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Never Use a Hyphenated Domain Name for Your Website

Bill Hartzer

It’s solid proof that the right keyword rich domain name will out-rank a hyphenated domain name in the search results every time. silktide did an SEO challenge where they used 3 different domain names and web sites and saw if nonsensical content or real keyword rich content would rank better.

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About.Me: A Good Starting Place On The Web? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

I’ve always been a proponent of your own domain name. domain names don’t typically do well in the search engines. I still am. But I recently took a quick survey of About.Me You can also link to your websites so if you build your About.Me

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Web Hosts Hijacking 404 Error Pages on Live Web Sites

Bill Hartzer

Let me explain, in more detail, what is happening and what is becoming an increasingly common practice in the web hosting industy: When you set up a website, you pay for two things: a domain name and web hosting. A domain name (like www.BillHartzer.com) must be registered at an official Registrar. Search Marketing.

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More Updates Means More Traffic | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

My conjecture is that small business owners who own their own domain names update their sites more often than those who don’t. It’s important to point out that this study was made only with customers of SiteKreator.

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Search Engine Marketing Tool Review: SEM Rush

Bill Hartzer

This is one of the things that really makes the SEMRush.com website useful – it can let you know, almost instantly, the effectiveness of your SEO efforts. As I continued to scroll down, I found a listing of related keywords, which are perfect for SEO purposes when writing a blog post, an article, or setting up a money site.

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Search Engine Optimization Horror Story Contest Launched

Bill Hartzer

Do we really need another Search Engine Optimization (SEO) contest ? In this case, the SEO Horror Story contest is looking for SEO Horror Stories: and Mark Jackson explains it all very well here. This is quite the opposite of a traditional “SEO Contest&#. So, what will you get when you submit your SEO Horror Story?

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SEMRush Review: How to Beat Competitors in Search

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SEMrush is a website analysis tool to help you analyze and optimize SEO strategies. When you enter a domain name in SEMRush you will be displayed an overview screen. Costs: Estimate cost to advertise on Google adwords for these keywords (Hint: High cost with low keyword difficulty are good ones to focus on).

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