15
Jan

Samsung authorized service center let me down

Recently I wrote about the battery of my Android phone Samsung Galaxy i7500 and that it runs out in less than a day. I decided to take my phone to the authorized service center Ram2 in Ljubljana, but because it was before New Years, I called ahaed. Just to make sure that my trip into crowded shopping center wouldn’t be in vain. A nice voice explained to me that it’s no problem, I should bring it there and that they’ll let me know what’s wrong with my phone in one day. The girl at helpdesk explained that I won’t get a temporary phone because they’re all out. So far so good.

I went to the crowded shopping center and arrived at the service center on time, explained my battery problem to the guy at the counter and gave him my phone. He explained to me that I will get the first info on what’s wrong with the phone not the next day as promised over the phone, but after New Year, which was 6 days later (5 days later than promised over the phone). I was surprised with that answer and left. Of course, I took the phone with me – I can wait easier with my phone at home.


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12
Jan

Asus EEE web storage

My girlfriend bought a new EEE laptop and I’ve noticed that 500 GB free web storage from Asus comes with it. There is not much mentioned about this on the box, but the factory Windows 7 installation has a direct link to the service on the desktop. There’s also a sticker on the notebook itself that states that the notebook has 750 GB storage: 250 GB of hard disk and 500 GB of online storage. Interesting combination, specially for the cutomers who are buying it and deciding between models with more hard disk.

As I’ve reviewed the Asus storage web site they offer cloud storage to anyone, but Asus users get better prices. It looks like only buyers of their EEE computers get 500 GB of storage free – ordinary users like me get only 1 GB free space.

I will convince my girlfriend to try the service and will report on it’s use, speed and reliability. I really wonder if it can be used as a cloud disk.


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5
Jan

Search engine optimization for a car rental site

I’m working on a SEO project for a car hire company. The task is pretty tough, because there are thousands of web sites with the same goal as I have: optimization for car rental business. My goal is to optimize my clients site for 56 keywords that are all about 7 car hire destinations that are mainly in Europe in the holiday destinations that Uk customers visit the most. The keywords combinations vary, the logic is the same for all. The final keywords include Larnaca Car Hire, Paphos Airport Car Rental, Faro Airport Car Rental, Murcia Car Rental, Alicante Airport Car Hire, Malaga Airport Car Hire, Valencia Airport Car Hire and many more car hire and car rental related.

The web site is pretty new, which makes the optimization task harder, but it uses a SEO aware CMS which it’s pretty flexible – at least more flexible than any other CMS I’ve used. The problem is that CMS creates dynamic links. That way one content can be displayed on several URLs with slight changes in layout, which makes it basically duplicate content. I have also discovered that some content was similar to that of Wikipedia so it will have to get changed and completely rewritten soon.

Another problem is that there’s a lot of competition in the car rental industry and the same on the web. There are sites which invest heaps of money into being on the first page, including having specialized car hire domain names for each destination, are buying a lot of links and doing other expensive stuff. This makes the work harder and the results harder to get.

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