It’s been a long day writing out reports for clients. Taking a break (!) I opened my feedreader and was was curious to find a rising trend “nikki catsouras decapitated” on Google Trends – no idea who she was so I popped over to Google Trends to see what the fuss was about:

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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 ;)

Hobo web designer Jack Osborne was recently featured in the July edition (#189) of .net magazine.

Within the article ” Get your first job in web design ” Jack has documented the process where he made the transition from higher eduction into full-time employment. The article covers some of processes that he used and pointers that he has been given along the way.

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First – I actively monitor Grey google toolbars on internal pages on various sites. I love it when I see a new one

Having a Google Toolbar Grey bar, (pages that look, according to Google’s toolbar for your web browser, to have no Pagerank) while it may have no apparent detrimental affect to ranking the actual page in SERPS, *might* be an indication that page is not passing anchor text value or pagerank. (more…)

A lot of SEO & Internet Marketing blogs will say pump out a lot of relevant content on your blog, build a resource all around a specifc subject. Even Google says to do the same. What you won’t normally hear is to improve your traffic, improve the number and quality of your links to your website is to go off topic…. write about anything that is timely – especially when it’s even slightly topical. (more…)

No this isn’t an article about backlinks beating content because we know the right backlinks keep nearly blank pages high in Google – for months at a time. It’s just a theory so feel free to discuss with me in the comments. Bit of a ramble. I’m thinking about this and looking for exceptions, or evidence against, and to start an honest discussion. i’m fed up pumping info out, I’d prefer to start a discussion on this one. (more…)

It’s amazing how fast Google indexes and ranks pages. I’ve seen pages get into Google and rank in the top ten for a phrase in less than 1 minute and I recently tested just how fast Google publishes your content if you’re well connected. (more…)

A Google SEO Test…. well observation. (more…)

Wolfram Alpha is a new type of search engine developed by a computer scientist called Stephen Wolfram. It’s being said it seems to be a different kind of search engine to Google – it’s a knowledge search engine (ask a question, and Wolf will give you an answer) — whereas with Google, you ask a question and you get a link to a “top ten list” of sites that *might* have what you need. (more…)

It’s interesting even thinking about ranking for these two terms. I think UK SEO is more a informational vanity SERP, where SEO UK is more a transactional term, and probably more valuable (for this seo company). (more…)

Someone asked me about meta tags recently – everybody who says they know a bit about seo usually starts with meta keywords speak which tells you a lot right off the bat, generally speaking about the title, keywords and description “tags”. Optimising the metatags Google looks at is still important, but not complicated. (more…)