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Re: Young women buck anti-smoking trend

robertseviour — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:51:58 -0000

Do what advertisers do but in reverse; shower the smoking demographic with images which form an association between smoking and what the target group think is unattractive. Pay for this with more fag tax.

Re: A Napoleonic lookout and an ammunition factory: the ' heritage at risk register' 2015

robertseviour — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 05:05:18 -0000

Can you proof that?

Re: Zero-tolerance speed limits – what they could mean for drivers

robertseviour — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:20:22 -0000

"speed is taken from the vehicles drive shaft" - a measurement of the drive shaft rotational speed. This is directly linked to the road wheel rotational speed, but the speed of the vehicle depends upon the circumference of the tyre. With new tyres you are going faster for a given speedometer reading than when the tyres are worn. The difference is in direct proportion to the % change in tyre circumference. (And for deep nerds, a nice way to measure that is to put a spot of paint on the tyre tread, then roll the car forwards a bit to deposit some paint on the ground. The circumference is equal to the distance between two such dots on the ground.)

Re: Do you remember Pete and Dud? Test yourself with our Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Quiz

robertseviour — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:02:27 -0000

Are you enjoying that sandwich?

Re: Do you remember Pete and Dud? Test yourself with our Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Quiz

robertseviour — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:58:52 -0000

Cool, indeed.

Re: Fastest crossing of English channel set in a dinghy

robertseviour — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 15:53:51 -0000

<< one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world>> I would like to see an end to the use of this cliche description. I have made this crossing twice in small sailing boats - the last time a couple of weeks ago. I have flown it in a light aircraft several times, taken the ferries probably 40 times - and never seen more than, perhaps a maximum of 5, commercial vessels. 'Busy' is not the right word, 'empty' would be closer to what I have witnessed.

Re: Announcing Slow Art Day in Florence: April 17 2010

robertseviour — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:56:00 -0000

For a long while I have been advocating looking at artworks for longer rather than seeing how many you can walk past in a huge exhibition. Why? because the complexity, meaning and craftmanship contained in the piece cannot be discovered fast. I'ts no different from tasting or a better word is 'degustation' of a fine wine. In a world where information overload is the default 'slow' anything is a reaction to be expected - I prefer to walk rather than visit in a car, I like to cook my own food more than go to a restaurant. One picture hanging on my walls beats having them covered. Less is much more.

http://learnspanish.seviour...

Re: Spanish Chapel at Santa Maria Novella

robertseviour — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:27:08 -0000

I agree entirely with the page heading - Slow Art, and in fact I have been advocating this principle to any one who will listen for some time. I came to this idea as a result of the fatigue I always felt when going around a large exhibition. Now one room is plenty and I much prefer to analyse what I'm seeing in one picture rather than make a tally of the numbers of them that I have done little more than walk past.

Re: Long Tail Key Phrases Pay Off Big!

robertseviour — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:49:13 -0000

The graph at the top of this page gives the impression that 'high probability of conversion' is the most important factor to consider. What this ignores is that the volume of traffic you receive with long-tail keywords is minute.

Instead the optimum situation is where a keyword is sufficiently popular to achieve both good traffic, yet is close enough to the specific interest of the searcher that they may become a purchaser.

Ultimately, popularity of a search term is the more important of the two considerations, because if a lot of people see your offer even if it isn't exactly right for them, there is a chance that you will get a sale; whereas if you have the perfect offer, but no traffiic there's no possibility of selling.

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

robertseviour — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:13:19 -0000

Thanks Nicolas, I will check it out.

Robert

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

robertseviour — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:05:11 -0000

Nicolas,

Do you offer SEO training, you seem to be an expert.

Robert

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

robertseviour — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:26:13 -0000

Nicolas,

This is very interesting.

I'd guess that my book site www.seviourbooks.com is in the 'business' niche,
but possibly it is in 'science'.

How can one find out in which niche Google has placed a given domain? It
would be helpful to know.

Regards,

Robert

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

robertseviour — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:14:10 -0000

Hello Nicolas, thanks for your reply.

Because the amount of work required to place links on sites which have
relevant topics is much greater, I'd like to be absolutely sure that it is
worth the effort.

Do you have any test evidence which proves that a link from a donor site
with relevant topic passes more authority than a similar link from a random
topic site?

Sorry to be persisting with this line of enquiry, but you know how much
misinformation circulates in the world of SEO.

Regards

Robert

ps I posted this message also on your blog because I don't know which you
monitor most frequently.

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

robertseviour — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:11:48 -0000

Hello Nicolas, thanks for your reply.

Because the amount of work required to place links on sites which have relevant topics is much greater, I'd like to be absolutely sure that it is worth the effort.

Do you have any test evidence which proves that a link from a donor site with relevant topic passes more authority than a similar link from a random topic site?

Sorry to be persisting with this line of enquiry, but you know how much misinformation circulates in the world of SEO.

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

robertseviour — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:48:17 -0000

Hello Nicolas,

Thank you for the rapid reply!

<<the number="" of="" outgoing="" links="" doesn't="" matter="" (as="" long="" as="" you="" are="" linking="" to="" a="" good="" neighborhood).="">>

I think we have misunderstood each other here. I wasn't referring to how
many outgoing links there are on my page. What I meant is; should we be
aiming to get backlinks from high PR pages which have few outgoing links?

Iin other words, if the donor site has a lot of outgoing links, is the
authority which it can pass on reduced, compared to a page with only a few
outgoing links?

Also, is there any importance in the overall subject matter of the donor
site, or is it solely the anchor text which matters?

eg if I create a link to my site (which is about engineering books) from a
page which is about cake-making (but somehow make my anchor text
'engineering books') does that have less value than an otherwise identical
link from a page of the same PR but having 'engineering' as its topic?

Regards,

Robert

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

robertseviour — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:28:04 -0000

Hello Nicolas,

Thank you for the rapid reply!

<<the number="" of="" outgoing="" links="" doesn't="" matter="" (as="" long="" as="" you="" are="" linking="" to="" a="" good="" neighborhood).="">>

Iin other words, if the donor site has a lot of outgoing links, is the
authority which it can pass on reduced, compared to a page with only a few
outgoing links?

Also, is there any importance in the overall subject matter of the donor
site, or is it solely the anchor text which matters?

Regards,

Robert

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

robertseviour — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:45:03 -0000

Thank you Nicolas.

Supplementary question: would you agree that it is better to have a small number of backlinks from pages with high PR and few outgoing links rather than hundreds from pages with low PR and (probably) many outgoing links?

Robert

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

robertseviour — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:11:09 -0000

Hello Nicholas,

I posted a question to the warriors forum and an interesting response pointed me to this thread. I wonder if you could give your opinion about my question:

[ I read that:

1. the total amount of PR that a domain has is proportional to the number of pages in the domain.
2. The PR of a particular page is reduced by the number of outgoing links it has.

So it seems to me that if you want the maximum PR on your sales page, then that page should have the minimum of outgoing links.

I had a dozen or so outgoing links on my home page, but have now made a graphic, which pictures those links, and hyperlinked the graphic to another page which has working links within it.

See the bottom of the page at http://www.seviourbooks ]

Could you please tell me whether this is a good idea or not?