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New template, new readership

February 28th, 2008

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One of the oddities of blogging is that it’s very easy to change the overall look of a blog without affecting the content at all.

Now, on the whole outside the regular readership most people arrive on a blog by way of a search engine of some sort. Some are blog specific, some are generic like google but either way they don’t see the site until they click on the search result ie it doesn’t really matter what the blog looks like as far as these people are concerned.

It’s different once they get to the site of course and if you want to keep them as regular readers you’ll need a look that’s appealing to them. Oh, and some interesting content of course.

Anyway, now that I’ve spruced up the template for Foreign Perspectives, I’ve picked up several new subscribers which is one plus point for the new template.

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Looking for a car but ain’t got the money for one?

February 28th, 2008

I’m sure that situation describes many people these days but even a bad credit record isn’t a show stopper as there are many excellent sites around that offer pretty much guaranteed car finance no matter what your situation.

Generally speaking car credit is very much a specialised area as there are a massive number of options available from the old style hire purchase through to the modern versions of car leasing and with oodles of choice in between those including no deposit options, interest free options and the like. Incidently, although you might think that having bad credit is going to force you into buying an old banger in fact that’s far from the case and bad credit car finance actually specifies that the car must be reasonably new and with relatively low mileage.

So where should you look for car loans? Well, one very comprehensive site is Net Cars which has a lot of experience behind it and achieves over 90% acceptance on it’s car finance deals. They’re an online outfit so the financial package can be organised very quickly (usually within 24 hours) and with the minimum of physical paperwork which always slows things down. If you’ve ever wondered why you’ve been turned down for credit, they’ve a neat little explanation of how credit approval works and you can even order a free credit check from it.

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The popular posts: all financial

February 28th, 2008

Whilst this isn’t really an out and out financial blog as such I write about various financial topics from time to time as you’ve probably noticed.

What’s odd about them is that any time I write about something financial, I always get a little flurry of incoming links from an assorted collection of blog aggregation services. They’re always blog aggregators rather than real blogs too whereas any other incoming links are almost always from real blogs.

Why that should be the case I’ve no idea but it’s certainly handy in increasing the number of incoming links to the site.

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