Category: Hobo SEO Blog

John Mueller from Google gave us all some tips on what Google expects to see from e-commerce sites they rank in their index. The question is; what to do with “out of stock” pages? We have 3 scenarios with out of stock pages: the product is permanently out of stock and never going to be in […]

Read the full article here How To Handle Out Of Stock Product Pages on An Ecommerce Shop For SEO Benefits

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Lots of websites struggle to get Google to crawl and index their entire website. Here is a guide for beginners on how you begin to work that out.

Read the full article here How To Get Google To Crawl and Index Your Website Fully

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Change your website, domain or CMS and keep (and improve) your Google rankings and traffic. Our service is designed to support you through any website migration challenge you may have.

Read the full article here SEO Website Migration Services To Manage Domain, Site & CMS Changeovers & Keep Google Rankings

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There are a lot of tools that use keyword density of a page as a sort of ranking metric. Here are my notes on this aspect of SEO.

Read the full article here What Is The IDEAL Keyword Density Percentage To Improve Rankings in Google in 2018?

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Our website SEO services in 2018 are designed to earn your website more traffic and sales from Google organic traffic in a legitimate way and for the long term. You earn increased traffic from Google first by submitting ‘high-quality‘ sites to Google that meet their technical and quality rater standards. Google can penalise sites that do […]

Read the full article here SEO Services We Provide in 2018

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It is important to check that users can enjoy your website using a variety of devices.

Read the full article here Check How Your Website Looks To Google & In Different Versions Of Browsers, Too.

A Hobo Site Review can quickly identify any issues on your site that is holding your site back. See Hobo SEO Review Prices

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Google has released a new SEO Starter guide. This will be a useful place to start for beginners.

Read the full article here Official: Google’s New SEO Starter Guide – 63 SEO Practices to AVOID in 2018

A Hobo Site Review can quickly identify any issues on your site that is holding your site back. See Hobo SEO Review Prices

© Copyright 2006-2017 Shaun Anderson https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/

Over the years, I’ve played about a LOT with this kind of multiple location-based ranking and getting websites to rank with location pages.How to optimise location based pages on a site not to look like doorway pages. Its actually a very interesting aspect of modern SEO and one that is constantly shifting. Location-based SERPs are […]

Read the full article here How Google Treats Location Pages On A Website For A Single Business: Doorway Pages

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John Mueller was asked if it is ok to interlink sub-domains, and the answer is yes, usually, because Google will treat subdomains on a website (primarily I think we can presume) as “a single website“: “So if you have different parts of your website and they’re on different subdomains that’s that’s perfectly fine that’s totally […]

Read the full article here How Google Treats Subdomains: “We… treat that more as a single website”

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Quote: “The site was ranking the first page for the keyword (widget) and(widgets) in Australia since two weeks we moved all the way down to page five. Technical changes haven’t been made to the site the **only modification was we added more category landing text to rank for various other (keywords)**”

Read the full article here Tip: Beware Keyword Stuffing Ecommerce Website Category Pages To Rank For Various Other Keywords in Google

A Hobo Site Review can quickly identify any issues on your site that is holding your site back. See Hobo SEO Review Prices

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Google will now tell you in Google Search Console if the ads on your website are annoying users.

Read the full article here How To Identify & Remove Annoying Ads on Your Site

Annoying ads are just one of the many elements on your website that could cause Google to rate your website “low-quality” and see traffic to your site reduced. A Hobo Site Review can quickly identify any issues on your site that is holding your site back. See Hobo SEO Review Prices

© Copyright 2006-2017 Shaun Anderson https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/

As I finish an audit for my most recent customer, the last customer who purchased an SEO audit from me just sent me this: “Hi Shaun, hope you are well We put the changes discussed live (removing the xxxxxxx xxxxxx and other tweaks) and very quickly saw a result We will run it for a […]

Read the full article here Black Friday : 15% Discount On Your SEO Audit

© Copyright 2006-2017 Shaun Anderson http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/

If you want to check where a website ranked in the past for important keywords, there really is only one option that’s worth exploring.

Read the full article here How To Check Where A Website Ranked Historically In Google For Important Keywords

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If you need help with your SEO efforts and have an English-language-based website, I can assist. You do not have to be in the UK. We work with clients all over the world and have clients based in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England.

Read the full article here SEO Consultation Services In The UK

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Sitebulb (Disclosure – I am an affiliate and I would make money from clicking on some links on this page) is a new website crawler and site auditor from the folks that give us URLProfiler (which I like a lot, hence why I am an affiliate of SiteBulb. Any such links are marked (AFF)). Read […]

Read the full article here How To Use Sitebulb Website Crawler & SEO Site Auditor To Manage Your Onsite SEO

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‘I think a special mention should go to Bill Slawski who does a great job of analysing SEO related patents (who I might owe joint writing credit for this article). I did not want to send people directly to the patent application site, and Bill deserves the link(s) I think. Follow Bill on Twitter here […]

Read the full article here Google Ranking Factors & Quality Rating Criteria in 2017

© Copyright 2006-2017 Shaun Anderson http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/

SEMrush (Disclosure: I am a customer and affiliate of SEMrush, as their tools are invaluable) has a nice offer for readers of this blog – free access to keyword research and competitor research reports for 30 days. Use the following link to trial SEMrush free for 30 days and get the information on your competitors […]

Read the full article here Spy On Your Competitors Rankings & Perform Keyword Research FREE for 30 Days (Worth Over 100$)

© Copyright 2006-2017 Shaun Anderson http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/

How to do an seo audit quickly and simply with SEMRush.

Read the full article here Review: How To Do An SEO Audit With SEMRush FAST (For Beginners)

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Moz has a good video on the Google organic quality score theory. You should watch it. It goes into a lot of stuff I (and others) have been blogging for the last few years, and some of it is relevant to the audits I produce (example here). One thing that could have been explained better […]

Read the full article here DYK: Low-Quality Content On Part of A Web Site Can Affect Rankings For The Same Website On More Important Keyword Rankings

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