Just what is “relevant” when getting links?
Chris Boggs has a nice post on Search Engine Roundtable, where he spots a thread on Cre8asite forums about "the seven degrees of separations" when linking topically. Tomc asks: When performing a link building campaign, how effective is it to gain links from entirely non-relevant sites but which share some words from your keyphrase? I’ll […]
- 10-03-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Andy Beal’s $5000 SEM Scholarship Contest.
I just received an email from Andy Beal stating: I’ve just announced an exciting new $5,000 SEM scholarship and thought you and your readers might be interested. We’re looking for the next top SEM talent and anyone can enter by simply submitting an article related to SEM. The winner will win a fantastic prize package that […]
- 10-02-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Local Internet Marketing – SES Denver from Mike Belasco
Local Marketing SES Conference Coverage from Mike Belasco Mike the Marketing Guy has some coverage of the Sept 28 SES converence in Denver that covered Local Marketing. Mike covered: Meet the Search Engines – Local Local Search Ads Local Search Marketing Tactics and here’s the Official info from SES Local Denver Sept 28 [tags]local internet marketing[/tags]
- 10-01-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Eric Ward offers Link Building Newsletter.
Eric Ward is a man with several several names (The Father of Link Building, Link Moses, Mac Daddy Link Master, among other respected link names). I’ve got the highest respect for Eric, and I’ve been lucky eneough to had the honor of sitting next to Eric on a few SES link building panels.. I’ve also also got a […]
- 09-29-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Don’t ever try to cancel AOL.
Cancelling an AOL account is harder than you’d think. Great video of a guy trying to cancel his AOL account. Hat tip to Cristian Mezei and his SEO Blog. ——————————- On another note, Here’s an experiment in Viral Internet Marketing.
- 09-28-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Sperm Donors make more than SEO’s.
Catchy headline eh? I found this neat tool via Digg that shows how much you should be getting paid….but before my employees get all excited and start asking for raises, read the funny digg comments…and yes, Sperm Donors can make more than SEO’s according to this tool….and yes, I must be a cheap bastard because I don’t […]
- 09-27-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
It’s True – Spammers Can’t Add!
I’ve had my little battles with blog spam in the past. I’ve gone so far as to deactivate comments and pings on post over 30 days old (that actually helped a lot)….then I added a plug in called Akismet which helped some more….then I saw a few weeks ago that Matt Cutts had added a […]
- 09-26-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Non SEO: 3 Funnies
I guess I’m on a "joke" roll….here’s 3 funnies for your enjoyment: Two men are sitting drinking at a bar at the top of the Empire State Building when the first man turns to the other and says, "You know, last week I discovered that if you jump from the top of this building, by […]
- 09-24-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Non SEO: Living Wills
Last night, my wife and I were sitting in the living room talking about many things. The idea of a Living Will came up and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on a machine and fluids from a bottle. If I ever come to that just pull […]
- 09-19-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Jim Boykin on Myspace.
So being that it’s a Saturday, and I’m not in the office (and I keep reading Gray Wolf posting about myspace), I thought I’d get a myspace page for Jim Boykin. I even did a blog post there on search engine optimization 101 …..nothing advanced…but I figure it will help out the kids there to […]
- 09-17-2006
- Jim Boykin's Blog
