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Some companies want to rank for diferent things and certain links and strategies achieve different results. That’s the end of link building for beginners month on the Hobo site – hope you found it useful.

I’d thought I’d close mentioning you really should have a specific goal every time you start linkbuilding.

What do you want to rank no1 in Google for anyways? (more…)

We've recently updated our comments policy and increased the number of comments a visitor has to make to get seo friendly links in comment signatures to reward long term readers and make it a bit harder for dofollow spammers ;) - I told you dofollow spamming wasn't a long term strategy....

Yes – we are a dofollow blog (though you need to comment fast before we close the posts heh heh).

Sorry. If you’re looking for a list or directory of dofollow blogs so you can waste your time linkbuilding, you’ve came to the wrong place. I thought I’d give you some free advice and call you an amateur link builder, a pain in the arse, a timewasting human pondscum, and you look very stupid leaving those moron comments on people’s blogs. (more…)

Part of Link Building Strategy For Beginners Month at Hobo – remember to check out our free seo guide!

Some traditional companies create Press Releases and don’t think for a minute how these could be used to successfully promote their website when syndicated online.

If you do a lot of these, don’t just send out your press releases without considering a link-to strategy for your company. Every time you send out a press release, you should be ensuring you’re getting a few things right. For instance, you should know by now you should always include your web address. It’s amazing the press releases I see and I see no web address! (more…)

Any link that sends you traffic could be seen as a good link, but what are quality links, what are good links and what are crap links, when it comes to improving the actual ranking of your own pages in Google SERPS? (more…)

The answer is yes, suprememly well in terms of promoting your site rather than improving your website ranking in Google. The question is, where you syndicate your articles to, and in turn, which news and press outlets pick those articles up for maximum exposure, and also if those articles on the submission site have a chance of ranking themselves. (more…)

Some time ago I showed if you had a long spammy page title Google would ‘forgive you’. Last year Google seemed to count the first 8-12 words (70 odd characters) and then just count the rest of the words as part of your text but it would not obviously penalise you for a massive title. (more…)

Directory Submissions – Are Directory Links Still Worth It? The problem with trying to answer such a generic question is that not all directory sites are treated equally. Some are good sites, and some are spam. Inbetween the vast majority of directories are just so wide in depth and so narrow in keyword diversity and so strung out in terms of pagerank (or ranking ability) and full of pages Google doesn’t want to list in search results to make them very low quality links to your site. (more…)

You do not always need to get links from related sites (in your niche, subject area) to rank better in Google. (more…)

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…)

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…)