Damage Control – Online Reputation Management – Pushing the bad news down.
Damage Control, and ways to recover your Good Name through online Reputation Management. This is on the heals of my last post called "Telling a prospective client "You’re screwed" (about a guy with bad "publicity" covering the top 10 results for his name, and him insisting on being #1 with a brand new site). I’ve […]
- 11-09-2005
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Telling a prospective client, “You’re screwed”.
Telling a prospective client "You’re screwed" (OK, I was much nicer and didn’t actually say "You’re Screwed", but that’s still what it came down to.) His situation:He’s calling for one of his clients, a doctor, who was involved in a lawsuit (based on a specific medical condition) some time back. The first 10 results are […]
- 11-08-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Screw the Sandbox – Buy an old site.
I’ve gone 5 days without posting….sorry for the silence….I’ve got a new addiction that’s been sucking up my time…I’ve been staying at the office well past midnight, and even when I’m at home, I try to sneak away to my computer to play with my addiction. So what’s my new addiction? It’s called “Buying Old […]
- 11-06-2005
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When will the Wayback Machine Update?
I use the wayback machine on a daily basis. Mostly to find a websites’ history for SEO purposes. In case you haven’t noticed, the last the the wayback machine shows any cached dates was in November 30th 2004. It’s been almost 12 months since they last updated any new coppies of archieved web pages. According […]
- 11-01-2005
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Links Within Content, Linking to Content …. a Rant.
A free flow rant——————– Link Monkey….stupid people…..the jokes on those who have, what they consider, “link monkeys” working on their link campaigns. Your link manager should be your “link expert”….an expert mind you….no freakin’ “monkey”. I find many individuals who come to us who have been workin in obtaining links themselves, or by just purchasing […]
- 11-01-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
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
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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
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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
