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The Search Engine Land has made a creative and informative approach to the dull and sometimes tricky world of SEO. The SEO periodic table gives an overview of good SEO in bite-size chunks. Better still, they have provided it in different formats for you to print out and keep, or to share it on your websites to better inform the world wide community!
Google+ has been around for about month now and users can now sign up and get involved with the new social media craze. Besides the cool new features that could give it the competitive edge over its neighbouring rivals, other features coming from Google could help rankings of websites through its new social media feature, ‘Circles’ and give sites more credibility through its ‘+1′ buttons. Continue reading
1. Pointless Birthday Cards
If you forget Moonpig by 4pm the day before you can always be THE FIRST to post a very special bespoke and exclusive facebook message on their wall – and a picture of your dog for extra sentiment. If you don’t have a dog, put this youtube link up instead. They’ll think you’re hilarious and mental. Honestly. Oh dear. Stop it, you’re making me laugh, even now.
2. Mates’ Nights Out
Why bother walking all the way to a pub, urgh, why bother walking to any building… when you can show off your wit and one-liners on a thread which started with the status “I’m never going out with a short man again”. Unleash your comedy-bronze SATC inspired banter for all to see, you’ve got an audience to entertain so let the dog see the rabbit. Oh, and you can smoke inside. Enough said.
3. Stupid Real Dating
Who needs multiple sessions of costly Carbonara, Coke and small-talk when you can instead go through facebook photos of the person you think is hot, commenting ‘hot’ and pressing ‘like’ to test the waters. If they get a bit clingy on the old instant chat you can just go offline. If you reach the stage where they are desperate and boring, there is functionality to block them out of your life forever more. No yawn phone calls or restraining orders required.
4. Boring Real Cinema
No need to walk down to the boring brick building that is Cineworld, get a bus to Blockbusters (are they still alive, btw?) or mess about with Lovefilm sticky envelopes – now you can ‘rent’ films on facebook, a la The Dark Night, Jack Ass and more recently Big Lebowski. Unlike boring real-world movie watching, you can now “like” the movie and even comment as you watch (like yay, it’ll be totes amaze), along with thousands of other people – without someone with a phlegm-face viral infection breathing on your neck as they crunch through a jumbo tray of cheesy Nachos.
5. Family Visits
No longer necessary. Uh Uh. Track ‘alive & well’ statuses through, erm, their statuses. I wonder when facebook will introduce automated messages? Then you can set up: ‘Hello, sorry I haven’t been to see you for ages, are you in my area soon? Let me know xxx’. Oh, and another: “Hey you…”, to be sent intermittently to all the boring people with nothing to say other than “Hey you”. Revenge. I shall enquire.
Coming up next week… 5 Ways To Take a Picture Of Your Face.
Facebook – the world’s biggest addiction next to tobacco, alcohol, porn and McDonalds; the place you can visit when in real life your friends are non-existent; your face isn’t tagged and commented on by hundreds of people; your dog doesn’t have a fan page and people don’t ‘like’ what you say.
Facebook, the employer’s nemesis, parents’ worst nightmare, relationship history archive and most often, the only reason why you’re in touch with about 400 hundred people you wouldn’t speak to on the street, let alone have a real time unwanted instant chat which by law begins with ‘hey you’.
Well fear not, facebook self-harmers, now you can get harassed on the move! Just make sure you’re available to chat as you catch the bus, make the tea, go to the hairdresser, stack up on some sweat-shop goodies @ Primani – wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, do it with a chorus of ‘hey you’ in your pocket.
WHY the doubt/dread/fear/animosity, I ask myself? Perhaps it’s because anyone I actually want to talk to knows where I live, will have my mobile number, email address, work email and skype info and (God forbid…) will actually spend time with me in real life, whereas facebook is for all the people who quite simply don’t.
So yes, this is a blog to express how I simply cannot wait for facebook to further distort the line between real life and electronic life by bringing fake profiles even closer. And for the record, if you haven’t met someone in real life, they are not your best friend or lover, and if they try and forge that relationship electronically, particularly if through continued ‘hey you’ pings, then beware! You’ve been warned.
We’re a website agency, and know you have to (eurgh, excuse the term…) *strike whilst the iron’s hot* with online campaigns and suchlike, but surely whoever dreamt up this Google Ads campaign “HOLIDAY PRICES WORTH RIOTING ABOUT” is either:
A) The type who rings a bell when he/she makes a sale
B) Someone who frequently uses the term “Think outside the box”
C) Is a bit ‘rad’, overdid it on the narcotics as a teen and has an alter ego named Daz
or
D) Is an absolutely desperate stereotypical advertising c*nt
You decide…
All of us like to disappear into our own design worlds within Photoshop or the like and create what we would see as accessible, legible, user friendly or put simply, the perfect web design! But we sometimes forget that we’re never designing for ourselves on the web because there are potentially thousands of users who may / will have different accessibility issues when visiting your site.
But there are principles that we should all stick to or at least think about before opening your first div tag. Thankfully Design Festival have written an article ‘Popular Mistakes in Universal Web Design‘ which covers a few basic principles that can make your users experience that more enjoyable.
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