London SES: Link Building – Methods and Risks with Jim Boykin – Feb

It’s funny…I’ve been looking at a lot of internet marketing conferences for 2010….and it’s amazing the percentage of Social Media panels compared to “Organic search engine rankings” panels… it seems like 85% of all panels are “social media” related, 14 percent are ppc, analytics, usability, other marketing topics”, and 2% are “organic rankings” topics.

I noticed that at SES London (feb 16-19) and SES NYC (march 22-26) that there were few organic panels…and no link building panels…what a shame..what a shame… so… I bought a session…  for London and NYC…and my session is:

Link Building – Methods and Risks with Jim Boykin
This isn’t your grandma’s link building session. Jim has been an industry leader in the area of link building for over 10 years as the founder and CEO of We Build Pages (www.webuildpages.com). Jim also won the search engine journal’s “Best Link Building Blog” in 2006 and 2007 (Jim rarely blogs anymore). Jim has seen and done it all when it comes to link building, and he knows which links effect search engine rankings, and the types of risks involved in certain types of link building. If higher search engine rankings are a major focus of yours, this is a “must attend” session.

Speaker:
Jim Boykin, CEO and Link Building Ninja, We Build Pages Internet Marketing Services

I have 1 hour…where I plan to blow the mind of everyone in attendance.  I can’t wait.

I went to a marketing party….. (can’t stop singing).

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Jim’s Beta Conference Schedule for 2010

I’m starting to put together my travel schedule for 2010… I have Feb and March set… but I’m still deciding on other conferences for all the future months…I really just want to go to 1 conference each month…There’s some of these that I hope to be speaking at as well….guess if I’m speaking on any, that’ll be the one that I’ll be going to that month… Let me know if you want me to speak at your conference.

February:
SES London – February 16-19
Confirmed: Speaking on Link Building Methods and Risks.

March:
SES, New York – March 22-26,
Confirmed: Speaking on Link Building Methods and Risks.

April:
Ad:tech- Paris – April 7-8
or SMX – Toronto – April 8-9
or Pubcon – Dallas April 13-15
or ad:tech – San Fran april 19-21
or eMA – San Fran 21-22
or SMX Sydney – April 22-23

May:
SMX Advanced London – May 17-18
or SearchExchange – North carolina May 17-19

June:
SMX Advanced Seattle – June 8-9, 2010
or Affiliate Convention Denver ~ June 21-22

July:
Vacation ? Egypt, Africa, Cruise?

August:
SES San Francisco Aug 16-20  – Confirmed Going.

September:
ad:tech London sept 21-22

October:
SMX East – NYC – October 4-6

November:
ad:tech – New York – Nov 3-5
or Pubcon Vegas Nov ?

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If you want me to speak at your marketing conference, please email my first name at webuildpages.com.

Here’s a few speaking testimonials:

SEOMoz – Favorite Tidbits from PubCon 2009
This was seriously one of my favorite sessions. The speakers (including Rand) had a ton of great information but the one that really stood out to me was Jim Boykin of We Build Pages. He gave away some really great tips…

SEO Disco – Pubcon Feedback
Jim’s presentation was, by far, my favorite because he was very up front and told it how it is. Since he speaks at so many conferences, he makes it a point to present new information every time. I thoroughly enjoyed the candid nature and honesty of his presentation. He gave us a “behind-the-scenes” look into his actual link building processes. A lot of his methods are similar to what I have already been doing… but it is nice to have this type of confirmation from an industry expert. This information is priceless for the beginning SEOer and I hope they left with some good notes. Needless to say, I did indeed take-away a few great points from Jim’s presentation.

Peter Davis – Thanks Jim Boykin
The presentation by Jim Boykin was head and shoulders above the rest… .All the other presentations, in that session as well as in others, were very much more general and more focused on what not to do with your link building campaign. Jim’s presentation was very focused, and he gave concrete examples of a method that he uses for link building. If you ever have an opportunity to attend a conference where Jim is presenting, be sure to schedule yourself to be there to see him. If you’re looking for a firm that does link building too, you should consider giving him your business.

Mike Grehan – Webmasterworld wrap up.
Jim’s presentation was jam packed with actionable do it now data which I thought was just great. And really well presented.

On my linkedin Profile Page
If you’ve ever heard Jim speak at a conference there’s no doubt he’s on the leading edge of the Search Marketing arena. He delivers top notch advice, ideas, and strategies, without needing to resort to trickery or selling “snake oil”. He should be on every company’s short list of people to talk to.
Michael Gray, Owner, Atlas Web Group Inc. and SEO Blogger Graywolf

Scott contacted us about obtaining our services, and in our contact form we ask “How did you hear about us?” and his response was “your seminar in Chicago (Hostingcon 2007) — it was worth the entire trip!”
Scott R

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I love traveling, and I love speaking about SEO and Link Building.

I’m lucky that I get to do both.

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I went to a Marketing Party. Song Parody

I went to a Marketing Party
(Parody of Garden Party by Ricky Nelson)

I went to a marketing party to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share new techniques and talk of links again
When I got to the marketing party, they all knew my name
No one recognized me, my hat color wasn’t the same.

But it’s all right now, I learned my lesson well
You see, you can’t buy links anymore, so you got to go long tail.

SEO’s came from miles around, everyone was there
Giovanna brought her SEOBook, there was tweeting in the air
And over in the corner, much to my suprise
Mr Sullivan in yellow shoes wearing a Rand disguise.

But it’s all right now, I learned my lesson well
You see, you can’t buy links anymore, so you got to go long tail.

Talked all night about link building, thought that’s why they’d came
No one believed I’m not link buying, even though I’ve changed.
I said Hello to Stuntdubl, he used to work for me
When I started talking about old site buying, he said it was time to leave

But it’s all right now, I learned my lesson well
You see, you can’t buy links anymore, so you got to go long tail.

Someone opend up a conference door and out stepped Matty C. Goode
Writing down SEO operators of interest, like he thinks he should.
If you gotta go to SEO Parties, I wish you lotts luck
But if SEO were all I sang, I’d rather drive a truck.

:)

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Pubcon Las Vegas and Death Valley Next Week.

Next week I’m off to Pubcon in Vegas for Mon, Tues, and Wed…then Thursday I’m slipping out to Death Valley for a few days of vacation.

On Tuesday I’ll be Moderating the Hot Topics and Trends in the Affiliate Space” panel.

Speakers:
Steve Schaffer, Publisher, Offers.com
Elisabeth Archambault, Freelance Affiliate Marketer, Wedding-Resources
Rae Hoffman, CEO, Outspoken Media
Jerry West, President, SEORevolution

On Wednesday I’ll be moderating the “Interactive Site Reviews: Focus on Links” panel

Speakers:
Todd Malicoat, Independent Marketing Consultant, Meta4creations, LLC
Aaron Wall, Author, SEO Book
David Klein, CEO, Purpose Inc
Dixon Jones, Managing Director, Receptional LTD

The Focus on Links panel reminds me of this old song I wrote about showing your sites to Mr. Cutts.

And also on Wednesday I’ll be speaking on the SEO/SEM Tools

Moderator: Kate Morris
Speakers:
Jon Henshaw, Product Manager, Raven Internet Marketing Tools
Jim Boykin, CEO, We Build Pages
Aaron Kronis, Director of SEO, Wpromote Inc.
Rand Fishkin, CEO & Co-Founder, SEOMoz

It’s been a long time since I spoke at an SEO conference (Besides SEO Class)…in fact it’s been 2 years….2 years ago at Pubcon I was on the “How to Buy Links with Little Risk” panel… Even 2 years ago the name of the panel seemed to scare me a bit….even at that time, buying links was a risk…and being on a panel whereby admitting that “yes, I buy links” seemed like a great way to paint a target on me (since I bought links back then)…I basically stood up and said, “Stay under the Radar, and Don’t piss off Google”… that was really the only advice I had back then…it was hard to give some of my real thoughts knowing that there were several google engineers in the room including Mr. Cutts.

And wow…. It was also almost exactly a year ago that we stopped buying links. I’m actually amazed to this day the types of links that our ninjas are able to get w/o paying a cent….Tomorrow I’m doing an hour and a half interview with Stuntdubl on MarketingMotive called “White Hat Link Building for the New Millennium” …can ya believe it??

For part of that interview I’m going to talk to Todd about the last 2 link building clients that Todd sent to us, and we’ll talk about how we were able to achieve these links in just a few weeks:

Both these clients are on our 10 links per month package and so far they’ve received:

Site 1:
out of 30 links so far for that client in the first 3 months:
12 edu’s
7 other colleges
1 org
1 k12
1 gov (library of congress)

Site 2:
so far we have 19 links in just over a month.
out of 19 links:
7 are edu’s
3 are schools that aren’t edu’s
5 are orgs (3 of those are schools)
2 are police websites
1 is a gov from NASA

That’s pretty dang good if I do say so myself…these are certainly links that I’d never have been able to buy….but with the right content, and writing to the right people, it’s amazing the links one can get.

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So I’ll be at Pubcon Mon -Wed…then I’m going to head out on the open road to Death Valley for a mini-vacation.

Chuck Price will also be at Pubcon with me…he’s got the morning shift, and I have the late shift.

….gosh, I miss blogging… but there’s something to be said for just quietly going about my business…but FYI,  I’m alive and doing wonderful….and yea, I’m still a link addict….just not shouting about it anymore.

Hope to see ya in Vegas,
Peace,
Jim

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Links for Sale – PR9 Links only $300 / Month!

Links for Sale – PR9 Links only $300 / Month

I was speaking with a client in a highly competitive industry yesterday. He’s a reformed link buyer – hasn’t bought a link in 7 months. The only problem is that all of his competitors are buying links and kicking his ass for some key phrases.

He wanted to know what could be done about this injustice. I told him to root for Microsoft to acquire Yahoo, and Bing to be a huge success. Until Google has a serious competitor in the search space, they will continue to be our internet overlords.

Wouldn’t it be great if Google had to treat SEO’s & webmasters like customers, rather than “Operators of Interest?”  I think it’s a pretty sad state when it is “excellent news” that Google now actually notifies a webmaster when they have processed a reconsideration request. Excellent news? More like BFD.

Here’s how I believe the reconsideration request should work:

  • Webmaster fully and truthfully completes a reconsideration request Wizard  which walks the webmaster through the  Google webmaster guidelines & highlights common compliance issues
  • Google Immediately acknowledges receipt of the request and has 10 business days to respond
  • The response, at minimum, informs the webmaster what areas of his site do not conform to the guidelines and what penalty has been assessed.
  • Google informs the webmaster that his penalty will be removed within X days/weeks/months after coming into compliance.

That, my friends, would be excellent news.

Wait a second……….. you didn’t come here to read my rant on Google – you want that Juicy PR9 link, right?  Well, as a reformed link buyer, I figured I should probably check out the link buying scene that my client was discussing. That led me to a popular forum, where I found this:

pr9 link selling 300$

Listed: Yesterday
Description: i’m selling hacked pr9 website. price 300$ i will guarantee you .
admin @ xxx. com  add me msn please.

Hmm… that looks kind of interesting. Not that I would do it myself, but interesting enough to add this Chap to my MSN and got an immediate response. He was happy to provide me with the url  (A government page) and even a discount. He would drop the price to $250 for 10+ links. Hmm… not bad, especially considering the following exchange, excerpted directly from my chat window:

XXX says:
where are u from
Chuck says:
us
XXX says:
nice
XXX says:
did you come in turkey ?
Chuck says:
no
XXX says:
ok
XXX says:
if you will buy pr9 backlink.. you will get a pr10.

Wow. I’ve been at this SEO thing for a few years now, but didn’t realize until today that buying a PR9 link would get me a PR 10!

So what do you think – will this guy get rich off his hacked PR9 pages? Would you buy one?

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Disclaimer: We Build Pages does not condone buying links under any circumstances – let alone on hacked pages.

Jim’s note: When Chuck told me the title of this post I about fell over laughing so hard… oh what a terrible tease of a post title.

FYI, for those wondering, We Build Pages doesn’t buy or sell links anymore.  We can, however, sell you content that may attract some great links.


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