For many years, ASOS (asos.com) was the king of e-commerce websites on Google. It had the most optimised website with the highest visibility score and according to Sistrix, it had a higher visibility score than high street giants like Next, John Lewis and Marks & Spencer in 2010.
Finally, we are on the edge of easing the lockdown. According to the government announcements, shops and businesses could start their activities as long as they maintain social distancing. Although the government’s own scientists warned against the decision, I can see why the government is desperate to do so. Now it’s totally up to us, how we look after ourselves and stay healthy.
I have been suffering from an eye infection since Tuesday. It is very uncomfortable staring at the screens, reading and writing. I will try to keep the article short and very specific.
Just when it seemed that COVID-19 or the US and China trade war was not enough to trouble the economy, here come more issues between the US and China. Both China’s plan to impose a new national security law on Hong Kong, which was slammed by the US and the US Senate’s bill to delist the Chinese companies from American exchanges were enough to bring the market down last week. It is not looking good for the coming weeks, either.
Nobody said the life of an investor would be easy, but still, we are human, and when the stocks start dropping, I am sure even Warren Buffet panics, too. Last week the market started well, but strikes from Dr Anthony Fauci, Donald Trump and Andrew Bailey, as well as the German recession all brought down the market and at the end, both the UK market and my portfolio settled at a 2.2% week-on-week drop.
I am sure you are as excited as I am that the lockdown is gradually coming to an end. Boris Johnson is expected to announce his strategy for easing the coronavirus lockdown, hoping to pave the way for a swift economic fightback.
Last week I was busy redesigning my website. I hope you will now find it easier to navigate, with a better colour schema, faster load time for mobile devices, and finally, larger images for a better view. I am grateful to Hasin Hayder for helping me with some of the coding issues, and Terry Vaughan and Steven Coverdale (both are from the UK Stock Market Investors Club group) for giving their honest feedback.
While everyone is worried about the pandemic, here comes another shock. This time it came from Google.
Last week, on 4th of May, Google announced the second core update of 2020, and named it “May 2020 Core Update”. It said that the rollout will take about one to two weeks.