Pizza a Domicilio buys Mister Pizza

One way to increase the Page Rank of a web site is to buy an old website which has a good page rank and it's on sell.
Then by using an HTTP 301 redirect, all the traffic will be forwared to the website you want to rank better. Then, shortly after Google has recognized the change, it will pass the PR of the old website to the new one.

This is why today I bought www.mister-pizza.it. It has a PR of 2 and I payed about 400€. Not really what I call a bargain, but I hope it will be worth it.

At the time of writing the redirecting has just started to work. Let's see how long it will take before we see any change in the page rank.

Pizza a Domicilio, removed again from Google index?

I have no words, it seems that Google is making fun of me.
After two days of traffic (when I wrote "back into Google index"), now there isn't anymore.

But what really makes me upset is the fact that even Google seems not to be aware of this.
Using "Webmaster Tools", section "Query stats" this is the supposed keyword average positioning of the last seven days:

But this is not true. Actually the first occurrence of "Pizza a Domicilio", displaying 100 results per page, is on the last one, the eight. This means that the true positioning is after the 700th.

Taking a train from Padova to Cornuda

The path is the same as the Cornuda-Padova, but this time top speed has been 113 km/h, 11 km/h less than a month ago.
Why? Because Trenitalia decided that since railtracks were too hot, train had to go slower.
If you have Google Earth, here's the kml file

Pizza a Domicilio, back into Google index?

It took almost two months, but after having been penalized by Google, now Pizza a Domicilio is back in the first result page, as you can see from Google Analytics, visits are growing.

on Google.it:

• pizza a domicilio: 8th position
• pizza domicilio: 8th position
  

while on Google.com:

• pizza a domicilio: 2nd position
• pizza domicilio: 13th position
  

174 nuovi comuni ad alta risoluzione su Gmap

Ecco la lista degli ultimi comuni di cui è stata resta disponibile la mappa ad alta risoluzione su Google Map. A quando Padova?

Provincia di AG:
Burgio, Calamonaci, Caltabellotta, Ribera, Villafranca Sicula.

Provincia di AL:
Arquata Scrivia, Bistagno, Bosio, Carrosio, Cartosio, Casaleggio Boiro, Castelletto D'Erro, Castelletto D'Orba, Denice, Fraconalto, Gavi, Lerma, Montaldeo, Montechiaro D'Acqui, Mornese, Parodi Ligure, Ponti, San Cristoforo, Voltaggio.

Provincia di AR:
Sestino.

Provincia di AT:
Bubbio, Canelli, Cassinasco, Castel Boglione, Monastero Bormida, Montabone, Rocchetta Palafea, Sessame.

Provincia di BN:
Apollosa, Benevento, Campoli del Monte Taburno, Castelpagano, Castelpoto, Cautano, Circello, Foglianise, San Leucio del Sannio, Santa Croce del Sannio, Tocco Caudio, Torrecuso, Vitulano.

Provincia di CB:
Campodipietra, Campolieto, Castelbottaccio, Castellino del Biferno, Cercemaggiore, Gildone, Jelsi, Lupara, Matrice, Monacilioni, Morrone del Sannio, Petrella Tifernina, Provvidenti, Ripabottoni, San Giovanni in Galdo, Toro.

Provincia di CE:
Gallo Matese, Letino.

Provincia di CL:
Acquaviva Platani, Bompensiere, Campofranco, Milena, Mussomeli, Sutera.

Provincia di CS:
Albidona, Alessandria del Carretto, Bonifati, Buonvicino, Castroregio, Fagnano Castello, Malvito, Plataci, San Donato di Ninea, San Lorenzo Bellizzi, San Sosti, Sangineto, Sant'Agata di Esaro, Santa Caterina Albanese.

Provincia di CZ:
Torre di Ruggiero.

Provincia di EN:
Cerami.

Provincia di GE:
Campo Ligure, Masone.

Provincia di IS:
Castelpizzuto, Isernia, Longano, Macchia D'Isernia, Miranda, Pesche, Pettoranello del Molise, Sant'Agapito.

Provincia di ME:
Capizzi.

Provincia di MO
Fanano, Fiumalbo, Montecreto, Pievepelago, Riolunato, Sestola.

Provincia di MS:
Comano.

Provincia di OT
Aggius, Bortigiadas, Monti, Sant'Antonio di Gallura, Telti, Trinità d'Agultu e Vignola.

Provincia di PR:
Monchio delle Corti, Palanzano.

Provincia di PT
Abetone.

Provincia di PU:
Belforte all'Isauro, Carpegna, Frontino, Pennabilli, Pietrarubbia.

Provincia di PZ:
Cancellara, San Paolo Albanese.

Provincia di RC:
Gioiosa Ionica, Grotteria, Mammola, Marina di Gioiosa Ionica, Martone, San Giovanni di Gerace, Siderno.

Provincia di SA:
Aquara, Bellosguardo, Campora, Castel San Lorenzo, Felitto, Laurino, Magliano Vetere, Roscigno, Stio.

Provincia di SI:
Asciano, Rapolano Terme.

Provincia di SS:
Bessude, Bonnanaro, Bonorva, Borutta, Cheremule, Erula, Giave, Ittireddu, Mores, Nughedu San Nicolò, Ozieri, Torralba, Tula.

Provincia di TN:
Aldeno, Besenello, Calavino, Calliano, Cimone, Garniga, Lasino, Padergnone, Trento, Vezzano.

F.MI +1.59%

F.MI closed at 22.43€ (+1.59%) after that the company published June results. Fiat market share is now over 30%.

Total strategy gain is now +688€ (3.95%) + 124€ div (812€ overall)

To Lignano and back

This weekend I went with my friends to a camping in Lignano. During the travel I used my GPS logger to keep track of all the gas stations. I only had to add two of them:

• 11025 IP, via Lignano Sud, Latisana
• 11026 ESSO, via Lignano Sud, Latisana

To the sea-side and back

This Sunday I went with my friend Nicola to Jesolo and during the travel I took a picture of all of the gas stations. Most of them were already inserted, so I just needed to update their prices, anyway I still had to add three of them:

• 10974 AGIP, SP Treviso Mare, Roncade
  
• 10975 AGIP, via Guglielmo Marconi, Musile di Piave
  
• 10976 ESSO, via Guglielmo Marconi, Musile di Piave

Taking a train from Padova to Bassano

As I've already done from Cornuda to Padova on Taking a train from Cornuda to Padova, I took a GPS log of the railway travel from Padova to Bassano del Grappa. This way you may understand better how the Italian railway works.

This is the speed plot of an old diesel Train, maximum speed 108 km/h. WOW!

If you have Google Earth you may want to plot this kml file at high resolution.

Taking a train from Cornuda to Padova

This is the GPS track log from Cornuda to Padova to by train.

This is the speed plot of an old diesel Train, maximum speed 124 km/h. WOW!

If you have Google Earth you may want to plot this kml file at high resolution.

PAD, let's remove some links

I was reading that Google does not like a website when its link popularity raise to quickly. This make sense, but I could have never thought that Google could actually penalize a website for doing this.
For this reason I've just removed all the link to www.pizza-a-domicilio.it from http://gallery.prezzibenzina.it and from http://poi.prezzibenzina.it.

While doing this I realized that in some sections of the gallery everybody could add comments to the pictures, thus leaving the door open to comment spam bots. In fact after disabling this option, I had to remove over 10 thousand of spam comments (which didn't take long since I have direct access to the database).

Polarizer Filter

I always wanted to show the effect of a polarizer filter, and so here a nice picture: on the bottom you can see how the window is reflecting the outside environment, while on the top the filter is turned 90° making it possible to see through the window.

Niagara Falls Panorama

I have made this picture using six 10-mega pixel shots that have been merged with Hugin.

After learning that to create a good stitch I should use the AEL Lock (Auto Exposure Lock), I was expecting to create an awesome panorama this time. Too bad that I forgot that my Sony Alpha 100 has a DR (Dynamic Range) ability that is enabled by default.

When DR is enabled, every picture has its own contrast enhanced, and this could cause problems if you are trying to stitch the photographs all together, because you will end up having darker or lighter overlapping areas.

Server Crash

And here I am, at the Venice airport, almost ready to flight to the USA and what happens?

Eighteen hours before the flight the server crashes and then trying to fix it, my system administrator changed the IP addresses of all of my domains. He said it would have been transparent. Too bad that Murphy's law doesn't know the meaning of being transparent.

Two things happened. First PAD doesn't use the main DNS, so if there is a change in the IP address, I have to modify them manually. Second, the old IP addresses have been re-assigned to somebody else, so that until the DNS changes propagates, the websites are unreachable.

At the moment only www.pizza-a-domicilio.it changes haven't been propagated. If you try to open it you get the following message:

:19638/webhost/rollout">-->

All the other domains are up and running.

PLM, adding some content

I guess I have been to busy lately, and what happened is that I completely forgot to remove the parking page and to add some content to the site www.prolocomaser.it. So I decided to upload there the panoramic pictures I've taken of the city of Maser.

PAD, mass mailing (partial) result

Now it's time to analyze the results!

Of 3655 emails, 291 bounced back (8.0%), mostly for unknown user and mail-quota exceed.

17 people (4.6%) instead answerd me provinding information about Pizza shop I wasn't aware of, while 11 people (3.0%) replyed with "REMOVE ME" as subject, probably because they weren't interested.

Phplist tracking is saying that the message has been read 2039 times by 1156 people (31.6%)
Anyway only 214 people (5.9%, according to Google Analytics) reached the home page www.pizza-a-domicilio.it so far.

PAD: Mass mailing

I had over 3650 people who signed up to Prezzi Benzina newsletter, so I wanted to take the opportunity to let them know of my new project Pizza a Domicilio.
I downloaded and installed phplist, one of the best open source mailing list tools available around.
One of the best features it has, is the ability to personalize each mail.

SMS service failure

Few days ago I started suspecting that something must happened to the mobile phone I use as sms gateway, since I haven't received any sms since May 19.

Anyway, since that hardware is staying about 60 km from where I live I could not check it before today. What happened was that the mobile phone received a flash sms from its own operator (Vodafone) with some configuration details about GPRS and WAP, and since then it disconnected itself from the network (the signal strength was zero).

I should probably put up some control routines, so that I could get warned it this happen again.

Pirate Pebbles Flintstone

I've taken this picture with my Sony-Ericsson P990 mobile phone because I really liked the way the handbag strap was hiding Pebbles' left eye, making her looking as a Pirate.

Later, when I got home I searched for some scars through Google Image Search, and the I used Adobe Photoshop to merge them.

Here's the result: "Pirate Pebbles Flintstone".
(in italian "il Pirata Ciotolina Flintstone")

Mostra della ciliegia 2007

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