed in a single article, I’ll be covering my first points of access when I’m looking for news or others opinions on SEO and search engine events.
Dave Davies is the CEO of Beanstalk Search Engine Optimization, Inc. Beanstalk offers seo services, consulting, training and free keyword research services. Dave Davies has been involved in SEO since 2001 and shared his experience through articles, speaking at conferences as well as on his weekly radio show Webcology on WebmasterRadio.fm.
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The Concept of Information Technology
By Lola Adegbulu
Information Technology is the study of and the full development, support and administration of computer information systems.
Information technology makes use of computer hardware and application software to store, secure, process manage, retrieve and distribute information.
The way in which people engage with information technology can be explained under the following four categories.
IT allows workers to function efficiently and independently.
Some of these information technologies are generic application software, and a good illustration is the word processing application software for example Microsoft word or the spreadsheet such as the Excel spreadsheet. Other examples are specialized programs for doctors, graphic designers, CAD (computer aided design) applications for engineers. Applications in this group can be customized for individual use in the office or at home.
IT allows personnel within and outside an organization to communicate efficiently and quickly.
Technologies that enable individuals to communicate with one another are network technologies. A very obvious example is the emailing system. Some other examples include wiki, mashups, IM systems and the like. Existing network technologies in the workplace enhance continuous communication, association and sharing of ideas.
IT offers management capabilities that augment decision making process in the place of work.
Information technologies that are made for managing business information are generally referred to as Management Information Systems (MIS). These systems process and produce important information and reports and in general augment productivity. Some examples are Financial management systems, Geography management systems and Educational information management systems.
IT offers enterprise solutions that incorporate and specify transactional processes for large organizations.
Information technology systems that organize the business processes of an entire organization and the way it relates with consumers and associates are branded as enterprise software. These class of technologies are generally used by large companies to control the entire enterprise. A key example of such IT is supply chain management (SCM). Applications in this group include technologies that control, handle and perform supply chain transaction processes along with associations.
Information technology joins the capability of communication technology and computer systems to give excellent benefits to all.
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