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High Profile Domain Names Suspended Due to Invalid WHOIS Data

Bill Hartzer

After further investigation into the issue, she learned that the domain names had been suspended by the registrar due to invalid WHOIS data on the domain name WHOIS record–here web server was not down. Craft is among many domain name owners whose domain names have been suspended due to invalid WHOIS data.

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How to Evaluate an Expired Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

A friend recently asked me about a domain name he was thinking of buying. He mentioned that one of the websites he owns and has developed is the name of a city: and he noticed that there is a ‘related’ domain name that is for sale. Here is how to evaluate an expired domain name for “SEO Value&#.

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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Check the Whois on Your Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

Technically speaking, Whois is is a query/response protocol which is widely used for querying an official database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. There are several things that you need to take a look at on the domain name’s whois record.

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How to Properly Redirect a Domain Name and Get Link Credit

Bill Hartzer

I recently received an email from Duane Long asking a question about redirecting a domain name that he had recently purchased. He is trying to redirect the domain name so that he can get the proper link credit; so that the links from the domain name he bought is credited to his current, live website.

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Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card

Bill Hartzer

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card , an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Why would Google purposely not grade these elements, like canonical tags and canonical issues, as well as subdomains?

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Facebook Privacy Gone Awry: Search Engines Indexing Email Addresses from Facebook

Bill Hartzer

We already know that there are a lot more than 5000 Facebook users, so it doesn’t seem to be a really big issue. There’s some issue with the real-time feed data that is causing Google and Yahoo! So, what can you do to combat issues like this? to index those URLs. Apparently, this was enough, as both Yahoo!

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10 Useful Google Chrome Tools for Web Designers

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Domain Availability Checker. Domain purchasing is a hot business for many people and the Domain Availability Checker allows you to inquire on the availability of domain names from within your web browser toolbar. PlainClothes. Eye Dropper. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on LinkedIn.

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