I looked at a close friend’s site today and he clearly don’t understand even the very very very basics of making a site. Which is a shame, because he is alwasy really full of great ideas about everything. His title tag is your URL. It should be the keywords he wants to optimise for. Try [...]
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PurelyNSFW.com, purelynsfw, Sean Hickey = spammers
You may remember a while ago, a clueless spammer called Sean Hickey from PurelyNSFW.com spammed me. I explained how it was a really bad way to try and get new business, he threatened me with legal action, I laughed. Guess what, the clueless monkey has done it again! I complained. He sent more abusive emails. [...]
Business cards
I pride myself in coming up with unusual, funny or interesting cards for the shows. I was very disappointed with the ones I got back. Same old boring stuff. However, the people that really take the biscuit for being dull are the prepaid card people. Or out payment. Or any kind of virtual card thingy. [...]
NALEM = FAIL ‘EM
Well, that’s been quite interesting. Nalem’s explosion on the boards in a frenzy of shit spam is a really good example of how not to launch. What can we learn? – don’t spam boards – don’t centre your test and use ghey fonts – don’t pretend you can’t hear loads of people complaining about you [...]
Removeyourcontent update
Oh lordy. Someone on GFY has said that Eric from Removeyourcontent is a pirate that uploads his clients’ sites and then charges them to take them down. If it is true, and I hope it is, it would make me piss myself laughing.
Don’t make up words, Degban, you multifold surfacial discovery forest!
Degban, the popular anti-piracy snake oil peddlers are back to the boards! This time, they are making up words! Any idea what the following mean: Surfacial, Forest (as in content discover forest), Multifold, Automaton, Deep Web, Me neither, so I asked them. And they admitted they make them up. SNAKE OIL PEDDLERS LISTEN UP If [...]
#Twitterfail
First in a new series where I highlight mistakes people are making, imho, and try to suggest better things they could do in order to get more out of that they are doing. Today: http://twitter.com/redacted Have a read through. OK, first off, it looks like a B2B account to sell people the idea of a [...]