Blogs Alan Curtis

This weekend I am dedicated to the study and testing a new advertising platform: Advertising Facebook (facebook.com / ads)

The popular social community for some time has launched an advertising service like Google Adwords internal and Yahoo! Search Marketing, but that works only within Facebook itself.

Intrigued by this new advertising channel, I began to search for information and promotional codes above to get an initial credit access.

After many hours of research, here is the situation regarding advertising on Facebook:

Earlier this year there was a wildfire spread of bonus codes, in particular he turned 3 at $ 50 each ... of course they are all expired, I tried them one by one.

Today I managed to find only 2 promotions valid, the one I checked yesterday and the other is pending confirmation email

Active promotions are:

1. valid ONLY FOR NEW SIGN facebook ads:
(Within 24 hours of recording)
Code-XXWW 7JVC-3FH6-R61T - $ 25.00 facebook ads credit, valid for 1 year!
The promotion expires on 31/01/2009, to activate the code of http://www.facebook.com/ads Vai, recorded and then go to "Payments" tab "Sources of Financing." Bottom left is the link "Enter coupon code", click it and enter the code.
To register you need your credit card (postpaid also good). I recommend you do the first advertisement (compulsory) so decent and above all real, I read that someone has been rejected for having made ​​spammosa or invalid.

2. valid for all:
subscribing to the "business group visa" should send a code via email with a voucher of $ 100
Vai on "search applications" (bottom left) and search for "visa", you may find it right away.
Click on the registration page and the news that there is enrolling you will receive a personal code of $ 100 spent in advertising facebook
>> Go to http://apps.facebook.com/visabusiness/sign_up

This I can not tell you why I'm still waiting for my confirmation email with the code as soon as I arrive I'll do a little update!

Take the opportunity, but beware: I think, given the ubiquity of bonus codes, the market for advertising on facebook is full of people who put ads at a cost per click, they are so exorbitant ... free money!

So my advice is: sign up, plus bonus pecks possible and then hold the credit for using it in a more favorable moment, making sure it does not expire in the meantime!

Usually do not write here of my works in web marketing, but this is an interesting case.

At the end of July I started to treat the visibility and search engine optimization site cercalavoro.it

The site has been running since 1999 and after a while 'time had conquered the heights of the charts with the keywords of your industry.

In the last 3 years the visibility has not been cured and the visits have decreased considerably, reaching peaks of negative 70% or 80% less than in previous years.

But the length of the domain and its theming consolidated over time have allowed me to achieve remarkable results in a very short time, bringing it back to levels not reached in years.

Among the most notable is the # 1 spot on google.it with the keyword "search work" (which was from the tenth) and 4 th place with "seeking work" (not to be found in the first 50 results)

The analysis of keywords and the changes that I suggested have made visible with research in which it had never appeared. Now the goal is to get it on the front page with " vacancies ", highly competitive keywords.

But since the facts are worth a thousand words, here is the Google Analytics screen showing the trend of visits from search engines:

cercalavoro.it - ​​if successful

After an initial phase of study and optimization, which lasted a week, has already begun on the results.

The growth pattern is clearly visible and the margins of improvement are very interesting.

Perhaps it is too early to call it "success story" but I would say that is a good start, even considering that there is competition in the industry.

Notes:
The customer cercalavoro.it has given its permission to publish this article
Some data have been deleted for reasons of confidentiality
The service is provided by the company for which they are working and co-owner, Perpyde Communications - perpyde.com

After doing my research on the best free website speed test on the Internet, I wanted to see a little 'speed test adsl connection and not only those who tell you how fast your line is.

The results will be posting soon, and are also very interesting.

But in the meantime I made a bad discovery: one of my favorite old test adsl is gone!

I'm talking about the famous speed-o-meter, which had this screen here:

Here is the address that no longer works now: http://internet.sunrise.ch/it/adsl/ads_ser_speed.asp
among other things, displays a beautiful page ... in German!
In essence the old speed-o-meter has been replaced by another very important fact in Java and works only for clients who think they are Swiss sunrise ...

What bad news! even though I had read on the net of doubt on its reliability, I really liked the graphics and animations! hehehe the eye wants its part!

Then from Flash developer I know that you do not need to test this algorithm crazy or actionscript code pages (the language of Flash, the program used to make the speed-o-meter).

The reliability depends on many things, first by the server to which it gets the test.

It 'obvious that if I do the speed test with a server behind my house, I will have more chances to reach the maximum bandwidth than that with a server in India.

How do we know who we're doing the test?

In the next post I hope to answer with my little research!

Just finished installing the WordPress that gives life to my baby blog, I have seen this first test news created automatically.

At first I thought of deleting it. Then I read the title Hello World! And I changed my mind, so I decided to change it.

Why?

Why not everybody knows the true meaning of the words Hello World! (In addition to literal translation, of course!) And why you sometimes see on the net.

What better way to start my blog dedicated to information technology, new technologies and the Internet?

The history of these famous words is an integral part of computing history itself!

Here it is, directly from WikiPedia , the free encyclopedia largest in the world:

Hello, world! (In Italian "Hello, world!"), Is a term referring to information technology: it is the words printed on the screen from the first sample program written in C at the start of the famous book "C Programming" by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie (there is also a version, very controversial, according to which the first known example was written some time before and language BCPL).

The program is simple, does nothing but print on this video writing and teaching has been incorporated into many other languages ​​as the first example of an introduction to the language in question, becoming a true classic: very often, a programmer who wants to learn a new language begins his exercises trying to write a program that prints on the screen "Hello, world!" in that language.

Note that the current version is not the original: in the beginning was just "hello, world", without capitalization and exclamation point, which came only later in the tradition.