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Here’s some quick ways to test how accessible your website is for people with ‘disabilities’.

We’re currently re-evaluating all the sites with our name on it including this one – perhaps you might want to test your site?

Valid HTML & Valid CSS is the first step to ensuring an accessible website. (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....

After a busy pre-season the new season is eventually upon us for us SEO!

This time round, obviously through the recent sponsership deals and TV money, the league has expanded to 12 Teams. Once again the teams were drawn fairly out of a hat and here is a run down of who’s who

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WK 4 Final Results – Marty is the Champ

Into the final week of the HoboWeb XBox Friday league and it comes to a fantastic end (not the end of course – we now run a continous league).

After last weeks standings, France (Allan) was still in with a 2nd place finish. But he crashed out this week with a 0-0 draw against Holland (Rodger). Leaving him in 3rd overall. Germany (Jim), however, saved the day. With a 1-0 win the over Michael’s Spanish team, holding him back from any more points.

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WK 3 Results

I know you have all been anxiously waiting for the update on how our internal pro evo league on the X-Box 360 was going so here it is… today will decide things Here’s how things stand….

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Looks like the Google API (which allows you to query the search engine up to 1000 times in a day to determine where you rank for specific keywords) is, well, screwing the results at the Digital Point Tool and Web Position Gold. (more…)

Some of the more useful pages on the Hobo site….

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SEO Tips For Cuil

Just looking at some of the results on the new search engine Cuil and it’s clear how to optimise for this search engine already (in the local space)! (more…)

TIP 24I’ve mentioned this before. Onsite, one of the most important things you can do, is link to important pages often. I used a ‘links-are-lasers‘ analogy last year which I still use today. (more…)

TIP 23

Does the second anchor text link on a page count?

One of the more interesting discussions in the seo community of late has been trying to determine which links Google counts as links on pages on your site. Some say the link Google finds higher in the code, is the link Google will ‘count’, if there are two links on a page going to the same page.

Update – I tested this recently with the post Google Counts The First Internal Link. (more…)