3 differences between hackers and admins: 1. An admin must think of ALL security gaps to be succesfull. A hacker must find only one. 2. An admin doing his job is not going to get too much credit. And if something’s wrong, it will be crucified. A hacker will get praised if he get any … Read more
I always respected the imagination of the malware creators. Latest case: a small application for Yahoo Messenger, that tries to make you click a link. It innitiate the conversation or it can responde if you started it. The language is very human The application gives replies! Very nice follow-up It acts when the Yahoo messenger … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Some nice figures on Romanian Social Networks usage. Who’s getting social in Romania via manafu
Looking at godaddy as a hosting provider? Here are 10 reasons why NOT to. As part of my work I had a lot of experience with tons of hosting providers. From shared hosting to virtual servers and physical hosting. From small sites to huge sites (like Coca-Cola sites, with mobile databases included). From high traffic … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
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. … Read more