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Are Web-Based Free Hosts Good For Business?

Small Business Mavericks

I’m talking about the free web-based website hosts. If you remember a website by the name of Geocities where you could sign in and build a website, then you might remember that it was just a couple of years ago that Yahoo! And all those people who had websites hosted by Geocities had to move their sites, or lose them.

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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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Infoseek Trademark and Domain Name to Be Auctioned December 8th

Bill Hartzer

Do you want to own the trademark and domain name of a former search engine? The trademark and domain name of Infoseek , a search engine originally founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch and the first search engine to sell advertising on a CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions) basis, will be put up for auction on December 8, 2010.

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AOL Security Breach: Emails Accounts Compromised

Bill Hartzer

This has happened countless times with other services, including Yahoo! Several years (over 10 years ago) I registered my own domain name ( billhartzer.com ) and started using the email myname @ my domain name.com. I have had a Yahoo! If someone got into your Yahoo! Domain Names'

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Web Hosts Hijacking 404 Error Pages on Live Web Sites

Bill Hartzer

Some web hosting companies have now taken it to a new low: they are monetizing (making money) from your web site without your knowledge. Web hosts are now hijacking their customers’ 404 error pages and putting up a slew of paid ads: advertisements, when clicked, make the company money. Search Marketing. Search Marketing.

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Blake Irving Appointed CEO of Godaddy

Bill Hartzer

Blake Irving is a long time Microsoft executive and Chief Product Officer of Yahoo!, 11, 2012) — Go Daddy, the world’s largest provider of Web hosting, domain name registrations and new SSL Certificates, today announced Blake Irving, formerly a long time Microsoft executive and Chief Product Officer of Yahoo!

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How I Created My Profit Streams and Became a Full-Time Blogger

ProBlogger

They were costing me money, and not just from me buying domain names and hosting. This time Yahoo! My first steps towards monetization. In my second year of blogging I began experimenting with ways to earn money from my blogs. I discovered AdSense (Google’s advertising network), and started putting their ads on my blog.

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