SES in Chicago December 5th-8th. SEO Tools, Tagging – Wikipedia, and Links.
Search Engine Strategies is right around the corner! So on the heals of Vegas, we’ve got Search Engine Strategies in Chicago coming on December 5th – 8th in Sunny warm Chicago…haha, yea more like cold and windy Chicago! Danny’s been asked a lot why they do chicago in december, and once he replied: Yes, I’ve suggested trying to […]
- 11-22-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Few WebmasterWorld Pubcon Vegas Pics
Some of my pics from Webmasterworld Vegas 05 Christoph Cemper Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo Andy Beal Brett Tabke of Webmasterworld and Matt Cutts of Google George Werty GoGuides Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall Lee Odden Lee Odden & Aaron Wall Greg and Brian of BOTW w/Matt Cutts (What’s Matt Saying?) Ted Ulle I left out the […]
- 11-22-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Adding content pages – 78 possible topics
Greeting from Vegas again. Content creation ideas. I was reading over some forums this morning, and hearing people whine about Matt Cutts saying that buying links (over the radar 😉 and link trading, and 3 way linking isn’t going to pack the punch it once did…and all the ecommerce sites saying, “but hey, I’ve got […]
- 11-17-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
SEO is a game of Chess and Sandbox Rant.
Greatings from Vegas. SEO is like a Game of Chess Jim’s definition of SEO:SEO is the art of using techniques whereby one does things to, or around, a website to try to increase it’s rankings in the search engines. By definition, anyone who even knows the term SEO, is an SEO. Even the simplest arts […]
- 11-17-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Free Link Training – Link Ninjas
We Build Pages has had some good success with link building training in the past, and so we’ve decided to take our training one step further by offering Link Building Training under the alias of Link Ninjas. We’re now offering monthly classes, being offered as a 1 day, or a 2 day class, in Upstate […]
- 11-15-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
The first 2 months blogging – feedback?
I’ll be away Nov 13 – Nov 21, heading to the Webmasterworld conference, and then to the Grand Canyon to do some consulting with a client. In my absense, I’m posting links to 15 of my favorite posts covering the past 2 months that I’ve been a blogger. How much link spam can you eat before […]
- 11-11-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Google.org – global poverty alleviation, energy and the environment + Grants.
Google.org – global poverty alleviation, energy and the environment + Google Grants I just got my "Google Friends" email where they mention: Google.orgIn our 2004 initial public offering, our founders committed one percentof our profits and equity toward Google’s philanthropic efforts.Regarding these efforts, they wrote, "We hope that someday thisinstitution will eclipse Google itself in […]
- 11-11-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
How much Link Spam can you eat before you choke?
Aaron Wall posts about Link Spam Detection (how much link spam can you have and still do ok?) based on his analysis of the paper Link spam Detection Based on Mass Estimation (pdf). The biggest things Aaron points out are: .edu and .gov love is the real deal, and then some Don’t be scared of […]
- 11-10-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Jagger Lifts and Squashes – Funny Picture.
Googlebot in Action during the Jagger Update Click here to see an image showing the real Googlebot in action during the Google Jagger Update. Some people were elevated by Jagger, and some people got squashed.
- 11-10-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Alexa Review Spamming – could happen to you.
Well, webuildpages.com just got a spam review on our alexa page. Here’s our new review: They must know something about search engine ranking as they have some good rankings in the search engines. Although the page ranks high, the message on the page was a little dry. It didn’t grab my attention for very long […]
- 11-10-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
