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by gam
Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:24 pm
Forum: The Workshop
Topic: Wordpress twenty eleven
Replies: 3
Views: 1262

Yes, very simple to do: In your admin panel choose Appearance/Menus Look for the box called " Custom Links " Type the url (address) of the site you want (e.g. http://pinterest.com/crouquets/ Type the Menu title (e.g. Pinterest ) Click Add to Menu Now position the item where you want it in ...
by gam
Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:07 am
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: SEO Anybody tried and got results
Replies: 18
Views: 7716

Hundreds of people try this every year and hundreds, if not thousands, are disappointed and retreat licking their wounds. That's true of nearly everything isn't it Charles - from taking up golf to learning the piano? Some people just don't have the aptitude, but usually it's that they don't put eno...
by gam
Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:17 am
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: SEO Anybody tried and got results
Replies: 18
Views: 7716

Perhaps the reason for this is because it is worried that if people knew how it worked they would ruin its search results... I'm confident that is exactly the reason. If there were a simple set of rules that if followed would give you a page 1 SERP, we would soon be back to the position of a few ye...
by gam
Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:56 pm
Forum: Owner-to-Owner
Topic: Free VPN to watch UK TV abroad
Replies: 36
Views: 29238

With luck, not just £10 :wink: Not sure if you're officially a UK resident - I assume so. If anyone reading this plays with direct debit and isn't a UK resident, handle with care as Camelot's rules state you can't play "unless physically located in the UK or Isle of Man when buying a ticket&quo...
by gam
Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:59 pm
Forum: Owner-to-Owner
Topic: Free VPN to watch UK TV abroad
Replies: 36
Views: 29238

No offence taken nor intended by me. You are again however inferring something which is simply untrue: I do not have "contempt" for companies offering VPN services; I do have a degree of contempt for companies that both actively promote illegal activities through their service AND make mon...
by gam
Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:14 pm
Forum: Owner-to-Owner
Topic: Free VPN to watch UK TV abroad
Replies: 36
Views: 29238

What a strange response. You think the two posts I've made on this subject express views equating VPNs as the equivalent to the Kmer Rouge? Good grief! And how exactly are my views simplistic seeing as all I've done is highlight a reasonable question about the business ethic of a company which not o...
by gam
Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:35 am
Forum: Owner-to-Owner
Topic: Free VPN to watch UK TV abroad
Replies: 36
Views: 29238

So, a company who's business model is to charge money to people to enable them to bypass/avoid copyright/licensing conditions turns out to be a bit dodgy - who'd have thought it :roll:
by gam
Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:47 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Where would you put a reciprocal link to a listing site?
Replies: 18
Views: 2866

if a link from a home page has more value than a link from a partially (or fully) "buried" page As with all things SEO, there are few facts - it's mostly opinion. It certainly used to be thought that a link from a high page rank page would carry some of that "goodness" with it. ...
by gam
Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:47 am
Forum: Managing your property
Topic: How to fold a fitted sheet
Replies: 41
Views: 5607

I thinks this sums up fitted sheet folding quite nicely:

http://thedoghousediaries.com/4491
by gam
Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:32 pm
Forum: France
Topic: Free VPN UK TV for the Olympics
Replies: 11
Views: 3658

Ok I'm a dumbo, wassit mean? It's a service specifically set up to allow non UK residents to use a BBC service they have no rights to use. Services like this are also used to download torrents (music/software etc) with anonymity and therefore with impunity. And worse (much worse). I suspect others ...
by gam
Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:27 am
Forum: France
Topic: Gov Internet rules for our websites?
Replies: 7
Views: 1260

It certainly seems to suggest that: Principle Commercial sites selling goods or services on the Internet are subject to regulation similar to that of distance selling, including reporting requirements (consumer protection, VAT), of the mandatory (general conditions of sale), rules detailed prospecti...
by gam
Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:32 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: How do you decide on a web address for your site?
Replies: 12
Views: 3924

It's not easy but you need to try and think like the sort of people you want as your customers. Imagine you lived somewhere else in the country, or even elsewhere in the world - what search terms would you use to try and find a place like yours? Steyning isn't an especially well known place, the Sou...
by gam
Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:06 pm
Forum: The Workshop
Topic: Booster for WiFi
Replies: 9
Views: 4303

I have read about these CPL plugs (not sure what they're called in English) Homeplug is the technology standards name so they tend to be called Homeplugs or powerline adapters. and it seems that they transmit the internet signal over the electricity wires. I have one electricity meter for my house ...
by gam
Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:53 am
Forum: The Workshop
Topic: Booster for WiFi
Replies: 9
Views: 4303

You wouldn't usually expect a new router to have a worse wifi performance than an old one - although of course this could be the case. Before spending money I'd check a few things: Have you moved it closer to a wall/floor/ other appliance? If so, give it better space around it. If it has an external...
by gam
Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:27 am
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Shred my Site, please
Replies: 12
Views: 2679

I would understand "verifying" as placing a specific file or code on your site which Google can then use to link your site with your webmaster account i.e. to allow only the site owner to be able to access detailed Google data for the site (e.g. analytics). If you have done that then you n...