Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I'm not sure this is a nice people question, but does anyone else ignore any threads started by a poster who only has upper case letters in their name?

Any poster or a particular one?

If its someone I've read and made a judgement well...yes, but if its someone I'm not aware of then I'll read them.

purch

i'm not sure this is a nice people question, but does anyone else ignore any threads started by a poster who only has upper case letters in their name?

no !!!!

Why_do_you_do_ that ??

tomterm8

Hm... I barely notice who posts a thread, but I tend to Avoid any Thread started with A RANDOM amount of Puntuation or WEIRD capitalisation or ANY thread about housePriceCrash.com!?!!!???!.



Google page rank are being updated... not very important, but webmaster forums are going to be full of my PR is higher than your PR tomorrow.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

ANY thread about housePriceCrash.c imom.
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Oh yeah, those I ignore.

PasturesNew

Gutted... was going to book onto a course on Saturday, went to the website and it was today

Now, this is annoying because I wanted to do that one now, so I knew if I was any good at that stuff .... then it's tax return time, then it's off to spec out a new area. Or, should I just stay in this area for 1-2 years, get some space and dabble around with making stuff ... I can always move in the future. Thing is, moving means trying to get a "proper job", staying here means accepting there aren't any proper jobs I'd want and everything's a long way away and minimum wage/low pay.

Difficult....

Planned dates to spec out new area were 30th - 11th. But there's another course I could go on instead on 3rd - and another/elsewhere on 5th. So it might be worthwhile hanging around a bit more.

I always seem to be hanging around waiting for something!

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

Google page rank are being updated... not very important, but webmaster forums are going to be full of my PR is higher than your PR tomorrow.

I ignore those forums.... I just hold my breath and hope my stuff still ranks

It's not been demoted yet in 4 years.... but I know that at the drop of a hat, any day, my site could suddenly produce me £0.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

I ignore those forums.... I just hold my breath and hope my stuff still ranks

It's not been demoted yet in 4 years.... but I know that at the drop of a hat, any day, my site could suddenly produce me £0.

Well, the published PR is a kind of ego thing... in the real world it is not that important unless you want to sell links or web sites, in which case it helps a bit.

I've been doing some thinking around the entire google thing... I am too dependent on google, and I know it. In the long term, that is a risk proposition. I am considering rolling out ye olde traffic techniques from before the google revolution.

And the practical reality is that I am increasingly coming across things I want to sell, which I know people are not searching for.

For example: bat shelters. How many people actually search on how to buy a bat shelter? Next to none. So how do you sell it? If you rely on google, you will not make any sales. But I believe there are a lot of people who have never thought of a bat shelter, but who would buy one if they knew about it.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Well, the published PR is a kind of ego thing... in the real world it is not that important unless you want to sell links or web sites, in which case it helps a bit.

I've been doing some thinking around the entire google thing... I am too dependent on google, and I know it. In the long term, that is a risk proposition. I am considering rolling out ye olde traffic techniques from before the google revolution.

And the practical reality is that I am increasingly coming across things I want to sell, which I know people are not searching for.

For example: bat shelters. How many people actually search on how to buy a bat shelter? Next to none. So how do you sell it? If you rely on google, you will not make any sales. But I believe there are a lot of people who have never thought of a bat shelter, but who would buy one if they knew about it.

I want one.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

I'm not sure this is a nice people question, but does anyone else ignore any threads started by a poster who only has upper case letters in their name?

I haven't got that person on ignore, but what can I say? I've read a few and now can't be bothered so you could say

REAL_WOMEN_IGNORE_THEM

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

I want one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bat+house&x=0&y=0 (not an affiliate link) however, you need to fix them very high up, to keep them away from predators (think, just under the guttering).