The awards season is (nearly) over. The good behaviour and backslapping is over….. it’s time to get back to what we do best. Spamming Google and Link-Bait Fights.

I don’t normally comment on this sort of thing…..

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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 ;)

*** Edit – In the spirit of Good Karma I accepted an apology from the erstwhile ’spammer’ / padouan ninja linkbuilder. As promised I removed the seo company’s name from this post to give him back his Google listings and save his online reputation. ***

A Rant? I must be reformed. Not only have I stopped spamming blogs I have no interest in, just for link-juice, now I am outing those who still do.

Yes, I’ve dropped by sites I’ve targeted specifically for a link. Isn’t that how every link-builder starts? I normally have quite a threshold for this sort of crap innovative linkbuilding, as I’m a forgiving ex-comment-spammer, but come off it ***** SEO Services, India, this commenting did not impress. And I’ve seen better from the automatic spam Akismet and Spam Karma nuke.

Perhaps it was because I was with a client today, telling them how to play nice in the blogosphere, what i’ve learned about how to join in and get involved in an online community, when these email notifications started alerting me to your shady ninja linkbuilding. It was quite funny actually. Basically this was a timely and clear example how NOT to get links from related sites. Well themed, poorly actioned, and punished in a way that hurts.

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It’s been an interesting 2008 so far. Recent Hobo blog posts proved to be popular in the search marketing world, and a secondary benefit was that all of a sudden this site was was getting ‘Stumbled‘ (it is still).

As a one time prolific ‘link-whore’, of course I had heard of StumbleUpon, used it, enjoyed it and I think abused it in the very early days (isn’t that what every seo is supposed to a newly popular network?) but it didn’t hold my interest as much as my first love, Google. I did always like the Toolbar, though. As that I have thousands of visitors currently stumbling the Hobo blog, I wanted to know more about this swarming visitor phenomenon, and what to do with all those peepers on my site.

I surmised, perhaps there was a Stumbleupon Guru, willing to let me assimilate all his knowledge, (much in the same way I successfully assimilated all of Jim Boykin’s link-building nous and all of Sebastian’s Robot’s txt knowledge recently) and educate me in the art of Stumbling.

Only one guy sprung to mind. That guy with the friendly Avatar…. Tim Nash, of Venture Skills! His reply to my Sylar-like approach was…..

“Sure what would you like to know ”

This interview would be easy and save me a lot of time…. Read The Tim Nash Interview

StumbleUpon Frenzy Rattles Our Website!

A few of the articles on this site have proved popular in the search marketing industry network this week, the result being a lot of traffic to our seo blog. (more…)

Hobo – Right Sebastian! What do you think you are doing calling me out on a slight bit of “misinformation” on a post I made for a bit of branding. Just who do you think you are spamming my content with useful, original and interesting content?

Don’t you realize that @ 1,500 stumblers and Twitters visited my site as a result of this slapping?? You trying to discredit me?

Sebastian – Howdy Shaun, – I’m so sorry that I discredited you, that was really not my intention. (more…)

SEO TIPS My recent post on how SEO experts started their authority seo blogs proved popular when submitted to Sphinn by Marty at Aimclear (thanks!) and came at a time where frankly I was preparing to give up blogging for a short time to get on with work! (more…)

Congratulations to veteran link-building specialist Jim Boykin, who I interviewed recently for the Hobo blog, (more…)

SEO TIPS Ladies and Gentlemen of the SEO/SEM/SMO class of 2008

Add Good Content

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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

You know a lot of poeple type mispellings into Goolge – it is a source of traffic – and in order to rank for these common mis-spellings you’ve got to have them on your pqae or in links pionting to your page. Seemtmios it’s good to scerw things up, but hardly professional search engine optimizaion.

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