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

Bill Hartzer

Snapnames, an aftermarket domain name auction service, has reportedly discovered that a rogue employee set up an account and bid against other bidders. The incremental revenue from the bidding represented approximately one percent of SnapNames’ auction revenue since 2005. Specific domain name registration policies for employees.

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Search Engine Optimization Horror Story Contest Launched

Bill Hartzer

in July of 2005.Mark In fact, most likely, once you registered your domain name, all the major search engines have visited your website within one week. Sometimes it’s within hours: and I’ve seen Google spider a new domain name within minutes. Mark Jackson, Vizion Interactive. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Ranking Problem Solved for a Reader

Bill Hartzer

It looks like you bought the domain around May of 2006, and it had some links already (it’s not 11 years old): the site does not look like it did in 1999 and even in 2005, so it may have been an expired domain: did you pick up the domain name and start building links (which were not the same quality as it already had)?

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Happy Birthday to Me.

Koka Sexton

1 Write more : I made the resolution last year to do something with ALL the domain names I had. I am sort of a Domain Name Junkie and I had great ideas that I did nothing with. So I spent the better part of 2008 working on the domains I wanted and selling or letting the others expire. 2009 Birthday Resolutions. #1

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Happy Birthday to Me. - Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

1 Write more : I made the resolution last year to do something with ALL the domain names I had. I am sort of a Domain Name Junkie and I had great ideas that I did nothing with. So I spent the better part of 2008 working on the domains I wanted and selling or letting the others expire. 2009 Birthday Resolutions. #1

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100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

If you like this one, please don’t hesitate to stumble, blog, digg, bookmark, and otherwise promote the hell out of this. Buy an easy-to-remember, easy-to-spell, content-appropriate domain name if you can. Use Digg, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us Don’t digg/stumble/link every single post. December 2005.