Fused Nation – UK SEO Blog

It bugs me.  I know that Toolbar PageRank doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things.  I know this.  I know this.  But yet, it’s the first thing I look at when I visit a new site.  I still get a feeling relief and achievement when the quarterly Toolbar PR update takes place.  So [...]

Google toolbar PR has just updated – got several new sites going from PR0 to 2-3-4. And the newbie SEO world can revolve again safely for a few more months. MG

V7N are reporting (from Jensense source) that Adsense are now displaying photos in place of text adverts.  I noticed this yesterday on my career advice site – a generic picture of some random “business” type guy was placed in the top ad spot (rest of the ads were text – job / cv related). The [...]

v7n reports that Google are using over 200 ranking factors (aka “indicators of quality”, aka “signals”) to rank websites (up from the previous figure of 100).  Big news, not a great deal of surprise, but for something to do I thought I’d see how many I can pin down. List of Google Ranking Factors (in no [...]

This is a new blog and as such I’m keeping a close eye on how the site is indexed.  A result, I presume, of the recent Google indexing changes, this site currently has only 2 pages indexed. So far, Google indexed and cached a version of my homepage only (even before I updated the template) [...]

Today, Yahoo! announced the launch of an upgraded video search service (http://video.yahoo.com/).  The service boasts features such as: Redesigned interface. Videos from many sources including user RSS feeds and major video publishers. “Channels” setup to allow users to view content produced / submitted by a common source. MyFavourites integration. Content distribution – videos can be [...]

Nofollow no good? - Jeremy Zawodny based on a blog post by Dylan Tweeney – Google’s embarassing mistake. Dylan quite logically points out the flaw with nofollow (ie, it’s simply easier to just moderate comments with links in them as blogging software such as WordPress allows you to do), but goes a step further to claim that [...]

The 15th International WWW conference took place in Edinburgh this week with keynote speaker, Tim Berners-Lee and Yahoo (Yahoo blog link) in attendance. “The World Wide Web Conference is the global event to bring together the key influencers, decision makers, technologists, businesses and standards bodies shaping the future of the web. Organised by the International World Wide [...]

Mentioned today on the Google Blog, the Google Blog Search tool now allows you to refine your search by the date of publication. So for example, if you wanted to search the Fused Nation blog, you could use the links on the left hand side of the search results to limit the results to posts [...]

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 [...]