Archive for August, 2006

Aaron & Andy List 101 Link Building Methods.

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans just created a great list of 101 methods of getting backlinks.

This will be added to our internal required reading list for our link building team. If you want more backlinks too, you should bookmark this list.

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These guys might look a bit strange…but they do know what they’re talking about!

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All Jim’s SES San Jose 2006 Pictures - where’s yours?

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Tonight (or should I say "last night"), I attended the webmasterradio search bash party at Studio 8 in San Jose. I met up with a lot of people I highly respect in the industry, and also caught some sumo wrestling. I’m sure a great time was had by all.

I’ve uploaded tonights pictures and all the other pics I took to flickr. (I left out the scantly clad dancers pictures - sorry everyone!)

There’s a bunch more SES San Jose 2006 pics by others on flickr here.

Did you take any pictures too? (Feel free to link drop to your SES San Jose 2006 picture pages.)

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Click Rate for Top 10 Search Results

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Donna at SEO Scoop catches a post on Earnersforum where they used the recently released AOL Search Data to figure out click through rates for the the top 10 positions in search results.

For ages people have been guessing at these figurures - now we really know!

Results in:
Total Searches:9,038,794
Total Clicks: 4,926,623

Click Rank1: 2,075,765
Click Rank2: 586,100 = 3.5x less
Click Rank3: 418,643 = 4.9x less
Click Rank4: 298,532 = 6.9x less
Click Rank5: 242,169 = 8.5x less
Click Rank6: 199,541 = 10.4x less
Click Rank7: 168,080 = 12.3x less
Click Rank8: 148,489 = 14.0x less
Click Rank9: 140,356 = 14.8x less
Click Rank10: 147,551 = 14.1x less

Click Rank1: 2,075,765
Click Rank2: 586,100 = 3.5x less than ^
Click Rank3: 418,643 = 1.4x less than ^
Click Rank4: 298,532 = 1.4x less than ^
Click Rank5: 242,169 = 1.2x less than ^
Click Rank6: 199,541 = 1.2x less than ^
Click Rank7: 168,080 = 1.2x less than ^
Click Rank8: 148,489 = 1.1x less than ^
Click Rank9: 140,356 = 1.05x less than ^
Click Rank10: 147,551 = 1.05x more than ^

I believe that people who think it’s better to be anything other than #1 are just fooling themselves….click through rates and conversions aside, The fact lies that you’ll get 3 1/2 times more traffic being #1 as opposed to #2, and the numbers keep sliding from there.

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SES San Jose 2006 - Google Dance Day

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

I took a handful of pictures yesterday. Last night was the Famous Google Dance.

Tonights the SearchBash networking event being put on by webmasterradio.fm - another crazy night of "networking" ahead!

Click here for my Googledance pictures.

**Update**
I posted most of my pictures here on  flickr - Jim Boykin’s Pictures.

 

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SES San Jose 2006 - Yahoo and Ask Party Pics

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Just got back from the Yahoo and Ask Party - Thanks to Jay for getting me in both!

Guess a picture is worth 1000 words.

Here’s some pics I took.

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SES San Jose 2006 - first pics.

Monday, August 7th, 2006

I just put up some pictures from a private networking event last night.

Hope you enjoy.

Click here for the first batch of SES San Jose 2006 Pictures.

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See Matt Cutts with his pants down.

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Check out

The Matt Cutt’s Paper Doll

Found via Dan

See ya in a few days Matt!

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