Domain Names and Keywords

Straight from the horses mouth so to speak.  Standard Google Warning - after watching this you may still have questions. (3 minute video after the jump)

5 Quick Tips to taking advantage of the new Google algorithm

You've no doubt heard something about Google's change if you own a website.  While this change supposedly only affects 12% of the websites in their index, you better believe many of these sites were making money for someone.  The web is only expanding and evolving...

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Content is king, keywords are required and you need to buy some domains.

Domains Are A Great Internet Investment

I've been saying it for a few years now - domains are like Real Estate - they are a surefire long term investment in my opinion. I was kicking around a few different sites this morning and noticed a few things. I've never sold a domain but think I am ready to let go of a few I own. I'm looking at auction sites (average 20% commission) and flat out "buy it now" pricing. I'm also on a couple of lists that send me offers of recently expired domains and flat rate pricing. Verisign just released their latest report (get report) Among it's findings:  33% of domains don't resolve to a multipage website!  That means fully one third of registered domains don't have any web pages at all or are parked.  Out of all the parked ones you better believe a whole bunch of them are for sale.  Contact me for more information on where to buy expired domains and resellers of used registered domains.  I can also give you some tips on registering new domains and how keywords can affect their worth.

Web-only - Top 500 analysis: It was web-only merchants and then everyone else in 2010 - Internet Retailer

Astounding figures for sure. Notice that web sales are still a small percentage of total retail sales.

Web-only - Top 500 analysis: It was web-only merchants and then everyone else in 2010 - Internet Retailer

Here Come Homeland Security Internet Police, and They're Already Shutting Down Web Sites They Don't Like | | AlterNet

The biggest issue on the web today in my opinion. The jist here is that by inferring that websites that
allow people to share copyrighted material could be terrorists, the Feds can now just call your web host
and put up their own page. That is crazy. Rule of law anyone?


Here Come Homeland Security Internet Police, and They're Already Shutting Down Web Sites They Don't Like | | AlterNet

Case Study - You Can't Fool Google For Long

I guess you could consider this Grey Hat Marketing.  That is, this guy reaped an unintentional benefit unintentionally.  This article briefly illuminates a Google weakness that was exploited by an a-hole merchant.  Back-links from relevant content.  Only the relevant content was a bunch of folks complaining about said a-hole.  The article links to another about the actual merchant and how he took advantage of his unpopularity by being even more unpopular.  Pretty amazing stuff.  The insight gained on Google's 'mindset' is priceless.

Google To Punish No-Good Sites With Revised Search Rankings

The most overlooked piece of news this year -The FCC and Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality is extremely important to all business owners.  If the wireless carriers can get their way, connecting to the web through them would allow them to block any websites the want to really.  Verizon could keep you from using skype on your mobile phone, Sprint could block access to Google searching and only allow Bing to work on your Sprint phone.  This would be horrible for end users of these devices.  Why is it such a big deal?  Worldwide more people will connect to the Internet using cellphone signals and wide area WIFI than will use a wired connection next year for the first time.

Read the article:

FCC Vote On Net Neutrality