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You can get a FREE Ebook PDF of our SEO Basics Checklist , as cited in Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal and Search Engine Roundtable, 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.

“the Best SEO Guide I think I’ve ever seen… simple to the point, no fluff”.

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Some of it’s fact. Some of it’s tips or tactics. A lot of it is theory. If you want a copy, subscribe!

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Get 2 FREE Ebooks when you subscribe to Hobo - Link Building Tips and Google SEO Tips & Tactics Ebook.

I’m aiming to make the Hobo SEO blog more useful, with better posts, which will mean fewer posts being published.

I’m not going to publish an article just because it’s timely, or just to get my traffic stats up. I’m just going to do my own thing, hope it’s useful, and hope it continues to satisfy the @8,000 of you who have subscribed.

Upcoming Posts

I’ll be publishing the following in the coming week or two…

1. Can You actually Identify On Page/On Site Ranking Factors?
   
2. How & Where Can I start Link Building To My Ecommerce Site To Improve Positions & Traffic NOW?
   
3. Non Technical Google SEO guide: Google & Trust
4. Anatomy Of A Real Live Number 1 Ranking Site In Google

Hope you like…

I loved the Stone Roses as my pals know (still listen to them all the time), and I came across these amazing Stone Roses for Piano tracks on Itunes.

I’m working with Roddy McKenna, the A&R guy who first discovered the Stone Roses in the late 80s and he told me yesterday:

I think this version is great!!!

I asked Richard Thomas the artist behind the stone roses for piano how this came about…

Richard said: (more…)

Or should that be Google personaliZed search?

Anyway…. David Harry of the SEO Dojo has pulled together an interesting study about Personalised Search (how Google changes rankings based on various metrics included being signed into a Google account) (more…)

HooRank is a modified polynomial distribution that is calculated every Thursday at 9am local time wherever the website is hosted, and applied to the ranking calculation the following Tuesday at 3pm CET. (http://seocockstars.com/)

Note – the reason I am posting this is I have some seo stuff I am going to publish shortly (including some seo analysis I dont think I see out there) which falls under seo theory so I thought I may as well get this out of the way before somebody pipes in later lol.

There’s many problems with seo theory blogs. Misinformation is an obvious one. Rarely are your results conclusive or observations 100% accurate. Even if you think a theory holds water on some level.

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I capture screen shots day-to day and I use this Firefox Add-On called ScreenGrab! It’s not a new tool (about 3 milion people have downloaded it) but it does-what-it-says-it-does and is very cool so I thought I would share… (more…)

It’s annoying when you post an article using Google’s feedburner and 2 seconds later somebody is telling you your auto tweet has a ‘broken link in the tweet.

The tweet, generated by Google Feedburner, using Google’s URL shortener on publishing a new post, doesn’t have a broken link… it just takes Google a few seconds to get the cogs working…. (more…)

It’s annoying – even frightening when it happens for the first time – when, for no apparent reason, one day, you notice you’ve apparently lost half of your feedreader subscribers overnight – and then find out it’s just a glitch or problems at Feedburners end.

Many bloggers like myself show off the number of folk subscribed to their feed (knowing it helps increase subscribers even more, if you have a decent rss count already). (more…)

Showing results for search engine optimization. Search instead for search engine optimisation.

I’m in the UK. I think you spell SEO as ’search engine optimisation’ but Google in it’s infinite wisdom wants to refine my search and give me what it wants, what is frankly, arguably US spellings -  (search engine optimization with a *z*). Cheeky. (more…)

How To blog? What do I write in a blog? (more…)

Hey Google where’s the UK local business listing for ’seo company Glasgow’, or ’seo company London’? I see you got Manchester SEO companies in Google local but I can’t bring up a Maps result for:

• seo company Glasgow
• seo company London
• seo company Edinburgh
• seo company Birmingham
• seo company Liverpool
• etc, etc

I see Manchester SEO companies have nothing to complain about….