Fused Nation – UK SEO Blog

Just been reading this article by the SEOptimise guys – it’s well written, sure and SEOptimise is a reputable SEO company, but there’s a lot of fairly paranoid points and I’ve honestly no idea how it made it to the front page of Sphinn.  I honestly haven’t read Sphinn in years – have they employed [...]

Some snippets popping up in “blog” related search queries on Google now plus selling Blogger.  Example:

Last week DaveN squared a little test with Matt to see how MSN handled 301 redirects.  It seems Google is having a little issue with it as well…

UK SEO agency, Big Mouth Media announced over the weekend that they have merged with Euro online marketing firm Global Media, creating a company which is estimated in value between £100 and £200 million (reports vary depending where you read!). In a statement for the Scotsman*, Big Mouth Media MD Steve Leach is quoted to have said [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]