Fused Nation – UK SEO Blog

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:

Well it’s been less than a week since marketing firm Zipatoni were outted as being the “brains” behind the Sony Xmas viral site for their PSP.  Zipatoni did respond briefly as mentioned in my previous post, but it was as bollocks as the whole marketing campaign itself. The site has since been taken down – [...]

Being a bit of a slacker and leaving things to the last minute, I just saw a TV ad for Oxfam Unwrapped.  It’s a pretty cool idea – it bundles donations into “gift packages” that range from £1 to £500+ – you simply buy the package, the money is donated to the cause and the [...]

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 [...]

On the back of Danny and Chris leaving SEW to start up SearchEngineLand, Rebecca Lieb is interviewed by Mike MacDonald (WPN) on the future of SEW. The good word – business as usual at SEW for the time being.  Danny will be staying with SES through 2007 and Chris will be staying with the shows [...]

Hat tip to DG for this one – Sony hired a marketing company to churn out a shitty fake “fan site” for the PSP on the run up to Xmas.  Just reading the story churns my stomache, but when I actually had a look at the site I laughed my ass off. OK Sony.  So [...]

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…

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/06111608.html Great follow up to the original flash animation. MG

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 [...]