This ones a good one – Advanced Web Rankings – CLICK HERE for more info

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I’ve tried a lot of ways to check rankings in search engines (mainly Google, Yahoo and Bing) over the years and generally speaking I’ve been dissappointed with most if not all of them.

So much so, that we’ve resorted for many clients to manually checking them / and or developing our own tools to ensure the results we get are what the customer is seeing too. The problem with this type of rankings check is how much time it consumes in the studio. The problem with a lot of automatic website rank checkers of course is that they could well be software packages that violate Google webmaster guidelines for instance.

I’ve been testing out the rank check tool AWR Website Ranking on a small personal site (after being advised it does not break Google’s guidelines) (more…)

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 ;)

In case you haven’t noticed, Google has been playing about with it’s logo in a way that’s proving mysterious. Normally Google changes it’s logo (called Google Doodles) to mark an important date in history like a famous person’s birth like the Charles Darwin Google logo, or to commemorate a momentous moment in history, a special day or special event like the first man on the moon or 09/09/09. (more…)

My Drink Visibility pal Tim Nash will be running a seminar on Profiling website users on the Friday before Think Visibility and I’ll be going to hear what he’s up to. (more…)

Google scores a perfect 10 out of 10 at Google Trends (which monitors the hottest searches on Google) after the search engine’s email (GMAIL) went down today (more…)

BS 8878. The web accessibility code of practice via BSI (Building accessible experiences for disabled people) is coming soon and it should be interesting reading for all those who want to build their websites so the majority of people can access them: (more…)

If you want to make your website more accessible (and generaly more interoperable between browsers) then validating your website HTML and CSS at the W3C  is a good first step.

Edward Lewis AKA pageoneresults decided to test seo companies’ websites and call out those seo whose websites failed validation after reading Aaron Wall’s article about, essentially I thought, companies who touted validation as a necessary SEO service. (more…)

I am going to go to the Think Visibility Conference in Leeds at the Alea Casino Conference Area on 12 September 2009.

Think Visibility is a series of conferences on “the things that usually get left behind in the web design process“. The conferences feature well known speakers, new talent and great networking opportunities. (more…)

We’ve updated the Hobo search engine optimisation tutorial with a few links and some more information on seo and linkbuilding.

As well as our SEO tutorial we’ve pulled together our linkbuilding guide for beginners on one page.

I’m intending to take part in Google Webmaster Forum a bit more but I chipped in an answer the other day about how many links in a dropdown are best:

The question was:

Building a new site with over 5000 product pages. Trying to get visitors to a product page directly from the homepage. Would prefer to use a two-level drop-down on homepage containing 10 brands and 5K products, but I’m worried a huge source code will kick me in the pants.Also, I have no idea how search engines treat javascript links that can be read in HTML. Nervous about looking like a link farm.

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Ulitzer.com (and sub domains) seems to have gone the way of the dodo in search engine Google. I can’t find any of the site in Google, and it’s a Toolbar PR of 0 (Toolbar Grey). (more…)