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Here’s a secret some seo companies might not want you to know about. The number 1 reason a lot of sites get number 1 places in Google listings are…. (more…)

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Note – This is a test, testing Title Tags in Google. Consider also Google Title Tag Best Practice and How Many Characters In A Title Tag For Google.

We recently tested “how many keywords will Google read in the title tag / element?” using our simple seo mythbuster test (number 2 in the series). And here’s the results, which are quite surprising.

First – here’s the test title tag we tried to get Google to swallow. And it did. All of it. Even though it was a bit spammy; (more…)

Which 5 sites do you visit every day to help you improve traffic to your site? Here’s mine: (more…)

At Hobo SEO we pride ourselves in always aiming to improve customer positions in Google, (and Yahoo and MSN), and we are not secretive about who we work for and how we achieve excellent results for clients.

We’re not magicians, nor do we “know” how Google works (no seo company does!). We just know how to make quality sites that feature high up in Google search rankings. We’ve managed to crack this by following the rules as set down by Google, Yahoo and MSN, a bit of ethical creativity and by doing exhaustive research and testing.

As well as always improving customer positions in SERPS, we are always aiming to keep communication lines open between customers and above all to keep customers happy!

A happy customer is generally: (more…)

SEO MythBuster Test #2 – The Title element

How many words will Google read of your title tag or Everything You ever Wanted To Know About The Title Element & SEO?

Why am I bothering to test this? Sometimes I ask myself that….but actually the title tag is perhaps one of the single most important elements you have under your control that could affect your ranking in Google, Yahoo and MSN. So my thinking is, the more knowledge I have about this “tag”, the better. I’m just choosing to share this bit of research with everybody. (more…)

Yes you read right. We’re having a competition to giveaway an entire website for free to a registered charity, anywhere in the world. Yes that’s right. Everything is included. No catches.

We’ve built websites for colleges, universities, the NHS, charities and a plethora of small and large businesses. We’re giving one lucky charity the chance to win our experienced, professional services, for nowt! (more…)

“The best piece of advice I can give you is to vary your linking strategy. It’s the only way to be sure you’ll achieve good rankings, and keep them. Remember that what works today might not work “tomorrow” – so it’s worth experimenting while all the time hunting for those “quality” links.”

Surely everybody knows by now, Google, and indeed the Internet, is powered, by HTML Links. Good rankings, and success, in all the search engines results pages, eventually lies in getting links from other sites to your site. Effectively, the more the better.

Bearing in mind “Content Is King” on the web, no matter how great your content is, no matter how search engine optimised your page is, if you don’t have inbound links, you’re usually next to nowhere in the Google serps – especially in competitive markets – probably because a competitor has got in there first and generated some content and links before you.

But what is the perfect link? What is the best linking strategy? The answer is – everybody has a different view of a perfect link, and everybody has different ways of measuring exactly what a perfect link is.

Here’s my take on what I look for when i am link hunting (all, I think worth thinking about and in no particular order). (more…)