Claim your FREE SEO guide for beginners quick! Available now! View our FREE SEO guide for beginners online. Friend me on Hobo Web.

You can get a FREE Ebook of our SEO Basics Checklist as from today. The easiest way to get it is to subscribe to the Hobo blog by email, or via RSS – you’ll see a link to the guide at the bottom of the mail or feed.

It is available NOW to all email & RSS subscribers – just check the link at the bottom

If you want a copy, subscribe!

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With the release of our new FREE wordpress plugin for comments yesterday, it appears we’re a dofollow blog again! Remember that? (more…)

Recent announcements with the way Google Pagerank flows via nofollow links at Google has bloggers all a flutter. I asked Marty if he could sit down and modify a Wordpress plugin that basically rewarded regular contributers with a link, but removed the actual link from comments from those that haven’t bothered to continue participating on your blog past that first comment. (more…)

A (Nearly) Bulletproof Web Design & Development Project Checklist for clients and designers.

If you’re aiming to agree a fixed price for the development of the website, as we do, ensure the project goes smoothly before you start, by communicating with your client at the outset. They’ll appreciate you for it, there will be less surprises, and you may be able to start making a profit from fixed cost website design jobs again; (more…)

During the course of July I’ll be publishing simple link building tips for beginners that won’t get your site into trouble and will help your rankings improve and should deliver targeted rankings and traffic. I’ll also be publishing some linkbuilding articles from the Hobo SEO Blog archives that are still valid.

I’ll be showing you how how to get links, and how to make links, but in a responsible way. I’m not about to give other sites headaches because in the end, the more people know about certain links, the faster their worth evaporates.

Hope you find the link building tips useful

Remember to subscribe and you’ll get a free seo ebook of our Google SEO for beginners primer this Wednesday!

Everybody knows at Hobo we’re proud to be a Scottish company. I tell you, we’re no prouder when we get sent free Scottish stuff and a deal for our readers!

After a heavy week writing up client strategy documents, it’s a pleasure to come into the office and find a free gift! Long term Hobo Blog subscriber Russell at Scottish Hampers sent us a corporate  hamper as a way of thanks for our free SEO guide we published last month: (more…)

Here’s a presentation the Google team actually gave on what search engine optimisation is:

If you want a more detailed page, check out our own guide to SEO for beginners.

A quick follow up to my SEO fight club article yesterday, and somewhat tongue in cheek. (more…)

Just a quick note to let those waiting for our SEO guide for beginners in PDF format. (more…)

There is a reason I don’t have clients I work for plastered all over my site, or home page, even though it would probably help us make new sales.

There’s a reason I don’t take linkbacks from SEO clients from their site to boost my own sites ranking in Google even though I’m missing a big trick SEO companies use to rank their own sites. We only take linkbacks from web design clients and even then sometimes I nofollow it and usually today we use Hobo or Hobo-web as the linkback (purely because that direct link can mean sales if people like that site). (more…)