Ranking for your name. Do you care?
Do you rank well for your name? Do you care? I’ll start…..I do, and I care. Often, If I’m trying to sell someone on "trust me" – I will tell them to Google my name. FYI, I often Google prospective clients, and I google prospective employees. (FYI, The other Jim Boykin (the tennis player) must […]
- 04-10-2006
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Buying old domains – chat and ramble.
A post by Barry on SE Roundtable caught my eye called "Changing Domain Name Ownership Whois Information & Google Search Ranking Impact." His opening paragraph states: Every since Google became a registrar in January 2005, SEOs wondered how Google would use the whois data. In mid-February we reported that Google admitted to using registrar data to […]
- 04-08-2006
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Dumb Blogging Mistakes and Bad Betas.
Bad Blogger. Yesterday and today were the worst 2 days blogging that I’ve had so far…I guess days like this are bound to happen. Last week I had this great idea for a new tool so I spoke with a few programmers about building this "great backlink" tool….I had the idea…but I wasn’t sure if […]
- 04-05-2006
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New WBP Tool – Find Your Real Backlinks!
Real Backlinks – Find Real Sites that Link to you! Sorry it’s been a while since posting! I’ve been hiring some new staff, training new staff, going on some business trips, and overall just plain busy! But, Good News My Friends! We’ve got a new tool that I think you’re all going to like! It’s […]
- 04-04-2006
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Stuntdubl’s Leaving We Build Pages.
I knew this day would come sometime….Stuntdubl’s moving on. I really feel lucky to have had Todd on my team for the time he was with us, and I know that whatever future he chooses that he’ll be a success. In my opinion Todd’s one of the very best SEO’s in the world, and beyond that […]
- 03-30-2006
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Michael’s High Quality Links Lesson on SEOMoz.
Yea, yea, I know that 99% of my readers also read SEOMoz.org, but I still gotta point out a great article by Michael Martinez in SEOMoz about high quality links vs sheer number of backlinks. Michael starts with: I have to admit I almost gag every time I read a forum discussion that starts out with […]
- 03-28-2006
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Does an old bastardized site still pass link love?
Last month I set up an advertising arrangement with a nice old site. I’ll call this site "Big Site A". In researching "Big Site A" in the wayback machine I saw that it had a kinda shady history long ago. By shady I mean that it once had been selling links to some questionable websites on many of […]
- 03-27-2006
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Making Millions with Contextual Advertising.
Andrew Johnson just did a great interview with Markus Frind. If you’re not familiar with his name, perhaps you’re familiar with plentyoffish.com. If you’re not familiar with either his name, or his site – then you should familiarize yourself with both – why? Because he’s making $10,000 a day with Adsense! Read the interview here. […]
- 03-24-2006
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Cat Post – Thursday afternoon chuckle.
With the high rate of attacks on women in secluded parking lots, especially during evening hours, the Minneapolis City Council has established a "Women Only" parking lot at the Mall of America. Even the parking lot attendants are exclusively female so that a comfortable and safe environment is created for patrons. Below is the first […]
- 03-23-2006
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$39 – Free Stuff and over 3,000 links!
I was over at Dan’s blog (I Hate Google) reading older posts I’d missed, when I saw his reference to the $39 Experiment by Tom Locke…maybe it’s because it’s after 2:00am, but it had me chuckling here. So, of course, my next thought after my amusement was "how many links did this net him?" Yahoo (at the time […]
- 03-23-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
