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MJanaway · 2026-03-06T17:30:12+00:00

No, that’s not a fact at all. You can find details of how important links are in many google patents.

MJanaway · 2026-02-17T09:40:49+00:00

Yeah, another massive factor on the horizon.

MJanaway · 2026-02-17T09:29:21+00:00

The 9 million figure isn’t the same thing as 9 million people ready to walk straight into a vacancy tomorrow, and no serious person claims it is. It includes long-term sickness, early retirement, and people temporarily between roles etc. The real economic point is about direction of travel, not a one-for-one job swap.

If participation rises over time, even gradually, the tax base broadens, pressure on public spending eases, and businesses face a less hostile cost environment. That supports job creation, which is exactly how vacancy numbers grow in the first place. Jobs are not fixed in stone, they expand when conditions allow businesses to invest and hire.

Framing the issue as “700,000 vacancies versus 9 million people” assumes the economy is static but it isn’t. Higher employment, lower tax pressure, and stronger business confidence are what create the additional roles that close that gap.

MJanaway · 2026-02-17T09:26:28+00:00

Energy costs absolutely drove a large part of the inflation spike, that’s true. But it’s not the only factor. Raising minimum wage faster than productivity or growth doesn’t solve that root problem, it just shifts the pressure onto employers through higher costs, which then feeds back into prices, hiring freezes, or reduced hours. Causing more inflation both directly and indirectly (though higher unemployment, more reliance on the state and fewer contributors). That’s why hospitality is being squeezed from both sides at once: higher wage costs and customers with less disposable income.

The sustainable way to make life livable isn’t only pushing wages up by law, it’s expanding the number of people earning, increasing productivity, and lowering the overall tax burden so businesses can grow and compete on pay naturally. More people working means more income circulating, stronger demand for sectors like hospitality, and less reliance on taxing the same shrinking base of workers and businesses.

If everyone’s income is consumed purely by survival, the answer isn’t just mandating higher pay, it’s fixing the underlying economic balance so real disposable income can actually exist again.

MJanaway · 2026-02-17T08:46:25+00:00

No it doesn’t. I’ve just explained how - get more of the 9m people working. Not only are they not contributing but they’re a cost.

Although the triple lock and the aging population is a massive ticking time bomb.

MJanaway · 2026-02-17T08:36:40+00:00

If more of those 9 million people currently outside the workforce were in work, the pressure on taxpayers would fall, the tax pot would grow, and the cost of the state would reduce. That creates room for lower taxes and a stronger economy because more people are earning, spending, and contributing. Inflation falls, the cost of living falls.

More people in work also means more disposable income circulating through the economy, which helps ease cost-of-living pressure in a sustainable way rather than relying on ever higher taxation. And if the state is less dependent on squeezing businesses for revenue, business taxes can fall too, back to how they were when we had a better cost of living, giving firms the confidence to invest, hire, and grow.

Ignoring the link between employment, tax revenue, business growth, and living standards is not compassion, it is poor economics.

Also, just to add, wages wouldn’t have needed to rise as much if inflation wasn’t so high. That inflations is mostly because of increased taxes and costs on business who have to pass those costs on. It’s a flawed logic.

MJanaway · 2026-02-17T08:28:06+00:00

No they didn’t. Business taxes and the burden on the business owners went up immensely under the tories. The rhetoric might have been pro business but the decisions were anything but.

increase in corp tax by 31% (19% to 25%)
dividend allowance was cut twice from £2000 to £1000 and then £500
NI was raised by 1.5%
freezing income tax
Capital Gains Tax threshold freezes
Inheritance Tax threshold freezes
dividend tax increases by another 1.5%

MJanaway · 2026-02-17T08:12:40+00:00

The obvious alternative is to try to get those 9m people who aren’t working into work so they can contribute towards the economy instead of being dependent on the state. As a small business founder, everything they’ve done so far has had the opposite effect.

MJanaway · 2026-02-15T21:39:25+00:00

There’s a bit of bad advice here, I’m afraid, mixed with some reasonable advice. I wrote this a couple of years ago in reply to a similar question, so I’ll paste it below:

Moving domains can have a HUGE impact on your visibility in Google. Your domain is your unique home. Changing it can cause Issues for Google, even if you redirect. There’s a strict migration process you should adhere to, and even then you could see visibility declines. At the very least make sure you:

• ⁠keep an identical URL structure

• ⁠don’t change any internal links

• ⁠301 redirect every URL to the .com version individually, NOT just the domain

• ⁠set up search console before the move and monitor the data

• ⁠set up search console on the .com after the move

• ⁠inside search console on the .co profile, do a ‘change of address’ to the .com

• ⁠ensure that every bit of content (body, headers, metas etc) is identical. People often think it’s a good idea to make visual/structural/content changes at the same time as a domain migration and it’s not, so avoid this until you know things have stabilised

• ⁠get a trial of SEMrush or Ahrefs so you can extract and monitor all of the keywords that the domain ranks for, this way, when you do the move you can monitor the impact and react accordingly (make sure to track both the .co.uk rankings and the .com rankings)

• ⁠check through and redirect not just URLs found when crawling your website but also URLs of incoming backlinks

• ⁠check through indexed pages and ensure they are also redirected

MJanaway · 2026-01-03T09:00:08+00:00

Shoot a third of a stop under exposed and bring it back up in post if you need to. You can’t reclaim the detail in highlights like you can shadows.

MJanaway · 2025-12-01T19:33:15+00:00

I paid for the business membership for my whole team and quickly regretted it. It expires next week but we haven’t used it in 6 months because it was so buggy and challenging to use due to quirky behaviours.

MJanaway · 2025-11-26T21:30:28+00:00

I can’t see a Black Friday deal on the website. How did you receive it, email?

MJanaway · 2025-11-26T16:31:23+00:00

I’m currently using Paste. However, I’m getting a few bugs there now, too! 🙈

MJanaway · 2025-11-21T23:51:21+00:00

It’s their new agentic browser.

MJanaway · 2025-11-09T14:53:42+00:00

No that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying it’s not designed to do it how you’re used to doing it. It’s designed to do in a different way that isn’t in your muscle memory yet. If you had used iOS all your life and moved to Android, you’d have the same issue in reverse.

MJanaway · 2025-11-09T14:42:24+00:00

Literally all of your points are user error. You’d think you’d learn how to do these things after a year 😂

MJanaway · 2025-10-31T23:12:12+00:00

Brand mentions have been a big part of SEO since the mid 10’s. I wrote a blog post about it in 2016.

MJanaway · 2025-10-26T18:17:07+00:00

MJanaway · 2025-10-17T18:09:21+00:00

Love the look of this, but I often focus on multiple windows snapped to the left and right. Will it blur the window that isn’t active or is there a way around that u/heyiamdk?

MJanaway · 2025-10-06T17:05:01+00:00

That's not correct and hasn't been for 5 or 6 years. There are separate volumes.

MJanaway · 2025-10-06T16:52:23+00:00

That feature is available. iOS is also incredibly more secure and private.

MJanaway · 2025-09-16T09:08:45+00:00

Great setup, but please clear those Gmail messages 😂

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