I’ll be at  SES San Francisco – August 16-20th 2010.  I’ll be speaking 3 times on August 18th.

On Tuesday the 17th I’ll be at the Webmasterradio SearchBash party at the Ruby Skye Nightclub  from 8:00- Late…That’s always been one of the…if not the…craziest parties of the year…opps I meant craziest networking event…its not partying…it’s networking

Then luckily, I get to sleep in and get all my speaking done the next afternoon (wed), then “network” again all night.

On Wednesday Aug 18th, I’ll be at:

From 2:30 – 3:30

Link Building in August of 2010 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. * Updated presentation for August 2010 SES.

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

5:00 – 6:00

How to Become a Link Magnet
Some people just have to sit at a keyboard and type for ten minutes. Some people spend a little time mashing up a video. And some people develop a cool tool or app. What happens next? They become link magnets.

In search marketing, where content is still king, we’ve talked about how to make your web site a link a magnet. But with social media and personal branding, developing a great presence online can turn you personally into a link magnet. Some people have. Thousands want it.

How can you develop your personal brand so that you only have to mouth an opinion and a gazillion links follow? Andy Warhol once suggested that everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame. And social media is certainly making that little prediction come true.

Find out from a panel of experts how you can have your (metaphorical) 15 minutes of fame, become a link magnet and dominate search engines.

• Moderator:
  Brett Tabke, CEO, WebmasterWorld

Speakers:
Aaron Kahlow, Chairman & Founder, Online Marketing Summit
Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOmoz.org
Jim Boykin, CEO and Link Building Ninja, We Build Pages Internet Marketing Services

I received 2 emails in the past 24 hours from folks who know me, showing me an email that was sent to them that looks like We Build Pages in participating in 3 way linking….but these are NOT from us… They appear to be sent by a company from India called SEO Depth Company.

One email was sent by kishwer <seo.kishwer@gmail.com>, and the other email was sent by eajaz.eajaz <eajaz.eajaz@gmail.com>

The emails look like this:

Dear Webmaster,

Link Exchange Request

First of all let me introduce myself – I am Kishwer (Link Manager)

I handle online marketing for my client- http://www. seo depth company.com

To increase the link popularity of my client’s site , we are now looking for triangular Link swapping with some good quality sites. You are already aware that triangular Link swapping is much more popular and beneficial. This way both the sites gets the benefited . I would request you to place my client’s link at your site.

Here are details of my site :

Title:  Professional SEO Company
Url :    http://www. seo depth company .com
Desc : SEO Company India: Professional SEO Company in New Delhi India (gurgaon & noida), providing Professional SEO Services, Link Building, Web Designing India and content writing services. SEO Company with fully Professional SEO Experts.

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Or you can simply use the following Linking code:

<a href= http://www.seo depth company(a’holes..added by Jim).com/ >  Professional SEO Company </a> SEO Company India: Professional SEO Company in New Delhi India (gurgaon & noida), providing Professional SEO Services, Link Building, Web Designing India and content writing services. SEO Company with fully Professional SEO Experts.

i will be add your link here: http://webuildpages . 50webs.com/ Page Rank :-5 [Jim: I added spaced in that url to break the link]

Please forward me your linking details along with confirmation where my link have been added by you.

Hoping an early and positive response from your side.

Have a nice day ahead

Best Regards

Kishwer

So here’s these people using a scraped version of webuildpages.com (at http://webuildpages . 50webs.com/(remove spaces on each side of the dot) to make it look like We Build Pages is doing 3 way linking! And on that scraped We Build Pages.com page, there is a link to “Web Design India” going to syrup technologies . com.

SEO Depth Company You’re evil for using my company name for your Spam! I don’t care if you spam, but don’t use  my brand.

Syrup Technologies, you’re the Only link on the copy of my homepage…and I’m guessing you’re in the same bed with SEO Depth Company.

So here’s your Karma, deal with the reputation problem I just gave you.

I hate fighting, and rarely do…but my brand reputation is at stake, and sending emails offering links on a scraped webuildpages.com is just plain evil in my eyes. If you spam, don’t do it under my company name.

Jim

Next week Chuck and I will be at Search Engine Strategies (SES) in New York City (March 22-26th).

I’ll be speaking on Wednesday the 24th from 3:45 – 4:45 on “Link Building – Methods and Risk, Free to Paid”

It will be similar to the the presentation that I gave in London last month which seemed to be received pretty well.

I was looking over the party schedule last week…and it didn’t look like much of a party schedule… Bing is sponsoring a cocktail hour on Tuesday from  5:45 – 6:45 at the expo hall…and on Wednesday night from 6-7 at the Bridges Bar at the Hilton there’s the  “White Hat Black Hat: Unconferenced”…which should be interesting…if you can hear what’s being said (I’ve been to some of these “sessions” in bars, where if you’re not in the “inner circle” you can’t hear anything being said)…

and that was about it for “parties” going on… just didn’t seem right….Seems like we were missing a good ole night party…and a chance to help a charity…

So…I figured they needed another party…and hey,  we can also help a charity in the process.  Since this is pretty last minute (one week away) we’re going to keep this pretty simple… don’t even think  we’ll do drawings, or have a mic…and instead of the normal $50 to get in, we’re going to lower it to $30.

For $30 you get in, and you can drink all the Beer, Wine, or Soda that you’d like (between 8 and 10), and We Build Pages will pay for it. We’ll also have a bunch of Hors D’oeuvres for everyone. After 10:00 you have to buy your own drinks.

Every penny of everyones $30 entrance fee will be going to Common Ground, whom are based out of NYC and who’s mission is to end homelessness.

We’re limited to only 100 tickets, so this will sell out for sure. At the end of my presentation on Wed I’ll announce where you can get your tickets (we’ll hook up with someone who has an exhibit booth and sell tickets for an hour at that booth…not sure where yet)

Here’s our flyer for the Charity Party at SES NYC 2010 on Wed March 24th.

Hurley’s
232 W. 48th Street
212-765-8981

The party will be upstairs. I hope to see you there!

I’m Feeling Lucky,
Jim

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).