Blog Spam Part 1 – Stopping Blog Spam.
Blog Spam part 1, Who is doing it and how to stop it. So there’s 2 sets of blog spammers that I’m aware of, the Industrial turn and burn blog spam and Backlinks for link value blog spam. Industrial turn and burn blog spam Those who do it on a massive planned scale for the […]
- 12-28-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Blog Spam part 2 – The Nofollow, friend or enemy?
Blog Spam Part 2 Combating Blog spam with the nofollow tag. When my blog was set up for me, it came with the nofollow on all links on all usernames and in all comments. Meaning, that for those who make a post, where their name is a link, that link in the eyes of Google it’s […]
- 12-28-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Henry Boone of sellingwhiz.com alexa, barnsandnoble, and blog spammer.
Back in November webuildpages.com got our first Alexa review (has since been removed) from a person named Henry Boone of sellingwhiz.com who gave us a review, yet he didn’t know us at all, and was pushing his site (sellingwhiz.com) in his review of us. He did the same to hundreds of other internet marketing sites within a […]
- 12-28-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Planning today for if you died tomorrow.
Webmasterworld has an interesting thread called "Hit by a Bus" where people are chatting about steps to take now if you were hit by a bus tomorrow. I’ve got to say that I’ve got the advantage in that for my business, I’ve got a COO who just loves paperwork and finding everything about everything and […]
- 12-27-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
What Blogs do you Read on a Daily Basis?
I just updated my Blogroll (I call it "Blogs I read on a Daily Basis"…on the left side) Here’s my blogroll (in random order): SEOmoz Blog Abakus SEO Blog Search Engine Journal Google’s Blog SEO Book Search Engine Roundtable Wolf Howl Search Engine Watch’s Blog IhateGoogle Stuntdubl SEO Consultant Sebastian’s Pamphlets Google Blogoscoped Yahoo’s Search […]
- 12-27-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
What country is your site hosted in?
As you may recall, several weeks ago I purchased a handful of old domains and we’ve been uploading some additional content on them. One of these sites has been getting tons of traffic from Google….but not from google.com, from google.ca. So in doing a bit of research (www.whois.sc) I found that the site is hosted […]
- 12-27-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Kuala and Baileys Pancakes.
Warning total Cat Post (actually dog post). (nothing to do with SEO) So I picked up a bottle of Baileys and Kuala this holiday season. THis morning my wife decided to make pancakes on her new grittle, so me trying not to get fatter than I’m becoming this holiday season, decided to find an alternative […]
- 12-26-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Best Holiday Gifts – what did you get?
I’m loading up my new ipod right now! This looks like it will be fun…it plays video too. So I’ve been loading up all my tunes, as well as a bunch of music videos and south park and simpsons shows, as well as thousands of hours worth of old time radio shows (30’s -50’s)….also ran over to […]
- 12-25-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Is there anybody out there?
Twas the day before Christmas…and there’s not much for news in the world of internet marketing…worse than a normal Sunday….I hate slow news days….give me some controversy….give me anything….I feel so all alone scanning for my fix of SEO news… Is there anybody out there?
- 12-24-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
I’d pay Yahoo for this.
Yahoo’s been my homepage for 6 years now, and they’ve been my email provider for that long as well. I’ve been having serious issues with Yahoo email, (I’m sick of typing in the random charactor string everytime I send an email), I’ve tried the Yahoo beta email, but I don’t like waiting 45 seconds for […]
- 12-23-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
