PUMPT! Quite a few people will have noticed the #pumpt hashtag begin to trend on Twitter earlier on today. Links to a webcam in a warehouse in South London began circulating, and suddenly everyone was watching SpaceHoppers inflate! The premise was simple:

• Tweet using #pumpt
• Watch spacehopper get inflated for a random number of seconds
• See your message on the big screen in the background

A video explaining the pumpt concept is below

Bolivian SEO is an ongoing office joke between myself and my (strangely) Bolivian colleague. Although a paid search monkey himself, and not quite as skilled in the art of organic search, he shows some promise and has often threatened to start his own Bolivian SEO Agency.

So, my good friend, consider this a heads up for when you do finally get round to starting up Bolivian SEO dot com, or whatever, I’m already in there ahead of you, by a long shot, and will be stealing all of your business!

Bolivian SEO? HAH!

Today, I found the following in my comments queue:

Many firms charge top dollar in order to produceresults that their clients can be satisfied with. SEO is a very complicated practice of using key wordsrelated to a particular subject or topic that a business orindividual covers. These key words can be found embeddedinto the meta tags of the website. There are many packages available through SEO consultants and Internet Marketing specialists that can be tailor made to suit your requirements…..

Not only was it attempting to link back to use[dash]seo[dot]co[dot]uk but it was also placed on a completely irrelevant post, on the Remembrance Day 2009 Logos.

These jokers advertise “Guaranteed Ranking” with a small “TC Apply” caveat in a nice star shaped “web-two-point-oh-arific” button and list, amongst other items, “Reciprocal links” as one of their “Advanced Bundle” features, as well as “Customized Monthy (sic) Reports” as a “Premium Bundle” feature. You openly advertise that you won’t provide reports on your performance unless clients pay a premium fee? Allow me to refer back and repeat myself, bunch… of… jokers.

Following a week of Sesame Street Logos, Google amended their logo to represent Remembrance Day.

Nice to see Bing joining in also:

Another Remembrance Day post, regarding the Mail Online’s refusal to honour the fallen.

What is one ivy log? And why should you care? The truth is, you shouldn’t, but you might do some time in the future.

One Ivy Log

is a concept for an SEO project we are currently working on in house. It won’t mean much do anyone outside of the WPP group, but for those within, you’ll need to attend the Lab Lunch on October 6th at 12 noon in the Cabot Square offices to find out exactly WHAT is going on.

One Ivy Log: Watch this space.

Google’s logo is missing another letter this morning. 10 days ago, one of the Os took a hike:

Today, as SEL reports, the L has gone missing:

Is this some sort of intergalactic spelling bee? O…L… Whatever next?

Following the SEO in Blackburn discovery, imagine my surprise when I spot the following traffic generating keyword in my analytics report: “iphone for sale blackburn”

Not being one to disappoint my readership, here is a link where you can buy iPhones online on Amazon.co.uk. Though I must warn you, the 3gs is rather expensive unless you buy on a contract with O2:

I realise Google Squared is only a day or 2 old by now, but they really need to work on the image matching, as this could be a bit embarrasing for the law firm involved:

solicitor southampton google squared search

Yes, that’s correct, the image they have chosen for Access Law Solicitors comes from the BNP.

Google seems to be offering seperate/different sets of related searches depending on how you view them. We have all see the related searches offered at the bottom of any search page, but with the new search tools Google released, you can pull up a more extended list of releated terms, and display them at the top of the page instead of at the bottom of your search. But look at the difference:
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Awareness test