ALL WASHED UP IN ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST

Date October 29, 2008

Although the guidebook called it a launderette, it was not listed for reasons of personal hygiene. It was billed as the largest outdoor launderette in Africa, and although I have not seen any others for comparison it was not difficult to believe the boast.

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Investing Online Help goes live

Date October 29, 2008

Investing Online Help is my new blogger blog about investing and investments online. Online investing help is designed for articles about money, finance, the investment world and other issues relating to stocks, company shares, debentures, real estate investment, gold and other commodities and trading all of the above instruments.
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CRIMES AND CONS IN BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

Date October 18, 2008

I have only experienced culture shock on one occasion.

That was on my arrival in Romania, one cold Bucharest night. My train arrived at the station after a wearying journey from Hungary. The mucky station was full of human debris. Weary travellers sprawled all over the floor, some using their suitcases as bedding.
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Hostmonster hosting - a host monster?

Date February 29, 2008

I thought I should update things on how this new site is coping with traffic since we are using a shared host like hostmonster. The simple answer is it is going very well.

We are having about 3 visitors per day and at that level the server seems to be handling things very well indeed.

I’d thoroughly recommend hostmonster.com for a no traffic site like spam-spam.com for the following reasons.

  • if you get no traffic, your hosting may as well be cheap.

OK, I’m being silly forget this list and I’ll give you the real reasons I host with Hostmonster
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Comment Spam - Does ‘nofollow’ stop it?

Date February 16, 2008

I’m sitting here at the Command Console of a super duper brand new web site pumping out post after post - which Google appears not to care for.

The main article has been live for about 5-6 days and my Google Web Master Tools console is telling me that “No pages from your site are currently included in Google’s index” Well, to be honest that doesn’t suit my purposes very well.
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Spam by keyword stuffing

Date February 13, 2008

What is the difference between content rich in keywords and keyword stuffing. When does content move from the realm of content rich keywords to content spam?
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Out spammed, by a triple spam article

Date February 12, 2008

If you pulled me aside and in confidential tones asked me how I’m feeling right now, to be honest, I’d have to (in similarly confidential tones) reply in a negative fashion as to my current state of mind. Read the rest of this entry »

To Spam or not to spaM, that is the.. er.. um.. SPaM!!!

Date February 8, 2008

Spam, spAm, SPaM. It’s everywhere! Somehow this article got its keywords spammed – didn’t see the keyword spammer and didn’t see he/she/bot spamming. How do we stop spam? Can we stop spam? Would spam software help us stop spam? Read the rest of this entry »