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A Google Search Achievement for BlogfromItaly.com in 2010

Brain Power in Italy

I guess this is an achievement even if to all intents and purposes this little site should not really have been able to do it, after all there are professional blogs run by teams of people who should be able to beat little old me.

What am I on about? Ranking! In the world wide web world people use the likes of Google to search for what they are after within the ocean of information which is contained in the world wide web.

Registering Domain Names in Italy. Dot com or dot it?

Recently Carlos, after reading this post possibly, contacted me to ask whether Italian sites use the .com and .it domain names. This was an interesting question and oddly enough I had been looking at the Alexa statistics for Italy’s top 100 Internet sites recently and I noticed that both .com and .it domains are used […]

A Photographic Thought

Don’t you just love that ‘bokeh’ blurry background effect that photographers get? I do, not all the time, but used appropriately, it can create really memorable images. How do photographers create this blurred background thing? Quite simple really – it’s all down to having a very shallow depth of field, which is probably easier to […]

Italia.it isn’t

It was supposed to have been a shop window to Italy, a tourism web portal par excellence, but it has turned out to be a 7 million Euro white elephant. If you try to visit, www.italia.it, you won’t see too much. All I’ve been getting is server timeouts. Brutta figura time. UPDATED July 2009.

Adsense is Taking a Break

For some reason, Adsense is not receiving visitors at the moment (Jan 22 23:59 Italian time), so I can’t check whether anyone found any of the Google ads interesting today. Shame. I guess the problem will be resolved pretty soon, although the official Adsense blog does not say anything about scheduled down time or anything […]

Blog from Italy has become www.blogfromitaly.com

Small modification, I know, but Google search no longer likes domain names without www before them, for some reason. In fact it was only showing “YOUR DOMAIN NAME” in the search area. Once I sussed out why, I went for the www. As to what effect this will have, I’m not sure.

No Quiz Winner Yet….

Hope those having a go are not having any problems. I know that the ‘mystery’ post is a little difficult to get to, but it can be found. And it does exist, honest! I’ve tested things and did manage to get to the page. I know from Google Analytics that people have been hunting around. […]