Custom made sofa – Why settle for anything else?
After a long search for the perfect house, I finally found one which has got most of the features I wanted. Of course, if i had it my way, i would build a house from scratch rather than buying an already built house. Anyway, because I was renting before, i didn't find it necessary to buy my own furniture at that time and it would have been a hassle moving furniture to the new house and costly as well. Therefore I had to find a nice comfortable sofa so that ...
My yahoo answers account got banned
Yahoo Answers is good for driving targetted traffic to your website. If people see that you're an expert in your field, they will usually click on the link to your website for more information (provided you've included a link in your report). However, you need to be at least a Level 2 account holder to be able to insert clickable links, otherwise the links will be plain text and people will have to copy and paste the url in their browser and the chances of that happening are very slim.
So ...
Hiring somebody else to do SEO for your site
If you are a one-man team, it's very difficult to cope with the demands of maintaining, updating and marketing a website. Even big websites can sometimes get really exhausting and the need for outsourcing work arises. Getting somebody else to do your job has many implications depending on what type of work that person will be doing. For content-writing, you can always check the content before you upload it to your site but even if you haven't done that, you can later on get it removed from your site quite ...
New Year Resolution 2010
For a couple of years now, I've been looking at my previous year's resolution and see whether I've managed to achieve them or not. So for my 2009 resolution, here's what has been happening:
Spend more time with Poum (holiday, less time on computers etc) - more or less achieved
Set up a business - pretty much done
Exercise - no time to do
Play guitar - no free time to play
For 2010, I've decided to concentrate on the bits which I didn't manage to complete in my last year's resolution. Therefore my 2010 ...
Snowing in London
Since yesterday, it's been snowing all over London and flights have been suspended across major airports like Gatwick. My once used to be green garden is now completely white with snow and my cats are loving it. They were the first ones to step onto the fresh snow and all you can see now is pawprints everywhere.
Unfortunately though, I've had to cancel my trip to Ikea because I don't want to be stranded in traffic because of the snow. I wanted to go there to get a few things in ...
Google deindexing webpages problem
Since the beginning or mid October 2009, i've noticed that the number of indexed pages on one of my site has been decreasing dramatically. Just before that happened, i had around 600+ pages in Google index. I started losing 5-10 pages in the index everyday and i'm not really thrilled about it. As of today, i have roughly 450+ pages in the index. So i've lost nearly 150 webpages. The problem is that losing pages in the index means losing traffic and losing traffic is very bad.
It might have something ...
Giving my chickens away
It's been a tough decision for me but i finally made up my mind to give my chickens away. The reason for this is that i plan to travel a lot next year and chicken boarding will work out too expensive. Having chickens and getting your own fresh eggs is an amazing experience. I've been getting eggs consistenly everyday from 2 of my hens (hybrids) and the 3rd one was just about to lay eggs. She was 2 weeks younger than the others but because she was a pure breed ...
My new sony laptop with Windows 7
I was meant to buy a new laptop for quite a while now but I never really got to it. During the beginning of this month, the need for a new laptop grew even more but I held back because I knew that Windows 7 was coming out on the 22nd of October. All the laptop shops had Vista installed on their laptops but assured that you will get free upgrade to Windows 7 once it's out. However if you purchase a new laptop, you will have to return it ...
Donating books to charity
It's amazing the amount of junk people can have. You don't realise it until you start wondering whether you really need these stuff. I recently came across a couple of books which were taking a lot of space on my bookshelf and decided that I was no longer in need of them. I wouldn't read them again as they were old programming books which are mostly outdated now. So I decided to take them to charity instead of chucking them in the bin. Some people might find it still useful. ...
Can small businesses benefit from Twitter?
Twitter is the new buzz these days. Everyone is talking about it and if you don't know what i'm talking about, then you're probably not too up-to-date with what's happening on the Internet. The same thing happened couple of years ago when Digg came out. Personally i think that you can only maximise Twitter's potential if your business is big, a brand that people already know. For small businesses, I don't think it will work that well unless of course you spend a lot of time and money in advertisements.
Twitter ...