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Noun: pseudo news; Fact x Importance / SEO

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I don’t know. Seems I’m still feeling pissy about the polluting effect of SEO on content. While Google News seems to have temporarily extinguished Autobulbs Direct, a host of similar sites are cropping up in its results, blabbering on about how the weather could delay prestige car hire customers (people) or how British commercial vehicle [...]

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It used to be that only virus writers and spammers went in for social engineering, but it seems it’s OK for Facebook advertisers.
I’ve seen this advert on the site a couple of times now. It’s easy enough to ignore but… Wait, hey. I’ve got two messages? Well I’d better click.
The site you get if you [...]

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At work, we’re writing a couple of motoring news feeds for an insurance client. It’s not journalism red in tooth and claw, but they’re nice people and we quite enjoy trying to give them a couple of properly researched, written and edited news stories every day. To their credit, that’s what they want.
We use Google [...]

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Having my weekly rant this morning, I remembered something trivial that annoys the shit out of me, and thought I’d share the love.
See, now, I hate adverts generally, and I reserve a special bile for ones in which two of my favourite TV people prostitute themselves at the altar of car insurance, but there’s a [...]

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I’m 37. Facebook knows it, and you get to set an age range when you’re placing adverts like this:

FAIL.

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I mean, really, what the fuck?

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I’m 36 and no longer could I exactly be described as young.
But age has its advantages. I like to think that what I lose in elasticity, I gain in wisdom. Still, sometimes I fall victim to the unfettered idealism with which I grew up.
It wouldn’t be fair to say that I took a job at [...]

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Pic: Paul Doleman

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