Fused Nation – UK SEO Blog

Not sure if this old news or not but interesting all the same if you haven’t read about it yet.   The NYTimes reported last month that 3 UK Internet providers (BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virginmedia) are teaming up to offer an advertising alternative to that offered by the big 3 search engines. The 3 companies have allowed [...]

Check this out:   Pretty neat huh?  I’m seeing the additional search box added to quite a few SERPs today – seems to be only for site names just now.  I know TheBestOf use the Google Search Appliance for internal searches and I also see the search box on results for Youtube, Amazon and a few [...]

Following on from my post the other week about Wikipedia outranking Google for the term “PageRank”, I thought I’d post this one as well: “search engine optimisation” Page 2, the Wikipedia page for “SEO” which is classed as a “disambiguation” page (lists different meanings of a word / abbreviation).  Fair enough, useful for users of [...]

David Wallace has a nice write up about reporting paid links to Google this week, which is based on the back of a poll by Blogstorm.  Both posts have some interesting comments on them and while I don’t agree with some of them, the articles are well worth a read. The key areas that grabbed my [...]

I’m seeing a new look to Google SERPs today which include an update to the “fluff” parts of the page (notably the header level dividing graphic and footer graphic part) and importantly the addition of links and a drop down menu to the header:

A fairly notable change now as these additional results take up a large portion of the page: Accountants in Edinburgh:

For all those back link junkies out there, Google have / are in the process of updating back link counts.  Fused Nation for example has gone from 29 to 83 (thank you blog tag game!). Noticing some TB PR updates too. UPDATE – there’s some chatter about “PR Outages” – sites showing PR0 for no [...]