Picture of Link Neighborhoods
What’s the best order in the Chaos of Linking? I’m often asked these questions: How does Google order websites? How do Yahoo, and MSN order websites. Why don’t they give the same results? What does it take to be #1? Why did my rankings change? I’m going to attempt to answer all these questions with […]
- 09-26-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
I’ve got SEM.Jobs
I played around some today looking at the new .job domain name extentions. These domains are still available www.jim.jobs www.internetmarketing.jobs www.searchengineoptimization.jobs www.411.jobs I passed on the above…but I ended up buying www.sem.jobs for $160.15 ($119.95/year + $39.95 application fee (yea, don’t ask me why math doesn’t add up)) from Godaddy. PS. Darn….I see searchengineoptimization.eu is available….but I don’t […]
- 09-25-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Before I got to #1
Today I ran a search in Google for "what time zone is ohio" It answered my question…but it gave me a few new questions. Before I got to the #1 Result, I see 2 areas Google’s put on top. 1. how did this page:http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/o/oh/ohio.htmlget above the "Book results"? (and hey…another www.wikipedia.org type site!) I see in the […]
- 09-21-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Pass that joint over here!
I just got an email lead for services. I’m not sure what this guy is smoking, but I’d appreciate if he’d pass some over here. Here’s some of his email: "….What we would like to do of course is achieve number one positions on all search engines for those words which are: Horse, Horses, Sports, Software, […]
- 09-20-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
New Age of Website SEO Tools
2 new SEO Tools by We Build Pages – Age and Links Analysis Tools Every day I get calls with people saying "I want to be #1 for "Green Widgets""My first question to them is "How old is your site?"Followed by my quickly running Yahoo’s linkdomain searches for the top sites to get an idea […]
- 09-20-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
I like ’em old.
When Leads come in, I review them, and either trash them, send them to Todd, or handle myself. Often when I send them to todd, I attach a small note like: "Since 1999 (potential)" or "since 2003 – maybe"….today I sent one to Todd which said "since 1997" Note, that these little notes don’t say […]
- 09-15-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Pay Yahoo to remove your title tag??
Hello Yahoo! Why can’t you change this? When filling out the form for submitting your site to the Yahoo, it is required that: (according to this page) "If your site is commercial, the title submitted must be the company name. Any request to change a business name to something other than its actual name will not be […]
- 09-15-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Scraping Whole Pages is not Cool.
I shouldn’t be one to throw stones in glass houses.I guilty of experimenting with lots of methods of trying to get traffic to websites – some methods have been blacker than others, so I’m in no way saying I’m "Mr. Clean". I am however going to toss a small stone to those who steal content (like […]
- 09-14-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Forward Link Look Tool – V1
In wanting to analyze "Links Out" a bit more (to better view the neighborhood) I had a programmer working on a tool to peek at title tags of pages being linked to. I just got back a version of that tool ..it’s not quite was I was seeking – so it looks like there’ll be another tool after […]
- 09-14-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
When Getting Links is not the solution.
With almost all prospective clients I speak with I end up telling them "You Need More Links" …. I can show them all sorts of fancy reports, and fancy tools, and we can do all sorts of fancy analysis….but the results are almost always "You Need More and Better Backlinks if you want to rank […]
- 09-13-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
