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I've never liked blogging, have never been any good at blogging and never seen any value in it.

In the old days, the blog was the way to communicate your message and have an audience interact with the author.

Then SEO took over the world and blogs turned into keyword spam and the blog churn started.  IMHO these days there are many more avenues for aspiring authors or people wanting to be seen as a credible expert in their field. Place like forums, Facebook or Google communities.

If you want SEO benefits, then you are talking about crafted content about a particular subject optimised for a particular keyword. This doesn't have to be a blog, but ideally needs to be on your website so you get the benefit. This can then be promoted via social media etc to try and draw an audience in.

But if grammar, spelling or style is a concern which you may not want on your main website, then social media is a better avenue. It's more relaxed, forgiving and has potential reach if you are talking to the right audience, eg Facebook groups, Google Communities etc. 

That's interesting to know. Wonder how much of a boost the Google god will give? Guess it will be watch this space.

Our new project is due to go live at the end of this month (with a good wind and a spot of luck), so shall throw ourselves tot he wolves and ask for feedback. But will be interesting to see if the responsive design has worked or not. Time will tell 

Fascinating and shocking reading.

Thanks for raising it and petition signed!

I've come to the conclusion every street has one!

Mind you in days gone by when I used to house share and the end of the 1980's is a bit of a fuzzy haze, I suspect it was me 

Very very stressful, unfortunately some members of our society don't realise the damage they can do or cause.  But definitely heading for rant material so I will gracefully exit stage left....

Really hope you sort out your issues amicably, but if you can't, and when you are feeling particularly low, try and keep it all in perspective, as hard it that can be or seem at the time. 

Just remember what goes around really does..  Just might take a bit longer than you were expecting 

Originally Posted by CareersPartnershipUK

“Now confession time - I have my radio on at volume 2 (the volume controls run 0 - 10).  My neighbours still hear it (and my central heating coming on, the blender I use in the kitchen, etc).  All of which strikes me as being somewhat unusual ... ”

Seems a bit extreme!

Can feel your pain, nothing worse than neighbour grief. I've had issues in the past with neighbours from hell. One of their claims was an electric screw driver, which was being used to put up ceiling panels during the early evening was being heard over their telly.

Other than the fact they aren't attached to us, and our garage is between us and them, the bit that made me laugh was that we had a 6 month old baby asleep upstairs at the time. We had all sorts of claims. 

We then had a visits from noise abatement, coppers and solicitors letters. My favourite was the last solicitors letter we got which claimed trespass of our bins on their fence which separates our drives, as our bins were touching their fence 

Missus kept telling me to ignore them, what goes around comes around, karma etc. Had many an evil scheme planed only to be over ruled by the boss and told to grow up.

She was right though, took about 5 years but now one of them has kicked the bucket  No more hassle.

We have a 20 watt stereo/radio on a lot of the time in the Kitchen, normally as back ground and never heard outside certainly not next door.

Wife out with the girls, Telly, warfilm and a few beers is a different story 

Top audit and very well received sir

I can safely say we have now implemented most of your recommendation's, so if I disappear, we've either sold out to Yelp and now living in the Bahamas, or sleeping under a railway bridge in Birmingham 

Right I want a refund

It's a fluff term, as we don't intend to compete with the UKBF, but I use it as a benchmark keyword in our stats, so we can see if something catastrophic or untoward happens.

Just looked at the current MOZ stats and here's what it says.

So 47th to 15th. Not bad going, but like I said it's not a traffic generator or converter, just purely a benchmark.

If it was a traffic generator, Tom might start asking us for money! 

Got advised of a new one this morning. Got a heads up as it came from someone we are working with and the scam company claimed the details had come from a web site we are currently working on!

The site in question is still in development and isn't live which is why we knew straight away it was a scam.

Scam company originated in Manchester, the hotbed of these cons. Seems now they are targeting builders and plumbers with promises of guaranteed work by taking out an advert in a Council Tenders magazine!

So we've passed all the details onto Trading Standards who will liaise with their Manchester colleagues