Have been writing a post for a couple of days about the Google PageRank update that has been getting the goat of so many people just now. I have to say I haven’t seen any change apart from a small drop here and a small drop there but nothing on the scale I keep hearing about. I don’t know enough to add anything to the current debate, yet, so I thought I’d post about some nifty little bits and pieces that I’ve been seeing in Google Webmaster Tools (formerly Google sitemaps).

Sometimes the mind just boggles when you’re doing some competitive research. The more you look at some backlinks the more it doesn’t make sense. Today while doing some backlink analysis for a large power generating and distribution company in the UK I took an interest in the backlinks generated to uSwitch.

High up in site explorer backlink set for uSwicth and in third position appears the Financial Times, http://www.ft.com. So at this point my interest is piqued. Why would the homepage for the Financial Times link to uSwitch?

All the Best SEO Companies are in Scotland

How can we all be so good at SEO?

As a Scot I may show a slight bias here but it would appear that many of the UKs best SEO companies, and SEO experts are in Scotland. We have a large number of large companies based in Glasgow and Edinburgh with a large number of smaller ones in around the country.