Fused Nation – UK SEO Blog

Had an email from the guy who spammed one of my forums a few months ago.  Interestingly he denied any SEO-focused attempt to spam and suggested that it was a piece of ill-conceived market research.
Still haven’t decided if I’m gonna publish his email on the thread though.  I guess I should to be fair, but [...]

Some people seriously don’t have a clue.  Where in the world of logic does it seem like a good idea to try and blag links from people by suggesting that they are in error?  Do people actually fall for that?
Eg…
Dear Webmaster,
We can no longer find the reciprocal link to our site on your site.  As [...]

Had a guy start an Internet arguement with me a while back – I deleted his spam from my forums, he copied my content and whatnot – all very lame.  Was slightly annoyed at the time (as he started targeting the same phrases as me on his own site).  But I have a low attention [...]

Available to watch online, the new Ask TV ad is short and fairly quirky.  It features Bigfoot using Ask to find out how to impress girls.  Not entirely sure that Bigfoot is the typical Ask user (heh, well you never know!) nor that a search engine could help a hairy, 8ft beast pick up a hot [...]

Some people really annoy me and those people are usually spammers.  I’m not talking about autogenerated sites / keyword stuffing / whatever – I can ignore that (and am at times secretly impressed + jealous of the technical skills of the people behind it).
What bothers me is stupid spammers.  People who don’t really have a [...]