Archive for May, 2007

I just got a piece of spam that might have suckered me…if they hadn’t made 1 mistake…

Here’s the introduction and first paragraph of the email:

Subject line: Thanks for your blog at JimBoykin.com

Hey mr Boykin,

First thanks for your site which I frequently visit, at {url}. Your articles, stories and tips have helped me a lot, which has resulted in more profits at the bottom line. So an incredible thanks for you great site, keep up the good work!

the introduction of "Hey mr Boykin" had me thinking it might be a typo by a human…

Notice the "{url}"…..I didn’t edit that…that’s how it came….if only they had entered in www.jimboykin.com instead of "{url}" they might have suckered me into reading whatever he was writing below that first paragraph. Kinda nice "sucker" email to send to thousands of bloggers…hey, what blogger doesn’t enjoy reading things like that??, which then leads them to see what else this person is saying…..I’ll never know what he was going to push on me because I never got past the first paragraph.

Hey, Humans do it better.

Today I updated my "Jim’s Favorite Posts" section that I put in the footers of all my blog pages. I hadn’t updated it since Dec 13th 2006 so I added:

• Can Google Find and Spank your Paid Links?" 
  32 responses so far - April 25th, 2007
• Surviving Rankings, Re-Rankings, Filters and Google Hell."
  17 responses so far - April 8th, 2007
• Link Building and Emails - Humans do it Better. 
  9 responses so far -  Feb 21st, 2007
• What’s your comfort level in shades of gray?
  6 responses so far - Feb 21st, 2007
• Links as Pennies and Old Ben Franklins.
  9 responses so far - Feb 16th, 2007
• Sorry, I won’t do SEO for your new website.
  76 responses so far - Feb 3rd, 2007
  ***Last night Dan Thies and I went back and forth on this several time. Jill Whalen’s also been debating in the talks last night and this morning.
• Expert Link Building Can be Fun!
  25 responses so far - Jan 22nd, 2007
• LinkBait alone won’t do it. You need Link Ninjas.
  32 responses so far - Jan 18th, 2007
• Putting a Price on a Link - Jim’s Value Indicators.
  19 responses so far - Jan 9th, 2007
• If it’s not a Pagerank 4 or higher, it’s worthless.
  31 responses so far - Jan 9th, 2007
• Paid Links and Loosing Trust
  29 responses so far - Dec 20, 2006

I know most people might just read these posts when they first come out…but some of these have since also had some nice "gems" added the comments (thank you all for your input and ideas!). Feel free to join any of these conversations.

Long ago I set it up this blog so that if a post was over 30 days, it would stop the ability for someone to make a comment….I’ve opened comments up on all of my favorite posts on the bottom…..Spammers shouldn’t stop nice conversations (I’ll control), and time can change things. (conversations shouldn’t "end".)

Want to win some We Build Pages swag and a few nice ads?
Prize: 
We Build Pages wall clock, We Build Pages desk clock, We Build Pages coffee mug, a 1 gig MP3 Player, a handful of Ninja Stars (rubber), and ~$720 worth of ads (over a 12 month period) (you name a site, our link team will research and find ~2 relevant pages and get you an ad on within the body area of the page) (at a value of ~$30/month each ($60 X 12 = $720)). If we give you ads in this deal we’ll expect that all details will only be between us, and not public.

To Enter:
Link to this exact post url in one of your blog posts (or on any website), and say something (hopefully something nice).
(if you’re not sure if I know that you’re entering this contest, email me and let me know (j i m at webuildpages.com).
How the winner will be chosen: Don’t know….but the one I like the best will get the goodies and a few nice relevant ads.
Time: This week only. I will be choosing 1 person On Saturday June 2nd.

***UPDATE***
Anyone who links to this post (before this friday at 5pm EST) will get a free We Build Pages wall clock..and one lucky winner will get all the swag promised above.

So get your free We Build Pages wall clock…it’s not a “payment”, it’s just one way I can say “thanks” to my readers.

I’m looking forward to Seattle next week!

We’ve got a new We Build Pages Theme Song, and I’ve published a Beta Song, and the old We Build Pages Theme song and more.

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We Build Pages SEO Songs and Theme songs.

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Just a heads up that I’ll be traveling a lot the next 4 weeks, and might not be posting much.

This coming week I’ll be in San Francisco (Give me a shout if you’re near San Fran), next week I’ll be in Austin and Dallas Texas (every moment booked there), The following week I’ll be in North Carolina, then I’ve a few days off, then it’s off to Seattle for SMX where I’ll be on the "Better Ways" panel with some friends. 

Oh, and we did a new webuildpages theme song, I’ll try to release this week too…busy busy…but ya know, it sure is fun! When I’m an old man sitting in my rocker I’ll miss these days…..

Are you going to the SMX Seattle Conference?