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Re: A review of Ginzel’s Little Cordoba: A Double Bill, Fringe 2023

Andrew Girdwood — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:16:20 -0000

Thank you!

Re: An Search Industry Tribute To Dan Bell

Andrew Girdwood — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:53:57 -0000

I had plenty of chats with Dan, and even after I decided to stay away from the "SEO scene" would always make an exception for him.

I never thought to ask why. I regret that now. I fear I took his openness and good natured personality for granted. I wish I had spent more time with him and made the effort to do so.

Re: Will Google Crack Down On Sites Leasing Out Its Subdomains

Andrew Girdwood — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 03:51:52 -0000

That sounds like leasing to me. The white labels don't own the sub-domain, they're paying to use them for a while.

Re: SEOs Not Happy With Google Ads Announcements

Andrew Girdwood — Wed, 15 May 2019 10:33:44 -0000

Put a robots.txt to block crawlers from your site and find out. Take a benchmark of before and after. You might end up with the best piece of ironic linkbait the world as ever seen.

Re: Google Launches Video Series On SEO Myth-Busting

Andrew Girdwood — Fri, 03 May 2019 11:24:44 -0000

Bonus points for the Shaun of the Dead reference in the video.

Re: 10 Geeky Things I’m Thankful For

Andrew Girdwood — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:13:50 -0000

So chuffed that you began this thread with worldbuilding :)

Re: My Dorset Holiday Photo Blog

Andrew Girdwood — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:41:22 -0000

Sherborne looks extremely photogenic!

Re: Black Panther: Marvel’s Latest Leaps To Blockbuster Status

Andrew Girdwood — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 17:38:40 -0000

Thanks! That's a succinct but effective write-up of Black Panther. I'm looking forward to watching it myself - perhaps later this week - and it's good to see the review star total the film has managed to score here. That's a high score but seems inline with what other sites are reporting too!

Re: Spooky Halloween Costumes: Google Algorithm Updates Costumes

Andrew Girdwood — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:34:05 -0000

None of them look old enough to remember Florida! :)

Re: Google Mocks SEO Experts Who Place Mass Content On Footer

Andrew Girdwood — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:10:50 -0000

This wasn't an official comment from Google. It would be a mistake to confuse this tweet with some sort of press release that uses the phrase batshit stupid.

Re: Google Mocks SEO Experts Who Place Mass Content On Footer

Andrew Girdwood — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:09:25 -0000

This is daft. Barry does us all a great favour by tracking and reporting on those few Googlers with inside SEO knowledge and who communicate with us.

I don't understand why he's getting flack for this. The Tweets are presented "as is" and it's hard to imagine that confuses anyone.

Re: Via Bella: Racial Differences Should Unite Not Divide

Andrew Girdwood — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:44:50 -0000

Very true! Racial differences should be celebrated as diversity. I think problems arise when people feel threatened by change. They’re insecure and weak and so they lash out. This is all avoidable though, this is a learned fear, and it can be unlearned.

Re: My Look For Fashion Industry Insiders Networking Event – London

Andrew Girdwood — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:28:24 -0000

Rocking quite the style there. I know the dress is the hero item in today’s post but the standout for me in the jacket. I’m so very pleased black leather jackets are back in fashion.

Re: Top 5 Most Famous Dogs in Disney Movies

Andrew Girdwood — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:57:27 -0000

What about Dug from Up? I think he should get an honorary mention, at least. Squirrel! Glad you included Zig Zag!

Re: How to predict ROI for SEO fixes

Andrew Girdwood — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 09:41:55 -0000

Thanks for putting this together and for the necessary disclaimer that predictions are likely to be wrong. You're right.

I think you're doing the great work above a disfavor by using terms like 'predictions' though. We don't know what demand will be so we can't really make sort of prediction... but what you've shown is how to build an excellent model.

Models are great. Some of the most impressive finance companies in this world build models to work out where to invest and if they can do it then so can we. The next step is getting clients on board - let's have us make models with clients that successfully show what the ROI will be if the model is right (and we can have more than one model too...) rather than spend all this time on something we cling to calling a prediction and therefore have to write-off as 'likely to be wrong'.

Re: Interview: can you forecast SEO? Sastry Rachakonda says you can

Andrew Girdwood — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 08:51:55 -0000

Can it predict demand? Fashion? Tastes? The impact of offline marketing?

Unless it can tell me that the same volume of people search for [widget x] in 2017 as they did in 2016 then the tool still has plenty of work to do before it can provide meaningful SEO forecasts.

Re: WP Offload S3 1.2 Released

Andrew Girdwood — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:57:33 -0000

Sounds great - but I *only* have many of my images on S3 not my local server (using S3 for storage, after all).

Does this mean if there's a hiccup with Offload, the URLs aren't transformed with each page request and are left pointing at dead content?

Re: Creating “Snackable” Content for the Digital Attention Span: BlogHer 2016 “Experts Among Us” Part 5

Andrew Girdwood — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:20:52 -0000

Avoiding all upper case headlines might help with content sharing too.

Re: Google Firestarters 21: The Future of Digital Advertising - The Event - Only Dead Fish

Andrew Girdwood — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:52:44 -0000

It was a great event. Thanks for hosting. I think all the speakers said they'd make their slides available. Any idea on how I can get my hands on them?

Re: State of Digital is expanding the chiefs team with Barry Adams

Andrew Girdwood — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 04:25:46 -0000

Welcome Barry!

Re: Google Confirms It Will Penalize BlogDash For Link Schemes

Andrew Girdwood — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:53:18 -0000

Oh dear, "Authority Site links automatically embedded."

Re: Mega Model Books Review

Andrew Girdwood — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:04:03 -0000

Dragon; because DRAGON!

Re: Google Chrome Caught Buying Paid Links For $350,000?

Andrew Girdwood — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:31:31 -0000

I wish SEOs would shut the heck up about natural and normal web behaviour like this. Google has to be seen to be taking a firm stance on this sort of thing and so may well now feel the urge to remind and encourage brands that any links earned through sponsorships should be carefully nofollowed. What next? Football clubs reminding fan sites to use nofollow on their links if they reference the sport club's main URL.

How does this help the SEO community at all? It doesn't. It's self-defeating point scoring against Google.

As Barry sensibly and wisely pointed out in his post; it's clear Google's intent was not to buy a link.

Re: SEO finally comes to organic Facebook posts

Andrew Girdwood — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:27:25 -0000

Email would be good.

Re: SEO finally comes to organic Facebook posts

Andrew Girdwood — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:49:45 -0000

Maybe! You can get in touch via http://about.me/andrewgirdwood and please let me know what the publication is. Thanks for the offer.