==Andy Beard the Man, the Legand, and the Cause==


When I told Andy Beard that Wikipedia has nominated him to be included as an Famous SEO Consult he replied,
>A listing on that page wouldn't be appropriate because I don't do any consulting


I really admire the sheer modesty of the man.
He will band his back and go out of his way to help people in the industry.

But, I still think he is an SEO consultant even if he does not consult companies he consults his users on andybeard.eu
del.icio.us/AndyBeard

He is a humble quiet man, so it is not going to be easy to find notable material on him, but with time I am sure it will be done.

But the type of consultancy that he is doing, can be better calles Social media consultant

Andy is a 38 year old guy from Orpington, England, UK.

He spend most of my time living in Poland, but runs his online business from the UK. He write about Niche Marketing, SEO, Affiliate Marketing and Blogging, plus a little on ethical marketing through social networks.
His stumbles are heavily related to the topic of my blog and I try to tag them appropriately.
One of his passions is Wordpress, and in particular how it can be optimized for SEO.
He write a lot about blogging social networks such as Blogcatalog, Mybloglog and Bumpzee.

He also does a very limited amount of consulting with Blogcatalog.<ref> Andy Beard on StumbleUpon</ref>

Andy Stands up for Bloggers

In the recent war against forcing all Bloggers to use rel="nofollow" when writing a post, as Matt Cutts wants the bloggers to do<ref> Matt Cutts recommends to use rel=nofollow when doing PPP</ref> Andy Beard stands up to support Ted Murphy <ref> Andy Beard stand up to Google dectating how Bloggers should make a Webpage</ref> Ted Murphy and other Bloggers rally to the cause. <ref> Ted Murphy speaks out against Google</ref><ref> Igor The Troll - Evil Google and Dr. Evil Matt Cutts</ref>
<ref> Michael Gray speaks out against Google PPP stand</ref><ref> Rob Watts trying to make sence of it all</ref> The battle lasted for about 24 hours with bloggers speaking out against Google going to each other blogs and commenting while Matt Cutts defeding Google with no avail going from one blog to another pleading for understanding and peace.

LinkedIn Profile

An experienced executive who has played a defining role in diverse disciplines within the software industry. Has an open and enquiring mind, refined communication and negotiation skills, and a proven ability to adapt to a fast paced and ever changing industry.

Regarding my Internet activities a colleague has thus described me

" Andy is definately the kind of guy I’d like to get to know better, and I do hope that over time we get to know each other more. We have a lot of similar interests, and I can tell he’s the kind of guy who needs to know both the how and the why of the way things work.

Unlike a lot of others who have that drive to know, Andy also has a drive to apply. He is right now working on a project that he simply won’t tell me a lot about yet, but the hints he’s droped, both in his blog and in an email or two, leave me with that 8 year old at Christmas kind of energetic, barely contained anxiousness. I can’t wait to see what he cooks up."

Andy Beard’s Experience
Owner
Keedz Ltd
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

April 2005 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Internet Marketing, Niche Marketing

Consultant
Modapol
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)

August 1993 — Present (14 years 4 months)

Privately held family run apparel business

Business Development Director
Techland
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

June 1996 — November 2003 (7 years 6 months)

Placed 4 products with worldwide publishers, whilst overseeing design, development, marketing, localization and QA
Negotiated development of 3rd party for Activision
Specified feature requirements of original content specifically for OEM market, and then placed said product with 3 major OEM clients (Creative Labs, Aureal Inc and Videologic)
Oversaw design, development, marketing, QA and sales of original content to home markets
Negotiated the purchase of 100 products from international publishers
Played a principal role in Techland's growth from a company of 5 full time employees to a medium sized development and publishing operation, with 60 development staff and 25 in sales, marketing and distribution.
Lead for External Relations with hardware / software vendors
Primary negotiator for all international contracts, legal proceedings and settlements
International PR, Exhibition stands design and implementation, exhibiting at and visiting industry events.
Website design

Andy Beard’s Education
St. Olaves Grammar School
1980 — 1986

South East London Technical College<ref> LinkedIn Andy Beard Profile</ref>

Andy's WebProNews profile

Andy Beard is a guest writer for WebProNews`eBusiness and search news online journal Webpronews.com about Social media networking<ref> WebProNews Andy Beard Profile</ref>

Andy's Mashable contributions

Andy Beard serves as a judge at Mashable awards that are given out to social media networks that contribute to the social network aggregation which provide blogger's suport tools.

References

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See also

Web 2.0

User-generated content

Social media optimization

Social Web

Social media marketing