The Historical Importance of Backlinks.
Natural Link Growth, The Famous Google Patent, Back to the Future thoughts. In March of 2005 Google applied for a patent called “Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data“. If you haven’t read it, you really should…at the very least, read Rands “translation” of this patent. Now I realize the some of you are saying “Just because […]
- 05-22-2006
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My battle with Comment Spam, and my latest solution.
People trying to comment spam on my blog. …..Can’t you comment spammers work harder to identify blogs that aren’t being used to spam on instead of active blogs? Ya know, I actually read every comment that is posted (or tries to get posted). If someone really wants a link, I’ve made it pretty easy to […]
- 05-22-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Debating on London SES in 10 days.
So I was looking at my conference schedule, and I was crossing some off my list. We’ve got a baby due Nov 16th, so the following 3 shows are out. DMA 06 in San Fran mid Oct 14-18 Webmasterworld Pubcon Vegas Mid November 14-17 SES Dec 4-7 Chicago I’ll still be at HostingCon July 17-19th […]
- 05-21-2006
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3 way linking – 2 years old.
Funny….I was just reading about a conversation I had with Barry Schwartz 2 years ago. Back then I asked Barry not to disclose my name if he blogged about it for fear of Google coming after me for what I was doing……it’s been just over 2 years…and we’ve moved into what I hope are "better directions" than what […]
- 05-21-2006
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Tattoos and Ebay and Google
I’m an ebay junkie…I’ll admit it (you too?) Some of my saved searches are for "google", "Napster" , and a few "family" related searches. Today I came across this listing "Tattoo me / nike wwe google all corporations welcome" dunno….guess that’s one way to make a lot of money…. I’ve got a tattoo on my […]
- 05-20-2006
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SEO Questions I hate answering.
Questions I hate getting: Today I got an email with this question: “for the investment, what kind of return can we expect?” my answer: “I have no idea” Here’s some other questions I hate getting: What Pagerank should I expect? A common answer: I don’t know….it doesn’t matter anyways. What’s the PR of the top […]
- 05-18-2006
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Link Building Resource new Bookmark – TLB’s Wiki.
TextLinkBrokers.com have come up with a very good resource for those of us who are link junkies like myself. It’s the http://www.linkbuildingwiki.com Speaking of TextLinkBrokers.com, Rob and Jarrod have a excellent blog in case you didn’t know (focused on link buiding issues). If you haven’t seen these, you should check them out.
- 05-16-2006
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Article Submission Services.
I’ve been hearing a lot about Article Submission Services….and I ask myself….why? If you’ve got an article, and you submit it to a bunch of places, isn’t google going to just toss all of them (except 1) into the "Supplemental Results"? I guess I might as well go beyond "Article Submission Services" and ask the […]
- 05-15-2006
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Text around your links…Keeping it Natural Looking.
I was reading Loren’s article today, which referenced a forum thread on SE RoundTable. In that thread Benjamin Pfeiffer was quoted as saying: The best approach I think is rather instead of a site wide link a webmaster should approach a website by targeting individual pages and taking a slower more covert approach to obtaining links. […]
- 05-10-2006
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New Blogger – Truman of InfoSearch Media.
I see that Truman Hedding of InfoSearch Media has started blogging, and is off to a great start. A few of his starting posts are quite good. From Link Building 101, some pretty good advice: One of the most common misconceptions about link building is that relevancy doesn’t matter if you have a great deal […]
- 05-10-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
