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Domain Parking Is Finished: What the 2025 Numbers Show

Posted on August 4, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

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Bodis gave domain investors three days' notice. On 28 January 2026 the company announced it was shutting down its services. By 31 January it had stopped monetizing domains altogether, and it dropped its PayPal payout threshold to one cent so … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Domain Names

I Analyzed Twenty Years of My Own Backlinks. Half of Them Are Gone.

Posted on August 3, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

1,301,839 links. 22,260 referring domains. Not one of them bought. Here is what the data says about how long a backlink actually lasts — and what it says about my own site. I have been publishing on this domain since around 2006. Over that time it … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Search Engine Optimization

Parents Fear TikTok. Norton’s Study Says The Damage Is Happening In Game Chat.

Posted on July 28, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

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Norton released a survey this morning on children, parents, and artificial intelligence. The number the press release leads with is that 85 percent of American parents feel comfortable talking to their kids about online risk. The number that should … [Continue reading]

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Google Just Confirmed What SEOs Feared: AI Answers Are Changing Search Faster Than Anyone Expected

Posted on July 22, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

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For years, SEO professionals have focused on rankings, clicks, and traffic. Google’s AI-generated answers are forcing a different conversation. A new analysis from SEO Essex suggests that the real battle is shifting from ranking in the top 10 … [Continue reading]

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New Data: AI Visitors Sign Up 11x More Than Google Traffic

Posted on July 14, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

AI Visitors Convert to Sign-Ups at 11x the Rate of Search Traffic

Here is a number that should make every digital agency sit up straight. AI-referred visitors sign up at eleven times the rate of Google search traffic. And most analytics tools cannot see a single one of them. That finding comes from a new … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: AI

Businesses Fired the Human Overseer From Their AI. New Data Shows How Fast It Happened

Posted on July 14, 2026 Written by Bill Hartzer

AI agents are showing up in more workplaces every month. Here is the catch. Almost nobody is keeping an eye on them. That is the blunt takeaway from JumpCloud's new Q3 2026 IT Trends Report, titled AI Agents Are Entering Critical Workflows. Who's … [Continue reading]

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