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

TEST – THIS IS A REPUBLISH From Jul 23, 2008…… Testing Google! Results shortly

Warning – Major Rambling Works Ahead – Wanted A break from the onpage seo tips serial.

I once said to my boss (who was a dick) I wanted full access to the internet and fully paid home internet access. I was heavily abusing Napster & Limewire at the time. I also wanted a mobile phone as I was handling clients on a pay as you go. He nearly spat his coffee over his face onto his desk over the presentation he’d been working on all week. That sorta thing used to happen with me and him in the advertising agency I worked in.

I also told the management at a later meeting I wanted to bring my dog to work and start and finish whenever I wanted. I’m an animal lover. Either that or I was off to do the business plan I came up with on my own (OK with a mate).

And so, after I won the only award the agency won that year (the same day the MD tried to sack me) Hobo was born. Thank f*ck!

I work on the internet. I would not work for a company that stopped me going on the internet whenever I wanted to. To do anything legal I wanted to do.

Caveat – I ‘work’ about 18-20 hours a day.

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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…)

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…)

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…)

Google’s Matt Cutts is attempting to clarify PR Sculpting using Nofollow for the rest of us after the recent hulabaloo surrounding his comments at a SEO conference a short time ago. (more…)