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Re: Damaged on Delivery
The one I delivered last week had some very small deformation on the cabinet. It was difficult to spot, but as it was on the rear edge I let it go.
Tbh, I doubt the customer would ever notice it, but I was surprised to see it. The packaging was perfect, no damage at all.
I’d forgotten all about it until now.
Re: Just scrapped the last decent machine Indesit made.
Was my very first washer, very well made piece of kit.
Re: So, how does this work?
Ahh cheers, as long as it’s just me that’s confused and not the customer then all is well 🙂
Re: Log in
If you’re using IE. then go to Tools, internet options (at bottom) and make sure the ‘delete browsing history on exit’ is not ticked.
Also in the security tab, set it to ‘medium-high’, same in the privacy tab.I assume you’re using an Anti virus program, so if none of the above makes any difference then make sure the AV settings are not deleting cookies.
I know it’s not simple if you’re not a PC techi type, but you persevere and you’ll get there.
Re: Log in
I’d check your browser settings. Enabling cookies etc.
It’s usually something like that as opposed to this site.
Re: Price and range of ISE appliances?
I haven’t but I’ll find them and have a look 🙂
It’s an AW23, with the +3yr option.
Re: Price and range of ISE appliances?
Got my first ISE sale, (Hooray lol) being del to me on Mon, and delivering it to cust on Tue.
Anything I should look out for machine wise or paperwork wise? I’ve persuaded them to go for the 5yr option.Re: Original Servis Quartz any out there
I threw away a whole load of new parts only a month or so ago. Including solenoid door locks, blue and green boards, door boots, bearing kits.
Shame really, but I haven’t seen one of these machines in years.Re: Windows 7, Who’s taken the plunge??.
I have been compiling and using PC’s for years now with very few problems.
Most of the problems that I’ve sorted for other people is often due to the poor quality components used by the big boys who supply 80{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the PC’s to the public (Hmmm reminds me of a similar trade I work in).
If you know anyone who has a good knowledge of PC’s, get them to build you one using quality components. The one I’m typing on is 4 years old, and has never had a problem apart from overheating a few weeks ago due to the hot weather. I actually did the unbelievable act of cleaning it and it’s been fine.
I do hear all the time about the reliability of the Macs v PC’s and it’s probably true, but I’m in my comfort zone with PC’s as I used to be a PC tech for a short time and know a fair amount as opposed to knowing almost nothing about Macs.Re: 40 years ago today 20/07
Alex, I call your website, and raise it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moo … y_theories
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2008_season)#Episode_104_.E2.80.93_.22NASA_Moon_Landing.22
Or you could just believe what you want 🙂
Re: 40 years ago today 20/07
There was a program on TV not long ago that took all the conspiracy theories and basically, just trashed them with cold logic. But you never see that splashed all over the net.
Also, the Russians and Chinese were monitoring every step the Americans took, do you think for a second that they would have held back if there was even a sniff of trickery?
Also, there are still reflectors on the moon that were left there in order to more accurately measure the speed of light using lasers that bounce back to the earth and are still used today. (Once again, China or Russia would love to prove these to be fake if they could).
To finish it off, a Nasa probe with high res imaging has photoed all but one of the moon landings and the machinery and foot tracks can still be seen.
The only slightly credible whiff of conspiracy came from an ex Nasa employee Bill Kaysing, who wrote several books on the ‘fake’ moon landings. But his bizarre accusations include the Challenger astronauts were murdered and the CIA are using food poisoning to brainwash the public amongst other equally bonkers things.
Re: Smelly Washer?
Never underestimate the placebo effect.
Some customers just want something doing before they will be happy. If it isn’t you then it will be someone else.
Just do the best job you can and advise them as best as you can. Nothing more you can do.
Re: internet advertising
Here’s something a friend who does optimisation for a living advised me on. I’ve left my company name in there, but obviously just change it to yours.
HTH
Trev
P.S. I’m still working on mine, but it is getting better 🙂
To get a good placement in the search engines it is all about content.
First start with the head of the page.
Make sure you have a well written, keyword prominent
. This more than anything off the mark will help your site. Aside from being the first thing any search engine spider will read it is also the first thing any person looking at search engine results will see too. Your keywords are the terms that people will be searching for when looking for the services you offer, not necessarily the terms you would use to describe your own business. Also it is very important not to overload too many key terms on any single page. For instance a that contained all “Washing Machines…Dishwashers…Cookers…Fridge Freezers…Tumble Dryers…” would be spreading yourself too thin. Instead make the of the first page include you most or two most regular job requests eg Washing Machine and Dishwasher Repairs in the Nottingham area. ACC Electrical based in Nottingham . Then on another page you use a couple of other key terms. Try to keep key terms near the beginning rather than the end. If they are important then logically they should appear sooner and the search engines think the same way.Your Meta Tag for description will likely be used by the search engines as the descriptive text that appears under the blue link when returning results. Again make sure to keep a couple of key terms prominent but as the Meta Tags are no longer valued by the search engines optimise this for human consumption. Make it super relevant and try to lead them into your site.
After the head of the page you move on to the contents.
Your Header Tags are important and add weight to how the search engines rank your site against others. There should only be 1
tag. Again make sure to keep key terms relevant. Every single header tag should include key terms but remember to keep the terms used to a theme, don’t mix and match too great a variation on a single page or you will confuse the search engine as to what that page is really about and what it should be filed under. For example Washing Machine Repairs, Washing Machine Maintenance, Washing Machine Servicing, Washing Machine Sales etc are all good. If you then add Dishwasher to everything too throughout the whole page that one page has to compete against all other competition for both terms.
The actual content of the page is one of the largest determining factors for a search engine in how it files away that page and how it ranks that page against others in the same category. There should be an average of 200-300 words per page. It doesn’t mean instant failure if there aren’t and it doesn’t mean instant success if you have loads more. Well written text with good use of key terms in prominent places is what you want. What ever you do though, do not forget that the site will succeed or fail based on how it converts visitors into clients. You might have the best optimised content for a search engine on the web but if it doesn’t read well and drive a visitor to become a customer then it has ultimately failed. Again when you place your keywords do so sensibly, try to keep them nearer beginnings of paragraphs and sentences but do not overload the content with them. It is far better to not force a key term in than have the content read like a broken record.
Next there are a few insider tricks and tips for adding key terms to your site in the code. First any link you have in the code can be used to help with how the site ranks. Below will be two examples of the same link, the top is un-optimised, the bottom is optimised.
Dish Washers
Dish Washer Repairs
The contents of “title” will dislay if you hover over the link but it adds another opportunity to tell the search engine what the page its linking to is about. The text that displays in the link should also be a key term and descriptive.All images have to have an “alt” value to pass standards but you can also add a “title” too. For instance the following will display an image but the second will do so and take advantage of the chance to add optimisation.
Planning can have the biggest impact. Plan your site so that you have, ideally, no more than one or two content aims on each page. Give each service you offer a page of its own and optimise that page for terms targeted around that service. Make sure that every link is descriptive of the page it is linking too and not from. Make sure your menu is clear and that the link text that is visible makes it obvious to visitors as to what it will take them too. Don’t over do images thinking they will drive sales more than text. They will but images are nothing more than huge collections of 1s and 0s to search engines, its the text that they will use to determine what you site is about, where to file the pages and ultimately whether it is more or less relevant than those already in its database. Getting the best of both is a balancing act and you will have to judge for yourself where to draw the line.
Next PPC or paid ad campaigns on search engines.
First, unless you have a fairly large advertising budget (anything between £50 and £100 per month minimum) don’t bother. The number of people that actually look at the ads let alone use them is incredibly low. In fact its a little under 3{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of all time spent in front of search engine results is used looking at the PPC adds. Considering the volume of traffic that goes through a search engine 3{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} is still a huge number of people but it still means that 97{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of people look at the organic results more. It can also get costly as you will have to bid against other companies, groups of companies and ad agencies that buy up and bid to the absolute limit of their budgets on all of the tastiest terms. It can work and work brilliantly well for some companies and I would always admit that it can be worth a trail but do not put a large chunk of money from any ad budget towards it as the results will likely be disappointing.
