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Is the 1st position in organic results still worth a fortune? 10 Apr 2013 | 11:01 pm
Obtaining 1st position in organic results like Google used to be a perfect way of guaranteeing a large amount of targeted traffic to your web site, well not any more…. With the introduction in the org...
How to find images for your blog posts or site for free 25 Nov 2012 | 08:41 pm
Sourcing images for your next blog post or new piece of content for your web site can be a real challenge at times, the cost of professionally taken photos from sites like istockphoto or Stuttlestock ...
Advanced Web Ranking Seo software review 13 May 2012 | 01:32 am
A software to analysis the search positions in the major search engines is an essential tool for any SEO specialist. Advanced Web Ranking tool is certainly one of the most reliable, comprehensive prod...
SEO test of Geolocation results with generic searches on Google 12 Apr 2012 | 09:59 am
On 27 of Feb 2012 Google published on their Inside Search Blog, 40 changes made to their algorithm when ranking various results. Among these, two concerned the local results: “Improvements to ranki...
Google travel portal getting ever closer? 23 Aug 2011 | 09:19 am
With the launch a while back of the Google Hotel Finder experiment (search for hotels in certain neighborhoods in the USA), Google Hotpot (a platform to review hotels and restaurants), hotel price ads...
Social media: new rules of the game=personalization 6 May 2011 | 06:00 am
At a recent event here in Italy (Ca Foscari Digital Week) on the changes in digital media, I thought I would highlight a few key points of the workshops that I attended. First was the “Social media: l...
Google Panda update missed this one 15 Apr 2011 | 08:18 am
With all the talk about the new panda update penalizing sites that have low quality content, I was surprised to find a very poor result in the first spot in Google for the key phrase [google buys beat...
Google Search results with only 3 normal organic listings 4 Apr 2011 | 07:00 am
More bad news for SEO specialists still concentrating only on organic results in Google (surely not….). It seems Big G is testing first page results with only 3 “normal” organic listings and 7 map int...
Google quality rater paid me a visit? 6 Mar 2011 | 11:53 pm
While going through my Google analytics data for one of my domains, I noticed a very strange URL as a referral. It was domain.com/this_page_should_not_exist.fake (no page extension like html, etc). Be...
Piwik the open source alternative to Google analytics Pt1 28 Jan 2011 | 10:51 am
Piwik is a free site statistics analyzer which is a valid alternative to the well known Google analytics product. Being open source means that not only is it free but you have the freedom to modify th...
