SEO Questions I hate answering.
Questions I hate getting: Today I got an email with this question: “for the investment, what kind of return can we expect?” my answer: “I have no idea” Here’s some other questions I hate getting: What Pagerank should I expect? A common answer: I don’t know….it doesn’t matter anyways. What’s the PR of the top […]
- 05-18-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Link Building Resource new Bookmark – TLB’s Wiki.
TextLinkBrokers.com have come up with a very good resource for those of us who are link junkies like myself. It’s the http://www.linkbuildingwiki.com Speaking of TextLinkBrokers.com, Rob and Jarrod have a excellent blog in case you didn’t know (focused on link buiding issues). If you haven’t seen these, you should check them out.
- 05-16-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Article Submission Services.
I’ve been hearing a lot about Article Submission Services….and I ask myself….why? If you’ve got an article, and you submit it to a bunch of places, isn’t google going to just toss all of them (except 1) into the "Supplemental Results"? I guess I might as well go beyond "Article Submission Services" and ask the […]
- 05-15-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Text around your links…Keeping it Natural Looking.
I was reading Loren’s article today, which referenced a forum thread on SE RoundTable. In that thread Benjamin Pfeiffer was quoted as saying: The best approach I think is rather instead of a site wide link a webmaster should approach a website by targeting individual pages and taking a slower more covert approach to obtaining links. […]
- 05-10-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
New Blogger – Truman of InfoSearch Media.
I see that Truman Hedding of InfoSearch Media has started blogging, and is off to a great start. A few of his starting posts are quite good. From Link Building 101, some pretty good advice: One of the most common misconceptions about link building is that relevancy doesn’t matter if you have a great deal […]
- 05-10-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Big SEO Company coming after my client.
One of my clients whom enjoys very nice rankings just forwarded me an email which he’d been responding to. The initial email to my client read: I was doing some due diligence for a current client and came to your site. I was wondering how someone can purchase a product off the website. If I wasn’t […]
- 05-06-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
The Best That I Could Write – the first 6 months.
Since day 1 of this blog, I’ve called this space "My Solo Album". In tradition with that, I’m releasing a "Best of" post here with some of my favorite posts that I’ve had the past 6 months I’ve been blogging. The Best I Could Write – the first 6 months. Side 1 – The Knowledge […]
- 05-06-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Part Two: Tips for finding the best pages to get links from.
A deeper dive into Getting Ads on pages that have backlinks to them, and that value. This post is a continuation of my last post which gave some ideas on pages to seek advertising on. One of the lines in there was: …also aim for the “most trusted, powerful page” via searching Yahoo for [site:theirsite.com] […]
- 05-05-2006
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Tips for finding the best pages to get links from.
I was giving some training to my link team yesterday and I gave them a very nice tip…..I’ve been debating on weather or not to publish (publically) this technique, or save it for my next speaking gig (and give it away then)….or to just keep this technique to my own team…..but hey, we’re all friends right? Here’s […]
- 05-03-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Google Selling Run of Site Ads. Da Vinci Code Quest.
Roger just mentioned to me that Google’s got these new Run of site (on search result pages) ads for "Play the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google." Just go ahead, run any ole search on google (it’s not contextual, any ole search will do), scroll down to the bottom, and check it out. Never expeceted […]
- 04-27-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
