Hey thanks to those who voted at 100 Most Influential Online Marketers of 2009 – number 60 is better than we expected to the say the least.

I actually voted for Aaron Wall (Seo Book) (who did a neat keyword research guide on our blog a short time ago) and who came No1.

There’s plenty of folk celebrating inclusion, and plenty bemoaning exclusion from the list (which was bound to be controversial or what would be the point of making the list?) but we’ve got a badge, for now, so up it goes…..

Check out the full 100 marketers here.

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 ;)

(K9) It doesn’t seem that long ago when Google Japan had it’s Toolbar Pagerank penalised for paid blogger links (tsk tsk) which is against Google’s own rules. (more…)

(K9) More seo musings…..

A few things to consider. Are we talking about rankings improvement, or traffic? (more…)

SEO Theory for seo geeks of course.

We all know Google finds out, it knows, but I don’t see many people taking about what Google remembers. If trust is such a big thing in Google, just like humans, it needs to:

• find you,
• know you and
• remember your actions,

…to build real trust. (more…)

Following on from our post about traffic to this blog in 2009 from search engines, here’s some stats on our content.

I wrote about 150 posts or so and I did take about a month off blogging at one point. A post every couple of days or so it works out. About 65,000 visitors a month visit the site at the moment and about 30,000 read it via feedreader. (more…)

Hobo Subscribers in 2009

I get asked what’s a blog and how to blog all the time, as if I know. I have been blogging since 2006 after Andy Beard’s blog internet business systems influenced me to stop spamming them and make one. I thought it would be cool if in some way, one day, I could have a blog like my seo hero lol US based link builder Jim Boykin (who in fact was the first seo I ever ended up meeting as a result of blogging).

I do treat this blog as virtually a personal blog, but I always have someone looking over my shoulder these making sure I don’t get us sued (unsuccesful move as it was ) again so I need to remember Hobo is sort of a corporate blog. (more…)

(K9) It’s the time of the year to look back and share on some performance related things on the Hobo blog. Last year I quickly posted about the top ten search engines sending us traffic in 2008. (more…)

Can Google do real time search?

I think this is the first time I have typed a query into Google and got 100% spam – 10 out of the top ten results for what is bound to be a decent search term shortly…. all spam and even malware sites. (more…)

Recently we were asked to find out why a client had no traffic to a site (even after a seo campaign with another seo firm).

To identify all the issues, we had to pay a website development company thousands of pounds so I could just LOOK at the back-end of a content management system because the client “didn’t own the code”. The web company did.

After a golden handsake, I got access, and the result is we’re dumping a brand new content management system costing over £15k because the thing can’t even produce unique page titles on single pages. The CMS didn’t even have a function to delete pages. (more…)

Someone just emailed me and said:

I emailed before about SEO service pricing…and mentioned I would “like” to pay around £75/£150 month, however I would like to know your prices anyway if it is higher than that.

I appreciate it’s a recession, and small businesses haven’t got cash to spend, but there’s a problem here (more…)