Summer Budget 2015 – Landlords Reactions

Reply to the comment left by “Mark Alexander” at “27/07/2015 – 14:26“:

Thanks Mark (and Neil) and apologies. I was being a dumbo. I previously incorrectly thought it was on the forum rather than on the emails.

Hi all.
Just had an email saying the petition has the required 5 signatures and they’re checking it to make sure it meets their requirements. So if anyone has any trouble signing it, be patient!
Thanks a lot.

Reply to the comment left by “Ros .” at “27/07/2015 – 14:55“:

Do we know whether the link will change?

If it does please let me know and I will update my earlier comment.

I have an article waiting to be sent to all Property118 subscribers but I will hold on just in case the link does change.
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Yes, hold on. I keep getting messages like – Neil Patterson has signed. We’re checking your petition.’ etc. God, my yahoo inbox won’t work anymore if I get a notification for every person signing! But I suppose that’s what you call a good problem.

UPDATE

Thank you to all who have got us this far (especially Ros), the real work starts now.

As you may be aware, we know more than most about SEO “Search Engine Optimisation”, and we have included everything we know this in the article we will be publishing to encourage Property118 readers to sign the petition.

Some people expressed concerns that the petition should include the words “Restricting finance cost relief for individual landlords”.

We have taken that on board and those are the keywords that we have optimised. These are also the keywords that HMRC have optimised.

Their explanation is likely to rank in search results above our web-page linking to the petition but our goal is to have our page showing as the next one down in the search results. This will enable more people using search engines to find a link to the e-petition.

YOU CAN HELP!

Search engines rank web-pages based on Relevance, Authority and Popularity. The more views, comments and links a web-page receives, the higher it ranks. Therefore, to get the article to rank highly in search engine results it needs to be shared, e.g. on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google plus and by posting links to it on other forums and anywhere else that allows you to post links.

Property118 is an accredited Google News Publisher so the article will appear on page one of ALL Google search results for at least a few days when people search for “Restricting finance cost relief for individual landlords” or a combination of those words.

If the page gets enough links, social media shares and readers it will continue to rank highly in search results.

I will email the article as soon as the link URL to the e-petition is confirmed.

You know what to do!
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I’m still waiting to be told it has been authorised. 11 signatures so far, and there shouldn’t be any reason why it should not be authorised, as the guidelines for how they check and why they wouldn’t authorise it are in the link below. I can’t see how they can object.

https://petition.parliament.uk/help#standards

This is a typically sly, underhand and ill-thought-out policy change by a man I wouldn’t trust with my childrens pocket money, let alone the finances of our country.

Please think this through properly Mr Osborne – unless it is your intention to create havoc in the property market?

I’ve telephoned and asked for a message to be passed on to the petitions team and also emailed them to expedite the authorisation. I don’t know what’s keeping them. We will all have to be patient as the link should not be circulated until it has received full authorisation. I’m using the time to prepare the email I want to send to the DPS. That might be something others want to do – get the emails ready, so that we can act immediately after it has been authorised. NB I’m getting emails to say people have signed (about 18 so far) – but we need to wait in case it needed slight changing or something.

As the petition now has more than enough sponsors to facilitate its approval I have removed the link to get sponsors for now.
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Social media is very powerful as we know – but to get “Joe public ” to even be vaguely interested it needs to appeal to them – a link to a petition on its own wont do – we need some good narratives to appeal to different sectors of society to get them to sign and share