Hobo SEO Blog

We recently took over a few sites from another company, and a few days later, the dreaded “This site may harm your computer” appeared in Google. Not the best start to a campaign. (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....

Google caffeine will be live “soon” according to Google. (more…)

UPDATE – Google Local Business Centre is now called Google Places.

Note – This is a mash up of information originally provided by Google itself

Google Local Business listings get your business featured for various keyword phrases in your local area, as well as your business name, including a map to your business and contact details. It’s FREE, so your crazy not to do it.

Optimising for Google Local Business – In my experience, giving Google as much information as possible about your business is just about the best policy. Get listed in as many local business directories as possible.

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K9 – Google have just launched Google Commerce Search – which “is nothing short of an all-inclusive e-commerce software package” for retailers. (more…)

Here’s a list of the WordPress plugins I use on this Hobo SEO Blog. Some plugins are permanent, some are being tested. Some are heavily modified, too. 1 or 2 although installed are not active yet. (more…)

Kalena Jordan at Search Engine College is doing a neat offer for free SEO (and SEM) training course for registered charities. Best be quick and register your interest. (more…)

Well I’m seeing some sort of Google Toolbar Pagerank update on some pages if you are interested (more…)

Can you take 2 seconds…. (more…)

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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