SEO Blog with Taste

How +1 and Like Buttons Steal Your Visitors and What You Can Do About It

Andrej — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:30:52 +0000

Time matters… Google +1 and Facebook Like buttons increase your page’s load time. Research shows that each additional second can cost you literally tens of percent of potential visitors. Our findings that adding the Google +1 button can increase load time by almost a full second is therefore scary. Moreover, Google ranking algorithm takes page [...]

Twitter Beats Facebook in Bringing Loyal Listeners, Slovak Radio Finds

Daniel — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:52:10 +0000

Radio_FM, Slovak public radio’s alternative channel found that marketing to a smaller group of Twitter followers brings more loyal listeners than communicating with its much larger Facebook audience. Radio_FM compared the time spent listening to its online stream of people coming to its site via its Twitter and profile on Facebook. Listeners who came from [...]

Use CSS Print Styles For Offline Marketing

Daniel — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:19:21 +0000

Print styles in CSS are the instructions for a browser that say how should your web look like when printed on a paper. Many web sites used (or are still using) a link to a “Print version”. This function, however, usually not only leads to duplicate content in the search engines, but moreover this type [...]

Effective Web Audit – Free for Download

Daniel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:12:38 +0000

Effective Web Audit was name of our on-site SEO, basic usability and accessibility audit that we used to provide to our clients from 2007 to mid-2009. We provided the audit to tens of both international and Slovak clients as our entry service.

My First Day at Pizza SEO

Peter — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:31:22 +0000

I have been hired as an intern to Pizza SEO. My name is Peter Kucerka (@peter_kucerka - I tweet in Slovak only). I am student on Faculty of Mass-media Communication in Trnava. I am active user of Twitter and big fan of all social networks. Why I applied for this internship? It is simple. For a long time I have been looking for opportunity at some company, which deals with advertising, internet or something similar. When I saw message on @pizzaseo Twitter account, that they are looking for an intern, I din't wait. We exchanged few emails and I was invited for interview.

Usability recommendations for Choqok Twitter client

Daniel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:34:48 +0000

Choqok is an open source micro-blogging client for K Desktop Environment (KDE) on Linux. As of version 0.6.6 it supports the popular Twitter and Identi.ca services. Daniel Duriš, senior consultant of Pizza SEO, uses Choqok and decided to make it better by providing free recommendations on the usability improvements to the Choqok developers. Main screen [...]

Feel how disabled persons interact with the web

Daniel — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:05:12 +0000

Roger Johansson, well-known accessibility evangelist, writes about making accessibility more real as it is often perceived as something abstract, not really important for most of the people. Some of his tips include unplugging mouse and using only keyboard to work with the web, using only a software keyboard, turning off the monitor and navigating by [...]

Opportunity knocking: tool up now to be a newspaper SEO

Andrej — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:51:27 +0000

Newspapers will become a lucrative niche for SEO. There are signs of print newspaper slowly fading away – two Detroit daily papers are refocusing on digital, as the old model had become “unsustainable”. Circulation and advertising revenues are falling for newspapers around the world. People are reading digital media much more and news is reported [...]

Why is Pizza SEO named Pizza SEO?

Daniel — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:46:11 +0000

We often receive questions about our company name – why in the world would someone call a SEO company Pizza SEO? After we had agreed to start one of Slovakia’s first SEO consultancies in the beginning of 2006, we had thought long and hard about a good name – one that would work both in [...]

No licence for Flash abuse: SEO and Google indexing Flash

Andrej — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:33:48 +0000

Google can now index Flash better than before. What this means is that Google can now provide searchers even more information than before – if you look for information only found within a Flash site that Google can read there will be a result where there used to be none.