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I'll admit it's been a while since I had to trawl through CV's, and longer since I had to write one, but in this brave new world, is the paper CV still king?

I was under the impression it was all online profiles now and keyword searches. Is there still mileage for the snail mail CV printed on posh paper?

I know in the IT world at least, it just a bunch of emails you print out from the agency. When I did do a lot of interviewing, I can't remember anyone handing over a professionally written CV at the start of the interview, which is something I always did. Even if it didn't get read, it was still smarty points with your potential boss

Must admit, the weekly shop to morrisons is quite frightening when you analyse what you've bought. I don't think we're extravagant, 90% of things are re-occurring items, but you are definitely more aware of how expensive things are.

Main factor is not copying and pasting the same thing across 20 forums

As we all are familiar with SEO, blah blah blah yawn...

Depends what you want to use it for.

My understanding is that its basically a 301 redirect from their short URL to your long one. In that case, search engines should pass any link juice etc as they would any other 301.

For things like twitter, they are a must have, or maybe if you have a really long URL and you want a quick short link for an email, but for normal link building, I'd stick with your original URL's.

Apparently it's deemed a good fit for their xbox business, lets hope their infrastructure is more secure than Sony's!

http://www.mylocalforums.com/computers-coding-websites-anything-techie/3059-any-playstation-gamers-someones-got-your-credit-card-details.html

I have you as number 5.

Sorry to sound blunt, who cares?

Is this what people type into google to find your services? I doubt it, more likely "PR companies" or variations of. Unless of course you are going for brand awareness

Our parent company is called Lowi Ltd, type in Lowi and we show about 3rd one down, but no one types that into google if they want to advertise on our directory! Most people can rank well for their name

Now type lifetime advertising into google and this an example of a keyword that does generate us traffic.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said median take-home incomes had actually increased during the recent recession.

But the institute's analysis of latest government figures suggested it was "entirely possible" that median incomes dropped by 3% in 2010-11.

The policy group said such a fall would leave median income levels back where they were in 2005.

'Pain delayed'
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) the squeeze from the recession on household incomes in the UK is only now being felt.
BBC News - Household incomes in UK 'may return to 2005 levels'

So does this mean there is a follow on impact for small businesses? I know there have been a few members that have said their revenue was still down, and maybe this explains it. If you are dealing in what may be considered luxury items, or maybe restaurants, B&B's etc, then maybe you are still seeing people tightening their belts.

Or do you disagree and this goes against what you are seeing in your own area/business?

"call you back mum, need to reboot my skype"

I'm not being funny, but that's not exactly contributing anything or sharing any SEO wisdom.

"Linkwheel is more effective strategy" - can you elaborate why you think this? Do you have evidence and proven experience to back this up?

Welcome aboard slewis. If you are going to join an open forum, then how about telling us all how you can generate leads?