Fused Nation

Someone asked me the other day what their staff member could be doing to help with SEO as they had some spare time on their hands.  While there isn’t really a perfect answer that will fit any business, these tips should be useful on the whole (not in any particular order)…

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 [...]

ADDED:  Welcome SmallBusinessNews readers!  Just an advanced warning that this article contains a range of profanities.  But seeing you already read the article over at SBN or by email that’s too little too late ain’t it?  Perhaps that should be the motto for the SEO industry? Ho-hum. I read an article over at SEW today [...]

Hat tip to John Scott who’s now offering contextual links for sale over at v7n.  Also note the landing page is almost entirely composed of images which I would guess is an intentional little experiment to show the value of link weight over on page optimisation. More info on John’s blog here. Best of luck [...]

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 [...]

Nice post by John Scott offering some tips and background on monetising a web directory.  A great example how even in a saturated market you can nurture success through an original approach to your project.  I can only hope I see the same return with mine! MG

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3158871.htm Basically the original poster asks a question about duplicate content based on a blog post he read (I assume it was this topic from Pubcon): “No two links should point to the same page” Why not?  Anyone expand on this? A reasonable request based on a topic which is pretty complicated.  However the resulting “discussion” made [...]

Inspired by post about link exchanges on a business forum, I thought I’d knock this together – nothing new here for seasoned SEOs, so feel free to move along, but those new to the industry may get some use from it. Link exchanges have had a bad rap, but generally aren’t as effective as they [...]

Just a hat tip to Aviva, who recently bought the SevenSeek Web Directory from v7n.com.  Aviva is offering free submissions for v7n members (for longer than 2 months and with over 100 posts).  SevenSeek is a pretty cool directory with strong editorial standards, so a hell of a bargain!  The other is limited for 1 [...]

Time for some gratuitous self promotion – I’ve just finished the design for my SEO agency, eflaunt.  Still got a little work to do on the content – I managed to get myself neck deep into writing items for eflaunt’s SEO glossary – it’s a bit of a pain to do (given that it’s really basic [...]