Archive for September, 2006

Eric Ward offers Link Building Newsletter.

Friday, September 29th, 2006

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 link to Eric’s speaking presentations that is included in the link building training that my team receives….so when I saw Lee post about Eric now offering a paid newsletter on link building, I jumped right over and signed up. 

Eric’s offering a Free Trial of the WardReport that every serious link builder should jump over and sign up for.

It’s statement like this from Eric’s newsletter that I totally agree with:

More importantly, however, the engines know if your site has links that they can trust. That’s the heart of the matter when it comes to link-building for search rank and link-building for click traffic. The engines know how to count links.

Eric’s always been on up and up with link building methods, so when he speaks, I listen.

Photo Credits of Eric from Lee as well.

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Don’t ever try to cancel AOL.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

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.

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On another note, Here’s an experiment in Viral Internet Marketing.

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Sperm Donors make more than SEO’s.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

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 pay $140,000/year….but again…when I saw the huge local rates for SEO’s and click on the results, there were strangely no ads for those high paying jobs…..maybe this is the tool some of the "SEO Pay Rates" papers were based on that have come out the past few years.

 

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It’s True - Spammers Can’t Add!

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

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 plug in that asked a simple math question that people had to answer in order to post comments, so I had my blog designer add that plugin, and wow - yea, spammers can’t add (or at least this stops the auto post programs).

This plug in is called "Math Comment Spam Protection" and I love it.

The only thing I miss is viewing all the hot prescription drugs I should be marketing, or latest products that could make me $….and the subdomains that might be working good - if only I had time to be more black hat this knowledge would be a good help.

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Non SEO: 3 Funnies

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

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 the time you fall to the 10th floor, the winds around the building are so intense that they carry you around the building and back into the window."  The bartender just shakes his head in disapproval while wiping the bar.

The second guy says, "What are you a nut? There is no way in hell that could happen."

"No, it’s true," said the first man, let me prove it to you." He gets up from the bar, jumps over the balcony, and plummets to the street below.

When he passes the 10th floor, the high wind whips him around the building and back into the 10th floor window and he takes the elevator back up to the bar.

He met the second man, who looked quite astonished. "You know, I saw that with my own eyes, but that must have been a one time fluke."

"No, I’ll prove it again," says the first man as he jumps. Again just as he is hurling toward the street, the 10th floor wind gently carries
him around the building and into the window.

Once upstairs he urges his fellow drinker to try it. "Well, what the hell," the second guy says, "it works, I’ll try it!" He jumps over the balcony plunges downward, passes the 11th, 10th, 9th, 8th floors

…and hits the sidewalk with a ’splat.’ Back upstairs the Bartender turns to the other drinker, saying "You know, Superman, you’re a real asshole when you’re drunk."

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ADVICE FOR IDIOTS
An actual tip from page 16 of the HP "Environmental, Health & Safety Handbook for Employees: "Blink your eyelids periodically to lubricate your eyes."

IDIOTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
I live in a semi-rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: Many deer were being hit by cars and he no longer wanted them to cross there.

IDIOTS IN FOOD SERVICE
My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the individual behind the counter for "minimal lettuce." He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg.

IDIOT SIGHTINGS
Sighting #1:
I was at the airport, checking in at the gate, when the airport employee asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?" I said, "If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?" He smiled and nodded knowingly, "That’s why we ask."

Sighting #2:
The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it is safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged co-worker of mine, when she asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals to blind people when the light is red. She responded, appalled, "What on earth are blind people doing driving?"

Sighting #3:
At a good-bye lunch for an old and dear coworker who is leaving the company due to "downsizing," our manager spoke up and said, "this is fun. We should have lunch like this more often." Not another word was spoken. We just looked at each other like deer staring into the headlights of an approaching truck.

Sighting #4:
I worked with an Individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the life of her could not understand why her system would not turn on.

Sighting #5:
When my wife and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told that the keys had been accidentally locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver’s side door. As I watched from the passenger’s side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered it was open. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "It’s open!"  "I know," answered the young man.- "I already got that side."

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Excerpted from an article about a bank robbery which appeared in the Dublin Times (metropolitan edition, page 2A) on 2 March 1999:

…Once inside the bank shortly after midnight, their efforts at disabling the internal security system got underway immediately. The robbers, who expected to find one or two large safes filled with cash and valuables, were surprised to see hundreds of smaller safes scattered throughout the bank. The robbers cracked the first safe’s combination, and inside they found only a bowl of vanilla pudding.

As recorded on the bank’s audio tape system, one said, "At least we’ll get a bit to eat." The robbers opened up a second safe, and it also contained nothing but vanilla pudding. The process continued until all the safes were opened. They found not one dollar, a diamond, or an ounce of gold. Instead, all the safes contained covered bowls of pudding. Disappointed, the robbers made a quiet exit, each leaving with nothing more than a queasy, uncomfortably full stomach.

The Dublin Times newspaper headline read:

"IRELAND’S LARGEST SPERM BANK ROBBED EARLY THIS MORNING"

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Anyone else got a joke or funny story to tell?

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Non SEO: Living Wills

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

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 the plug."
She got up…

Unplugged my computer and then threw out my beer.

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Jim Boykin on Myspace.

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

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 understand a bit on how search engines rank websites.

I found some other SEO’s in there too…even Matt has a myspace page where he lists several of his videos.

**update, Barry says in the comments below that that’s not really Matt’s myspace….just looks like it. **

Do  you have a myspace page?

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