Chris Brown is the Lanky Git

I want to tell you the story of how my (link) lover cheated me and only wanted me for my money (deeplinks). I did think about trying to write this in the style of a Mills & Boon novel, however I have never had the pleasure of reading one.

So we all know the score, you’ve slaved for hours coding and building and adding content to a new website. The next thing you want to do is try and get some reciprocal links, or link love as we prefer to call it.

My new niche website about ‘widget reviews’, and by a stroke of luck and careful negotiation, I manage to bag myself ‘widgets.com’. So armed with a cup of well made tea I started scouring the web for potential suitors to exchange some love with. Pretty quickly I come across a store selling widgets with a domain ‘widgetsdirect.com’. Hmm, no PR, few thousand pages in google, well structured site and its bang on the money as far as being of the same subject as my site.

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I am starting my shiny new blog with a subject very close to my heart. How to make a decent brew. Now I know that there are loads of websites covering this subject,  so I am not going to give a blow by blow account on how to make a cuppa, however I am going to tell you how I think you should do it, in one easy step..’

Tea bag, milk and then hot water. In that order.

Anyone who gives you the ‘put the milk in last rubbish’ doesn’t live in a hard water area. Tea bag and then hot water before milk means you’ll end up with a scum topped brew and a stained cup. 

Regardless of if you like your tea bag in, don’t put the hot water and then squeeze the living crap out of the bag. Please for the love of god let it brew for a minute.

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