Fused Nation – UK SEO Blog

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 once [...]

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 [...]

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

Some people seriously don’t have a clue.  Where in the world of logic does it seem like a good idea to try and blag links from people by suggesting that they are in error?  Do people actually fall for that?
Eg…
Dear Webmaster,
We can no longer find the reciprocal link to our site on your site.  As [...]

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) and [...]