Whereas content farms were almost wholly dependent on search engines for their audiences, the news outlets leading the sponsored content charge have more diverse traffic sources.
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"We want to be sure we drive traffic to sources who do original journalism, " says Bharat.
He also says that because people who comment on articles are almost by definition more engaged in the content, advertisers are finding that Disqus readers outdo rival traffic driving sources such as Facebook, Outbrain, Twitter, and StumbleUpon by two to three times in pages consumed, time spend, and number of comments and article shares.
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How to maximize secondary traffic from social sources.
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The bigger question is whether increasing homepage visits ought to be a priority given AOL other stated goals of diversifying its sources of traffic and finding new audiences for its many content websites other than readers who get there via links on the welcome screen.
Mike Scullin, founder of NIT-ology, an NIT bracketology website, said most of his traffic comes from two sources: fans of lower-level teams who are pleased at the prospect of an NIT bid, and fans looking for ammunition to use on high-profile rivals who might miss the NCAA tournament.
Apple will pull traffic data from a variety of sources, including anonymous crowd-sourced data pulled from iOS users.
But the list also reflects challenges faced by many industries: How can online journals and newspapers effectively increase their traffic given the stiff competition from other sources?
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The city's international airport was also closed to flights at one point, and staff began building a temporary control tower, as air traffic facilities were switched to emergency power sources.
The research team used data from a number of sources including air pollution reports, traffic counts and tax offices.
Light pollution can come from TV and computer screens, other electronic displays and ambient sources such as streetlights, passing traffic and neighboring buildings, in addition to overhead lighting within the home.
Their sensors record network traffic and use a feed of data about threat sources associated with command and control servers.
Secondary sources of event data can include other application systems, other departments within the company, business partners, news feeds, industry data feeds, weather feeds, traffic feeds, Twitter, other social applications and other sources.
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"We drive traffic and provide advertising in support of all business models - whether news sources choose to host the articles with us or on their own websites, " wrote Alexander Macgillvray, Google's associate general counsel for products and intellectual property.
Sources said one of the four men in question was stopped for a traffic violation Thursday on Interstate 95 in Broward County but was released.
Other key patents IBM obtained last year were for predicting traffic problems by using GPS and communicating the delays to drives, finding patterns across disparate data sources and an invention for enabling analysis of medical data from multiple sources to improve the research, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
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Their advanced sandbox technology, Deep Discovery, is available as an out-of-band gateway device (Deep Discovery Inspector) to scan all incoming traffic and a stand alone server (Deep Discovery Analyzer) to accept suspicious executables from email gateways and other sources.
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