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What the Yell are you upto!

January 21, 2010 – 11:29 am

There are some days when I start to hate the ways of the online world, and Colin (who’s used to work with me over the  Equator SEO company and is now working for himself over at Boyd Digital) just posted about the hassles and pains he’s been having with Yell. Basically wasting his time with [...]

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Thanks to the Guys at NY Deli Glasgow

January 21, 2010 – 10:45 am

Quick post to say thanks to the Guys at the NY Deli in Glasgow for delivering the SEO team breakfast. Office delivery for food in Glasgow – simple concept, but no one else does it. They’re also launching online ordering too which should make a fantastic, healthy change from the Dominos pizza we seem to [...]

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Another example of Google Local being rubbish

January 20, 2010 – 5:16 pm

It is to Google eternal disservice that the local results for queries delivers such utter rubbish within its result set – too much rubbish. People who are not helping me get to useful data filling up the entire system or trying to get affiliate commissions just wasting what can be a really useful service.
I’ve just [...]

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World of Sofas delivery problems (Falkirk)

January 14, 2010 – 12:32 pm

As you have may guessed I’m going to rant here – not going to be about marketing I’m afraid just a good old fashioned seriously annoyed with a company rant. Here we go on World of Sofas.
Ordering a Sofa @ World of Sofas, Falkirk
We went in at the start of October and decided to order [...]

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One hundered pushups – we’ll see

January 12, 2010 – 11:50 am

Ok Mr Bontana has once again managed to get me to agree to something stupid. This time its pushups. I can see the pain on the horizon already but as I am getting married and need to shift some of the winter insulation for my wedding pics am going to embrace the pain and work [...]

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Wandering through some ’snap shots websites’

November 19, 2009 – 12:48 pm

The online insurance market is as competitive as the Wild West was for nuggets of gold. Duly research becomes a core part when optimising in this market. One website makes a change and the competition start to make alterations and its an ongoing fight to keep at the top.
Whilst investigating the backlinks of some websites [...]

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Best comment spam in a while

November 4, 2009 – 3:19 pm

Congratulations to the commenter who placed a link and the following as a commment
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cheap plane tickets to lax
cheap round the world plane tickets
hot plane tickets
plane tickets to lebanon
flexible plane tickets
group rate plane tickets
cheap plane tickets military discount
plane tickets to cyprus
plane tickets to alabama
cheapest plane tickets to london
airplane tickets to italy
cheap plane [...]

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When Free installation doesn’t mean Free Installation

November 2, 2009 – 1:45 pm

VIP package from Virgin media aint what is says on the website is basically my rant.
I’m not daft. I know that an asterisk means that there will be a caveat. No sign of that on the Virgin site, the price is listed as 20Mb broadband with sky sport and movies and comes in at £77. [...]

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Intelligence (Beta) option in Google Analytics

October 28, 2009 – 10:01 am

I’ve just logged into Google Analytics, and found a new option just below the dashboard option listed as Intelligence Beta. Can’t find anything about it on the Google Blog

It would appear to allow the functionality to set trigger points for the website in relation to the traditional Google Analytics metrics and dimensions. It [...]

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BSM – they dont deliver and its your fault

October 15, 2009 – 2:42 pm

For a while my girlfriend (sorry finacee now) has been attempting to get driving lessons working with BSM. BSM are a nationwide driving school but appear to be seriously disorganised and not customer focussed.
Her first driving instructor quit, which is fine, so they got her a second who didn’t turn up for lessons. She’s got [...]

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