Google Ranking Filters: Trust and Age Factors.
Call it what you want: Sandbox, Trustbox, TrustRank, Filters, Kitty Litter, etc etc. In case you didn’t know, TIME is a huge factor to Google’s rankings. How long you’ve been around, how long you’ve had people link to your site, how old are the site that link to you, what has your backlink growth and […]
- 10-06-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Important: Know a site built with Microsoft Frontpage?
Can you digg it? Today I got an email from Gemstream Hosting with the subject line of "FrontPage End-of-Life". I’d think this was spam, except it was coming from a big hosting company. Now I might hate to admit it, but I know a few websites out there that were built in Microsoft Fronpage. You […]
- 10-05-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Pagerank Bar doesn’t Equal Search Engine Rankings.
There’s an interesting thread over on Webmasterworld about Google increasing the fairy dust (Pagerank) for sites that buy big ole links. The fun part is where Roger (Martinibuster) (the Moderator for the Link Building Category on WW) keeps trying to make a point about the visible Pagerank not meaning anything as far as rankings are […]
- 10-03-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Just what is “relevant” when getting links?
Chris Boggs has a nice post on Search Engine Roundtable, where he spots a thread on Cre8asite forums about "the seven degrees of separations" when linking topically. Tomc asks: When performing a link building campaign, how effective is it to gain links from entirely non-relevant sites but which share some words from your keyphrase? I’ll […]
- 10-03-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Andy Beal’s $5000 SEM Scholarship Contest.
I just received an email from Andy Beal stating: I’ve just announced an exciting new $5,000 SEM scholarship and thought you and your readers might be interested. We’re looking for the next top SEM talent and anyone can enter by simply submitting an article related to SEM. The winner will win a fantastic prize package that […]
- 10-02-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Local Internet Marketing – SES Denver from Mike Belasco
Local Marketing SES Conference Coverage from Mike Belasco Mike the Marketing Guy has some coverage of the Sept 28 SES converence in Denver that covered Local Marketing. Mike covered: Meet the Search Engines – Local Local Search Ads Local Search Marketing Tactics and here’s the Official info from SES Local Denver Sept 28 [tags]local internet marketing[/tags]
- 10-01-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Eric Ward offers Link Building Newsletter.
Eric Ward is a man with several several names (The Father of Link Building, Link Moses, Mac Daddy Link Master, among other respected link names). I’ve got the highest respect for Eric, and I’ve been lucky eneough to had the honor of sitting next to Eric on a few SES link building panels.. I’ve also also got a […]
- 09-29-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Don’t ever try to cancel AOL.
Cancelling an AOL account is harder than you’d think. Great video of a guy trying to cancel his AOL account. Hat tip to Cristian Mezei and his SEO Blog. ——————————- On another note, Here’s an experiment in Viral Internet Marketing.
- 09-28-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Sperm Donors make more than SEO’s.
Catchy headline eh? I found this neat tool via Digg that shows how much you should be getting paid….but before my employees get all excited and start asking for raises, read the funny digg comments…and yes, Sperm Donors can make more than SEO’s according to this tool….and yes, I must be a cheap bastard because I don’t […]
- 09-27-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
It’s True – Spammers Can’t Add!
I’ve had my little battles with blog spam in the past. I’ve gone so far as to deactivate comments and pings on post over 30 days old (that actually helped a lot)….then I added a plug in called Akismet which helped some more….then I saw a few weeks ago that Matt Cutts had added a […]
- 09-26-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
