37 | Jeff Byer – Backlinks, Memory Hacks, Tech Talk

Today Jeff Byer (@globaljeff) talks about backlinks inspired by the Search Engine Journal Show with Julie Joyce, training your brain to remember inspired by Thomas Oppong, and more tech talk.
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Transcript
Jeff Byer 00:06 Welcome to digital rage the podcast about all things internet and the people that make it great. My name is Jeff Byer and today we do not have a guest. Again reached out to a few people, , lots of, you know, too busy to talk, couple of non responses, you know, so, , I don’t have all day to do guest outreach so I apologize. But a, this’ll be another, , what’s going on and what am I working on type of episode. So, , what , happened this week, we hired a couple more people, a designer and a, a Shopify developer and great contrast. The designer is really slow and turning out terrible work and the Shopify developer is fast and awesome. So, , really happy with that because the Shopify good. Shopify developers are kind of like good web WordPress developers. There are a ton out there, but when you find a good one, you got to keep them.
Jeff Byer 01:08 So I mean, I’m paying a premi, but he’s very good. So that guy is doing great for me. He is, , is turning out stuff, you know, basically today he did a ton of stuff already, , which would have taken a week with my previous developers. So very happy with that. , the designer, not so much, , going back to my trusted designer that, , is a little slower but much more detailed and a much more on-brand. , so, and this designer, , I got this guy on Upwork and , he’s, , he’s a premi designer. His, his prices is, , right around $40 an hour. , which you know, is relatively not high at all if you’re going to think about hiring somebody or getting a senior level designer. But my, I’ve, you know, I’ve got my, my print process designer that’s doing it for $16 an hour and, , I have other offers for people that turn out some really good work at $24.
Jeff Byer 02:13 So paying this guy $40 for super slow turnaround and not that great at work. , I believe I’m just going to cut them loose and go to the next person on my short list. So that’s what’s going on at Jeff buyer inc. , so a couple of things. , listen to a podcast this week. , Julie Joyce was the, was the guest and she owns a backlink company. And I loved what she was saying. And, , one of the things that I took away from it was that it’s w that was a big truck. Sorry if you heard that. One of the things I took away from it was that she said, even though backlinks paid backlinks are against Google’s guidelines, they still work. And I’ve heard this countless times, they still work, you know, private blogging networks, very forbidden. And if, you know, if they’re obvious, they’re going to get shut.
Jeff Byer 03:16 You know, Google is going to be able to recognize him and penalize him. But the newer ones that are well done, that have quality content, they’re working. And there’s several use cases out there. I don’t, I’m not suggesting that you follow these tactics. I’m not suggesting it for my clients and I’m not doing them for my clients. But it was very interesting and I wanted to talk to her about it cause she, she disclaims to every one of her backlink customers that this is against Google guidelines and they still proceed anyway. , so that’s h