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With HTML 5 in the news via Ian Hixie, I decided that now was the time to bring it back to the forefront and play about with HTML 5.

I’ve decided that I’d mark up a typical Hobo blog post with these new elements and then document how everything was achieved. Obviously the page will still look the same as any other blog post but one look under the hood will show you that everything is different. If you’re interested in checking on how I got on you can view the page here.

Any questions (or even tips) please let me know in the comments or catch me at my personal blog – Jack Osborne

Tried out Friendfeed yet? Feel free to connect with me at – http://friendfeed.com/hoboweb

Shaun
Hobo

I’d love to share the back story to this but unfortunately I can’t. Anyway, I’ve been asked to recommend a seo to somebody who’s looking to compete in a spectacularly competitive niche. After twenty minutes tying myself in knots I thought – sod it -  I need to get this down on paper… well sort of.

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One of my clients was linking out to real and trusted sites from pages on his site and added rel=nofollow to the links because he thought this was helping his site. This is folly. (more…)

Is it just me or do you find that less and less blogging folk linking to other blogs these days? When i started blogging  properly (at the start of 2008) it seemed it was a free for all when it came to links. Now it seems only the very best stuff (or most obscure stuff) picks up the natural links from the linkerati. (more…)

I had intended to stay out of the recent debate on seo being a con, or seo being spammers, but it irks me when people with an audience misrepresent SEO. So many folk already comment on the seo ‘industry’ (yawn) and news I often can’t be bothered. But it has sparked some healthy debate here in the Hobo studio so… (more…)

The BNP (British National Party) as featured on the UK BBC Question Time last night, use Alexa traffic rank badges on their site as a metric for success against all the other political parties – basically proclaiming that their website is more visited than all the other political parties in the UK – I wish my clients were happy using alexa traffic rank data as a metric and I hope the BNP get their other statistics from more reliable sources (more…)

I’m going to be spending a little more time at the SEO Dojo, a private seo community run by my fellow SEO geek David Harry.

There’s already some really good content in there, and plenty of advice from experienced SEO on hand to help. (more…)

Did you know that linking to us will help your rankings lol? Yeah right. But getting links from other sites will help YOUR rankings – no arguement there.

First, there’s probably no PERFECT link request email. but here’s how I do it (for the Hobo site, every so often). (more…)