dazc

Joined 12 years ago

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UK based developer, currently working on building landing pages for holiday home owners.
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Comment · 4 months ago
Care to enlighten us?
Comment · 4 months ago
Dare say a lot of these cars are from China and highly subsidised with low deposits and 0% finance deals. Same is happening in the UK.

Legacy brand car makers are pulling back because they can't compete in this market.

Comment · 6 months ago
Wait until you see the tracking data that led to your purchase.
Comment · 7 months ago
I used to work in construction in a previous life and always said I could judge how good a tradesman is simply by their appearance. The same goes for their website. If they have pride in their work it will show; if they do just about enough to get paid it will also show.
Comment · 7 months ago
Doesn't have to be just larger sites. If someone launched their basic website 5 years before you did it's going to be difficult to outrank them.
Comment · 7 months ago
Most people are indeed. Many of these people will also be able to complete very difficult tasks that you can't.
Comment · 7 months ago
I think you underestimate how what you just wrote will fly over the head of most non technical people?
Comment · 7 months ago
Recently explained to a local service business owner that all she needed to do was get listed on Google maps and start asking customers for reviews. Literally showed her how competing businesses were top of the search results by doing just this.

Did she do it? No.

People like this are never going to get around to having a website, let alone actually maintain and promote it.

Comment · 7 months ago
Very much location dependent though. I lived less than a mile from Southampton city centre for a while and could never get anything close to dial-up standard download/upload speeds. I've heard similar from London residents.
Comment · 8 months ago
I wondered what happened to him?
Comment · 8 months ago
Launching a new service every 5 minutes is obviously stretching their resources.
Comment · 9 months ago
no-index is a thing.
Comment · 9 months ago
Good luck with that one.
Comment · 9 months ago
You can use x-robots noindex on any page and it will not be indexed. This has been the case for at least the past decade.
Comment · 9 months ago
Because you can see pages not affected doesn't guarantee they will stay that way.

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