Who does SEX, DRUGS, and GAMBLING …. SEO?
I know it sounds fun, Sex, drugs, and gambling…but we don’t do SEO for those industries…not that I’ve got anything against them…hey, I’ve been known to do all 3….but as far as SEO, they all seem pretty competitive. I tend to think that in order to succeed in these arenas, you’d need a bunch of […]
- 12-22-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
People who believe the SEO Magic Bullet Theory.
I often get people who fill out the form on webuildpages.com that have no clue as to how Search Engine Optimization works (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I have no problem with the "talk" of how search engines rank sites (I do it all the time….words on the pages, theme of site, resource, […]
- 12-22-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Get a site back in Google/Yahoo, get $300.
What do you do when a site disappears from Google and Yahoo overnight? $300 reward. A few weeks ago we had a clients site disappear from Google and Yahoo overnight…when I say "disappear" I mean all the pages in Google were tossed out, and in Yahoo, all the pages except the homepage dropped out. The […]
- 12-21-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Brett Tabke has a blog!
Just a quick note – Brett Tabke of Webmasterword has a blog, and guess where he’s "hiding" it. http://www.webmasterworld.com/robots.txt Nice! as he says: # me: Self, can you publish a blog in a robots.txt file?# self: Sure you can. Robots would just ignore the commented lines.# # me: What would be the point?# self: Fun […]
- 12-20-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Desktop or Laptop – which do you prefer?
I’ve been using the same laptop since August of 2002 and little things have been going wrong with it (though overall I’ve been extremly happy with my old Toshiba), but I’ve been getting the feeling that the end might be near so I decided to buy a new laptop tonight. I recalled a thread on […]
- 12-19-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Ripping into Google’s Information for Webmasters.
Today I decided to re read the "Google Information for Webmasters" Page. I agree with much of what Google says here….but there are some items that make me scratch my head and go "Really?" Let’s start at the top Many SEOs provide useful services for website owners, from writing copy to giving advice on site […]
- 12-19-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Laptop thieves – worse than content thieves!
Computers stolen from office in the middle of the day! I just got an email from Bill Hartzer stating: As you might already know, we had several laptops stolen from our offices on Wednesday. The guy walked right into our offices during lunch time and walked out with laptops, a cell phone, and a purse. […]
- 12-16-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Capitalizing your links and being paranoid.
I just got one of the best questions I’ve even recieved from a client before, he asks: When getting a link from a site is it better to have all letters of link title lower case, capitalise them, or is it irrelevant? As capital letters have a different ascii code I presume one day search […]
- 12-15-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Buying links under the radar so Matt can’t find them.
ah….what an exciting week it’s been so far! All this talk about “buying links” featured everywhere. Matt’s giving the good ole Google PR advice, Jeremy from Yahoo is saying “I’ll sell links“, Threadwatch, Rand (more), Barry, Greg, Todd, Danny, and everyone else has been chatting about it. Matt’s even on Round 2 (not counting mentions in this thread) […]
- 12-13-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
New Poll – how much $ did you make in 2005
My latest poll asks "How much money did you take home in 2005 due to your SEO efforts (what’s your income)?" (see the left side to vote). FYI, none of this info is tracked (so you can be honest – I’ll have no idea who you are). Anyone with ideas for future poll questions?
- 12-11-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
