http://www.pingpongpie.com An Everyday Blog About Everyday Things = Updated Not Everyday Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:18:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My friend Jack Romero came to the UK with £90 in his pocket and was basically homeless, he built himself up from nothing to owning an airline. He will appear on TV next Tuesday at 22:35 BBC1. The programme is called "My Story". A heads up to all you budding ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/09/jack-romero-from-the-streets-to-owning-an-airline/ I believe in helping people, especially helping people help themselves. I think most people know the proverb: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." I found a website business that helps people in ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/08/301/ MeetDomainers is a premium conference aimed at top domain investors and top SEO experts from all over the world. Speaking at the conference will be some of the industries most revered and respected entrepreneurs. It'll be a great opportunity to network and maybe do a big deal or two ;) These ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/07/meetdomainers-conference/ I think there are enough published posts about the last saga of how Google is penalising itself but I thought I'd wade in too, since my readership is about 6, it doesn't really matter anyway. To cut a long story short, Google caught itself cloaking and has removed some of its ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/07/why-google-shouldnt-remove-its-help-pages-from-the-index/ Ferrari are such a whining bunch of people, it's astonishing. The way they have gone on about being disadvantaged by the safety car this weekend is truly terrible. Hamilton made a marginal decision by overtaking the safety car and because it was MARGINAL they took a while to punish him ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/06/stfu-ferrari/ I frequently am plagued with low quality SEO enquiries by shall we say, people that lack common sense and maybe intelligence. Take this one from today: (Have transcribed telephone call) Potential Non client: Hi, I'd like you to take my two property websites, optimise them and make them rank good and ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/06/289/ Joomla! Unnecessary awkward and complex CMS system that should be put to ground, I mean why oh why would you choose it as your platform from which to work? You're making a rod for your own back, trust me. Takes hours to recode things which should take 30 seconds. http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/06/effing-hate-joomla/ Brent Csutoras is a well known Social Media Marketer and sent me an email the other day saying he knew a couple of guys who offered a neat service. I asked Brent to send me more detail and this is the resulting email conversation, with a "reply all" function so ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/06/how-we-roll-in-social-media-land/ Do I really need to explain? Okay, I will anyway... Google is an algorithm that is link based, maybe not so much in the future, but for now it still is. However, back in the day, you'd build some links and "hey presto", you'd see some some changes in your website ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/06/omfg-mrgoogle-how-long-before-we-get-the-link-credit/ I subscribe to Wired magazine, I think it's the most amazing piece of literature ever produced ever ever. That doesn't say much for me and my depth of knowledge, but seriously, it is amazing and it's a very "boyzy" magazine. It's filled with science, gadgets, business, technology, entrepreneurship and basically ... http://www.pingpongpie.com/2010/06/how-to-fail-at-advertising/