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Bleep.com: why not optimizing a bit?

I am a huge fan of electronic music. I fell in love with it thanks to Aphex Twin, my first real listening to a certain type of music. Before I was only into metal and hard rock. Now I can’t stand that music.

After discovering Aphex Twin world, I discovered a great site: Bleep.com. Bleep was started as reseller for music and films by Warp (a label that I love), and now it became quite huge, having more than 300 labels and tons of artists.

Bleep.com logo

It’s a really simple and cool site, with a lot of amazing music. They did a great work categorizing all the stuff, and you can search for label, artist, featured stuff, pre-orders…

The thing that pisses me off every time I look at the site is that SEO – at least basic things – is totally missing.

So, my question is one, and it’s pretty simple: WHY?

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To code or not to code: 2012 dilemma.

2012 started with a lot of talking about it’s useful or not learning to code.

Some people are saying “hell yes, go for it, you have to learn to code”, while others are saying “learning to code is not making you a better person”.

Go for it:

10 reasons why marketing and BD professionals should learn to code

Do NOT go for it:

Learning how to code is waste of time

I decided to go for it, but not because everyone is talking about it, but just because I’ve always been curious to learn something about coding. I enjoy the Code Year Project , and I’m learning a bit of Javascript thanks to Codecademy .

Thanks to a friend of mine, I decided to start with C. I bought a book and when I have time I read a lot and try to experiment a bit. I’m doing this because I WANT TO DO IT, because I think it’s always a great thing to learn new things. I’m not saying that I will be come a master of C or Javascript, but still I will have more knowledge on something…when does this hurt someone?

So, if you want to learn coding a bit , or a lot, just do it. Don’t say you are a developer after having read a book, don’t proclaim yourself a master of a particular language. But it’s always great to learn new things. And I want to learn C.

Sharing is caring: SOPA

Everyone is talking about SOPA right now. If you want to know more about SOPA, read this.

I’m not an expert, and I’m not here to make comments on it. I’m just saying that it’s a bad thing for web freedom, and I want to use this space to share this video, that explains what is SOPA and why we have to care about it.

I found this video thanks to a post by Joost de Valk and I want to share with you even through this little space of mine 🙂

I read on the web things like “This stuff is only for US”. Well, it’s not. So we have to care about it, even if we live in Europe or other parts of the world.

Sharing is caring: I mean, it’s not always true, but in this case it’s a good way to let more people know.

Chrome and Google.it : a broken love?

At this point, we all know what happened few days ago about Google, Google Chrome and paid links.

If you missed that, first: where do you live? joking. Take your time and read this post by Danny Sullivan , and then the consequences of Google misbehaviour .

After this news, Twitter was on fire. A lot of great SEOs I’m following were talking about what happened, and a lot of them wrote about this in their blogs, dropping theories and saying different things. It was really interesting.

I read a post by Rishi Lakhani called “Learning from The Chrome Penalty” which I suggest you to go and read it, where he actually analyzed what happened to SERPs when searching for keywords like “browser” or “chrome” in google.com after Google said it was going to penalize Google Chrome official page for the situation we talked before.

So, I was curious what happen to SERPs for the same keywords in Google.it, since there are always some difference and here’s what I found.

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