How to Choose a Domain Name for Your Local Business Website Local businesses risk losing customers to their local competitors that do have a website. More and more consumers are first checking things out on the web before getting in their cars to visit a local business. From restaurants to cleaners, an effective marketing-focused website [...]
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Best SEO Practices to Use During a Website Transfer Transferring a website to a new domain name is usually not good for SEO, however it at times become necessary. Some of the reasons it makes sense for a company to move domain names include: resolve trademark disputes, brand or image change, or make its domain [...]
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Reserve Your Domain name Now! .com .net .org .info .biz .us 1-800-Get-Rich Can Toll Free 800 Number Domains Pay Off? Copyright by Mike Banks Valentine © The toll free number 1-800-Get-Rich belongs to the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Perfect vanity number for a casino, right? Well apparently not. Their website shows the actual [...]
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I Can’t Remember Where I Purchased My Domain Name! Who is my Registrar It wasn’t until my third client had called asking how to regain control of her domain name that I realized that it was a common problem for small business webmasters to forget where they had registered their domains. WHOIS my registrar? Why [...]
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To Be or Not To Be, The Domain Question adaptation by Mike Banks Valentine with apologies to Shakespeare To be, or not to be: that is Domain question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of slow, free hosting, Or to take arms against a sea of wannabees, And by [...]
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By Derek Vaughan Let me tell you a true story. A friend of my who likes to collect domain names was describing a few that he had acquired. While he has a wide range of domains in various categories, these particular domains were all related to web hosting. Some of the domain names were similar [...]
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Domain Branding More Important Than Ever Before.” by Wayne Ford On Feb. 6th, 2003, websidestory Inc., a web analysis company, released a report showing that the majority of websites are now visited by direct navigation, instead of using search engines and web links. Direct Web Navigation is when a visitor locates a site by typing [...]
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We’ve all seen stories of copyright infringement applied to domain names as occurred last week in a previous post, but not often are defamation suits filed over domain names. Glenn Beck has filed a law suit against someone who reserved the domain name, “www.glennbeckrapedandmurderedayouggirlin1990.com” and it apparently took only two days for for Glenn Beck [...]
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Making The Dot Compromise: Consider Dot Net Copyright © Heather Reimer Have you felt the frustration yet? Are you one of the 50,000 new netrepreneurs trying weekly to get your site online only to get caught up in the dot com feeding frenzy? It starts like this: You dream up a list of possible names [...]
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Boost Your Traffic With Expired Domain Names Until now you might have thought that expired domain names are excellent just for branding. But do you know that by registering the right expired domain names you can significantly boost your website’s exposure and traffic? There is no doubt that Yahoo! is the world’s biggest portal. It’s [...]
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