
Long Tail Search
This article isn’t to teach you about Internet marketing, but to share my amusement at some of the searches which have brought people to my site this week.
The long tail is a type of statistical distribution where a high-frequency population is followed by a low-frequency population which gradually “tails off”. The idea of blogging for Internet Marketing is to provide articles which will attract readers who are not undertaking obvious searches to your website where hopefully they will click on your advertising or buy your product (please take that as a hint!). These phrases individually are unlikely to account for a great deal of searches, but when taken as a whole, can provide significant traffic.
Here are some of the searches which I found amusing and brought people to this site this week:
- put+laminate+floor+in+the+wrong++way
- venting from a bathroom
- pimlico flats screaming headline
- ? qns eqbt
- where to get cement from in pimlico
- victorian style flats that need work london
- weird lettings london
- address of sex place in london
- anyone got frauded renting house in pimlico
- best places to have sex in london
- how much does it cost to run a vent axia kitchen fan
- leaking radiator lamiate floor
- letting agents+indian
- pimlico plumbers sexual harassment case
- residential backwater westminster
- the renting of the flat of immobility
- thermal expansion of carpet tiles
Tags: Blog, Internet, Internet marketing, Long Tail, Marketing and Advertising, Website
Posted in General on February 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
Krystyna of Bradley Construction wonders where January has disappeared, and whilst she says that she doesn’t remember in her lifetime having snow so many times in one winter, I myself can remember Winchester St. during the winter of 1963 – much worse! Because of the extreme weather conditions decoration of the front of the buildings decorating has been delayed for the foreseeable future.
At last house 75 will be complete and the stair carpets will be laid at the end of the first week of February. This is a lengthy process as the actual carpet needs to be cut to the accurate length then sent off to be bound before it can be laid. I hope everyone in house 75 is pleased with the finished effect of the hallway. The new intercom system was ordered and should arrive and be fitted at the same time.
The new open plan reception & office is taking shape, and will contain equipment and tanks associated with the solar panel heating system. This equipment will be put in place and cupboards built to enclose it all. We hope to have this open area ready by the middle of the month. Once it is completed we will explore how it may be best used. One possibility might be (subject to fire regulations) a common Internet terminal available for everyone’s use, and possibly a Network printer. The biggest problems with common services like that is that we are not equipped to provide technical support.
Krystyna has been asked to undertake repairs to 75 Flat 1 and the first floor of 79 – the tenants underneath these flats have been suffering from major leaks from showers, which have defied all repair attempts over several years, and so finally we are undertaking two major projects, including structural work to replacing structural timberwork which has rotted as a result of the continual leakages.
Tags: Add new tag, Energy, Internet, Pimlico Flats, Snow, Technical support
Posted in Pimlico Flats on February 1st, 2010 | No Comments »
Blogging frequently involves getting inspiration and sometimes content from elsewhere, and the conventions of attribution should be followed. I have in my past on one occasion not done this, and I am ashamed of myself and the article is no longer on the website. If you are reading something on this website that you feel is valuable and bears repeating please feel free to do so. Please include an attribution with anything that you copy – and to help you do this I have installed Tynt which will do the attribution for you. Also please feel free to use any of our photos and videos with attribution, the hotlinking block was put on because I got annoyed by some people just using my photographs without saying “Thank You”, and to prevent scamming websites use my content to rob tenants by pretending to be a landlord. Guest Bloggers here retain copyright for their work, and if it isn’t too much trouble please could you acknowledge the Guest as well as this site.
I was prompted to write this blog after reading Leo’s Zenhabits, one of the top 100 blogs on the internet. I’ve copied my summary of his words, and you can link to the full text by clicking Vitruvian Man. I would recommend that you read his blog as I find superb tips for modern living there.

Zen & Vitruvian Man
“I’m granting full permission to use any of my content on Zen Habits or in my ebook, Zen To Done, in any way you like. From now on, there is no need to email me for permission. Use it however you want! Email it, share it, reprint it with or without credit. Change it around, put in a bunch of swear words and attribute them to me. It’s OK.
While you are under no obligation to do so, I would appreciate it if you give me credit for any work of mine that you use, and ideally, link back to the original. If you feel like spreading a copy of my ebook, I’d appreciate payment. I’d prefer people buy my ebook, but if they want to share with friends, they have every right to do so. I’m not a big fan of copyright laws anyway, especially as they’re being applied these days by corporations, used to crack down on the little guys so they can continue their large profits.
Copyrights are often touted as protecting the artist, but in most cases the artist gets very little while the corporations make most of the money. I’m trying this experiment to see whether releasing copyright really hurts the creator of the content.
I think, in most cases, the protectionism that is touted by “anti-piracy” campaigns and lawsuits and lobbying actually hurts the artist. Limiting distribution to protect profits isn’t a good thing.
The lack of copyright, and blatant copying by other artists and even businesses, never hurt Leonardo da Vinci when it comes to images such as the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, or the Vitruvian Man. It’s never hurt Shakespeare. I doubt that it’s ever really hurt any artist (although I might just be ignorant here).”
Tags: Add new tag, Blog, Internet, Leonardo da Vinci, Pimlico Flats
Posted in General on January 24th, 2010 | No Comments »

Pimlico Library
If you live in Pimlico, or other parts of Westminster, the Libraries have set up a great portal to the internet for you to use called “ The Gateway“, with links to great websites and tips on using them. They also tell you if they have a specialist library or service for your chosen subject. Of course there are plenty of other portals, but this library one has several features to make it different and more useful.
- It doesn’t carry advertising.
- The sites with [24/7] logos indicate Westminster Libraries subscription-based sites, they have paid the subscription so that you don’t have to, just use your Westminster Libraries membership number in order to gain access.
- The Gateway is kept manageably small. The number of topics is limited while comprehensive, and provides key links and links to subject gateways rather than linking to a large number of sites on any single topic.
- The resources have been selected and presented by the Library information specialists:
- Authority and reliability: They are sites that come from a known and authoritative source.
- Accessibility and usability: Sites that require registration or subscription are excluded unless the subscription is paid for by Westminster Libraries for the use of their members, as are sites whose information content is obscured or compromised by advertising or ‘pop-up’ boxes
- Authority and reliability: They are sites that come from a known and authoritative source.
- Accuracy and currency:the sites included are accurate and regularly maintained.
- Relevance: Good quality sites with a local focus (Westminster / London) are emphasised.
Complete list of electronic reference resources available to members of Westminster Libraries.
Tags: Internet, Pimlico, students, Westminster
Posted in London on November 1st, 2009 | No Comments »
They say that imitation is the sincerest for of flattery so we were amused and delighted to discover that our Website is being used as the basis for others to advertise. It would have been nice of her to acknowledge us in some way, that would have been the professional thing to do – but maybe she meant something different when describing herself as “a young professional female”?
Tags: Internet, Pimlico, Rent
Posted in General on August 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
We are revising our website to try to make it easier to use. One of the pages on the new website will be a page of links to other websites. If you have a website that you would like featured on the page please e-mail the URL with a short (30 words max) description, and (if there is one) a graphic to be used with the link.
The page will have links to all sorts of websites, the only requirement is that we consider them of value. However we are particularly interested in featuring websites for renting London flats, or just for renting, or just about London, or just about flats.
If you want to see the Links page which is in development it is London Links
Tags: Internet, London
Posted in General on March 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
A simple trick will help you identify which advertisements have something to hide. The trick applies to any form of advertising, but I will illustrate it with London Rental advertisements. Put the telephone number shown in the advertisement into a search engine. You shouldn’t get many results for a phone number, but what you do get may tell you something about the person who has placed the advertisement. In particular scammers place a lot of advertisements. Although only a small number of them will get spidered by the search engines, that may be enough to give you the warning that you need.
For instance consider:
Self contained double studio, all nicely furnished, own bathroom, own kitchen, double bed.
Suitable for 1 or 2 tenants.
Located on Saint Georges Square, SW1V, minutes from Pimlico, zone 1. excellent bus connection, close to shops, restaurants and local amenities.
The rent includes all the bills and council tax, excl eletricity.
If you wish to visit this property, please contact Claudia 07554148467
That looks a quite straight forward genuine advertisement, with nothing to ring alarm bells. However upon Googling the Phone Number and then looking at the cached pages we find the same phone number being used on multiple advertisements using different names – Grace French and Georgette .
If you think that is unusual ……
Double studio for 1 or 2 people available now.
Studio is self contained and the rent is £170 all bill inclusive except for electricity.
The property is on St Georges Square which is 4 minutes from Pimlico Station zone 1.
This will go very quickly so should be seen asap.
Call me on 07770528552 to arrange a viewing
Lysette Cordal
in the same way is also Tracie Hallow and Tracie
So this is information well worth knowing, and very easily obtained by a quich search.
In case you wondered how I discovered this, I was researching studios because: -
Pimlico Flats have three studios available in April and May
Tags: Advertising, Internet, Scam
Posted in General on March 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When Seety first came out we broke the news that now you could view your prospective letting prior to taking the trouble to travel. Now Google has launched it’s own product and we have to say that the Google product is in a different class. Compare viewing Pimlico Flats with the 2 services:
The best you can achieve with Seety is a view 3 streets away
Google on the other hand provides a high resolution right outside, illustrating perfectly that we are indeed on the sunny side of the street.
View Larger Map
You can even zoom in on the front door and see the number 75 over the door knocker, and the buttons on the door entry intercom. I’m sorry Seety – Google’s product is unbeatable on this test
Tags: Flats, Internet, Pimlico, Rent, Studios, SW1, Westminster
Posted in Renting on March 20th, 2009 | No Comments »
I am doing a study of search methods on the Internet & would like to hear from Websites who meet the following criteria:
- Offer goods or services which are better value for money (either better or cheaper) than generally available.
- Are difficult to find in normal search due to competition from bigger organisations with larger marketing budgets.
A pre-requisite of your website should be that you are what people are looking for on the Internet, but can’t find. If you meet these criteria please comment or e-mail me with your URL. If you are chosen for the study you should gain publicity for your website.
Submission should include your URL & a statement of less than 200 words as to why your Website is better value for money than others found in a typical search.
Tags: Google, Internet, Search
Posted in General on February 1st, 2009 | No Comments »