Amazon Blows It’s Benevolent Image
Amazon Blows It's Benevolent Image when it terminates small sellers' accounts for high-falutin' 'reasons' that it won't explain in layman's terms
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Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
Megan Publishing Services
Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
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Spamming YouTube
Spamming YouTube YouTube is owned by Google, which I will admit right up front is not one of my favourite companies. In my opinion, Google behaves like most bad, bossy fathers, demanding that you do as they say, not as…
Site Maintenance
Site Maintenance Site maintenance is an important part of any webmaster’s duties and has to be taken seriously, but it is not usually an onerous task. However, in the last thirty days or so, two of the largest players on…
Search Engines
Search Engines I should imagine that if I asked a hundred people, which is the best search engine, at least ninety percent would say Google, but how many of them ever consider using other search engines? Google has done such…
Google Bias and Blacklisting
Google Bias and Blacklisting If you are still not convinced that there is such a thing as Google Bias and Blacklisting, there is a simple test that you can try. In May 2016, I wrote an article for my blog called…
British Bureaucracy
British Bureaucracy My Thai wife and I arrived back in the UK for the first time in five years last Wednesday, so our first encounter with British bureaucracy was at Rhoose airport’s immigration. My wife was coming in on a…
Piracy and Google
Piracy and Google If you make anything that becomes successful, you can expect it to be copied sooner or later. In the case of physical goods, it can take a while to set up the plant and machinery to produce…
Getting Noticed Online
Getting Noticed Online The principle of selling anything on line is basically the same, so since my blog is about books: writing and selling them, I will use books – novels as my example. Having said that the big difference…
WHUK – My Webhost
I ended up leaving WHUK - My Webhost for several reasons. Admin, two women tried to rip me off with false logic, and no apology. Crap company
Logging In Conspiracy
Logging In Conspiracy Has anyone else noticed how high the bar has been raised in order to sign up and log into an application these days? Logging in was a simple question of typing in two words a few years…
Google Accounts
Google Accounts I don’t know whether you think Google is great or garbage, but I tend towards the latter for several reasons. The first was when they called me a liar four years ago and closed my Adsense account costing…
Site Upgrades
Site Upgrades I’m fully aware that this talk about site upgrades and link updates might be really boring to many of you, but the topic is taking up so much of my time these days that I am not getting…
Website Upgrades
Website Upgrades I started the link upgrades I have been talking about for the last few days, as regular readers will know, but after doing ten more last night, I began to think about the bigger problem of whether my…
Sudden Downfall
Sudden Downfall I had a bad experience last night, I was walking back from the shop (pub) up the lane behind my house as I have done 1,000’s of times in the last 10 yrs, but the street lamp was…
Mobile Compatibility
Mobile Compatibility I decided to check my main web site, this one, for mobile compatibility, ie with smaller devices – phones and tablets. Since it is using the latest version of WordPress, I was pretty sure that it would…
Buying Likes
Buying Likes and Other Social Indicators All of us who have web sites, which includes blogs, want visitors to read them, and leave ‘Likes’. I think that that goes without saying, even if the webmaster is not trying to earn…
Geo-Targetting
Geo-Targetting It seems that everything on the Internet is geo-targetted these days. Just in case you are not sure what I am talking about, I mean that advertisers (and others) first check where your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is located…
How I Got Into Publishing
How I Got Into Publishing Twelve years ago, I was the office manager of our family construction firm in South Wales. One day, my father came in, handed me a bag of papers, notebooks and drawings and said: ‘See…