First the no-follow tag – now 12 more link descriptor tags.
Gurtie over at Gray Hat Search Engine News looks to be the first to get the scoop and report on the new Link Descriptor Tags (the "No-Follow" being the first Link Descriptor Tags). It appears that these new tags will be used by Google, Yahoo, and Ask (MSN was having some issue at the moment). […]
- 08-31-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
SEO Services Email Spammers – my trap is open.
This morning I had 2 emails in my inbox from "SEO Companies" telling me that they can’t find webuildpages.com in the search engines and that I can get a Free evaluation from them to show me what needs to be done, and how their services can help me. This is nothing new, I’m know everyone […]
- 08-31-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
SEO Tip – Get Your Own IP Address.
So I just bought a domain from someone who had it both registered and hosted with register.com…and in trying to keep things as much as they had been, I opened up an account with register.com to move the domain into my register.com account. I ended up running into a problem and I had to call […]
- 08-29-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
OMG Danny Sullivan Leaving Search Engine Watch & SES!
Wow, Danny Sullivan is leaving Search Engine Watch and the Search Engine Strategies Conferences. Danny gives a brief note on the Search Engine Watch Blog, but goes into more detail on his personal blog. Below is a couple of excerpts from Danny’s blog. My contracts with their owners Incisive Media are expiring, and we’ve not […]
- 08-29-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Free SEO Advice – Ask Jim
I thought I’d try something new here and open my blog up to questions from readers. I’ll collect your questions here and then start answering them in follow up posts. Want a public site review? (I’ll do it for free if you don’t mind me doing it in public here) Want to ask about the […]
- 08-28-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Andy Beal’s consulting services.
A few weeks ago when I heard that Andy Beal was leaving Fortune Interactive I jumped at the opportunity to get Andy to come to the We Build Pages office to offer me some business consulting advice. …after all, Andy was one of the first employees at websourced (now MarkerSmart Interactive) that grew to over […]
- 08-23-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Todd and Lee’s Greatest Hits
My buddy (and former employee) Todd Malicoat (best known as Stuntdubl) released a great page listing his best/favorite blogs posts that’s well worth a read. Todd also release another great post today that I’d add to his best called Twelve Different Types of Links and How To Get Them. Lee Odden over at the Online Marketing […]
- 08-21-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Aaron & Andy List 101 Link Building Methods.
Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans just created a great list of 101 methods of getting backlinks. This will be added to our internal required reading list for our link building team. If you want more backlinks too, you should bookmark this list. These guys might look a bit strange…but they do know what they’re […]
- 08-15-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
All Jim’s SES San Jose 2006 Pictures – where’s yours?
Tonight (or should I say "last night"), I attended the webmasterradio search bash party at Studio 8 in San Jose. I met up with a lot of people I highly respect in the industry, and also caught some sumo wrestling. I’m sure a great time was had by all. I’ve uploaded tonights pictures and all […]
- 08-10-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Click Rate for Top 10 Search Results
Donna at SEO Scoop catches a post on Earnersforum where they used the recently released AOL Search Data to figure out click through rates for the the top 10 positions in search results. For ages people have been guessing at these figurures – now we really know! Results in:Total Searches:9,038,794 Total Clicks: 4,926,623 Click Rank1: […]
- 08-09-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
