http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk Andy's permanently changing blog! Yes I do SEO, yes I also do other stuff too! Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:26:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Cheap Oyster travelcards?" No, just one travelcard. My current place of employment were nice enough to give me a company loan cheque to buy an annual Oyster travelcard, and then took a slice of the loan out of my salary every month, to pay it back, interest free. However, back in ... http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/cheap-oyster-travelcard/ I'm looking for someone to fill an SEO job based in London. A bit of a background on the company: Based in Canary Wharf The world's leading digital and direct media agency, with more than 650 professionals in 39 offices across 32 countries. Part of the second largest communications group in the ... http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/seo-job-in-london/ 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 ... http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/pumpt/ 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 ... http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/bolivian-seo/ 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 ... http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/seo-spam/ 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. http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/remembrance-day-google-logo/ Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is reported to have died. Al-Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds earlier this year, after claims he only had 3 months to live, suffering from prostate cancer. Legal representative is denying reports that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has died. http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/lockerbie-bomber-dead/ During a recent project involving a fair few languages for a large technology company, we came up against the fact that the local translation of an acronym, didn't really make sense to the client. We therefore wanted to ensure that the client was happy (by including our target keyword) as ... http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/can-you-use-parentheses-in-page-titles/ 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 ... http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/one-ivy-log/ 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? http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk/google-missing-letters/