Web Production

While developing websites for our clients, I’m very often being asked to consult on SEO strategy and where to start with it. One of the most popular questions is "What to do with duplicate content? I don’t want Google to penalize me!"

Let’s start from the beginning and see what duplicate content is. Duplicate content in the eyes of Google is a word-by-word copying of content. So imagine, you went out to About.com ctrl + c ‘ ed one of their articles and ctrl + v ‘ ed it to your website or blog. This, in the eyes of Google will look like a total duplicate content.Read on →

I'm promoting a facebook fan page of my download games website, which gets 7000 uniques per day. Today, the fan page has 205 fans, there were no any promotion of the page on the website.

So, I decided to make an experiment: to put a facebook widget on every game page. In a week or so, I will post an update on how many fans such promotion can bring.

Christmas is just around the corner. I'm sure, you've already decorated your house, time to decorate your virtual properties too. I've found a nice Xmas Icon Set (and cool thing, it's absolutelly free for any use!):

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Do you Tweet? Me too. Soon this question will be as silly as the question “Do you have a cell phone?”. Twitter became a very powerful communication tool which perfectly fits lazy nature of people: “we don’t want to do much, but we aren’t against doing simple things at all”. Students, workers, clerks, housewife’s, politicians, pop stars and even, some presidents have their Twitter accounts. This is a great place for brands to communicate with their current and potential customers. Being friendly and opened to your client base builds great relationships with them.Read on →

During a month or so I was looking for a good web based project management and collaboration solution. I tried lots of hosted solutions such as Huddle, DeskAway, BaseCamp, Zoho Projects, GoPlan and so on. Every solution has it's pros and cons, for example, Basecamp is nice but too expensive and has too little needed features. DeskAway was messy, Zoho is Indian service (no offence to Indian brothers, but I somewhat can't trust them to host my critical data).Read on →

This is a real insane. I must say, it is a pain in the ass to find a reliable shared hosting. Yes, for big projects you will go for dedicated and won't have problems at all. But when you're building SEO network or when you're just starting - finding a good shared hosting is a hard task.Read on →

If you wonder sometimes why your subscribers or partners don't receive email messages from you - check your Ip  or domain. It can be blacklisted by various mail servers, ISP's, etc.Read on →

Sometimes I blame myself, why I'm not as clever as some guys, as someone who invents simple but stunning business models. Here is one for you. Sounds simple and any of us could invent it, but guys from Mountain View were the first...Read on →

Today I logged in FaceBook and saw a new design of it...Read on →

This story happened to me last Sunday. That perfect morning, I logged in my email and found a message from GoDaddy telling that all my domains have been transfered. "Ooops", I thought. I quickly logged in my GoDaddy account and .... yes, all my domain names were gone... 10 domains simply disappeared. It was a very bad feeling to realize that everything you have been working on for 2 years more is gone.... terrible feeling, not worst, but terrible for sure.Read on →