Hobo SEO Blog

A Free Content Management System When You Buy A Website Design!

Based in Scotland, Hobo is, first and foremost, a seo company, but we make websites. In fact, we’ve built websites for corporates, colleges, universities and charities – and a lot of small businesses. To be successful in Google, you need a website you can update easily, because Google loves fresh content. Understanding this, every site we design needs to be easy to edit.

That’s why, when you hire us to create your next website design, every one of our websites come with a free content management system (a CMS) installed. Yes, that’s right – you do not need to ‘buy it’. (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....

WordPress Website Design, Scotland by Hobo

Looking for a cost effective WP powered site? “WordPress is a state-of-the-art … personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.” (more…)

}Update – Sorry, we are phasing out support for Joomla Website Design

Joomla is the perfect website choice for small businesses and SME in Scotland, and Hobo specialises in professional Joomla website design, hosting, installation, development and management. What is Joomla? Joomla is an open source content management system (a CMS) that you build a website “on” which then makes editing a website very simple indeed – with very little training anybody can learn Joomla in a matter of hours and days, and Joomla enables an administrator the options of changing text, images and website navigation & structure, all at the touch of a button. (more…)

How I visualize seo (note I said visualise – this is not “how it works” as nobody knows “how it works”) and note, this is how I ensure my sales pages get enough Google Pagerank ‘heat’ or ‘Google-juice’ or ‘link equity’ to get into the primary index of Google and then rank. Please bear in mind, a page only needs Page Rank to get into this index – that’s all Google PR is good for. (more…)

I’m chuffed to reveal the first Hobo SEO UK Interview and bring the world news of Jim’s new venture!

Look out SEOmoz PRO, here comes the amazing Internet Marketing Ninja’s!

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My link structures are usually very simple – no site map needed. Sometimes it’s easy to spot pages Google doesn’t like and decides not to index. What did I do to get a page back into the Google index after I spotted it was obviously banned / filtered / penalised? (more…)

SEO TIPS What is the SEO Magic Bullet? What is the big secret in SEO? How can you deliver it to achieve top number 1 rankings in Google, Yahoo and MSN?

Many people ask me this one and there’s a simple answer. (more…)

SEO For Dummies – The Idiot’s Simple Search Engine Optimization Guide

NOTE – Our DIY SEO guide has been updated: Go to Google SEO – Beginners Guide Or get a free beginners guide to SEO PDF EBook.

What is SEO? For me, search engine optimization (SEO) is the art of getting a website to work better with search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK. (more…)

Hobo professional seo training for companies in Glasgow who wish to train their in-house staff in how to write good website copy and search engine optimise a website to rank better in Google and all other search engines, just like we do for ourselves.

If you’d be interested in professional seo (search engine optimisation / optimization) training for your employees, using your own website as reference for education and consultation ( we also have a seo consultation service), please contact us today. (more…)

Hobo, based near Glasgow, Scotland, is not just a seo company, we are a website design studio. We have just updated our web design portfolio. We’re still in the middle of big changes throughout the Hobo Website and will add more sites shortly.

Here’s a collection of the some of the websites we’ve designed and/or developed for companies in Scotland, past and present. (more…)