Email – shoveling it out faster than it comes in.
I’m sure I get over 100 emails a day that pass through my email filters. I don’t know exactly how many come in, since a big part of my day is spent deleting or filing most of those (and my COO helps me there too). Today I thought I see how many emails I send […]
- 11-29-2005
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Growing and internet marketing dreams – Jim’s thoughts.
Yesterday I hired another "future link expert", and I’ve got another "future link expert" starting in about 2 weeks. Funny thing is, is that I often feel that I could have "work" for another 50 or 100 people, all doing different types of internet marketing tasks. I remember the first few years starting out, when it was […]
- 11-29-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Nearly 1/3 of SEO’s are new to the game.
Nearly 1/3 of all "SEO’s" have been SEOing less than 1 year. (according to my small poll). My last poll asked: How many years have you been doing SEO?and the results were: less than 1 year – 31%2-3 years – 31%4-5 years – 18%5-6 years – 13%7 or more years – 8% Do you think […]
- 11-27-2005
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Damned to Google Hell – Supplemental Results
Google Supplemental Results doh! They’ve been called "the Kiss of Death", "Google Hell", and "Screwed Pages" (Ok, I just made those up), but in any case, Supplemental Results is not where you want your pages to be if you expect traffic from Google. Let’s see google’s official defination from their webmaster page: Supplemental sites are part of […]
- 11-25-2005
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Leaving Mother Google and finding other friends.
I was checking out the traffic stats today for webuildpages.com and I got a warm and fuzzy feeling in that it looks like only about 1/3 of our traffic is via search engines today. To be specific:Website referrals – 67.40%Search Engine Referrals – 32.41% 2 years ago about 90% of my traffic was from "Mother […]
- 11-25-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Spam in Faxes. Stop killing trees.
We’ve got our fax # published on our website, and lately I’ve been getting fax spammed. Freaking crazy. You can’t tell me that there’s any conversion for crap like faxed spams can you? We get spam faxes ranging from "Jesus will save your damned soul" to "Get good deals on traveling to florida". Guess we’ve […]
- 11-23-2005
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Strangest “lead” this year – WTF
I just got the strangest "proposal" I think I’ve gotten this year. Looks like some form of "My rich uncle Abdul died and we need to get 50 million worth of gold bars into the US scam thing….but they’re trying to get you to join an affiliate program….really strange! Check it out. You’re my last […]
- 11-23-2005
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SES in Chicago December 5th-8th. SEO Tools, Tagging – Wikipedia, and Links.
Search Engine Strategies is right around the corner! So on the heals of Vegas, we’ve got Search Engine Strategies in Chicago coming on December 5th – 8th in Sunny warm Chicago…haha, yea more like cold and windy Chicago! Danny’s been asked a lot why they do chicago in december, and once he replied: Yes, I’ve suggested trying to […]
- 11-22-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Few WebmasterWorld Pubcon Vegas Pics
Some of my pics from Webmasterworld Vegas 05 Christoph Cemper Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo Andy Beal Brett Tabke of Webmasterworld and Matt Cutts of Google George Werty GoGuides Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall Lee Odden Lee Odden & Aaron Wall Greg and Brian of BOTW w/Matt Cutts (What’s Matt Saying?) Ted Ulle I left out the […]
- 11-22-2005
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Adding content pages – 78 possible topics
Greeting from Vegas again. Content creation ideas. I was reading over some forums this morning, and hearing people whine about Matt Cutts saying that buying links (over the radar 😉 and link trading, and 3 way linking isn’t going to pack the punch it once did…and all the ecommerce sites saying, “but hey, I’ve got […]
- 11-17-2005
- Jim Boykin's Blog
