19 May 2011 / SEO
The 9th November (Wow they made me a present), Google introduced Instant Preview. Beside the titles of organic search results, there is a magnifying glass icon. Once a searcher clicks on the icon of any result, a zoomed-out snapshot of the underlying page appears to the right of the organic results, giving the users a taste of the websites. Why...
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16 May 2011 / TIPS
Working with spreadsheets mean inevitably to face with importing data sooner or later. And blank rows or cells are a common problem, especially if we are going to use the filter to order the items in your list, which definitely don't love empty cell/rows (well the Windows version of Excel 2010 seems to manage pretty well them, but this is not...
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12 May 2011 / SEO
Some days ago, Facebook announced that from October 2011 onward everyone interested into developing a Facebook App will require an SSL certificate in order to allow the application running. I’ve been never involved with the development of a Facebook App, and I certainly don’t want to start now. However, as I’ve been involved into some SEO...
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6 May 2011 / SEO
If a “Sorry, your account has been disabled” message when attempting to log in to your account appears, that’s when your troubles are starting. Even if you believe that your account has been disabled in error and you are going to contact the assistance to let them further investigate into your situation, it’s likely you are going to be have some...
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20 April 2011 / SEM
Back in 2005, Google AdWords introduced quality score so to ensure creative to include a decent ad text allowing users finding what they’re looking for. They were also evaluating the CTR. After a short while, Google added a landing page score to the mix, which was evaluating also the landing page in terms of relevance i.e. the page should reflect...
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17 April 2011 / SEO
Code-named “Panda”, the rationale for this update is clear: it aims eliminating the “content farms” from the SERPs, e.g. sites publishing junk content purely to capture Google traffic. Is Google update really achieving it’s objective? Since the Panda / Farmer update hit the UK earlier on Monday, most people with a website have been monitoring...
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