What is under/over the Radar in SEO?
Where is Under the Radar in SEO? Bob Mazza is the first person that I can remember who got boinked for certain SEO tactics (2002) – (oh, I know there were earlier ones, I think Brett found an inktomi paper that mentioned blacklisted SEO’s), but Bob…Well, Bob was the first to sell the value of links, […]
- 01-03-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Giving the boot to the nofollow.
After my post on Blog Spam part 2 – The Nofollow, friend or enemy? I’ve decided that the nofollow is no friend of mine. The nofollow has been removed from my blog now, bye bye. All links should count now in the eyes Google. Word of caution – people who try to spam me will be […]
- 01-01-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
12% of SEO’s made over $200,000 in 2005.
Results from my last poll are in. In that Poll I asked: How much money did you take home in 2005 due to your SEO efforts (what’s your income)? And the results were: less than $10,000 17% $10,001 – $30,000 20% $30,001 – $50,000 6% $50,001 – $80,000 22% $80,001 – $120,000 10% $120,000 – […]
- 01-01-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Employee Blog Rules.
I was reading Andy’s Blog today and he makes reference to a yet to be released article in Inc Magazine about challenges CEO’s will face in 2006, Andy also quotes from this Inc article "… they’re likely to find that they have two concerns: one, whether they need to launch a corporate blog to get […]
- 12-30-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Link Ninja’s to Retire and SEO PowWow to start.
Link Ninjas is going to end after our January training dates. Link Ninjas didn’t stick with us, but keep reading to find out about the first annual SEO mini PowWow. For those 10 people who were chosen for our free class on Jan 18th, I still guarantee that they will think this is 5 times better than […]
- 12-29-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Blog Spam Part 1 – Stopping Blog Spam.
Blog Spam part 1, Who is doing it and how to stop it. So there’s 2 sets of blog spammers that I’m aware of, the Industrial turn and burn blog spam and Backlinks for link value blog spam. Industrial turn and burn blog spam Those who do it on a massive planned scale for the […]
- 12-28-2005
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Blog Spam part 2 – The Nofollow, friend or enemy?
Blog Spam Part 2 Combating Blog spam with the nofollow tag. When my blog was set up for me, it came with the nofollow on all links on all usernames and in all comments. Meaning, that for those who make a post, where their name is a link, that link in the eyes of Google it’s […]
- 12-28-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Henry Boone of sellingwhiz.com alexa, barnsandnoble, and blog spammer.
Back in November webuildpages.com got our first Alexa review (has since been removed) from a person named Henry Boone of sellingwhiz.com who gave us a review, yet he didn’t know us at all, and was pushing his site (sellingwhiz.com) in his review of us. He did the same to hundreds of other internet marketing sites within a […]
- 12-28-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Planning today for if you died tomorrow.
Webmasterworld has an interesting thread called "Hit by a Bus" where people are chatting about steps to take now if you were hit by a bus tomorrow. I’ve got to say that I’ve got the advantage in that for my business, I’ve got a COO who just loves paperwork and finding everything about everything and […]
- 12-27-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
What Blogs do you Read on a Daily Basis?
I just updated my Blogroll (I call it "Blogs I read on a Daily Basis"…on the left side) Here’s my blogroll (in random order): SEOmoz Blog Abakus SEO Blog Search Engine Journal Google’s Blog SEO Book Search Engine Roundtable Wolf Howl Search Engine Watch’s Blog IhateGoogle Stuntdubl SEO Consultant Sebastian’s Pamphlets Google Blogoscoped Yahoo’s Search […]
- 12-27-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
