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dazc

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About dazc

UK based developer, currently working on building landing pages for holiday home owners.

Recent public activity

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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.