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As we all know, China’s most popular search engine isn’t Google, it’s Baidu. Baidu was created in 2000 and at the beginning of 2010 it has about two-thirds of the Chinese market. It claims to be the most advanced Chinese-language search engine. Let’s look at some of the factors that contributed to Google’s failure in [...]

Having a blog on Posterous (for about a year now) and being an exceptional fan of WordPress at the same time, i decided to write a very short comparison, or actually pros and cons of using both of them. WordPress has been an amazing tool for many years and its developers make a great job [...]

Should the amount of time it takes for a page to load in a browser influence search engine rankings for pages? According to Google it should. Matt Cutts  announced last year (in November 2010) that the company had indicated that their search algorithms would be  changed again as the search engine will factor in how [...]

During the launch of Google Coffeine, Google search results page changed many times so did our eye tracking in universal search. Before launching the universal search system (which blends listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages) the way we used to track search [...]

Today I came across interesting results whilst checking rankings for one of clients. I typed “matrimonio roma” in Google.it and one of the listings had quite unusual description as it contained a link (not a breadcrumb nor sitelinks etc)… When I inspected the element, the link looked like: http://www.google.it/url?url=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrimonio%23Il_matrimonio_nella_Roma_antica&rct=j&q=matrimonio+roma&usg=AFQjCNGWA5FtpbOchaPTnmGieSsOFmSqgw&ei=0DD8S7PSFeGN4gayxbi7Ag&sa=X&oi=section_link&resnum=15&ct=legacy&ved=0CF4QygQ The question is, how this description [...]

I absolutely love this plug-in. I think is the neatest and most compact Bookmarking Social WordPress Plug-in has ever been created. It also doesn’t slow page loads as is implemented using the most simplistic html code to ensure fast load and minimal impact on your blog. As promised, I asked the author to add the [...]

Now we can send a direct message to multiple users on Twitter.  Currently., the number of recipients is limited to 12, however it moght be also updated soon. The application is called TwitterGuru. In order to send direct message to many users just follow the steps: 1. Go to TwitterGuru website 2. Sign in with [...]

So…we have an Ipad, but how we are going to carry it? In a bag? what about guys? Inside a pocket? But the pocket is not big enough! A company in the USA , predicted this problem (it must be someone really clever and creative there), ans designed those pants to satisfy the needs of [...]

Few weeks ago, I searched for a simple wordpress theme for one of my blogs. Having a few blogs on Posterous, I absolutely love the aspect of simplicity, but obviously inability of full SEO optimization is pretty annoying – especially if SEO is what you do on a daily basis. After a few days, I [...]

I read a great article about Social Media Trends for 2010 recently. I must say it’s quite impressing how rapidly social networks grow (apparently Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month)… Obviously, smart phones and iPhone made social [...]

The focus and attention we put into getting as many ‘dofollow’ links as possible causes us to forget about the importance of the ‘nofollow’ links. There are a few important reasons why we should still use the wrongly named ‘bad’ links. WHERE, WHEN AND WHY NOFOLLOW LINKS WORK FOR YOU: 1. SOCIAL NETWORKING AND SOCIAL [...]

When Google Caffeine infrastructure finally arrives (it’s live on few Google Data Centers whilst writing), commenting on blogs, forums and social bookmarking sites with high page rank, will have a stronger influence on your visibility in SERP as well your website Page Rank. Recently, I created an automotive blog, which in a 1,5 months reached [...]

It can be a very frustrating issue and I know that many bloggers have problem with it… I am talking about inability to remove the ‘Category Base’ from the url permalink structure. From my experience it is a quite serious problem when optimising WordPress. Worry not. Mags will show you how to fix it…;) (God [...]