Fused Nation – UK SEO Blog

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 (apparent) reason.  [...]

The BBC are reporting today that a Brazilian court has ruled against Google’s Youtube, ordering them to remove a sex video which shows supermodel Daniela Cicarelli romping in the sea off Cadiz in Spain.
The court has ruled that Youtube must block any future uploads of the video by finding a way to “permanently block” it being [...]

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

Just got a hat tip from Dave at Square Angle about this one.  The description has been changed now, but this appeared on the homepage of UK Google News:

Funny email posted on Dean’s blog – a request from another site who Dean out ranked (naturally) asking that Dean remove his blog from the Google SERP!  The reasoning being that a “business” site is more deserving to have the top spot than a blog…
10 points for insane effort.

Nice interview here worth a watch by Randfish, covering Google sitemaps, PageRank and some other issues relating to Google. 
First off, Vanessa clarifies the difference between a dup content filter and dup content penalty.  Basically the good word is that Google can happily deal with these issues in house, but people can use Google sitemaps to define [...]