Andrew R H Girdwood 
A personal blog from a SEO professional
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I'm in Hell? - 9 days ago
I flew from Sweden to Norway tody as part of a mini tour of some of bigmouthmedia's offices up in the Nordics. It's been mainly training and, of course, as a business trip there's been no sightseeing whatsoever - however, just by moving from.. Topics: bigmouthmedia
Microsoft breaking Google's rules for Windows 7 push - 12 days ago
Over at TheNextWeb Alex Wilhelm noticed Apple bidding on [windows 7] keywords. It was a good blog post but actually this is just fairly common digital marketing tactics. Kudus to Apple for the attempt. You're not allowed a negative AdWords ad - so... Topics: google, microsoft, ppc
Google demotes the Google News filters - 13 days ago
I remember when Google added the news filter options to the top right of Google News. That happened in April 2007 and I've got screen grabs of before/after there. Here's what we get today. Google's prone to testing this sort of thing so... Topics: google, google news
Blogger updates the blogger bar - 13 days ago
Unlike many of the blogs you read - this one is Google Blogger.com blog. Heh. :) This means I have to have the Blogger bar at the top. Google builds in a search box, a next blog button and a spam report function. Here's a sample of the old styles... Topics: blogger, google
Caution: Flickr now %45 less private - 24 days ago
Image via CrunchBase I nearly stopped using Flickr in favour of Facebook. Why? You can tag people in Facebook. Not only is that fun but it's useful too! It's about time but Flickr has now added a "people in pictures" feature –... Topics: flickr, social search





























