Primary language when it comes to blogging
Technorati has a break down of the major language according to the number of post online. Surprisingly English is the second most used language with Japanese language top the chart with 37%.
Mandarin (Chinese) language occupy the third spot, and climbing slowly up the chart and predicted to overtake english language within a few years time. This goest to show the importants of using services such as Altavista’s Babel Fish Translation and Google’s Translation.
In Summary:
- The blogosphere is multilingual, and deeply international
- English, while being the language of the majority of early bloggers, has fallen to less than a third of all blog posts in April 2006.
- Japanese and Chinese language blogging has grown significantly.
- Chinese language blogging, while continuing to grow on an absolute basis, has begun to decline as an overall percentage of the posts that Technorati tracks over the last 6 months
- Japanese, Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and German are the languages with the greatest number of posts tracked by Technorati.
- The Korean language is underrepresented in this analysis
- Language breakdown does not necessarily imply a particular country or regional breakdown.
- Technorati now tracks more than 100 Million author-created tags and categories on blog posts.
- The rel-tag microformat has been adopted by a number of the large tool makers, making it easy for people to tag their posts. About 47% of all blog posts have non-default tags or categories associated with them.
Source: Technorati
Rotating Google Adsense Colors
Ads blindness happen when readers frequently visit a blog, they tend to avoid reading the ads display at that position. Some bloggers tend to rotate the ads by display ads of different sizes and colours with plugins, but what if you’re a blogspot user? There are no plugins to rotate your ads, but that doesn’t mean that you need to do change the code now and then.
The people at Google Adsense understand this and there is a function that allows bloggers exspecially blogspot user to select multiple colour scheme, thus reducing ads blindness. These schemes can be from either the pre-designed or custom palettes. Simply use you CTRL key to select multiple schemes after selecting “Use Mulitple Palettes” at the bottom of the Adsense Palettes combo box.
Multiple ads color scheme is best used for the main page, choose bright colour that are eye catching because returning visitors tend areas where they knows ads are being display. Try an experiment and analyse the CTR when multiple colour scheme is being used and without. Try it both ways, keep a record and statistics on where and when you run the ads with different color schemes, you may find a particular style that is preferred by your visitors. And always remember, the visitor is the one who matters most !
