Ping the Globe - Realtime Internet Traffic Simulation

As follow up from your last article about 3D browser based rendering, this HTML5 and WebGL simulation shows the current Internet traffic in real time. Based on Google Chrome Web browser, we ping every second important Internet backbones and web server for calculating capacity.

I called it the "breath of the Internet" as a kind of more philosophical aspect then technical. Like every living being who breath, they'll have a pulse in their venous to transport blood cells in body. Under same illumination the Internet works too. Every TCP/IP package (or blood cell in human body) have to be transported through Internet cables (venous) before it reaches human brain muscles. The Internet needs more power and energy than any other human creation ever. The idea of a pulse simulation for the biggest, cross-linked machine in world was born.

"Ping the Globe" - Browser based 3d realtime internet traffic simulation

Partitioned into 3 realtime data parts, the left side executes a ping serial of continent IP addresses and display Send packages (32 bytes), received and lost packages as well as max. and min. response times for each ping.

The big index value on right side of each continent shows you a calculated number between 1-100 (1 stand for highest and best performance - 100 for worst). Integrated components are average lost packages and average response time in milliseconds (ms).

Diagram on top right screen position shows you the latest 100 ping response times. This chart represents the pulse diagram of the Internet. On bottom right i've included a 3D simulation from chrome globe experiments. Based on a simple JSON data format, globe data gets updated after each ping, highlighted by small white flashes on globe.

Watch live streaming video from theseoblitz at livestream.com

Please note, the ping host is Europe (Germany) and we don't have the infrastructure to perform a parallel ping from pinged continents too. This provids a much more accurate value for index calculations. Further, our currently likewise improved IT infrastructure allows us currently not to publish the simulation on a webpage (technical and security reasons). At the moment simulation runs on localhost via Apache to execute pings commands. If you're interested into, we're looking for partners (Data, Webserver) to push the experiment and become a better accaptance in public for Web-3D technologies.

In the upcoming weeks, we're going to include more and more backbone and server IP's from all continents. Thanks to, Google's Chrome Experiments for the Globe, Flotr2 and mrdoob.

Follow me on google+ (SEO Blitz) to keep updated about upcoming live streams.

SEO Ranking Factors - Success and Quality

Today's post is behind the lines again. Success and quality of your website and how it takes effect on your seo ranking factors. There is so many seo gossip around the planet and every week i read about new way's to rank your website on top positions. They might be right, but in the spectrum of holistic optimisations it is a little bit more than "anchor text variations" or writing hundreds of articles describing googles spam algorithm updates instead analysing those things which are really important for google!


The Philosophy

"#1 Focus on the user and all else will follow." is Google's number one philosophy. Please remember some years ago, googles focus was to index the world wide web (googol websites). A few years later, googles focus was the de-indexation of spam from their index! (This cost a lot of time, energy and intelligence power for sure) After solving those two issues and they're currently still on going, google focuses back to their first intention to deliver quality and answers for users. This intention may be the cause of 90%+ global market share. So lets take a closer look to those success and quality factors taking influence of your ranking ...

Google's #1 philosophy at google.com/about

SEO Blitz analysis - fashion trends

SEO Blitz livestream from Mar., 01th., 2012
Season Search Trends, Search Volume Forecast, Onpage Blitz

Today's session was about season search trends, focusing fashion trends. Googles Insight Search show a "on fire" search volume index during the whole year starting with spring fashion trends (Dez-Mar) followed by summer fashion trends from (Mar - Jul). Autumn and winter trends we leave a little bit behind, because they're currently not so relevant. The analysis focus on US search trends as opposed to world wide trends (Strong trend differences based on location and country!)

Search Volume Index for "fashion trends" since 2004 till now

We detected some related search terms for fashion trends (adding long tail "2012" too):

• spring fashion, spring trends
• summer fashion, summer trends

Detecting related top searches and displaying season search trends

Search Volume Forecast shows 100% increase during next three month

 
"Spring fashion trends 2012" is currently on his yearly peak with around 400-500 thousand monthly searches during past two month. The estimated forecast of summer fashion trends is currently on his peak climb and will increase about 100% up to ~ 600.000 searches/month (May, Jun). A rough estimated keyword value of ~ $ 900.000,00 can be estimated out of a CPC of $1.49.

Adwords search volume, estimated keyword value by CPC

After analysing season search trends an search volume we compared the Top 10 Placements in US index. By requesting the Google Datacenter in Mountain View (CA) directly, it is possible to become an overview about US search result index worldwide.

Both reviewed domains have Top 1-2 placements and show high pagerank on subpages, domain age of 1996, less keywords onpage and less content onpage. A very fine structured document structure ("linked" headline hierarchy) and many internal links to deeper sublevel (/fashion/trends/.....) pages was found on both sites. Top 1 placement domain didn't even show a keyword density more than 1%.

Document headline structure of Top 2 Placement

This time i've added voice too  (we had troubles in past with sound livestream). Feel free to watch the whole 30 min livestream seo blitz.

Watch live streaming video from theseoblitz at livestream.com

SEO Blitz analyse - mobile phone

SEO Blitz livestream from Feb., 28th., 2012
Trend, Search Volume Analyse and Onpage Blitz

Today's seo blitz analyse was done by researching randomly the keyword "mobile phones". By selecting some manufactures with high search volume in general and a specified product name, we're starting the Onpage SEO Blitz on the two top placements for this query.

Summary:

1. Search and domain trends for mobile manufactures
2. Estimated Global Search Volume for brand names and models
3. Selecting keyword "Nokia N8" for Onpage analyse
4. Onpage Blitz on top #1 position
5. Onpage Blitz on top #2 position

Today's Livestream Chat:

theseoblitz:
": Lets check the Nokia N8 results in SERPs"
": Showing a lot of text in cached text version"
": On the first view descriptions, requirements etc  is not visible"
": Starting Onpage Blitz"
": Much contenten isnt visible on page as well"
": searching for content onpage who appears with deactivated css"
": Content layer seems to be hidden with css display none"
": big layer show up when changing the css with firebug"
": Reviewing search result page #2"
": Strong Document structure"
": Ok lets  get a result of of this"
": First Page "well done" text hiding ~ 80% in hidden layers"
": Second Page, great document architecture and category page"
": Thanks for watching :)"

Global Websearch Trends showing decreasing search volume for N8 Modell

Search Volume for Nokia two word phrases, mobile, phone, n8 and n9

Watch live streaming video from theseoblitz at livestream.com

SEO Blitz analysis - solar panel

Blitz analyse for "solar panel, photovoltaic and solar cell"

The seo blitz analyse was done in two parts. Both review a top 10 placed domain name during the livestream.

Summary (per day)

Average CPC $1.47 - $1.79

Total Clicks 551 - 674

Total Cost $900 - $1,100

Keyword	Global Search Volume	Local Search Volume	Competition	Avg. CPC	Clicks per day	Value/day
solar photovoltaic	5,000,000	1,500,000	Medium	$1.39	8	$12
solar panel	2,740,000	1,000,000	High	$1.64	563	$927
solar cell	1,500,000	550,000	High	$1.50	40	$60

Search Volume index of solar panel, solar cell and solar photovoltaic

Watch live streaming video from theseoblitz at livestream.com

Watch live streaming video from theseoblitz at livestream.com

SEO Blitz analysis - Important scores on checklist

10 important things for SEO Blitz analysis, you should take on checklist

A blitz analyze have to give you an significant base of data in a short period of time. In the end you have to make an estimation of problems and potential of validated data. The blitz analysis is your base for further deep focused analysis and gives you a first impression where to dig deeper.

Depending on your experience, a blitz should run between 5-30min, but not longer. Usually they're done on competitors websites to find weak points in optimisation, we can take advantage of. Working with special tools and services will save you a lot of time, depending on how precise shown data is. An SEO Blitz review the "classic seo parameters".

How to include a logo in QR Codes

QR Codes for mobile marketing - branded with your logo

Using QR Codes as synergy between print marketing and mobile/web marketing become more and more in practice. Geeky times are yesteryear and number of smart phone are increasing daily. "During "normal" day's, there are 700.000 new activated android smart phones", Google Mobile-Chef Andy Rubin wrote on his twitter channel (1).

Dual color, pixel squares on print campaigns, always looked like a printer failure to me. Branding your QR Code with a colored, high resolution logo, increase your brand recognition. Following a detailed step by step tutorial how to include your logo in a QR Code.


Read the summary or step by step tutorial ...