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Retired Climber

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  1. Retired Climber
    You replied to my post about SEO basics, so I thought when you posted your link you wanted an opinion on it's SEO. From an SEO point of view it's worse than bad; I thought maybe you already knew that and your post was a little tongue in cheek. You are right about a site only needing to be good enough though. Yours isn't, but that is all you really need to aim for. I see very, very few tree workers with well made sites.
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    I've had a look at the site, but can't work out if you are serious or not. Do you think the site is in any way optimised? You don't even have an SSL certificate and Google are about to kick you in the backside with the new UX based update. Who do you host with? It's slooooooooow.
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    Can't get the link to work.
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    It doesn't need to be a dark art. SEO is little more than getting a few basics right and then writing for your audience and giving them answers to questions they have. Writing massive long articles nobody is going to read is a mistake; the search engines see thorough such nonsense these days. Offpage SEO is also fairly irrelevant to tree work businesses. Do a reasonable job of the on page basics and you can't go too far wrong.
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    I wasn't directing my post specifically at you. Yours is a sensible use of the platform. I was referring really to people who think they need to 'post' on a regular basis as a way of attracting clients.
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    If you are posting on Facebook to get work you fundamentally misunderstand how to use social media to promote a business. Also, as Steve mentioned in an earlier post, get them to your site to read more; never send them to Facebook (or anywhere else).
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    There's good money to be made if you can sustainably get those levels of views. I haven't had a YouTube client for a while but last time we were working on earning about a quid per 1000 views. 10 million views would be worth 10 grand, give or take. Even one popular video per month would make someone a wage.
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    Agree. It's growing away from the shade of whatever was behind you when you took that photo.
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    Wow, that is chav-tastic. I bet there's an option for a matching Louis Vuitton changing bag. Yep, have a great day. Enjoy the sunshine. Still bloody cold out though.
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    Haha; I'm not sure you should be allowed, if you can't spell Convertible? 😀
  11. Retired Climber
    Can't offer any assistance; I'm knackered just thinking about it. Good luck though.
  12. Retired Climber
    Where in Hampshire are you? Can you give a rough idea of your day rate with the Mewp?
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    You'd surely need some kind of academic qualification. Let's face it, NPTC tickets seem to give some people the idea that they are then 'fully qualified' but how much do you really need to know to get those tickets, pretty much nothing.
  14. Retired Climber
    Apparently one of the most often photographed trees in the country.
  15. Retired Climber
    If I had any Marmite I was going to make a sandwich and post a picture. Ironically, we haven't got any in the house; there must be some kind of shortage I don't know about.
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    And now I'm replying to you when I'm supposed to be doing lunch for my children; this is getting out of hand. Let's just agree that you're a weirdo and get on with our lives.
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    You've lost me. I thought you posted a tongue in cheek reply, so I posted a tongue in cheek reply, then you felt the need to explain a tongue in cheek reply, even though every post of the past half dozen or so were 'tongue in cheek'. Is that how you see it? Shall we just forget either of us posted anything and go do something in the sunshine instead?
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    Thanks. I know what I was doing.
  19. Retired Climber
    People were saying the same thing about 300 loo rolls and 3 gallons of hand sanitiser not so long ago.
  20. Retired Climber
    For anyone with any doubt that @kevinjohnsonmbeis a bit of a strange chap, he goes and panic buys Marmite. Any further suggestion that Kev is anything other than odd should be immediately struck from the record. 😀
  21. Retired Climber
    The 80 % is the amount the employer gets, not the employee. Loads of companies are topping it up so many staff on Furlough are on full pay.
  22. Retired Climber
    This is exactly why I said everyone's situation is different. Sounds like you've got it pretty much sorted (for you), but that wouldn't work for me. Around our way you can't buy a house for 350 grand that you'd want to live in. In fact, you couldn't buy anything; even the old ex local authority houses on the edge of the village go for about half a million. The average house price on our road would probably be getting on for twice that. I won't be selling our main residence, but have other property to sell. We don't have a mortgage or any loans / credit and don't live a flash lifestyle so we are pretty much recession proof. If I can leverage an advantage from a situation I will. In fact, that's pretty much my day job. I can pay all of our household bills by working 2 days per month, but then you've got big expensive toys to play with all day, so I'll have to admit defeat; you win.
  23. Retired Climber
    I agree with what you are saving, and from that perspective you are quite right. However, it doesn't make it a good position to be in.
  24. Retired Climber
    He probably is now. Anyway, we are going to be argueing semantics if we continue with this. There is a certain perverse logic to the statement, but that doesn't mean it's not a stupid thing to say. No matter how you look at it (unless you are skint and are trying to win a cheap point against the bank) owing 150 grand on a 100 grand asset isn't ideal. The point will become most apparent if the borrower wants to move (presuming the property is the primary residence).
  25. Retired Climber
    I bet the source of that little gem was skint.

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