SEO TIPS Only a short post this time, but perhaps one of the most valuable on this website. Fact – You don’t need to pay to get into search engines.

We get an awful lot of enquiries from small businesses trying desperately to get into free listings at Google, Yahoo and Bing (MSN) and frankly too many unethical seo companies will charge you an arm and a leg for unnecessary seo consultation or unnecessary edits to a site. Rather than charge small businesses and sme a fortune for two minutes work (we were a start-up at one time, too, you know), we help many small businesses with free advice to get their site into the major search engines, again for free.

Why? In our opinion too many seo agencies and firms take the small business for a complete ride when it comes to search engine optimisation. We want you to hire us on the basis of our experience, not on your ignorance of online marketing. Our seo doesn’t just get you into the search engines, it makes you rank high for competitive keyword phrases that will generate leads and sales. This is what we want you to employ us for.

So, if you are a small business or sme with a new website and you want to get into Google, just leave a nice message below and ….um….that’s it. :) (Edit – Since we originally published this article about getting into Google, Yahoo and Bing, it now takes a few more than one link to get a seo friendly link back to your site – ie you need to comment a number of times.)

You see Google, Bing and Yahoo! likes this site, and a link from this site will probably be all that’s needed to get your site at least into the big 3 search engines.

BUT – If you really want to give your site a chance to rank well:

  • Make sure all your title tags are unique (@ max 12 words)
  • Make sure your meta-descriptions are unique (max 24 words)
  • Make sure all your pages link to each other
  • Read Google Webmaster Guidelines and make sure you comply but do not use “Google Submit Your Site” to submit your site. Google prefers to find a link to your site on a site it already knows. You should also have a look at Google SEO Guidelines.
  • If you are totally lost, contact us.

I’ll add more to this list later, but that will be a good start for you. NOTE: This is open only to website owners who are not in Google, and have not been banned by Google!

All going well in a couple of weeks your website will probably be visible and ranking somewhere in all the search engines, then you can contact us to help you conquer the search engines in your sector. Happy Google-ing!

PS – It can take hours, days or weeks to get into the search engines. To find out if your site is in the search engines just use the site command but replace it with your web address eg: site:www.hobo-web.co.uk

Regular contributors to the Hobo site, feel free to comment also. :)

Did you know when you link to a Hobo SEO post we have search engine friendly links back to your site if approved? Our comments are also search engine friendly you know (once you've commented on a few posts)! Do you need any more encouragement to get involved in the conversation ;)