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JD.Com Domain Name Sold for $5 Million in 2012

Bill Hartzer

According to George Kirikos , the domain name JD.com sold for an estimated $5 million in 2012. Mr. Kirikos was browsing through EDGAR, and was able to discover that their SEC filing referenced domain names. Looking at the recorded public data, he was able to concur that the amount paid for domain names rose from 2.6

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My Best Blog Posts of 2013

Bill Hartzer

2013 was a pretty exciting year, and there has been a lot of activity in the search engine optimization industry this past year. With my ultimate goal of writing a blog post each day, there have been quite a few memorable ones. Here’s my wrap-up of my most memorable and best blog posts of 2013. blogging blogs'

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My Last Blog Post of 2013

Bill Hartzer

Well, here it is, December 31st, 2013, the evening is drawing to a close. Not that 2013 was a bad year, or that it was actually an odd (unlucky 13) year. Let’s start with the ‘not so good’ Probably the biggest most memorable blog moment for me? So in 2013, I saw a big change. place where it all happens.

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Google Showing Multiple Domains in SERPS for Site: Command

Bill Hartzer

Google is showing multiple domain names in its search results when the site: command is used if domains pointing to the main domain include the canonical tag. The screen capture above shows more than one domain for a site:billhartzer.com search. I wrote that blog post back in 2013. byrAO2qP5o0.

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Fetching Friday – 20 Marketing Links & Sad Cat Diary

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Blogging / Content. Enjoy your blogging! Here are my links to websites and blogs that pay $50 a post up to $1 a word and more. You can rely on this blog post for that.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & The Future of Google Author Rank

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. How to Generate More Leads With Your Blog: 5 Tips – Learn how businesses with top marketing blogs generate leads with social media and content marketing.

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SEO Isn’t Dead. The New SEO

Firebelly

If you used the right keywords in your domain name, your website title, the headline of any page or post, and even inside the meta description and the right number of times within the body copy, you could rank higher for that particular keyword. But thanks to Panda and Penguin, it looks like 2013 is going to be the year of the writer.

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