Facebook Users Worldwide

 

FACEBOOK USERS IN THE WORLD Facebook Usage and Facebook Penetration Statistics By World Geographic Regions New Facebook Stats for 2011 Q4

FACEBOOK USAGE AND INTERNET STATISTICS FOR DEC 31, 2011 Geographic World Regions Population ( 2011 Est.) FB Users Aug. 31, 2010 FB Users June 30, 2011 FB Users Dec. 31, 2011 FB Penetration Dec. 31, 2011 Asia 3,879,740,877 93,584,580 152,957,480 183,963,780 4.7 % Africa 1,037,524,058 17,607,440 30,665,460 37,739,380 3.6 % Europe 816,426,346 162,104,640 208,907,040 223,376,640 27.4 % Latin America 555,856,161 68,189,920 115,288,940 141,612,220 25.5 % North America 347,394,870 149,054,040 167,999,540 174,586,680 50.3 % Middle East 216,258,843 11,698,120 16,125,180 18,241,080 8.4 % The Caribbean 41,427,004 3,925,060 5,903,520 6,218,960 15.0 % Oceania / Australia 35,426,995 11,596,660 12,881,560 13,353,420 37.7 % WORLD TOTAL 6,930,055,154 517,760,460 710,728,720 799,092,160 11.5 % NOTES: (1) Facebook (FB) User Statistics and Facebook Penetration in the World for December 31, 2011, according to the official Facebook number of users reported in each individual country and/or world region. (2) The "Facebook Penetration" corresponds to the ratio of Facebook users in relation to the total number of estimated total population in each world region, expressed as a percentage. (3) World Demographic (Population) numbers are based on mid-year 2011 data from the US Census Bureau . (4) For definitions, disclaimers, and navigation help, please refer to the Site Surfing Guide. (6) Information in this site may be cited, giving the due credit to www.internetworldstats.com. Copyright © 2001 - 2012, Miniwatts Marketing Group. All rights reserved worldwide.

One-Word Secret to Online Marketing Success?

What’s the One-Word Secret to Online Marketing Success?

 

Would you like to know what one of the secrets to internet marketing success is? I’ll tell you in one word: consistency.

Many people are attracted to the idea of doing ecommerce. Some of these folks come to the internet with systematic thinking. They understand the importance of good training in doing whatever it is one sets out to do. This is commendable as it is important to analyze the whys and wherefores of the type of internet business that you plan to get involved in. It is vital, however, to realize when you’ve done enough analytical thought and training and that it’s time to step out and do the thing you’ve been preparing for.

There are those who will put into action what they’ve trained for. Unfortunately, they do not take consistent action. They do a little advertising here, a little over there. They sign up for resources that they plan to utilize but end up never using the resources. They try their hand on one thing first. When that effort does not produce the desired results as quickly as hoped, then they move on to the next thing that looks promising.

Then there are those people that do realize that consistency is vital, but they don’t have a clear understanding of what they need to be doing. They do not have the training needed. These are the people whom you notice spending money and time to blast out a replicated company website to whoever will bother taking a look at it. These people have not learned the essentials of internet marketing and attraction marketing. They often wind up frustrated, having lost time and money with little reward to show for it.

Successful internet marketers are able to mix the training they’ve had with consistent practice. They learn different marketing strategies and then they put these into action. As they become skilled in one method, they add another strategy to their cache of marketing weaponry. They schedule their activities so that everyday there is productive effort made towards their online businesses. There are certain days set aside for creating Squidoo lenses. Friends are added to MySpace or Direct Matches at regular intervals. The list is varied and unlimited. What’s important is that something productive is being done consistently to advance their online businesses.

There’s a simple equation to illustrate what we’ve been talking about.

Much training + little action = very little.

Little training + lots of action = disappointment.

Right amount of training + consistent effort = massive predictable success

Many people are ready to take consistent action; it’s the training they lack. Well, there are several sites one can go to for training in online marketing. Just do a little research to find them. What’s important is putting the training into action afterward…in a consistent manner.

 

 

VSEO " video search engine optimization "

Video optimization started hitting the heads of online marketers in the last 2- 3 years after the mass explosion of interest generated by Youtube in online video watching. There are several video streaming sites on web apart from youtube like www.dailymotion.com, www.break.com, www.desitara.com and so on. Now comes the question as to how to market video in internet via search or other means of marketing. Videos within a video sites are getting popular with the on page video optimization made on youtube and other site by mapping relevant keyword to it, found through keyword research analysis.

After inclusion of video in the search results by search engine, most of the SEO experts are interested in gaining traffic for their video through search engines. Since Google being the top on the chart, there are several video SEO methodologies one need to follow to optimize the video for search engines.

Here is the example for video optimization in search engine.

 

So How to Optimize a Video in Search Results of Search Engines

Though it is true that search engines can’t automatically and independently determine the contents of the video, videos can be used to list your website in the search engine results. Since the search engine is an automated tool running behind with lots of algorithm to throw the quality results, its difficult for it to map what is the content in the video. To help search engine determine the video content, they introduced a format search engine crawler can understand so as to identify the video content. Here comes the evolution of video sitemap.

XML Video Sitemap

As in the normal sitemap creation, video sitemap also created in XML format. XML is a markup language which can be easily understandable by its simplicity in the code. All the Markup language helps to give presentation in structured way. They have set of prescribed annotation to follow, and all markup languages are enclosed in “<” “>” symbol.

With Video XML Sitemap we are able to present the data required by search engines in a structured way as they required. When a site makes use of video sitemap, they would be able to get double listing in the search engine results. This will really be helpful in increase the traffic to the website tremendously as it would be well optimized.

Below is the video sitemap code desired by Google http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472#2

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"

xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1">

<url>

<loc>http://www.example.com/videos/some_video_landing_page.html</loc>

<video:video>

<video:content_loc>http://www.site.com/video123.flv</video:content_loc>

<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes" autoplay="ap=1">

http://www.site.com/videoplayer.swf?video=123</video:player_loc>

<video:thumbnail_loc>http://www.example.com/thumbs/123.jpg
</video:thumbnail_loc>

<video:title>Grilling steaks for summer</video:title>

<video:description>Get perfectly done steaks every time</video:description>

<video:tag>steak</video:tag>

<video:tag>meat</video:tag>

<video:tag>summer</video:tag>

<video:category>Grilling</video:category>

<video:family_friendly>yes</video:family_friendly>

<video:duration>600</video:duration>

</video:video>

</url>

</urlset>

<urlset> :Standard protocol which is used to call the sitemap. It inherits the certain property as prestructured by XML. The <urlset> tag contains all the information about each url in the document and this can be really helpful in optimization.

<url> to </url>This is the video url , whatever is mentioned here will be reflected to that particular URL.

<loc> tag will specify the location of the video in the url. This will help the crawlers to locate the video.

<video:video> to </video:video> will have all the information about the video.

<video:content_loc> will give the crawler the right location of the video. This will let the search engines know where exactly the video has been taken from.

<video:thumbnail_loc> tag will give the location of the thumbnail image that should be shown in the search engine results. This must be 160X120 in dimension. The right video thumbnail has to be chosen to induce interest in the minds of the viewer. Thus if you search for a keyword in search, then video shown in search engine have relevant thumbnail will have more click through rate than others. Its a really important step to be noted.

<video:title> the title of the video must be specified in this. As we do in regular title optimization in organic search engine optimization, we need to play with relevant keywords to optimize the title for the video. Which will have more impact on search results.

<video:description> this tag must contain the description of the video. This make the search engine understand what you mean in this video. If we write proper description as we do for meta description for a page in SEO terms then video optimization will be much easier than the non followed once.

<video:tag> will contain the tag of the video. Each tag must be specified differently.

<video:category> tag will contain the category to which the video belongs. By choosing the right keyword you will be able to inform the search engines the category of your video.

<video:duration> tag will contain the length of the videos. In Google there is an option to click on video tabs in it and the left panel gives the customize option to select the duration of the video. Default option given by video section in Google are Short (0–4 min.), Medium (4–20 min.) & Long (20+ min.).

<video:family_friendly> tag will contain whether the video that has been uploaded is family friendly or not. This will help from adult videos being displayed to the general audience.

Note: From <url> to </url> we can give details of one video, if you want more video to attach in same XML video sitemap create more <url> to </url> within the one <urlset> to</urlset>.

Once we create the XML video sitemap now its time to register with google.

Submitting Video Sitemap In Web Master Tools

* Create the videositemap.xml

* Upload the videositemap.xml file to the root folder of your site ie;sitename.com/videositemap.xml

* Submitting a video sitemap is similar to the normal sitemap. Go to the webmasters tools and sign in with the username and password.

* Click on the verified domain name, click on site configuration and then on sitemap.

* When this page opens give the URL where you have uploaded the videositemap.xml and then click on submit.

* Wait for about 15 seconds and the status of your sitemap will be displayed. If there is a green mark with the format as video, you have successfully submitted your sitemap for search engines to crawl. Depending on the crawling rate of your website the sitemap will be indexed in Google.

Once this is submitted, the probability of your video to come in search result is higher with thumbnails and other details as in the search results.

So once the video is uploaded and optimized for the onpage optimization with relevant keywords and xml sitemap creation and submit. Now its time to make it popular in public, if the keyword we are targeting with keyword is of high competition , then just a video sitemap submission with onpage factor won’t help. We need think and channelize the strategy to make people aware of the video, for that we need to follow traditional search engine optimization methods like blogging with video embed on it, link building for the video with proper anchor text optimization in internal and external links and so on. We can use the video popular in social media marketing channels making it go viral in social networking sites or make viral in bookmarking to bring traffic to video. Once the video started getting enough traffic through all these media and then search engine feel that the particular video have the authority to be showcased on their results, there comes the beauty of seeing your video in top of the search results in high search keywords with all its property as we listed xml video sitemap.