Category: Internet

  • Excellent business growth idea. Anyone interested?

    In the past months, I received some very interesting cooperation proposals, from Romania and USA, that I must say they really works. Join some “360 degrees offering groups”. What are those? An association between complementary businesses that goes to a client with a complete offer. So, Ferseta e-Consulting Cabinet (offering e-marketing services) + a PR…

  • Switter bigger and bigger

    I see that switter.com generates more traffic to those who use it, me included. And direct links with “follow” always helps for google:)

  • Romanian Top Social Brands 2010, by Biz

    Manafu just reminded me via this post that some weeks ago I answered myself to the questionnaire from Biz. The results, plus some of my inputs you can see here (pages 26-41):

  • Site loading speed – important factor in google results position

    In those 200 algorithm variables that influence the site position in google search results, now the site loading speed becomes more important. Here is the google announcement: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html So, if you hosting provider is slow, CHANGE IT.

  • The news of the century: “manele” google searches drop since end ’07

    I am shocked. “Manele” search term in Google is dropping fast. http://www.google.com/trends?q=manele For those who does not now what manele is, consider yourself fortuned.

  • Google more interested in site overall authority than in content accuracy

    Lately I saw that google is more interested in the site overall position than in the particularly content. For example, let’s take a search term very niche, like “djksalkjdfalkdjfalkdjf”, where there are not too many competitors. Or no competitors at all. 🙂 Before, if you had a page more or less optimized for this search…

  • How to get PR4 in 3 weeks after you bought the domain

    3 weeks ago we bought a new domain, hpcheap.com – google keyword tool showed that there are a huge number of searches (110k monthly searches) and there was medium competition. After creating the site and getting some links to it (from several PR4 and several PR3 sites), I was nicely surprised to see that google…

  • Google index is full month base, not a last minute radiography

    Last year I kept records for recalculations of Page Rank and I saw first hand that it does it every 26 days (plus/minus) Now I realized something else. That the calculation is done during the full month, not like a full radiography in the last days. For example: I have a site (A) that I…

  • Eye injury price premium for webdevelopers

    I just quoted rebuilding a website that is a health hazard for programmers. The colors are so bright that it’s impossible to look more then a couple of seconds without going blind. Indeed, the colors are part of the brand positioning. But what about the poor developers? 🙂 Maybe we’ll use a mild color for…

  • Friends in online, offline, both or none?

    Until now, I was very proud that all my connections in Linkedin and Facebook were people that I personally know.Whenever a new person sent me a new connection request and I never knew it, he/she ended up in spam. But now I am reconsidering my opinion. It seems that there is an added benefit after…

  • No-follow really means no-follow?

    All sites needs incoming links to grow. But a lot of places where you can get those links have a nasty habit of having no-follow tag. In twitter for example, when you specify your web address (that’s showing you in your profile page) – http://www.twitter.com/cferseta, you can see a “no follow”. In blogs comments –…

  • Why keywords like “lawyer” should not exist in a first time conversation

    This morning I received a communication (very polite, I recognize) from a developer saying something like this: “My client phone (an insurance broker) is on your site. Please take it down. Otherwise we have a mandate to use our Lawyers” Indeed, I have several insurance sites, and in one of them there is a list…

  • Why google does not index all your pages

    Google is not indexing all the pages, unless you have a site of 5 pages. Let’s say you have 1,000,000 pages, but google sees only 1,000. Where are the rest? Even after submitting sitemap.xml, still the number does not increase significantly. The reason is: the incoming links. More incoming links you have, more pages google…

  • Twitter spam finding

    I just found something about twitter and its twitter spam. If your user (or your name) contains key words, with huge searches, then you’ll be followed in no time by a lot of spammers. While if your twitter name is niche, than twitter spam is much, much lower.