Fused Nation

Someone asked me the other day what their staff member could be doing to help with SEO as they had some spare time on their hands.  While there isn’t really a perfect answer that will fit any business, these tips should be useful on the whole (not in any particular order)…

Tony Hung over at Problogger has written a great list of ideas for marketing your blog in 2007.  I’ve seen quite a growth in traffic to Fused Nation over the past few months using some of these techniques (albeit passively) and they are well worth noting. Anyone have some more top blog marketing tips to [...]

http://www.toprankblog.com/2007/01/must-read-search-marketing-blogs/ Worth checking out. MG

There has been a lot of chatter on various blogs and forums lately about Digg banning domains (a lifetime ban it seems).  Some sites have received this response from Digg: “When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban the domain. The domain will [...]

Some snippets popping up in “blog” related search queries on Google now plus selling Blogger.  Example:

Just had this passed on to me and thought it was a bit of fun so worth a play around with.  The idea is to post 5 things that people might not know about you, then tag 5 fellow bloggers so they can do the same.  A kind of viral marketing thing, and certainly some [...]

Last week DaveN squared a little test with Matt to see how MSN handled 301 redirects.  It seems Google is having a little issue with it as well…

John Andrews gives a great example of how companies can use the data they collect (or have available to them) to target potential customers in a more intelligent way. In his example, he explains that jpeg files contain meta data that includes make and model of the camera used to take the image and how [...]

This is a new blog and as such I’m keeping a close eye on how the site is indexed.  A result, I presume, of the recent Google indexing changes, this site currently has only 2 pages indexed. So far, Google indexed and cached a version of my homepage only (even before I updated the template) [...]

Given that there are a million and one SEO type blogs out there, I thought it would be prudent to check with you lot out there in the real world to see what stuff you actually want to read here. Some ideas: Guides (to SEO, marketing, online marketing) News (same) Rants (rawr!) Kinda just been [...]