By the end of the 20th Century search engines had reached a point where the results they produced frequently offered little value in respect of the subject the searcher was looking for. At that time search engine spam abounded due to keyword stuffing of pages, the now almost defunct keyword meta tag itself stuffed full of irrelevant nonsense – in respect of the real content – and a variety of other schemes.Article Sites Pollution? Are You Creating Content You Can Be Proud Of Or Pissing Off Google?
By the end of the 20th Century search engines had reached a point where the results they produced frequently offered little value in respect of the subject the searcher was looking for. At that time search engine spam abounded due to keyword stuffing of pages, the now almost defunct keyword meta tag itself stuffed full of irrelevant nonsense – in respect of the real content – and a variety of other schemes.Fail – Warning – Dates In Calendar Are Closer Than They Appear – Software Release Dates
What’s:- Stated with steadfast earnestness
- Universally over optimistic
- Unrealistically narrow
- Repeated across an entire industry every day
- With the lessons of the past, apparently, never learned?
Fail – Being Bitten By FREE WordPress Themes
First up - Happy New Year!As I'm bogged down on a number of things right now I thought I'd share an article on free WordPress themes - given standard advice these days for ISV's and other startups is "Use a free theme for your site".Titled Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes In Google Or Anywhere Else
First theme download and... "...things are looking problematic."
Fail – Really Stupid Software – Really, Really, Really Stupid Software…
Craig Welch, fellow Aussie ISV and reader/commenter on this blog has put up a website that’s right up my alley. Really Stupid Software – yes really Some beautiful examples – with screenshots – of developers doing their best to interrupt the user with, well, stupidity...FAIL – Free Website Templates -Self Coded-Cheap-Premium-Aghhhh!!!
How Much Would You Pay?
Frequently on online forums – both the free and membership kind – one sees ISV’s asking about free or cheap website templates.I’m going to state at the outset that I’ve painfully found “cheap” and “free” to be synonymous with more than I can afford to use.There are several reasons why. There are some exceptions out there to this, but they are few and far between and at the end of the day I’ve found them to be so inflexible as to make them too expensive as well. You may have been fortunate in using them, I have not...Are You A Social Media Bull Ant ?
One of the things I love about Australia is our unique wildlife. One of the things I hate about Australia are mega venomous spiders – and Bull Ants!! 
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