Next Tuesday (the 29th) a few ninjas and I are going to Amsterdam (going to visit with a client). I’ll also try to catch Martijn while I’m there.  We’ll be there during the Queen’s Day celebration…which looks pretty crazy.

Then from June 6-10 there’s about 19 Ninjas going to Jamaica. We should be booking everything probably tomorrow. If you have any tips or suggestions for where to stay, and what to do, in Jamaica, please let me know. (Fyi, this trip is being mostly sponsored by a few very happy clients of ours).

I’ll be in Scotland a few weeks later for the SEO Class in Edinburgh June 23-24.

So far I’m really enjoying the Ninjas world tour 2008! I’m Feeling Lucky!

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I was just asked if I’d speak on "Buying Sites for SEO" at SMX Advanced in Seattle (June 3-4)… wasn’t planning on attending any SEO conferences in 2008….but man…that’s a prett interesting topic! ….. but I’m not sure if, like link building, I’d feel comfortable talking about the finer points of this….. I wrote about it once long ago (Nov 05)….and we’ve come a long, long ways since then….but it’s a topic I’ve been avoiding ever since then….I love the topic…but I still don’t think I want to say much on it in public….

What do you think?

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I haven’t been blogging much….sorry……ya know, I’m totally down with staying under the radar. There’s enough other people keeping each other in check that I’m fine with sitting back and watching the games being played. I’m fine with reacting internally to what goes on out there, and not being a part of the conversation these days.

But hey, I thought I’d give a brief update on what Jim’s been up to, or what’s on my mind at the moment.

So what’s Jim been up to?

Well, besides Internet Marketing Ninjas and SEO Class (first one April 11th)…as far as We Build Pages stuff…

We still take on the occasional client….but at least we’re able to "cherry pick" leads to match our open time slots.

We continue to improve our methods all the time via people, knowledge, tools, and the build up of the Ninja Army at We Build Pages.

We’ll soon be cycling in some of our own sites into our work mix …just as if they were a client.

…I’ve seen a lot of website business plans since I started over 9 years ago, and I’m out to follow the money. 

We still continue to find amazing trusted old websites.

The trick is how to preserve the content and trust, and build upon it so that it makes a profit.  That’s a challenge in itself.

We strive to preserve the content, and add more resources to it. We’ve been working on widgets, and "long-term linkbait" content/stats, and we’re starting to spread the word on other related webpages ( ).

I’ve been studying up on companies who offer good lead programs (I’m open to suggestions, fyi, we’ve got an inventory of just about every type of site/industry).

I’ve been reading/re-reading/analyzing documents that tell what a human might think when they view your webpage, and how they may judge your page, so that we can build the type of quality resource search engines might be looking for.

We’re working on doubling our staff this year (from 25 to 50), so lots of interviews/training going on.

We still building internal tools to make our jobs easier - while still keeping a human touch where it needs to be.

I lost 10 pounds in the SEO’s Fight Fat contest.

The entire team is going to Atlantic City tomorrow and monday - nicely fully paid for by one of our happy clients.

I’m going to Amsterdam in 3 weeks to visit a client. I hear the coffee is really good over there.

FYI, I’ve turned down all speaking gigs this year (except SEO Class)….I’m happy to stay under the radar and just do my thing now.

I owe Mr Wall a favor, and next to my Internet marketing training program I’ll mention his SEO training, and my SEO Class. (buy them all  ;) )

Did I mention that SEO Class is April 11th in Troy NY?

How’s everyone out there doing?

I’m Feeling Lucky.

In a few weeks (April 11th) we’re having the first SEO Class of the year.

It will be held at the Franklin Square Inn in Troy New York (just north of Albany).

The presenters that day will be:

• Chris Winfield (10e20)
• Michael Gray (Graywolf)
• Kim Krause Berg (Cre8pc)
• Ted Ulle (Tedster)
• Barry Schwartz (Rustybrick)
• Greg Niland (GoodROI)
• Jim Boykin (We Build Pages)

On April 12th we’re taking a bus to NYC, Those who attended the class on the 11th are welcome to join us for the full day trip to NYC on the 12th.

The class costs $2995, or can be free with your purchase of internet marketing ninjas (get you 1 free pass to a SEO Class).

We have about 30 seats filled and we can only hold about 40 people, so if you’re planning to attend, I’d sign up ASAP.

There will also be SEO Classes in Scotland, San Francisco, and Dalles (details), later this year.

Cheers!

So this is just my leaking the news that We Build Pages has acquired SEOClass.com. SEO Class has been a leading Internet Marketing training program providing live SEO Training classes.

We’re going to take SEO Class to the next level, and offer 4 classes from New York, to San Francisco, to Dallas, to Edinburgh, Scotland. These classes will include many well know experts in the field of Internet Marketing. These classes are designed to give you advanced knowledge by world leading SEO experts. 

The "official" press release is coming out tomorrow, and the SEOClass.com site is changing by the minute this week with updates.

The first SEO Class will be at Troy NY on April 11th. The speaker list includes:

1. Michael Gray (Graywolf)

2. Greg Neiland (GoodROI)

3. Barry Schwartz (Rustybrick)

4. Ted Ulle (Tedster)

5. Chris Winfield (10e20)

6. Kim Krause Berg (Cre8pc)

7. Jim Boykin (We Build Pages and IM Ninjas)

From 9 in the morning until 6 at night you will receive training presentations and time for Q & A with 7 of the most knowledgeable SEO’s in the world. The following day (the 12th) we’re renting a bus and some of the speakers, as well as about 20 We Build Pages Link Ninjas, will be going to New York City for the day. We’ll do some sightseeing and talk some SEO, and you’re welcome to come with us on the bus for free to NYC (for those who attend the April 11th training classes).

There are 3 other SEO Classes scheduled for 2008. They will be:

• June 23-24 Edinburgh Scotland. (4 hours of formal training each day, rest of time is sightseeing/networking with other SEO’s)

• September 22-23 San Francisco, California (4 hours of formal training each day, rest of time is sightseeing/networking with other SEO’s)

• November 17-18 Dallas Texas (17th training day, 18th free bus trip to Buffalo Gap.)

I’m still putting together the names for the future classes, and we’ll be publishing the rest of the confirmed folks soon for each date, but I will let you know we’ve got these names already set for future classes: Ammon Johns, Bill Hartzer, Barry Lloyd, Todd Malicoat (Stuntdubl), Shaun Anderson (Hobo), Brian Turner (iBrian), Tony Wright, and a several others. Within a week or two we should have most of the future speakers confirmed and updated on SEOClass.com.

Each SEO Class live event only costs $2995. As a bonus, I’ll give the first 200 members of Internet Marketing Ninjas a Free pass to one of the SEO Class Live Events. (So for $2995 you get about 35 videos by 35 of the worlds best SEO’s (we’ve got 13 now, and over 20 more scheduled for this year), plus you get about 25 SEO Tools by We Build Pages, and you get a free pass to an SEO Class Live event.).

Learn more about SEO Class Live events on SEO Class.com.

Become one of the first 200 Internet Marketing Ninjas and get a free SEO Class Live pass.

So I can’t help but wonder how the cards will be played this year with the search engines. Will Microsoft buy Yahoo. Will Google buy Yahoo, Will Google buy Ask? Will Microsoft buy Yahoo and Ask, and maybe grab AOL along the way? Who Knows….here’s some interesting URL combinations, and who owns them.

MicrosoftYahoo.com
Registrant:  zhou luping
Created:  2008-01-12 

YahooMicrosoft.com
Registrant:  Gregory F. Rittenhouse
Created:  2007-04-24

YahooMSN.com
Registrant:  Yahoo! Inc.
Created:  2004-05-27

YahooLive.com
Registrant: Yahoo! Inc.
Created:  2005-04-07

LiveYahoo.com
Registrant: Yahoo! Inc.
Created:  2005-06-15

AskYahoo.com
Registrant: Proxy
Created:  2002-12-12

AskMSN.com
Registrant: Registercom
Created:  2005-01-04

AskLive.com
Registrant: Proxy
Created:  1999-10-15

AskGoogle.com
Registrant: Google Inc.
Created:  1999-10-15

Ah! Here’s one that’s available:
AskYahooLive.com

oh, another that’s available:
AskYG.com

and another available:
AskGY.com

Any we should add to this list?

Sugarrae put together 11 SEO’s to get 12000 words on link development ideas.

Here’s the SEO’s who state their ideas on link building: Rae Hoffman - Rand Fishkin - Roger Montti - Todd Malicoat - Eric Ward - Justilien Gaspard - Aaron Wall - Debra Mastaler - Michael Gray - Andy Hagans - & Me.

I like how this interview was put together. All of us wrote 1 question, and they were put together anonymously and we each answered them all w/o knowing what the others thoughts were…like Rae says:

An important thing to remember about this group interview is that no one saw anyone else’s answers before writing their own. This isn’t about a single answer followed by four head nods. Any agreements come from true beliefs and any contrary opinions came from the same. We’re all good at what we do, but it doesn’t mean we always agree. I only saw the other answers as I put this post together and the others will see each other’s opinions on the questions that were posed for the first time when this is published.

Read our thoughts on link building over here. I’ve closed this thread to comments, feel free to comment under the link report on Sugarrae or at Sphinn here.