Back from Boston Pubcon.

Well I’m back from the Boston Webmasterworld Pubcon.  It was a great time…maybe at times too good (at least my head said in the mornings). I forgot my camera, so I grabbed a disposable the second day and snapped maybe 5-7 pictures. I should have those tomorrow (anyone else have pics?) My link building sesson […]

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Ranking for your name. Do you care?

Do you rank well for your name? Do you care? I’ll start…..I do, and I care. Often, If I’m trying to sell someone on "trust me" – I will tell them to Google my name. FYI, I often Google prospective clients, and I google prospective employees. (FYI, The other Jim Boykin (the tennis player) must […]

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Buying old domains – chat and ramble.

A post by Barry on SE Roundtable caught my eye called "Changing Domain Name Ownership Whois Information & Google Search Ranking Impact." His opening paragraph states: Every since Google became a registrar in January 2005, SEOs wondered how Google would use the whois data. In mid-February we reported that Google admitted to using registrar data to […]

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Dumb Blogging Mistakes and Bad Betas.

Bad Blogger. Yesterday and today were the worst 2 days blogging that I’ve had so far…I guess days like this are bound to happen. Last week I had this great idea for a new tool so I spoke with a few programmers about building this "great backlink" tool….I had the idea…but I wasn’t sure if […]

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