I’ve been so busy lately with work I’ve not had the time to get my LG, Apple TV and Apple Mac Book Pro playing nice together. (more…)

One of the best British bands ever! I might be an old codger still living in 1989 but I still listen to them all the time.

Brilliant lyrics, brilliant tunes. Cool as fuck. (more…)

Web Design Greenock

We’ve just moved to new offices in the West End of Greenock, near Ardgowan Square. We’re a professional web design company, based in Greenock, 2 years old in April 2008, now a 7 man team. (more…)

The Joomla! CMS, repeatedly voted one of the best content management system for websites, is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal home pages to complex corporate web websites: (more…)

We have a cracking small business website design package for sme and small businesses available for £750 +VAT.

We’re based just out side Glasgow, in Greenock, Scotland, and create small business websites specifically tailored for the small business to cost effectively promote their business online. (more…)

Do you run or use a Muay Thai Boxing training class in Greenock, Port Glasgow or Gourock? Is there one? Using Google one didn’t seem to pop out at me, although I know there was at least one or two when I used to do it with my mates. I will look again. (more…)

I actually get a lot of traffic to this blog looking for a freelance webite designer, but I’m not a freelance website designer anymore. Want my leads? (more…)

I wonder how many advertising agencies in the UK have first clue about seo, or internet marketing in general. How long will it take for traditional agencies to ‘get’ seo. (more…)

Had to do it. I wanted to see if advertising agencies in Edinburgh we’re doing their homework when it came to optimising their site for terms like advertising agency edinburgh and advertising agency scotland. (more…)

We’ve actually got a lot of clients in Glasgow, and we do a lot of different things for them, from website design, website optimisation, logo design, graphic design, media buying and print buying. We offer full advertising agency services, and I’ll be promoting this on the Hobo blog soon. (more…)

My quick 10 minute test to see how stiff the competition is for the term Advertising Agency, Scotland in Google provided quick and simple results. It’s not. (more…)

The good thing about having a lot of subscribers on the Hobo Web site is we get a lot of traffic without advertising. The downside is I can’t use my blog as a testing tool as much any more. The speed at which Google now indexes ‘trusted content’ sites makes you crazy not to be pumping out keyword rich articles targeting your customers, so I often just throw up an article to test how competitive a keyword might be and if there’s any qualified traffic there that likes the cut of my jib. Or I used to. (more…)

Hobo has moved to our new offices in Greenock, and they are magic. We’re now a 7 strong team of SEO / Website Designers / Developers, plus the dog. (more…)

I love testing out thoughts with Google…. (more…)

I’m about to effectively take a break from blogging. The inordinate time I seem to ‘waste’ blogging (’cause I am a bit obsessive) and reading quality sites like Sphinn, Search Engine Land and SEOMoz, constantly learning SEM (keeping up?) when I should be ‘doing’, will be changing a bit in 2008.

I can’t be bothered turning my blog into a ‘he said this’ so ‘here’s my take’ blog or a top ten blogeramma tips carnival. It takes a lot of time for me to think up the posts I want to write, and more and more I see ‘dumbed down’ posts like this post about ‘The SEO Bloggers First Posts On Their Blogs‘ (currently being Stumbled and possibly about to go hot on Sphinn) trump more thoughtful (and so ignored) posts like my thoughts on ‘SEO Theory & Hot Sites‘ (whether that’s bollocks or not).

So I’m taking a break for a while (after one last article) and just concentrating on my clients work for a few weeks. No more blogging. No more SEO competitions. I’m not pissed off, just tired of the whole blogging game. I like it, I’ve just not got the time I want to devote to it.

Adios! I’ll leave you with my favourite posts from the Hobo site in 2007 and see you soon; (more…)

I’m sitting here with my new ‘Apple TV’ I bought myself for my xmas to integrate proudly with my Plasma TV , Itunes & my amazing Mac Book Pro. I thought about a new IPOD, or Iphone, but decided I wanted the ability to watch my movies while still use my computer and surf the net. My 3rd gen IPOD is still going strong after all these years, and my Nokia N95 is everything I need in a phone at the moment. Apple TV it was, then. (more…)

From Google Blog Team

“If, however, a webmaster chooses to buy or sell links for the purpose of manipulating search engine rankings, we reserve the right to protect the quality of our index. Buying or selling links that pass PageRank violates our webmaster guidelines.” (more…)

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Well i had a page ranking for this term Freelance Website Designer (or was that freelance web designer?) for a couple of years and now the sites getting mothballed. Just thought I’d create a page to redirect to.

Sorry if you are actually looking for a freelance website designer I now work / run / own Hobo - a website design company in Scotland. What do you want a freelancer for anyways - why not check us out. We have the best package on offer for small business websites.

We make websites for all kinds of businesses, from small business to corporate, colleges to the NHS.

Well i had a page ranking for this term (Freelance SEO (Search Engine Optimisation / Optimization) for a couple of years and now the sites getting mothballed. Just thought I’d create a page to redirect to. Never know when it might come in handy.
Sorry if you are actually looking for a freelance seo. I now work / run / own Hobo - a SEO Services Company in Scotland. What do you want a freelancer for anyways - why not check us out.

There are plenty of online information about any company website. Here’s a couple about Hobo Web, my seo company in Scotland. (more…)

Not sure how Historically accurate this is. Sure they stopped, but not necessarily for the reason stated.

Still. It’s the right sentiment!

Scotland V Italy. The big one.

Can you be sure what you ever see again?

Look at it on your monitor, and then step back……

Phillippe  G.Schyns and Aude Oliva of the University of  Glasgow made this (citation needed).

Hmmm - I’ve not seen this before today, and not sure if this is actually part of the plug-in terms and conditions ie they are allowed to do this sort of thing or frankly if it’s a hack or something….

When I signed up to this gizmo (the Snap Shots Wordpress Plugin) I quite liked it purely from a”fun” perspective and expected it to operate only on links embedded within the page that I had made myself.

Reading over a post today and I saw this:

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2007 is the year Google dumps Google PageRank.

Toolbar PageRank that is. It’s a dinosaur that’s received a bullet in the head and it’s wandering about looking for a place to die. It is more and more irrelevant in Google organic search today and the only people cashing in on it are sites that sell it. Bad press for Google? Not at all, Google is giving us what many cried out for after the last Toolbar update 6 months ago. The End of Google ToolBar Page Rank! (more…)