195M Young Chinese Netizens Spend Time Online On Music, Games, Video

According to the annual China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) report “2009 Report on the Behavior of China’s Young Internet Users”, the number of young Chinese Internet users — those who are younger than 25 — rose almost 17 percent to 195 million from the end of 2008 to 2009. In addition, this group accounts for 51 percent of all Internet users in China. There’s also a 24 percent increase in mobile phone usage to access the Web; currently, 74 percent of these youngsters access the Web through phones.

Young Chinese Internet users spend lots of time on gaming. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomwire/

More highlights from the CNNIC survey:

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• Internet penetration for China’s young population now stands at 54.5 percent.

35 Common SEO Mistakes of Webmasters, Website Owners and Even SEOs

Should SEO be done shortly after the site has been rebuilt? Should keyword ranking be a basis of success? There are so many questions fielded in by curious website owners. And there are equally so many answers and unsolicited advice scattered across the Web. While many of these SEO advices are insightful, some are outdated or simply a product of misunderstanding and should be avoided.

So what are the common SEO mistakes website owners, webmasters and even SEOs like me commit?

Planning and Implementation Stage

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1. Failure to identify the main website objectives before performing SEO tasks such as keyword research and making content recommendations.
2. Failure to incorporate user experience in web design as to complement an SEO campaign.

YouTube Deep Linking

Just a while ago, I read the controversial traveling call in the NBA. It is somehow one of the most debatable calls from NBA referees, aside maybe from those touch fouls, Hack-a-Shaq and the like. The article states that while LeBron James gets traveling calls for moves that are very close, there are players whom the refs allow to travel just because they are strutting their wares (coast to coast layup or drive to the hoop for a tomahawk dunk). Refs maybe want the crowd to stand in awe instead of telling the refs to stop ruining a player’s moment.

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13 Tips On How To Optimize Online Videos

More than ever, video search has grown in popularity and hence, importance. No wonder major search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo! have switched gears to support video, in addition to the most popular video site of all, YouTube. Google even incorporates videos on its mainstream search engine as it implements the Universal Search.

The rapid growth of videos posted online and use of video search engines highlight the fact that even if a big percentage of videos posted online are useless or uninteresting, the number of those in the opposite end is still huge. Which is why it’s unsurprising that US Internet users watched 12.7 billion videos in November 2008 alone.

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