Jim Boykin interviewed on SEO Buzzbox.
I was just interviewed by Aaron Pratt of SEO Buzzbox. In there I talk about Matt calling me Evil, saying "fuck it" to trying to rank high for "internet marketing" and more. (there’s my tease). Read the full interview of Jim Boykin by Aaron Pratt at SEO Buzzbox.
- 12-01-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
White lies clients tell us – and wife beating.
I’ve been reading SEO Speedwagon for a few months now, and today there was a killer post by Erik that had me cracking up. The opening paragraphs states: From a psychological perspective, it turns out that asking a new or potential client, "Have you ever engaged in any spammy or controversial SEO activity?" is quite […]
- 11-30-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
A Chat with Aaron Wall, new owner of Threadwatch
Chat with Aaron Wall – New owner of Threadwatch.org Threadwatch has been a staple daily (hourly) news read for me and thousands of other SEO’s since it started. In case you haven’t heard, Nick Wilson just sold the Threadwatch to Aaron Wall (of SEO Book fame). (SEO Book has been another daily (hourly read) to keep […]
- 11-30-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Email – shoveling it out faster than it comes in.
I’m sure I get over 100 emails a day that pass through my email filters. I don’t know exactly how many come in, since a big part of my day is spent deleting or filing most of those (and my COO helps me there too). Today I thought I see how many emails I send […]
- 11-29-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Growing and internet marketing dreams – Jim’s thoughts.
Yesterday I hired another "future link expert", and I’ve got another "future link expert" starting in about 2 weeks. Funny thing is, is that I often feel that I could have "work" for another 50 or 100 people, all doing different types of internet marketing tasks. I remember the first few years starting out, when it was […]
- 11-29-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Nearly 1/3 of SEO’s are new to the game.
Nearly 1/3 of all "SEO’s" have been SEOing less than 1 year. (according to my small poll). My last poll asked: How many years have you been doing SEO?and the results were: less than 1 year – 31%2-3 years – 31%4-5 years – 18%5-6 years – 13%7 or more years – 8% Do you think […]
- 11-27-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Damned to Google Hell – Supplemental Results
Google Supplemental Results doh! They’ve been called "the Kiss of Death", "Google Hell", and "Screwed Pages" (Ok, I just made those up), but in any case, Supplemental Results is not where you want your pages to be if you expect traffic from Google. Let’s see google’s official defination from their webmaster page: Supplemental sites are part of […]
- 11-25-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Leaving Mother Google and finding other friends.
I was checking out the traffic stats today for webuildpages.com and I got a warm and fuzzy feeling in that it looks like only about 1/3 of our traffic is via search engines today. To be specific:Website referrals – 67.40%Search Engine Referrals – 32.41% 2 years ago about 90% of my traffic was from "Mother […]
- 11-25-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Spam in Faxes. Stop killing trees.
We’ve got our fax # published on our website, and lately I’ve been getting fax spammed. Freaking crazy. You can’t tell me that there’s any conversion for crap like faxed spams can you? We get spam faxes ranging from "Jesus will save your damned soul" to "Get good deals on traveling to florida". Guess we’ve […]
- 11-23-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Strangest “lead” this year – WTF
I just got the strangest "proposal" I think I’ve gotten this year. Looks like some form of "My rich uncle Abdul died and we need to get 50 million worth of gold bars into the US scam thing….but they’re trying to get you to join an affiliate program….really strange! Check it out. You’re my last […]
- 11-23-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
