A week since my last post, and in that week i’ve been getting to grips with EasyContentUnits. I’ve taken advantage of their birthday offer where i get my first month for just one pound, and decided to give them a try – and so far i’m quite impressed. It is indeed easy to produce the units, and I’ve decided to get my Rugby shirts site updated a bit (could do with a better header graphic too, but that can wait til i can pay for it – search engines don’t care!). One problem i’ve hit so far is when merchants on the supported networks are suspended for late payment, there is no warning on the ECU site, but it’s a very small concern – aside from that, the units are easy to create, nicely customisable and i’m hoping using the javascript version of inclusion, that although you miss out on the text content of the products for the page, so you would have to write extra content yourself, that google can’t follow the links in the javascript, so won’t penalise you for affilate links! My rugby shirts site currently sits top of Bing for the term “england rugby shirts” (strangely for a .co.uk site, it’s top for worldwide search, but not listed for uk only?) but it’s nowhere on google. absolutely nowhere. this could be simply not enough incoming links, but i’ve a suspicion it’s also to do with the site previously having lots of affiliate links on it.
About the rugby – i’m delighted to have found a French channel on my cable tv that shows the rugby – i was anticipating from here in Bulgaria to be stuck with low quality streams on t’internet, but once i got into it, i was quite enjoying the french commentary – i didn’t understand it all, but it seemed a lot fairer, level headed and positive than the usual whining negative drivel from Brian Moore.
Anyway – great to see a battling victory over the Welsh on saturday – big performances from Haskell and Nick Easter (who i still feel is too lumbering for international rugby, but has some good ball skills) well done to the front row, who i thought might be shown up by the supposedly strong welsh pack, and we were awesome in the lineout to steal a lot of ball. Concerns are still there about the defence – we seem to defend very narrow, and we’re very lightweight out wide too – we seem to be offering the outside to try to push the opposition into touch, or isolate the runner from support, but it’s not comfortable viewing with Tait at outside centre and Monye on the wing not being the best tacklers in the world!
I still think the Irish are the side to beat, as they have a fairly settled and experienced side with some real matchwinners in there, but at least England are heading in what seems to be the right direction.