1 Free ticket – WebmasterWorld Conference Las Vegas Nov 15-17th
Brett has been kind eneough to give me a free pass which I can give away for the WebmasterWorld Conference! as Brett told me but they can not be combined with any other offers 😉 and no people that have already paid, or people that have been comp’d before. So you want to go to […]
- 10-31-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Hiring: Internet Marketing Jobs -Seeking Future Link Guru’s
Work for We Build Pages and become a Link Guru! Internet Marketing Jobs. We’re hiring more people to help us to find more relevant link advertising. We normally just advertise for these internet marketing jobs locally, but thought it wouldn’t hurt to advertise here, in case someone wanted to move to our office in Troy NY, USA to work with us. I’ll […]
- 10-31-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
If Search Engine Bots could talk like Alice.
Here’s an oldie I found in my old bookmarks – A.L.I.C.E (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity). If you haven’t chatted with A.L.I.C.E yet – you can by clicking right here. Isn’t A.L.I.C.E. kinda like what a search engine is….a type of artificial "intelligence" – you don’t always get what you’d expect, nor do you always […]
- 10-30-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
28% Having a Rotten time with Google Update – 25% Doing Great
My last poll asked, "How is the Jagger Dance (The Google October Update) treating you so far?" Results were: Rotten 28% Great 25% No change 24% Good 13% Not good 11% For those who did "rotten", why do you think your rankings went down? And for those who did "great" why do you think […]
- 10-30-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Playing with Google’s Domain Age Factor
Being a CEO of an SEO company, who does sales too, I try to be as “realistic” as I can about what it’s going to take for a website to obtain “good” rankings in places like Google, Yahoo, and MSN over a period of time when speaking with potential clients. At one point, all prospective clients all […]
- 10-30-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Matt Cutts is a Mover and Shaker
MattCutts.com is a Mover and ShakerThough Brett is too! Was just on www.alexa.com and what did I see? (look to your right) Why is MattCutts.com a Mover and shaker? We’ll Matt’s the Senior Google Engineer, who coincidently owns a blog at mattcutts.com/blog/. Matt coincidently is also known at the "Mick Jagger of Search", and coincidently […]
- 10-28-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Psssst — GIVING away DMOZ Editor Accounts!
Last week there was a big stir in the SEO field when SEO Black Hat put a listing on Ebay, selling a DMOZ editor username and password to an unknown PR5 category in DMOZ. The ad was shortly pulled from eBay, and he was also sent this letter from Ebay suspending his eBay account. I […]
- 10-26-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Google Base vs. Ebay & Newspapers.
I’m sure most of my readers have heard the buzz about "Google Base" and probably lots of you have even seen some screenshots of it. According to the official Google blog as posted by by Tom Oliveri, Product Marketing Manager We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which […]
- 10-26-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Help – I hate Godaddy – Need Alternatives
OK….I think I’ve had my final straw with Godaddy Domain Name Services….I won’t air the dirty laundry this time…its just not worth it. So…..the only thing I liked about Godaddy was the prices….and when you’ve got ~300 domain names, where most are registered for ~5 years, what’s my alternatives without spending tons? I’m ready to […]
- 10-25-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
New Tools: 2 Tools for On Page Optimization
2 New On Page Search Engine Optimization SEO Tools – Free! Most of our past tools centered on "Off Page Optimization" (links). I’m happy to offer 2 new tools dealing with the other side ("On Page Optimization"). Getting the right mix of on page and off page optimization is the key to healthy search engine rankings. A few on […]
- 10-24-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
