Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Longevity of Blogger posts

I'm confused. I haven't blogged for a month because I'm trying to work out some issues with the Blogger. My old posts aren't properly indexed on the search engines because they're 'archived' and no longer have their own unique URL. Some old posts do still have a unique page. I've played with all the Blogger settings but I can't seem to find a way to ensure every blog post gets and keeps it's own URL/ page. Am I missing something? Shall I just migrate to a proper Wordpress blog? Please help!

On the issue of confusion, I'm also a little confused about Jacob Zuma. Is he corrupt or not? Will we have a corrupt President or is he going to make some positive changes to the Parliament?

More confusion. We had an 'end of year' even at FPC last week. I took a few photos and I'm not sure where to share them. Do I post them to flickr (which I use less and less), picasaweb (which we use more and more) or Facebook (where I think many people I know may get to see them, or since it's a past event, may not), which also begs the question, where on facebook to post (on an event, my photos, a group or why not just via picasa or flickr plugin)?


I'd love to hear what you think.

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Don't buy banner ads, especially NOT from Yellow pages

I've been trying to get a response from the staff at the Yellow pages about the value of their banners and listings and they do not respond. I guess that if I was them I also wouldn't. One of our SEO clients paid them R1750 per month for 6 months and they received 77 referrals. That's hundreds times more expensive than advertising using Googles' adwords, and unfortunately other banner type advertising is similarly ineffective.

The frustrating part was that Yellow pages reported to the clients that they had 1781 click throughs although our logs and Googles analytics confirmed it was only 77. They still had the chutzpah to ask the client to renew the contract...

Beware of banner ads, especially in SA!

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