Bill Hartzer

How to Properly Redirect a Domain Name and Get Link Credit

I recently received an email from Duane Long asking a question about redirecting a domain name that he had recently purchased. He is trying to redirect the domain name so that he can get the proper link credit; so that the links from the domain name he bought is credited ...

Rogue Snapnames Employee Bids on Domain Name Auctions, Drives Up Prices

Snapnames, an aftermarket domain name auction service, has reportedly discovered that a rogue employee set up an account and bid against other bidders. And was doing it for several years. In a letter that I received today, Snapnames explained the situation: From: SnapNames.com [mailto:noreply@snapnames.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:23 PM To: ...

How to Evaluate an Expired Domain Name

A friend recently asked me about a domain name he was thinking of buying. He mentioned that one of the websites he owns and has developed is the name of a city: and he noticed that there is a 'related' domain name that is for sale. It used to be ...

How to Pick the Right Domain Name for your Business

Always be prepared. Always think ahead. Prepare for the future and you will always see success. If you're prepared for the worst, then when "the worst" happens you'll be prepared for it, when it does happen. Certainly preparing for something ahead of time will help. And when it comes to ...

Why I Gave a Domain Name Back to Its Former Owner

With the economy being the way it is right now, with everyone fighting for every last dollar, every last cent, trying to make just a little bit more money for yourself and your family, I seems as if everyone is out for themselves--and not thinking of others. Every so often, ...

Domain Name Appraisal Services and Domain Name Values

As you might recall, a while back I talked about Leapfish, the world's fastest search engine. Now, Leapfish has brought back a popular feature of their site, their domain name appraisal service. Type a domain name into their search engine and they will attempt to put a dollar figure on ...

2008 Texas Domainers And Developers Convention Coming Soon

Texas is about to get the first convention dedicated to domain names and web developers; and I have the pleasure of participating in this great event in early November. Not only is it a chance to find out about investing in domain names, it's a chance to learn about domain ...

How to Know When You Should Develop a Domain Name

How many domain names do you own? One? Five? Over one hundred? You would probably be surprised about how many domain names I own and how many I have developed. Some are currently parked using a domain parking service. Yet some of the domain names I own redirect to currently ...

SnapNames and Moniker Return Domain to Prior Owner After Winning at Auction

On June 26th, 2008, I was looking at the domain name auction listings at SnapNames and saw a domain name that caught my eye. For some reason, I just "liked" the domain. So, I bid on it. Apparently I was the sole bidder, so I won the domain, fair and ...

Time Warner and Road Runner Attempting to Monetize by Hijacking DNS

Here we go again. Third Pipe predicted it and now it's happening. Time Warner, using their Road Runner internet service, is attempting to monetize typo domain names and domain names that are not found when their users are type a domain that doesn't resolve. If you are a Road Runner customer, ...

March 15th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Optimization 4 Comments

How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 4 Comments

Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What's interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, ...
March 9th 2010
Tags: Search Engines No Comments

CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine

CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience. CheapTweet's 2.0 rollout adds upgrades to its core search engine, voting mechanism, and a new look and feature called ...

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Somehow we had become connected through Facebook or another social networking website and he thought that since we were tagged as being friends online he believed that that gave him permission to call ...

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