Posts Tagged ‘search-engine’

$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Recently Slots.com sold for 5.5 million dollars , when the general public looks at a domain sale of six to seven figures it erupts feelings of envy, mysticism, curiosity and plain head scratching disbelief. Much to the delight of companies such as Godaddy.com people go out in droves registering hundreds to thousands of domains treating the url’s like virtual lottery tickets. Let’s be realistic, companies do not sink thousands of dollars into an investment unless there is a calculated ROI, here we explore the reasons such as SEO value, branding power and conversion

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$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Recently Slots.com sold for 5.5 million dollars , when the general public looks at a domain sale of six to seven figures it erupts feelings of envy, mysticism, curiosity and plain head scratching disbelief. Much to the delight of companies such as Godaddy.com people go out in droves registering hundreds to thousands of domains treating the url’s like virtual lottery tickets. Let’s be realistic, companies do not sink thousands of dollars into an investment unless there is a calculated ROI, here we explore the reasons such as SEO value, branding power and conversion.

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$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.

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A Look at Full and Partial Feeds in an Increasingly Mobile World

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

I’ve long stated that I prefer full feeds over partial feeds . Now that I’ve spent the past few weeks using an iPad, I feel even more strongly that full feeds are the way to go and that offering partial feeds is an obstacle to getting your posts read by as many people as possible. Two sites I read on a regular basis that offer partial feeds are Search Engine Land and Wired Magazine .

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A Look at Full and Partial Feeds in an Increasingly Mobile World

SEO site review session from Google I/O 2010

Friday, June 4th, 2010

A couple weeks or so ago, we did an SEO site review session at Google I/O 2010 . The video from that session is now live: The video is about an hour long, but I hope it’s a pretty good use of your time if you’re interested in search engine optimization. Enjoy!

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SEO site review session from Google I/O 2010

Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors May 2010

Friday, May 28th, 2010

I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors May 2010

Live-buzzing Day 2 of the Google I/O keynote

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Okay, today I’m going to try something different again. I’m going to try live-buzzing the keynote of Day 2 of Google I/O. You can follow the live-buzz right here .

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Live-buzzing Day 2 of the Google I/O keynote

How Do You Measure ‘IT’?

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

I’ve been doing SEO for a few years, with specific focus on social media and ways businesses can find their audience, their prospects and make money out of utilizing social media to generate leads. What I am still troubled to see, maybe because I live and breathe this industry, is that social media still seems a place where businesses fail

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How Do You Measure ‘IT’?

How Do You Measure ‘IT’?

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

I’ve been doing SEO for a few years, with specific focus on social media and ways businesses can find their audience, their prospects and make money out of utilizing social media to generate leads. What I am still troubled to see, maybe because I live and breathe this industry, is that social media still seems a place where businesses fail .

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How Do You Measure ‘IT’?

Live-blogging (okay live-waving) Day 1 of Google I/O Keynote

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Okay, I’m going to try live-blogging the keynote of Google I/O, but I’m doing it with a twist. I’m going to try live-blogging in Google Wave with some other folks. Watch the live-stream video at http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers by the way.

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Live-blogging (okay live-waving) Day 1 of Google I/O Keynote