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Apple Registers 682 More Nonsense Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

nonsense domain names. I’ve been following these nonsense domain name purchases since they started purchasing them a while back. Here are a few of the domains on the latest purchase: agruimjfsklcyp.com. On December 31, they registered 62 nonsense domains. Registry Domain ID: 1992476260_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN.

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Apple and Afilias Special Projects Register 1800 Nonsense Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

Ever since I originally noticed that Apple was registering nonsense domain names, I have been intrigued about why they would be registering and then not renewing nonsense domain names. And it’s not just one or two domain names, or a dozen of them. info domain names would be at least $15,000.

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Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove

Bill Hartzer

Here’s a sample article directory that would fall into this category: [link]. But really, the question is this: how is a website supposed to contact the REAL site owner of this website, since it is sitting on a domain name that Google owns? That’s the article directory, with 71,900 pages indexed in Google.

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A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Any Google Penalty

Kikolani

Click on the “Download more sample links from top to check for the required information. Once you enter the domain name select ‘Historic Index’ followed by backlinks tab, scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘download data’ 2. Social networking website URL if any. Contact e-mail address.

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8 Important Admin Tasks to Do When Launching a New Blog

ProBlogger

2: Delete the Default “Sample” Page. WordPress comes with a default “Sample Page” that looks something like this: You don’t want to leave that sample page in place. Just make sure you change the permalink to something other than sample-page. ). #3: 3: Remove the “Meta” Widget from Your Sidebar.

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Facebook Pages Getting Slammed with Phishing Spam Via Messenger

Bill Hartzer

com socialbuzz.com take.app c8ke.com rebrand.ly (a url shortener website) bio.to com socialbuzz.com take.app c8ke.com rebrand.ly (a url shortener website) bio.to That’s one of the “big red flags” here–if there are links to OTHER domain names, other websites, you should not click on those links.

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Search Engine Optimization: Recovering Lost Traffic and Links on your Website

Bill Hartzer

When I did an SEO Audit of the website , though, I analyzed the website’s log files in order to see if there was any traffic or URLs that were giving errors. And I noticed that in the past month there had been over 15,000 requests for the URL that used to contained the sample legal-type of letter. Share this on Technorati.