We used the Hobo blog to generate 78,452 unique visitors to this site in 2007, not bad considering we don’t pay for any links or advertising, in any shape or form, and generally we simply don’t have the resources to blog more. The vast majority of visits are from targeted sources, too.

Actually, 2008 for us will involve shorter blog posts (on the whole), and less blogging from us. It’s not because blogging doesn’t bring the visitors in. It’s the opposite. We’ve got to much work we have to get on with.

The following posts on the Hobo SEO Blog are examples of what we use our Wordpress powered blog to do, and my favourite posts.

  1. Link Building Interview with Jim Boykin (An Interview With SEO Guru Jim Boykin)
  2. Optimize Your Internal Website Structure For Google (An Introduction to optimizing your internal navigation architecture - pure seo theory)
  3. Learn More About What SEO actually is (A Beginners Guide To SEO)
  4. Google & Valid HTML/CSS (Testing Google to see if it actually prefers valid w3c code to invalid code when ranking pages)
  5. Google - How Many Words In Title Tag? (How many words can you safely use in the title tag of your page?)
  6. Title Tag & Google SEO (More About Page Titles - we like to test things)
  7. What Is Google PageRank? (A post ‘Stumbled’ like mad and an overview of what Google Page Rank is and does)
  8. 10 SEO Strategies To Avoid (Knowing what not to do is just as important as knowing what to do when it comes to great Google rankings)
  9. How To Submit Your Site To Search Engines (Don’t ever pay for search engine submission again!)
  10. Be Number 1 in Google When You Launch New Site (Promotion tips for new websites)
  11. How To Get Your Site To Number 1 In Google?
  12. Why Do We Build Accessible Websites? (An introduction to accessible web design with CSS)
  13. Ode To Sunscreen (This was a bit of fun that again got Stumblers interested)
  14. One Hour Internet Marketing Tips (A few tips to promote a new article or site when you don’t have syhophants submitting every story you publish)
  15. 7 Internet Marketing Tips For Small Business Owners (A round up of internet marketing tips advice for the small business owner)

The whole point of a blog for me is to add good regular and unique content, and by doing so, improving the chances of your site being linked to and then perhaps even considered an ‘authority’ site in your industry, even in a locale. When Google considers you an authority site for particular terms, you can start to rank well in Google, for a lot of other terms too.

So what are you waiting for? Start blogging! It’s easy, and you can only get better at it.

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