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2 Top Videos to See – Google’s Evil Side
What a great video to display Google’s evil powers to the world. Too funny .. and if you are a DAD you must watch the second one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=–Ckz_O6oE0 DAD’s — Ya, we serious rock with style LOL!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZa7hU6tP_s ©2010 Newfound Names LLC. All Rights Reserved..
Going to the EPIK Conference – Top 10 Questions to Ask!
There are well over 100 conferences annually for online development. Whether it’s the Search Marketing Expos, the Affiliate Summit or something else most domainers still only attend domaining conferences which barely breathe any life into domain name development. Sure – there are lots of domains around which “could” be worth $1 million or more with [...]
Homeowners Insurance Covers Blogging Liability?
A very interesting article by a guest blogger at Savings.com today stating that Bloomberg is reporting: “Some bloggers may be covered for online lawsuits under the personal liability coverage of their homeowners or renters insurance policies” Worth a read – check it out here http://www.savings.com/blog/post/The-Hidden-Costs-of-Blogging-for-Money-(or-for-Free).html ©2010 Newfound Names LLC. All Rights Reserved..
Red Bull for the Eyes .. Amazing …
Gunnars Optic glasses – Amazing. Seriously I feel like my eyes were just injected with Red Bull. For anyone who works on a computer this will be the best money ever spent. The glasses were designed to help reduce glare and provide a better overall experience for people working on a computer (among other things). [...]
VaultPress – Solid WordPress Security
So I got an invite to VaultPress last week and its pretty fair to say this is one service everyone with a WordPress hosted site should get. In fact, it should be made mandatory as no other service comes close in my opinion. Imagine the hours put in creating your content, editing images and defining [...]
Geo Domains may Lose LOTS of value
People buy GEO domains for two reasons. One is the obvious authority factor by having a domain like ChicagoDoctor.com but the other is because of the huge SEO advantage these names give. However what if Google changed local results one day and stopped displaying ALL organic results. Well, it seems like Google is testing this [...]
The ULTIMATE LIST for MONETIZATION
I’m on this run posting about development purely because it really kicks me when I see so many wasted domains with parking pages and the general lack of any real SEO / Monetization presence at industry conferences. My personal opinion is DomainSponsor, NameDrive, SmartName and all these companies should be entitled to one booth and [...]
$350 Million Acquisition – CreditCards.com and NetQuote
Bankrate, Inc. announced on June 24 they will acquire CreditCards.com and NetQuote for a combined $350 million. This is a monster deal (and not a domain sale for you blokes who think every company sold with a .com is a domain sale). According to compete these 2 sites have over 2,000,000 unique visitors a month [...]
Francois of Domaining.com Retires … Site Shutting Down
This could be the post one day…. Are you prepared? I am not someone who lives under the illusion that my blog is popular or anyone actually wants to read what I have to say. However I am fully aware of the power that domaining.com has to provide traffic to people. In fact, I would [...]
Top 25 SEO Blogs – SEO Bookmarks You Need
Let’s do another article while I am stuck waiting to speak with a client overseas. I have always insisted that any domainer serious about development quit reading domaining blogs and spend more time reading SEO blogs so why not give you some homework. My SEO knowledge is derived from 10 years of experience yet I [...]
How to get Backlinks – SEO / Monetization Advice
Since my last post was popular and seemed to open up the eyes of many domain owners on how to monetize websites outside of Adsense or parking a page lets get down to backlinks. The number of backlinks to a site from trusted and relevant sites gives great weight to a websites organic search ranking. [...]
BackLinks.org – Premium SEO Domain – FOR SALE
Are you an SEO firm who provides backlink building to clients as part of your SEO service or maybe you are in the “debated” business of selling backlinks – whichever service you provide how many domains actually exist with any kind of decent exact search and potential for this huge, growing and ever changing SEO [...]
Affiliate Programs and More – SEO
This article is mostly for domainers who are still learning to develop outside of Adsense. A week or so ago I posted about the basic elements required to have a $2 million property online broken down in number of leads / income generated per day. As we all know Adsense and other forms of PPC [...]
$2 Million Dollar Sale ..
In only a few short years a $2 million dollar sale happens and changes you overnight. All the work put in was against your parents dreams to attain a higher education from some over rated and expensive school just to get a degree (in some entirely useless subject such as foreign art or gymnasium techniques) [...]
iGaming Auction LIVE – Top Picks / Gaming Domains
Moniker and SnapNames are certainly everywhere these days and in one of thier first appearances at iGaming that I can remember they seem to have put together some good names in the auction currently live on the SnapNames platform as part of the iGaming Supershow for the gaming industry. Some of the names in auction [...]
$16,000 and 33 Bids … 24 Hours left to Go
Andrew from DomainNameWire.com has an auction going on at snapnames Ending Tomorrow so we are in the final hours and I must say its a nice well rounded inventory. With over 24 hours left to bid there are already 33 bids and over $16,000 in sales. We all know most bids happen in the last [...]
Google Taking Over Lead Generation – Bad News for PPC and SEO
Ask anyone using the Google Adwords program and you will quickly find many people building businesses around the success of their PPC campaigns however unlike how Rome wasn’t built in a day Google can crush you overnight. The latest change to the Google search results for mortgage related terms such as “mortgage rates”, “mortgage calculator”, [...]
Sex.com .. No, A Much Bigger Sale has Happened
Forget about sex.com – some of the most valuable domains in this world surround lead generation. Ask any developer and you will get the most common 5-10 categories as the most valuable. Insurance, Mortgage, Weight Loss, Finance, Debt and others. One of the biggest domains sought after by hordes of people over the years has [...]
$25.5 Million – ReliableRemodeler.com
Another domain which was developed but would probably see no more than a couple hundred in auction is ReliableRemodeler.com According to Quinstreet’s SEC filing “In February 2008, we acquired ReliableRemodeler.com, Inc., or ReliableRemodeler, an Oregon-based company specializing in online home renovation and contractor referrals for $17.5 million in cash and $8.0 million in non-interest-bearing, unsecured [...]
$10.2 Million – CardRatings.com
I love hearding stories about development especially with domains most domainers would never bid on. As the mammoth Quinstreet filed to go public more of thier purchases are now public. CardRatings.com – a site with just under 100,000 visitors a month (not an enormous amount of traffic by any measure) was sold for $10.2 million in [...]
