Just lately, if you put our company name into Google a number of rather unpleasant external pages appear on the 1st page. It’s quite disheartening to see and it seems to be getting worse. Of course, people love to complain and you’ll rarely find anyone go out of their way to praise a company for [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Mud sticks – especially online
Posted: 27th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: bad publicity, complaints, online, problems, Reviews
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Unexpected things you should see coming
Posted: 27th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: fulfillment, step by step guides
Ah, what a fun-packed day it was today. I’ve been working hard all week or a great variety of work and I thought I’d take it a little easier today by writing blog articles for the work blog. My idea was to spend all day on it and write enough articles to cover the next [...]
Paranoia – such a wonderful thing
Posted: 27th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in MusingsTags: cars, life, paranoia, selling stuff
Finally, we’ve managed to find someone who might be interested in buying our old car. It’s taken months, literally. Which made me quite sad actually as it’s a good solid car and I’ve loved it very much, looked after it far better than the previous owners and I’ll be sad to see it go. Despite [...]
Rather appropriately covered in raindrops
Posted: 27th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: advertising, rain, samaritans
Here it is, the real Samaritans advert I was talking about yesterday. With a nice snap of the raindrops running across the train window. Lovely.
Staring at boobs can prolong your life
Posted: 26th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in MusingsTags: staring at boobs
It’s an old story now, but it’s worth writing about again as a quick reminder to all men out there – it’s good to stare at boobs. A study carried out last year by a German scientist found that staring at boobs can prolong a man’s life as much as 5 years! Dr. Karen Weatherby, [...]
Content that risks attracting the wrong people
Posted: 26th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in WritingTags: advertising, content, writing
Sitting on the train this morning, starting out of the rain soaked windows I noticed an advert which caught my eye. It looked something similar to the one pictured above, except there were birds and bunnies bouncing around as well. I eyed it with mild curiosity. If for any reason your life doesn’t feel quite [...]
Umbrellas are remarkably British
Posted: 25th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in RantsTags: inconsiderate people, rain, umbrellas
The weather at the moment is typically British. Overcast with “patchy” sunshine one minute, bucketing it down the next. Sitting in an office is miserable enough, without looking out of the window near the end of the day to see that you’re going to get lovely and wet before the day is out. If there’s [...]
Eyeball tracking & SEO/content writing
Posted: 24th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in SEO, WritingTags: content writing, eyeball tracking, placement, seo
It’s not really new news. Eyeball tracking studies have been around for a while now. Google did an article on it for their own blog last year (“Eye tracking studies – more than meets the eye“) which gave a simple break down of what it means. The basic premise is quite simple. A number of [...]
Having a posh car doesn’t make you a good driver
Posted: 24th August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in RantsTags: Ferrari 458 Italia, fire, wrecked supercars
Rather a depressing sight isn’t it? A rare Ferrari 458 Italia has a rather crispy death, shortly after rolling out of the factory. Believe it or not, this isn’t the first Ferrari 458 to meet such a grizzly end. Though Ferrari are saying it’s not a technical fault, a number of the cars have caught [...]
Top 10 reasons I hate trains and @nationalexpress
Posted: 23rd August 2010 by By Adrian Willings in RantsTags: national express, rant, trains
It’s no secret that I hate trains, but I’m feeling so ranty today I’m going to list the top 10 reasons why… 1. Trains are nearly always late, delayed or just plain “cancelled”. Usually without warning or care about how you get home. 2. Trains are inevitably cramped and crowded at any time a reasonable [...]