Matt Cutts is a Mover and Shaker
MattCutts.com is a Mover and ShakerThough Brett is too! Was just on www.alexa.com and what did I see? (look to your right) Why is MattCutts.com a Mover and shaker? We’ll Matt’s the Senior Google Engineer, who coincidently owns a blog at mattcutts.com/blog/. Matt coincidently is also known at the "Mick Jagger of Search", and coincidently […]
- 10-28-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Psssst — GIVING away DMOZ Editor Accounts!
Last week there was a big stir in the SEO field when SEO Black Hat put a listing on Ebay, selling a DMOZ editor username and password to an unknown PR5 category in DMOZ. The ad was shortly pulled from eBay, and he was also sent this letter from Ebay suspending his eBay account. I […]
- 10-26-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Google Base vs. Ebay & Newspapers.
I’m sure most of my readers have heard the buzz about "Google Base" and probably lots of you have even seen some screenshots of it. According to the official Google blog as posted by by Tom Oliveri, Product Marketing Manager We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which […]
- 10-26-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Help – I hate Godaddy – Need Alternatives
OK….I think I’ve had my final straw with Godaddy Domain Name Services….I won’t air the dirty laundry this time…its just not worth it. So…..the only thing I liked about Godaddy was the prices….and when you’ve got ~300 domain names, where most are registered for ~5 years, what’s my alternatives without spending tons? I’m ready to […]
- 10-25-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
New Tools: 2 Tools for On Page Optimization
2 New On Page Search Engine Optimization SEO Tools – Free! Most of our past tools centered on "Off Page Optimization" (links). I’m happy to offer 2 new tools dealing with the other side ("On Page Optimization"). Getting the right mix of on page and off page optimization is the key to healthy search engine rankings. A few on […]
- 10-24-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
New Poll: How’s the Google Update Treating You?
Results of my last poll (Do you work on the weekend?) are here. This weeks poll (look to your left) How is the Jagger Dance (The October Google Update) Treating you so far? Please take a second and place your vote.
- 10-23-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Most SEO’s and Webmasters are Addicts
My last poll question asked: "Do you work on the weekend?" Results were (See details here): 30% I never stop 44 % Often 14% Sometimes 8% Rarely 4 % Never hum….Possible headlines…."74% of SEO’s and webmasters usually work on weekends"….or "Only 12% of SEO’s and webmasters get weekends off"….let’s see….ya….I’ve got a more catchy title […]
- 10-23-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
First clues to Jagger Update
Rand has an interesting post on SEOmoz about "SERPs you can’t understand" which seems to be actually shedding some light on what Google might be getting better at doing with the Jagger update. One of his example searches he brings up is for Edward Hopper in Google, which Rand says "The [first]page [of google results] […]
- 10-22-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Jagger can’t top this – WBP Theme Song Returns
Got 2 minutes and 37 seconds? In case you missed it when it was "leaked out" in April, Here’s the We Build Pages Theme Song (mp3)(most of my employees were embarrassed when this made some news in April…and ha, I’m bringing it back with my blog 😉 Turn up your speakers, and sing along now!———————— […]
- 10-22-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Google Update Jagger Dance Information
Google Update Jagger Resources I haven’t read them them all, but if you’re bound and determined to try to find information on the Google Jagger update then read the following. Beware though, reading the below is reading "Sanity", "Paranoia" and "Insanity" and "Stupidness" – the trick is to be able to pick out the "Sanity". […]
- 10-22-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
