Let me share something with you that might not be obvious. Suburbs of big cities are good candidates for domain development. I’ve found that they are generally under serviced which means businesses are more likely to consider internet advertising, there are less competitors for the advertisers and you need to use less resources [...] Continue reading →

In my continued series about domain development, I’d like to take a few minutes say THANK YOU to David Castello for everything he is doing for geo domain owners. David has more than a decade of in-the-trenches experience in the geo domain space. He doesn’t TALK about doing it, he’s done it! He’s tried [...] Continue reading →

At one of the sessions at TRAFFIC New York 2008, Brad Geisen and Rick Schwartz talked about the sale of Property.com and how it was a perfect fit. If you missed the announcement, please read Rick’s press release. I’ve got to admit that the sale to Foreclosure.com sounded like a perfect fit. I was [...] Continue reading →

I’m in the process of researching a series of articles on mass and mini site development services. If you follow me on twitter you might have seen me talking about it already. Why my opinion matters Why bother reading my posts? You’re being paid or something right? That’s a great question. Nope, I am [...] Continue reading →

Deep back links, using relevant anchor text, from trusted sites, used to be all you needed to get ranked and stay ranked in the SE’s. There’s a new trend rising to the top of the bucket these days. Ranking with trust It has widely been believed that the SE’s would trust your site and rank [...] Continue reading →

My pal Sahar posted about the anti-competitive madness going on with Domaining.com on his blog today. Domaining.com is a RSS feed aggregator just like alltop, yahoo, google etc. They’re building traffic and selling ads on the backs of other people’s content. Plain and simple. To try and tell your content providers what they [...] Continue reading →

Andrew at dnw.com had his Wordpress hacked recently. I noticed it at around 5am EST and tried to contact Andrew to let him know, without success. Ultimately, my buddy Elliot was able to get the news to him. Wondering how I noticed dnw.com was hacked? I got the same warning in Firefox that [...] Continue reading →