Hobo SEO Blog

Greenock Based Internet Marketing & Advertising Agency

Welcome to Hobo! We are an up and coming Search Engine Optimisation, Internet Marketing, & Website Design Agency based in Greenock, Scotland.

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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....

A wee bit of free promotion for our green friends at Gaia Wind, offering a small proven wind turbine: (more…)

Leaving Uni or College? Why work in a stuffy suit in a boring office when you can get a job in a creative internet marketing agency!

Hobo is a web design & search engine marketing agency in Greenock, Scotland, 35 minutes away from Glasgow by Train. We’re looking for enthusiastic and creative College & University Graduates with a passion for all things internet marketing to join our team and help improve on our recent successes.

Maybe you’re a CSS, XHTML, PHP website design guru – or an analytical search engine optimisation (optimization) nerd – or a Google or Yahoo ppc expert – we want you! (more…)

We’ve nearly finished a nice looking website design and development for a Paisley based small business. (more…)

Hobo Web LTD isn’t only a search engine optimization (seo) and internet marketing company. Based in Greenock (just outside Glasgow, Scotland in the UK), we can offer a complete, professional website design and development service. (more…)

Free Listing On Inverclyde’s Premier SME Directory – MyGreenock

We’re putting the finishing touches to a FREE local SME Business Directory for Greenock, Port Glasgow and Gourock (Inverclyde) businesses and companies.

The aim of this seo friendly web directory is to advertise all the local businesses on Google, Yahoo and MSN – free, to show potential clients just what we can do in terms of innovative internet marketing. If you have a sme (small and medium enterprise) in Greenock or the surrounding district then you qualify for this free advertising. If you are a charity you can apply for site-wide free advertising in the directory. (more…)

It’s thought Content IS King and Links ARE Queen. So using this simple formula by adding good content and generating lots of quality links you can reasonably ensure good ranking in Google, at least. (more…)

What you’re seeing below is confirmation that Money Supermarket is still an “authority site” in Google (as of today), and as such, still appears at the top of Google for it’s trade mark term.

Note the extra links under the domain? That is the sign of an authority site for a particular key term.
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Update – I removed the company name – I don’t want to use this blog to single out other companies strategy.

XXXXXXX (at the time of writing) seem to have lost their authority status for their trademark term, “XXXXXXX“, in Google at least.

An “authority” site is one which Google values, and Google provides extra linkage to from search engine page results -

(see Hobo Web in Google).

Update 5/03/2008 – oops – it’s happened again!

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Well we’ve started to get some results in from our qualitative Google SEO Mythbuster Test #1.

Does Google Like Valid Code? and the results we have….is yes! (more…)