Jeeran Launches an Exciting Marketing Tool for its Bloggers and Users

Middle East’s largest UGC community, Jeeran.com, announced the launch of a new marketing tool that allows bloggers and users to get insights about the traffic on their blogs and pages on Jeeran.com. The new service can be reached on: http://www.jeeran.com/visitors/?lang=e

The new tool, “Visitors”, features statistics and charts of the number of visitors each page/blog receives, with the ability to track number of pageviews, top viewed content, visitors’ countries, and much more.

The launch of Visitors comes in line with Jeeran’s vision that aims to offer a unique user experience, where Arab users can enjoy convince and comfort while surfing and contributing to the web.

Jeeran, Arabic for neighbors, is a pioneer Arab online community that offers a variety of web 2.0 services including blogging, photo and video sharing, as well as web hosting, these services are backed with state-of-the-art technologies that powers a platform for individuals to create their own presence on the internet, with minimum technical knowledge.

Commenting on the new tool, Laith Zraikat, Director of Innovation and Co-Founder of Jeeran.com, said: “We are so excited about Visitors as it puts our users in control, it’s very user-friendly and easy to operate, and it doesn’t need any installation or technical efforts.”

Mr. Zraikat also added: “With the growing popularity of user-generated-content communities such as Jeeran, bloggers and websites owners, as well as photo and video sharing enthusiasts, are in need for a free and reliable tool to evaluate their contribution to the web.”

Over the past few years, the community of Jeeran grew-up to host more than one million active users, in addition to 650,000 websites, and a growing community of bloggers that exceeded 120,000 blogs, the largest blog community in the Arab world.

Omar Kudsi, Jeeran’s President and Co-Founder welcomed the launch of Visitors, and quoted: “Our tracking system is user-friendly and comes in both Arabic and English, which offers a convenient Arabic-language tool to measure visitors and traffic.”

Mr. Zraikat pointed out that Visitors is already available for all users on Jeeran without the need of any installation, he also stressed on the fact that many features will be added to the system soon.

Kudsi concluded: “We strive to offer Arab users a top notch web experience that empowers them to contribute, communicate and interact, and Visitors is just the beginning of a series of features and products in the pipeline.”

Al-Shaya Launches Alberto Guardiani Signature Shoes

Mohammad Yousef Al-Shaya Co. have opened its newest and most extraordinary shoe store Alberto Guardiani in the Avenues the biggest shopping destination in the Middle East. In the 19th of November 2008 the ceremony of the opening has been hosted by Mr. Mohammad Yousef Al-Shaya The general Manager of Mohammad Yousef Al-Shaya CO. And it was attended by Kuwaitis VIPs and the Local Press.

Alberto Guardiani is a new step of luxury and innovative style offered to Kuwait’s shops seeking to the quality and the perfection. Alberto Guardiani is inspired by Italian styles, the features contemporary of this large Italian store are the décor and the latest global fashion and pioneer designs from Italy the country of origin. Recognising the demands for shoes of such quality and style, Mohammad Yousef Al-Shaya Co. secured an exclusive this agreement for Kuwait.

“We are thrilled to open the first Alberto Guardiani store in Kuwait with outstanding service; we think that this store will quickly become a favourite destination for elite shoppers looking for the top quality of fashion said “Mohammad Yousef Al-Shaya”.

The shop offers an extensive collection of shoes for women, men and children, all delivering high quality of luxury leathers and fabrics, with artisan taste, and hand-stitching refinements. Supported by Mohammad Yousef Al-Shaya Co., the Alberto Guardiani collection in the store will always feature a wealth of prestigious models, designed with painstaking care to meet the demands of a dynamic and elegant life style. With new designs arriving each season, Alberto Guardiani caters their customers by committing to have their own individual style.

The winter collection is currently available in the Alberto Guardiani store in the Avenues. The shop is located in phase 2, ground floor and is open from 10 am to 11 pm Sunday through Wednesday and from 10am to 12 pm during the weekends.