Michael’s High Quality Links Lesson on SEOMoz.
Yea, yea, I know that 99% of my readers also read SEOMoz.org, but I still gotta point out a great article by Michael Martinez in SEOMoz about high quality links vs sheer number of backlinks. Michael starts with: I have to admit I almost gag every time I read a forum discussion that starts out with […]
- 03-28-2006
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Does an old bastardized site still pass link love?
Last month I set up an advertising arrangement with a nice old site. I’ll call this site "Big Site A". In researching "Big Site A" in the wayback machine I saw that it had a kinda shady history long ago. By shady I mean that it once had been selling links to some questionable websites on many of […]
- 03-27-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Making Millions with Contextual Advertising.
Andrew Johnson just did a great interview with Markus Frind. If you’re not familiar with his name, perhaps you’re familiar with plentyoffish.com. If you’re not familiar with either his name, or his site – then you should familiarize yourself with both – why? Because he’s making $10,000 a day with Adsense! Read the interview here. […]
- 03-24-2006
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Cat Post – Thursday afternoon chuckle.
With the high rate of attacks on women in secluded parking lots, especially during evening hours, the Minneapolis City Council has established a "Women Only" parking lot at the Mall of America. Even the parking lot attendants are exclusively female so that a comfortable and safe environment is created for patrons. Below is the first […]
- 03-23-2006
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$39 – Free Stuff and over 3,000 links!
I was over at Dan’s blog (I Hate Google) reading older posts I’d missed, when I saw his reference to the $39 Experiment by Tom Locke…maybe it’s because it’s after 2:00am, but it had me chuckling here. So, of course, my next thought after my amusement was "how many links did this net him?" Yahoo (at the time […]
- 03-23-2006
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Co Citation – understanding how it effects your SEO.
Co Citation – A major search engine ranking factor that few SEO’s understand. What is Co Citation?I found a nice page on sourceforge.net that gives a nice definition of co citation. Bibliographic Co-Citation is a popular similarity measure used to establish a subject similarity between two items. If A and B are both cited by […]
- 03-15-2006
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Cat Post – I’ll be Big Daddy Again!
A few days ago I found out that I’ll be a Daddy again! Due beginning Nov. It’s kinda funny how things happen….for over 5 years my wife and I had been trying to have a baby before we had Sam…we were about to do one shot of IVF, then if that didn’t work, we were […]
- 03-12-2006
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Alexa Blog and Zillow (Check it out!)
I was just over at www.alexa.com and by accident, I scrolled down the page. Hey, there’s a blog by Geoffrey Mack…and it’s got some cool stuff in it. I really enjoyed "MySpace… Taking Over the World" (It’s in the top 10 of most visited web sites!) Through Geoffrey’s blog on the Alexa homepage I also […]
- 03-10-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Flashbacks on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and more.
Last night I saw Philipp’s post where he points out how microsoft.com looked in 1994, So I thought I’d take a ride on the flashback express and show 12 sites we’re all familiar with, and link to how these sites looked in the 90’s. Google Dec 2, 1998 Yahoo Oct 17, 1996MSN.com Oct 22, 1996AltaVista […]
- 03-10-2006
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When do you throw the book at Content Stealers?
Last night I received an email from one of my clients….he shows me 2 links to other websites who have stolen his content. (one just changed the location of the business to their state and locality on the pages, and the company name). To say my client was angry was an understatement. There were lots of $%*& […]
- 03-07-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
