Fused Nation – UK SEO Blog

Isn’t it about time that Google had a little look at how hard and fast Wikipedia is ranking in the SERPs?  Wikipedia now ranks number 1 for the term “pagerank“, with the official Google PageRank page at 2. 
Not sure how long this has been the case, but aren’t we beyond the point where perceived authority [...]

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 attention [...]

A fairly standard thread over at WMW (fairly dry topic; insane amount of responses very few of which actually say anything) about Google recently informing loads of Adsense publishers that their accounts are being disabled because “their business model is not a good fit for Adsense”.
Shocker!

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 (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 [...]