Say you see an old site that is ranking in Google for a lot of terms and there is an opportunity to buy that dmain and redirect it to your site – will you keep those Google rankings? (more…)

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 ;)

Keyword stuffing is simply the process of repeating the same keyword or keyphrases over and over in a page. Keyword stuffing is bad. Keyword stuffing is a signpost of a very low quality spam site. Keyword stuffing is something Google clearly recommends you avoid: (more…)

Someone asked me why should they vary anchor texts in linkbuilding. (more…)

While looking at your competitors backlinks can give you an idea of the content that attracts backlinks, and the type of sites that will link to you, if you’re actively adding content to your site, and building links in an intelligent manner over time, you don’t need to know a thing about your competitors backlinks to compete with them. (more…)

One of my friends from the social networks I participate in, Wiep Knol, has collated an excellent article on link building techniques.

You might want to check it and the others he mentions; (more…)

You will see a lot of people bemoaning other people nicking their content and using it to power crappy spam sites plastered with Adsense. While this is a real concern, generally speaking I don’t mind people republishing my content (on this site anyway – hey it’s creative commons seo anyway) as long as they link back to the original article. (more…)

Google PR, Nofollow & Wordpress Self Pings

By now everybody knows internal linking is very important – it gives you a chance to add keywords into your link profile and lets users navigate your website via contextual links. Wordpress self ping trackbacks in comments (nofollowed by default) are a different beast though and if we are to believe the recent announcement on how Google treats nofollow links they might actually be sucking the PR right out of your blog. (more…)

Part of linkbuilding for beginners month At Hobo!

A lot of seo will say avoid reciprocal links because they are less benefit today. Some years ago it had seemed apparent that ranking improvements via reciprocal linking strategies  had been to a large extent nuliified. I remember reading in the forums something like a 90% reduction in effectiveness – statistics, eh?. (more…)

If you’re reading this months Hobo linkbuilding tips, you’ll see that I laid down a strategy for getting good backlinks. I thought it was worth a post specifically on finding suspended accounts with Google. I really don’t want to cause other sites trouble, so most of my tips you’ve got to use your brain a bit. (more…)

Part of linkbuilding month for beginners At Hobo!

Buying links that are search engine friendly is against Google TOS. If you buy links to take the risk Google will penalise you (from a reduction in your toolbar pagerank, up to removing your site from it’s index). (more…)