Bill Hartzer

MAY 28, 2010

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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Social Media Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

There is a vast difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org, Wordpress.com provides a downloadable web hosting package that lets you customize the code and maintain the site tweaking its technical aspects. Choosing either of the hosting sites is an individual choice.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 18, 2015

As you may already know, I am an advocate of the New gTLD domain names. The New gTLD domains, however, have been slowly been adopted, and what it’s going to take is for more and more mainstream businesses to start moving to a New gTLD. They just put up a “copy” of their main site on the same URL.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

It appears that Facebook has recently acquired the Messenger.com domain name. Checking the name servers and the whois data for Messenger.com, there was a recent change to the name servers: from lovellsnames.org to facebook.com, and the registrant is now Facebook. Domain Names' Gandy Blvd.,

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Keyhole.co

AUGUST 25, 2023

Other than using a unique channel name to build a brand, think of the business or the end goal with your channel. If someone claims your name they also have the custom URL that goes with it. Without a custom URL, your channel’s web address will look something like this: YouTube.com/MpydOtyuVwZupTubasPHHcJ.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

If you were to include the URL of a new website that you just put up on a new gTLD, then would Facebook include that URL in the post and change it so it’s a clickable link? On Google Plus , they are doing the same thing: posts that include URLs of the new gTLDs are made into clickable links. Domain Names Social Media'

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Well, at least that’s the impression you get if you look at the domain names that Microsoft did not renew. Microsoft, obviously on purpose, has chosen not to renew this group of domain names, as they will soon be available for anyone to register: innovateonmobile.com. Domain Name: INNOVATEONMOBILE.COM.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

I just received one recently, and it is actually a notice that would appear that you might be paying for domain name registration. The search engines crawl the web, trying to find all sorts of URLs that they can find. And, I wouldn’t even bother submitting your site anymore. Google says that it is free.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 8, 2016

Is Apple going to finally move to their new TLD (Top Level Domain).Apple Well, if new domain name registrations are any indication, there are 10 new ways that may show proof of that. Apple recently registered 10 new domain names that all end in their brand name, Apple. Apple soon? checkrepairapple.com.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The Google cache date on most web sites have now been updated, after having not being updated for over a month. The Google cache date for my site, for example, has been updated on November 30th, and previously it was updated in mid October. But in the past few weeks, it had not been updated in over a month.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Back in 2004, the Texas Rangers sold the naming rights to a company called Ameriquest Mortgage Co. Globe Life Stadium, GlobeLifeStadium.com, was registered on January 28, 2014, on Godaddy: Domain Name: GLOBELIFESTADIUM.COM. Registry Domain ID: 1844606830_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN. Registrar URL: [link]. Name Server: NS16.DOMAINCONTROL.COM.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 7, 2014

It’s a shame that these scams exist after all these years, as they have morphed from a search engine submission to even a domain name registration scam. This important notification notifies you about the expiration notice of your domain registration for XXXXXXX.com search engine submission. Registrar URL:[link].

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

owns a bunch of nonsensical domain names that use Apple’s own DNS, but are hosted on Amazon’s cloud server. These domains continue to be registered on a regular basis, some as late as last week. And they’ve been buying these nonsensical domain names and setting up web hosting for at least 6 months now.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The first one was obviously mine, and Twitter is NOT converting those perfectly legitimate URLs into links. But, on the other hand, URL that includes a dot gov or a dot com URL is automatically made into a clickable link. Notice how the URLs are [link] that I bought today, and [link] which resolves to a website.

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ProBlogger

MAY 12, 2015

When there’s more than 284 million registered domain names online, you’re going to want yours to stand out. But you also want to be easily remembered, have a URL that accurately describes your business, and it would help if it ranks well in Google. It also helps if it’s easy to type. Readability.

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 1, 2014

Microsoft is getting ready to launch a new site or service called Sway. But based on the number of domain names that have been purchased recently by Microsoft and their private acquisition of the Sway.com domain name leads me to believe that Sway is launching soon. Registry Domain ID: 1920001_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 6, 2014

Back on May 16, 2014, I wrote about Google registering the domain name CookieChoices.org. If you currently go to www.cookiechoices.org, it doesn’t respond–but it only works if you literally go to [link] without the www in the URL. But, I can verify that the site is hosted on Google’s IP address 216.239.32.29

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Note that my domain name, LinkEarning.com , even though it has a small one-page website, has not really been developed. If you want your website to get a high rank in Google searches, your site should have a lot of links on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Here is the email I received.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 3, 2013

But, if you use my simple “trick” below, you will actually be able to make all of the links you post in Google+ “do follow” links, potentially passing some search engine optimization “value” on to the site you’re linking to. com Domain Name. Here is how to do that. Google Buys Illegal +.com

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Social Media Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Getting high quality links to a website is the best way to enhance site quality and visibility on search engine. Next step is do Fetch as Google or send your site for Reconsideration Requests. But after Google first updated on 23 Feb 2011, all website owners and SEO experts are very strict to create back-links for a website.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 23, 2016

If you look at the screen capture above, you can see that when you use their Change of Address Tool, Google doesn’t allow you to redirect to an internal page on your site when you move your site. Somehow you have to figure out how to make one site’s real home page redirect to the new site’s real home page.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 6, 2016

One of the things that I monitor on a regular basis is the Alexa What’s Hot (on the web), formerly called the Alexa Hot URLs. In order to be on that list (that’s updated every five minutes or so), the site has to have a LOT of traffic going to it. The two sites are DatingAdvices.Club and HomeFitnessBeauty.Club.

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Idaconcpts

JANUARY 13, 2011

The Google Analytics Traffic Overview is a report that provides an overview of the different kinds of sources that send traffic to your site. “Direct Traffic&# is visits from people who clicked a bookmark to come to your site or who typed your site URL directly into their browser. Step 3: Test and name your segment.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Let me make it very clear, here: You do NOT have to submit your web site to the search engines. The search engines have been crawling and indexing web sites without any issues whatsoever for many years now. The best way to get your web site indexed properly in the search engines is to get links from other web sites to your web site.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve known that, and we all have known for quite some time now that Google Penguin most likely targets links from these sites. So Google is serious about these article directories and links pointing to sites that are pointing to your website. The site owner is using Google’s apps to host the site.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2012

The first is linking to an external site, and while the argument has often flowed regarding the leaking of ‘link juice’, if you link to authority pages, you won’t harm your rankings at all. A page’s slug is its url. There is still dispute about image file names. Again, think of your visitors first.

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Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

There are still many opportunities to carve out niche footholds in foreign language sectors by utilizing top performing keywords to attract international attention, in domain names, URLs and within the content of your website itself. Understand your target market. Take care of every part of your website. Conclusion.

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agora pulse

MARCH 8, 2017

Writing about how to drive #Twitter traffic to your site. Social Media and Marketing Lessons from Fake News Sites – [link] @charli_says #socialmediamarketing pic.twitter.com/gUXrwaKayU. If you are running a Twitter to landing page campaign, then for sure you have a long URL. What are your tips? Why Promote Your Blog?

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 28, 2010

There are pros and cons for all of them, but it depends a lot on whether you want to spend any money, want to have your own domain name, what kind of options and functionalities you want and what kind of skills you have in doing the design and maybe programming. I will go through to most widely used blogging services.

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Razor Social

MARCH 12, 2020

It’s an essential report because it will give you insights into your site’s search traffic and performance and list any issues that Google found when indexing your pages. You’ll select your DNS provider from the dropdown, sign in to your host, and copy the DNS TXT code into the DNS configuration for your site.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

Here’s how this might work: Build a Personal Professional Website I always recommend securing the domain name for yourname.com (or something very similar), as a home for your personal professional brand. My personal professional site, arianawolf.com, simply redirects to flightdesign.co/ariana-wolf. ariana-wolf.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And you’re just about to buy the domain name for it. Even if you already have the domain name, you may still be wondering which way to go. Just because you have a business-related URL doesn’t mean you can’t give it a personal brand, and vice versa. Sound familiar? Getting personal. Down to business.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 2, 2011

When I refer to your “real home page” on your web site, I am referring to something like this: [link]. The URL for your home page, the “real home page” is to your domain name–and not to any other “version” of your home page. So How Do you Fix This?

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 21, 2011

This information is VERY useful if you are working to find websites with high page rank where you can put comments in order to develop strong backlinks for your money sites. The plugin also gives you lots of information regarding the sites of your competition as well. The interface for this site is very simple to use.

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

2: Get vanity URLs Start by scooping up vanity URLs on sites like Facebook and Twitter and buy your domain name. Vanity URLs mean that your Facebook page or Twitter account can be found through your brand name – like for instance facebook.com/yourname or twitter.com/yourname.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 3, 2010

Site Explorer reveals over 5700 email addresses: Bing.com, on the other hand, has been very slow at indexing these web pages, and that’s probably due to the fact that Microsoft has been very slow at indexing ANY web page on the internet. to index those URLs. I have seen this happen before with other sites like Twitter.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 12, 2011

When it comes to optimizing your web site for the search engines , search engine optimization, there are a lot of things that you can do that will hurt your search engine rankings. And add in new technologies and web sites such as social media web sites and there are even more search engine optimization factors.

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