Hobo SEO Blog

If you have a website or blog, it should meet certain standards and adhere to certain rules to be included in search engines like Google and blog engines and free directories like Technorati.

You do not pay to get into search engines, and you don’t necessarily submit your site to them.

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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....

Welcome to this weeks run down of the greatest gladiatorial contest since Kirk Douglas’ Spartacus got a bit fed up! Its the one and only (Thank The Lord!) X Box Friday Football League. (more…)

Domain authority, or as Google calls it, online business authority, is an important ranking factor in Google in 2010. What is domain authority? (more…)

Which is best? Bloglines or Google Reader? Do you have a preference? (more…)

Guest Post by Ann Smarty

Link baiting is an effective technique that should still be thoroughly explored: (more…)

Google Chrome for Mac is out NOW and you can download the mac version of Chrome. (more…)

Jeff Quipp on Tips for Improving Search Rankings

It can be difficult sometimes as a business owner, separating the wheat from the chaff, and knowing what is a real opportunity and what is not.

SEO is often posed as one of these predicaments for many business owners.

So, how is a small business person with a limited budget realistically supposed to experience the benefits of SEO. Sure, some jump in with both feet, but others are obviously much more skeptical.

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Google Chrome for Mac is out NOW – and you can download the mac version of Chrome here

Well, it appears there isn’t a Google Chrome download for the Apple Mac OS X yet. (more…)

So, here we go again sports fans. Another scintillating, nail biting, nerve shredding, palm sweating, action packed week of X Box Friday. An unpredictable, emotional roller coaster ride, if there ever was one!

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4 Steps to a Successful Start in Social Media

The difference between the web of a few years ago and the web today is Social Media.

Social Media is basically communication online. That doesn’t sound too complicated, huh? But for many beginners it can be. There are many different forms of Social Media… many different ways of communicating online.

Getting involved in Social Media can be intimidating. So much so that you might not know where to even begin. There is Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, Mixx, Digg. There are blogs, forums, wikis, photo sharing, vlogging (video blogging), and others. They are all different, so which do you devote your time to?

In this post I’m going to get back to the very beginning….I’m going to explain the very basics of how to get Started with Social Media. (more…)