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dazc
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About dazc
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Comment #48567988
Care to enlighten us?
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Comment #48487492
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 beca…
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Comment #47694390
Wait until you see the tracking data that led to your purchase.
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Comment #47425702
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 pr…
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Comment #47423304
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.
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Comment #47423283
Most people are indeed. Many of these people will also be able to complete very difficult tasks that you can't.
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Comment #47423271
I think you underestimate how what you just wrote will fly over the head of most non technical people?
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Comment #47423243
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 compet…
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Comment #47396962
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…
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Comment #47104070
I wondered what happened to him?
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Comment #47104053
Launching a new service every 5 minutes is obviously stretching their resources.
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Comment #46684095
no-index is a thing.
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Comment #46684082
Good luck with that one.
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Comment #46684080
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.
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Comment #46684050
Because you can see pages not affected doesn't guarantee they will stay that way.
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Comment #46684025
I've witnessed a few catastrophes that have resulted in mistakes made via robots.txt, especially when using 'disallow' as an attempt to prevent pages being indexed. I don't know if…
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Comment #46488657
If I'm buying shoes that were made in the third world for minimal cost then branding is not a guarantee of quality that it once was. This has been the case for at least the past te…
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Comment #46413893
I stopped drinking a year ago and noticed I have registered far fewer domains as a consequence. Those late night ideas can rack-up a sizeable renewal bill with no real progress bei…
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Comment #46391833
At the time of my diagnosis for Type 1 my glucose levels were very high (HbA1c of 134 (UK) / 14% (US)). I lost an extreme amount of weight over a short time period and became very …
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Comment #46391811
I found having the monitor on my left arm results in a more reliable connection and consistent readings. This isn't just during the day either, so can't be explained by lifestyle p…
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Comment #46313955
Housing used to be relatively cheap in Spain which has resulted in huge swathes of the main cities and tourist resorts becoming almost entirely airbnbs. The social/economic implica…
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Comment #46313815
They don't want to upset the high number of middle-class Spaniards who have all of their money invested in airbnbs.
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Comment #46244530
It's something you'll experience if you publish many sites over time. Can't point to any definitive sources, many of the reputable search related blogs are now just Google shills.
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Comment #46244504
Not sure how search result pages can be crawled unless they are cached somewhere?
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Comment #46242060
'I don’t think I’ve met anyone in the UK who routinely checked tripadvisor for anything!' Counterpoint: I have met people in the UK who's lives revolve around doing nothing but.