• How to solve negative/bad reviews online

    For the past 6 years, I am keep increasingly receiving requests from various companies/persons to help them out in a very sensitive and important problem: they had negative/bad reviews online. And they need to solve them 🙂 The problem is that this way they waste a LOT of sales. A nielsen study since april 2009…

  • Google Adsense vs Adbrite test results

    I’ve made a test, on one of our websites targeted, to US visitors, having before Google adsense and after that adbrite, on the same ad spots. Conclusion: Google Adsense produce an income 78 (seventyeight) times bigger then AdBrite! WOW. the quality of the Adbrite’s ads was very low, the contextual targeting did not function, it…

  • Social networks usage in Romania

    Some nice figures on Romanian Social Networks usage. Who’s getting social in Romania via manafu

  • Recycle rulz – Colecteaza Selectiv

    One of our clients, Eco-Rom Ambalaje (#1 in recycling in Romania), launched this month a campaign, with a strong call2action. Colecteaza Selectiv (http://colecteazaselectiv.ro). 50 bikes as prizes. 3 bikes for the most influencing bloggers + 30 tshirts made from recycled PET. As the campaign ends on October 3rd, we’ll give more nice results after that.…

  • SEM conference at Orange Meetup September 2010

    This evening I’ve been to a Orange Meetup, organized by Orange Romania. Excellent ROI for me. The topic was SEM. The guests were 2 ladies (Amelie and Essuhana) from eSearch Vision, a french SEM agency. The moderator was Maria H. – a very human presenter:) Here are some interesting facts: they run 0.5bln eur clicks…

  • WordPress bans sites if wrong links appears in blogroll

    This week, wordpress banned 2 of my wordpress sites, one with PR 4 and one with PR 3. They banned it automatically after I posted a specific url to a travel dot com site that was ok from reputation point of view (as far as I thought). I just saw a big red thing saying…

  • Search terms relevancy in adwords keyword tool

    Here is a good learning worth to be shared. For small keywords, like “mp3”, “laptop”, “travel”, and so on, adwords keyword tool shows tons of searches. Well, this is not correct. Here is a test I have done: I found a term that was searched 110k/month according google adwords keyword tool (simple term). I found…

  • eCommerce in Romania – GPEC 2010

    Some very interesting learnings from Gala Premiilor eCommerce 2010. (live blogging) Bogdan Manole (legal) register at osim the url/brand most of the legal stuff are copy paste find replace better use unique brand names than seo optimised if you are a distributor, you should state your relationship with the rest of the brands if you…

  • New client

    After a long selection process (of several months), after competing with more than 10 competitors, we finally won a pitch for one of the biggest US museum, for a very nice (and big) project. We are very happy, as between our competitors were huge digital players, with huge PR 10 clients in portfolio. So, we…

  • Nice new portfolio clients

    In the past 3-4  weeks we’ve worked for some new clients, that I’m pretty proud of 🙂 – UPC – Sprint Curier – Unilever – BAT – JTI – Arctic (Beko) Way to go.

  • Why is important to optimise sites for Bing + Yahoo

    EVERYBODY in the SEO world tells you to optimize for google. But bing + yahoo now is half of google, according June 2010 Comscore data http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2008/07/Top_US_Search_Engines 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…

  • Guaranteed results by Ferseta e-Consulting Cabinet – nice example

    I promote myself as e-marketing services provider with guaranteed ROI. Now I am in a middle of a business case very interested: client: Unilever – brand: Algida 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.…

  • Why reinstalling a computer is pain in the a*s

    I just calculated that I need a tone of softwares that need to be reinstalled on my computer, that makes it a very time consuming process: 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…

  • Summer Work

    I saw that everybody is more relaxed during this summer. Really hot temperature, really stupid government decisions, a lot of emigration intentions to New Zealand. New clients comming, (some) old clients dying. Cycle of life. Me personally I’m going each weekend outside Bucharest. Jony is going to seaside also this week. John is building a…