Wow That Was Fast
First of all let me point out this is not a paid post. If you read my blog you’ll know I shoot straight from the hip and say it just as I see it. Good and Bad. I’m the first to criticize and the first to praise. Today I have praise for Rob Monster and [...]
Don’t Blow Your Load Times
As a website developer there are many things we think of when designing a site. We want it to be nice looking, user friendly, full of good content, and optimized for revenue generation. There actually needs to be one thing that moves in front of those two, load time. All data points to the following. [...]
Let’s Take a Look at the Top 50 Startups and Their Domains
I often feel that domainers put way too much emphasis on a domain name and it’s relation to a company’s success. I am a businessman first and a domain investor second. A domain to me is merely a tool to reach potential customers for my business. I can really get a feel of the importance [...]
For Now, Keyword Laden Domain Names Are An Important Part of the SEO Puzzle
There’s been a lot of talk about Google’s algorithm and it’s constant change. One thing is apparent, Google likes keywords in the domain. In medium to small competition keywords, a domain with those keywords often outranks sites with much better content and links. Many a large site owner has checked their Google rankings only to [...]
We All Know Social Media Can Send Massive Traffic to Our Sites: You Might Be Surprised By the Leaders
Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Social Media Market Share In the old days, three years ago, Digg ruled social media. Five years ago it was Slashdot. If you could get your story on the front page then it was good for tens of thousands of visitors a day. It looks like times have changed and [...]
Epik’s Developer Conference Picks up GoDaddy as Primary Sponsor
Congratulations to Rob Monster and Epik on picking up Godaddy as a Gold Sponsor. From September 15 to the 17th, Epik is having an exciting conference in Seattle to discuss domain name monetization. It looks to be a great learning tool for domain developers and I think the auctions is being way under publicized. There [...]
Tuesday’s Daily Domain Drops and Auctions
Today is a great day for drops and auctions. Godaddy actually has a few strong names and a non dot com, net tld shows up for the first time in a while. I don’t buy anything but com,net,org and never buy anything but a dot com if I’m trying to flip but if it’s a [...]
How Rick Latona Gave Me Hundreds of Free dot Edu Links
This past January I was sitting at the TRAFFIC conference watching the Test Track presentations taking in the sell and the reactions from the review panel when something that was said really got my attention. Rick Latona was talking about a site he had that he that could never outrank the school sites. Honestly I [...]
Heyzap Arcade Makes Adding An Interactive Gaming Portal To Your Website a Piece of Cake
We’ve all want to be Hallpass Media’s Bill Karamouzis and create the next Addicting Games or Flash Player but most of us don’t have the skills to write the code to incorporate the games into our sites. Even if we did, monetizing the site can be difficult as well. You get hundreds of thousands of [...]
OOPS! Next Weeks Domaining Event: DomainSuccess.com’s Interview with Rob Monster
Update: I apologize the session is NEXT Wednesday. It starts at 2 pm Eastern and should be a pretty good show. We’ve talked about Rob and Epik for months, now it’s time to hear from Rob himself. I’m sure Owen Frager has some great questions lined up for him and knowing Rob he’s likely to [...]
