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Comment on Capital letters by confused

confused — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:38:06 +0000

so if you refer to a specific court at the start of a letter, do you need to use a capital letter when referring to it later on in the letter as “the Court” or would you refer to it as “the court”?

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Newsletter spam and advertisers | — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:36:47 +0000

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Comment on Making content web friendly by tashword

tashword — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:45:32 +0000

You are most welcome, Sjorcha, and well done on ranking so well for a long time. Having recently visited and purchased from your site, I found the answers I needed so you are doing something right as far as I am concerned!

I agree that what customers like (and don’t like) must be considered when preparing a website, especially as search engines are getting better at picking “good SEO” sites from sites people want in search results. SEO needs to be part of an overall straegy – not the driving force.

I hope the above points help you refine your site, and thank you for forwarding my site to those developers!

Comment on Making content web friendly by Sjorcha

Sjorcha — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:32:17 +0000

Thank you, thank you and thank you some more. I have wrtten my website for my customers not for the search engines. Apparently I have committed website sin by the daily onslaught of web developers that contact us. So they tell us that the actual website is woeful for SEO, then why is it that we have been first page for a very long time for our product no matter the exponential rise of competitors. So we are doing something wrongfully right. The one thing is to convince these developers that content is very important, that the clutter they recommend is very confusing and real customers hate it with a passion.
I do agree there’s some fixing up to do any way and your imformation has given me the direction
I have forwarded your site to the last 15 web developers to digest.

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Building your blog | — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:04:34 +0000

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Comment on Capital letters by tashword

tashword — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:52:31 +0000

Hi Manu,
using unnecessary captial letters in emails, SMS and other online communications is considered to be shouting. In other words, if I am angry with you I could type in capital letters to emphasise it. This would generally be full words and possibly full sentences rather than just a first letter though; using capitals correctly (for example writing about the ATO or EPA, or using the terms RSVP or ASAP) is not considered shouting.

Comment on Capital letters by manu

manu — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:48:35 +0000

ok, i have heard when you write an sms with capital letters, in other way it means you’re shouting to the person you’re sending to. does that make sense?