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Spot me in the new video clip of C-Mon & Kypski – More is Less

Pieter van Gils — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:38:48 +0000

Yes, my 15 minutes of fame, participating in the new video clip of C-Mon & Kypski – More is Less… Don’t believe me? Just check the movie below, somewhere you should be able to spot me.

To be honest it’s the first time I hear the song or read about these artists, but I have to say that the concept works out really great (and the song is not to bad either). If you want to help out check the website http://oneframeoffame.com, it works easy and is fun to do!

Family picture

Pieter van Gils — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:08:15 +0000

I’ve been living in Dublin for more then 1,5 years now and in the past year it only happened a couple of times that I got together with all of my family in one room. When we got together last week for the holidays my uncle took a nice picture… can you see the resemblance?

Tribal’s Birthday party

Pieter van Gils — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:33:10 +0000

Wie jarig is trakteert! from Tribal Internet Group on Vimeo.

We are still number 1 for “search engine marketing” in the Netherlands

Pieter van Gils — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:46:00 +0000

As most people know, I work for Tribal Internet Marketing in Dublin. The focus of our Irish office is Search Engine Marketing, we do a lot off Pay Per Click advertising but also some Search Engine Optimization. I spend most of my time looking at the Irish and UK markets these days, but this afternoon I was checking some of our Dutch competitors to see what has changed for them in the past few months.

One of our competitors launched a new website and I immediately noticed the screenshot from Google on their homepage. The screenshot shows that they are number 1 in the organic results for the keyword “zoekmachine marketing” (dutch for “search engine marketing”). At first I was shocked because we had that position for a long time, it looked like they did a better job then us. The screenshot:

After taking a closer look at the screenshot I realized that there are a few things wrong with it:

There are no Adwords ads showing up, highly suspicious for a popular keyword like this one.
The page title says “search engine marketing” and not the keyword they used “zoekmachine marketing”.
Their brand name shows up bold and Google only does this for the keyword they used in the query.

The only conclusion I can make from these facts is that they used Photoshop (or a similar program) to make it look like they are number one for this important keyword (especially if you are in this business). I think they used a screenshot from a search on their brandname to make sure they would be number 1. Is this misleading for their (potential) clients or not?

A quick search in google confirmes that we still have the number 1 position in the Netherlands for what we do best, search engine marketing!

My most popular picture on Flickr

Pieter van Gils — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:48:08 +0000

I upload most of my pictures to Flickr because it’s a great service to use. This way I have a have a backup of everything and am able to show the pictures to who is interested. I just checked the stats for my Flickr account and there is one picture really popular…. 29,844 views, 15 comments and 31 people count this picture as one of their favorites.

It’s probably because of the tag “ass” that this picture gets so many views. I like the discussion that is going on, in my opinion the tattoo (and picture) are not offensive at all. I’m not religous so I have a different point of view then some of the commenters. Some information: the girl who got this tattoo is part Indian so she understands what the symbol is about. The titel of the picture says “ass” but if you take a look at the picture you can see that the spot is better described as “lower back”. She never wanted to offend anyone and is not showing of her tattoo in public or something…. so my final advice for the commenters who want me to take the picture down; Relax! isn’t it just really cool that a hot girl is interested in your religion?

Now, on to the 30k views for this pic!

Timelapse Central Park – New York City

Pieter van Gils — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:53:18 +0000

Pim made this movie from the top of the Rockefeller center by taking a picture every 15 secs.

The Ultimate Battle

Pieter van Gils — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:33:49 +0000

After six weeks in Dublin we finally managed to play the game. This epic event took place after a night of whiskey and pints…. as you can see it was a close game but I am really happy with the results!

Dinner tonight at Cradam

Pieter van Gils — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:33:27 +0000

I have a dinner tonight at cafe/restaurant Cradam together with some internet/media geeks. Here’s a list of everybody who’s joining:

Merlijn van Vliet (Strategist OER, Internet entrepeneur 0031 Marketing)
Joris Verhaak (Strategist OER, Internet entrepeneur 0031 Marketing)
Marcel van der Heijden (Digital DNA, (ex)-manager Generation Next)
Rutger Polling (Digital DNA)
Frank Schuil (Internet entrepeneur IRL Connect)
Polle de Maagt (polle.net)
Pieter van Gils (C’est moi)
Wouter Broekhof (Wakoopa)
Robert Gaal (Wakoopa, Blueace)
Menno (Wakoopa)
Gijs Veerhoek (extrafris)
Arjan in ‘t veld (inthefield)
Kasper van der Laan (Eurosport)
Martijn Reintjes (Pepergroen)
Martijn Tiemersma (online marketeer Telegraaf)
Marc Metekohij (Client manager Satama)
Jeroen Rossier (student commercial economy)
Joris Tensen (Project manager Evident interactive)
Jasper van Gils ( jaspervangils.nl)

My only question is: Where are all the girls???

New Google promo girl

Pieter van Gils — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:39:03 +0000

After finding a nice pic of Alexandra promoting FireFox we now have somebody supporting google:

Found on seoblackhat.

Cool Flash Image Gallery

Pieter van Gils — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:33:31 +0000

I just stumbled uppon a great flash image gallery and you can link it to your flickr account… check it out! Change the pictures by putting your flickr id on the end of the url.

This is why I like StumbleUpon so much!