Vali Petcu blog

Looking for a Tabmix-like extension for Chrome? Well, Google does not have one, but that does not stop it to index the search in the results page, even though it forbids that technique for sites. Why? Because it can.

So, there is this Romanian guy, Dragos Roua, who talks a lot about success and entrepreneurship and leading a better life. You know the kind, he is not an expert in any field, but he is riding the “write bullshit about being better” blog train that gullible people read and find useful. Dragos Roua used […]

People tend to believe and act on the idea that everything is negotiable. As I said before, I have a unique approach to negotiations, as  a former salesman, and I tend to stick by it. Everything is for sale, but that does not apply all the time to everybody. This is also a quote that […]

Since I left Bucharest (I’ve moved to Berlin, Oradea and now Brasov)  I’ve developed a personal brand strategy. I show up for a few conferences and gigs and people tend to cherish that. I don’t bore people with my presence every time there is an event remotely connected to online, even thought I get invited […]

The whole point of video games is that you’re not moving much. You have a controller, you move your fingers. I’ve watched the “Natal” video, i’ve seen people playing Wii Fit, I’ve played with a touchscreen laptop. Not much fun. After a couple of hours I got tired. Never used it again. Not too useful.

Go to Google Trends. Pick a topic. Write about it using the keyword in the title. Bam, you’re done! You just wait for that big traffic to come!!! Does this work? Yes, of course, but imagine you are competing on that same traffic with all the big boys. Can you rank on top of CNN.com? […]

Bogdana Butnar, new business manager for a local advertising agency, says on her twitter account: interesting, a comment seems to say that SEO belongs to copywriters and not to specially trained SEO staff Good Search Engine Optimization can be done easily with good and unique content. Shoving the same news in Google’s throat is hard […]

If you have a big blog, with lots of images, you have noticed entering your gallery you have some images un-attached to their posts. I’ve looked for a script to attach them back to posts in order to find the orphaned images and couldn’t find one suitable for WordPress 3.X. I’ve turned to Leo Radoiu, […]

Finally, some may say. Google has announced it will open an office in Bucharest, hiring a country manager (Dan Bulucea, who left in March from Microsoft Romania). Looking at Mr. Bulucea’s background, i can bet Google is here to offer support to business clients to spend more money on adwords.

I was looking for how people got to this blog. It doesn’t have many links, so people get here mostly by searching for topics related to me. There are a few guys (Bogdan Gavrila, or Mihai Moruzov as he likes to call himself, among them) who search for all king of stuff. I mention on […]