(QualityGal) That page fails at meeting user intent. No, really.
* Jim’s note: Feel free to Sphinn this. Tough love. It’s something I’m going to have to start getting used to as the office consultant on user intent. It’s hard to tell someone – like your boss, or a client – that their keyword targeting campaign is due to fail miserably because it doesn’t match […]
- 08-12-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
(QualityGal) Your mom doesn’t know SEO.
Part of my job, as I understand it, is helping to keep Jim honest. Not to imply that he would ever be intentionally dishonest – nor would most respectable SEO professionals – but I think that, sometimes, it’s easy for SEO folks to lose sight of the people who actually click on the pages they […]
- 08-06-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
How should Search Engines treat Paid Links?
Eric Enge did an excellent interview with Priyank Garge, the director of product management for Yahoo Search Technology (YST). The interview was almost exlcusively centered around to topic of "links", and Eric did a great job of asking the right questions, and Priyank gave some great honest insights into his/Yahoo’s view on links. Here’s what […]
- 07-30-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
I Feel Lucky and have big Dreams, and we’re up to 40 now.
Ok, I’m at the office after midnight again, but I’m taking a break and posting a nostalgic "I’m feeling lucky rant" – hope ya enjoy my happy rant. … At times like these (when I’m at the office late at night working alone – only time I can get things like non-emergencies and emails done) […]
- 07-30-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
What if a Human Reviewer Looked at your Backlinks?
So last night I gave my “Quiz” asking you to find the “unnatural” link. I’ll admit it….those pages don’t link to any of our clients, nor to any sites we own 😉 It was really a rhetorical question. The point is…you really couldn’t see what link that might, or might not, have been influenced by […]
- 07-29-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Jim’s “Where’s the Unnatural Links?” Quiz.
Jim’s Quiz Some of these pages might link to some sites we work with. Can you spot any links that don’t look natural? http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~monty/monty.shtml http://www.dougbedell.com/internetproject.html http://www.peterdonis.net/catcomputers.html http://www.freedomisknowledge.com/allsites/coolsites.htm http://www.socalhoops.com/recruit.htm I’m betting you can’t. ps. and if any of these links do link to any sites we work wth, they are not client sites (but sites we may […]
- 07-28-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
QualityGal’s First Conference Call
I feel all "grown up" now. Jim had me called into the conference room to consult on a conference call with a client. Oh sure, there were five other people already in there, but none of them had this particular bit of expertise. It reminded me that I still haven’t written my first substantial blog […]
- 07-28-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
If I’d been at BlogHer, it wouldn’t have been to hear Graywolf speak
No offense at all to Graywolf, who believes it was sexist of BlogHer not to have male speakers at its 2008 conference, but I wouldn’t have gone there to hear him speak. If I’d gone at all, that is. Let me back the train up a bit. Until a few weeks ago, I was just […]
- 07-22-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
QualityGal is hopping on the social networking bandwagon
Alright, so not everything I do every day is quite worth making a post about here on Jim’s blog, but if you’re at all interested in what it is I do for a living, you can now follow me on Twitter. And not that you’ll need to if you’re already reading Jim’s blog, but you’ll […]
- 07-17-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Linkbait 101: School’s In For the Summer
Alright. So it’s been almost two weeks since I asked for some education in the form of linkage. Since then, Jim decided to dump an order in my lap for over 1000 articles that need to be written ASAP – no easy feat when you’re looking for high quality content. The dozen writers already on […]
- 07-15-2008
- Jim Boykin's Blog
