Fused Nation – UK SEO Blog

A bit of rant here – I know the whole ethics debate is tired and most people don’t want to read about it these days but I gotta throw in a word or two about it. I just did a freebie consultancy for a small business – the lady who runs it on her own [...]

It seems that 2007 brings us a “SEOs are teh devil” mantra from a multitude of newly crowned golden children of the web and to be perfectly honest it’s starting to annoy me. No doubt the likes of Slashdot have already dealt with and got over the impact the SEO industry may or may not have [...]

I know that it seems incredibly simplistic, but a site without content has almost no value to man, beast or search engine. Of late I’ve been approached by a number of SME clients asking for expert advice in how they can grow the revenues in theire online advertising affiliate sites.

This made me chuckle. Bigmouthmedia are planning to present a case study entitled, “Maximising ethical SEO within competitive marketplaces” at next week’s TFM show.  Um lol.  I really don’t know what more to say about this – I’m fairly gob smacked at the outrageous hypocrisy of it all.  Perhaps TFM would care to invite MSN to discuss their [...]

A fairly notable change now as these additional results take up a large portion of the page: Accountants in Edinburgh:

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 [...]

Any publicity is good publicity… I’ve never believed this old adage – I think it’s an arrogant dismissal by incompetent marketers who can’t manage their public relations properly.  Until recently it has never really been a big concern in the online world, but with an explosion of online communities over the past few years and [...]

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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 [...]

A quick check of indexed pages shows a load of custom poker / casino text files uploaded to the Berkeley.edu server which then subsequently redirect to a list of casino sites.  Same works for viagra, and I’m sure a range of other terms. The pages redirect to random spam pages on the domain raph.us (no [...]