Google 60%,

Bing + yahoo – 30%

And since august 2010, yahoo will use the Bing search engine.

Conclusion: if you want traffic, you better start optimize for Bing also. Is also much cheaper then in the crowded google optimisation world

They have a site, www.iubesteinghetata.ro that in google.ro after “inghetata” in the first 1000 results did not appeared. And this was not acceptable. That’s why I stept in.

So I made with them a bet: that I’ll bring this site on first page in google results, or I will not get paid Simple.

More details:

- the site is flash, SEO is almost null  and they cannot add new content (redesigning is out of the question)
- the site does not exists Actually is an alias to a international site www.loveicecream.com, with content duplicated in over 10 languages, each for a local market (poland, romania, holland, etc)

We started from scratch. Now the site is on 8th place 19th place in google.ro and on ascending trend.  So, we achieved the objective.:)

Many thanks to my colleague Blogatu for mobilisation of the bloggers

• Windows
• Firewall
• Antivirus
• Adobe Acrobat
• Print
• Firefox
• Chrome
• IE 8
• IE6
• Opera
• Safari
• MS Office
• Nero
• Macromedia
• Total Commander
• Adobe Photoshop
• codecs pack
• VLC
• Canon print
• IBP
• YM
• Skype
• Livezilla
• WinSCP
• join air
• RDS
• Open Office
• Ovi

Me personally I’m going each weekend outside Bucharest. Jony is going to seaside also this week. John is building a house. Iulian is buying a house. Andrei agreed to help me in my Algida blog activity, with inghetata. Stefan is looking to discover new food ideas. Alex is trying to pay his installements. Elena learns Java. Alina started our new fashion business unit on kuantero. James prepares for a 2 weeks vacations. Peter is in Chile. And Jeff, well Jeff is feeding his evergrowing number of house pets: papagal, dog, cat, fishes, etc. But all we feel in the air a sence of vacation.

On my Romanian blog i said at some point that Made in China will be as valuable as Made in Japan

Explanation: You search a string “a b c” where a b c are separate words. Until recently, if you had a page optimised after abc and the competition was zero for that one, your page would come up. Now, it does not, because google prefers to show in the organic results sites with higher reputation that has only the word a or b or c. And this is not what you need. So much for the long tail.

Example: Trainingul parintilor eficace

If you search on google.com this string, it pops the following results:

On google.ro it shows a normal result, after the same search:

Is weird why on google.com it prefers other algorithm. Maybe this focus on localisation is becoming more and more important

After you create an account, you fill in the cv (to have a minimum 65% completion rate) and after that you are able to make the 3 tests. By the way, make sure you are fresh, otherwise, well, your score will not be very good

Based on the final test, you will be directed to the type of job that best suit you. Types of questions: do you like sort mail, do you have attention to details, do you like bungee jumping, and so on. Based on your profile, you’ll find out what you’ll love to do and what not

When I was a student, nobody told me what should I do or not and what would make me pleasure doing it or not. Nowadays is good to have this sort of guidance, that will keep potential future frustration to a low limit.

Too many people got too advanced in their professional life doing stuff they hate.

Even they’ve been very prompt in solving the error, still was annoying.

I just realized once again, if necessary, the importance of backup.

The all time favorite: the seller of unbelievable ultra cheap inflatable woman. Do u know the story? A guy sold  several inflatable woman at incredible low price. The shocked buyers posted nice reviews that the product is awesome. The rest of buyers started to buy like hell the product. Obvious the guy did not had the products. Then very polite sent an email to all saying that due various problem, the supplier cannot cope with demand so he does not had the products. BUT he will return the money, via check, sent to the local bank. He sent the check where he wrote in clear: “Return for inflatable woman, thick lips, large chicks, kinky, etc – full description”. So very few of the person dared to present themselves at the bank to collect back the money )

Learnings from today:

1. my next business will be as a garbage man:). Viorel Spinu made an excellent point, that an entrepreneur should not involve himself in the business, as a productive force. So not to be a freelancer with employees
2. most of the business cases are web based. All do respect for those that choose NOT the online.
3. many dreamers. damn, i am too one of them:)
4. to have an excellent accountant. (I have the best accountant in the world – I’m gonna do her site for free, just to thank her. Corina Goarna)
5. I liked a almost 18 y.o. that came with a proposal that was actually making money in a no man’s land zone in romania. We all laugh at him at begining, but we applauded 4 times for his courage of DOING something!
6. I felt good to see people that want to DO something, not to be slaves for their whole lives.