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Apple Deletes Over 500 Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

Apple has deleted over 500 domain names this week, and decided not to renew these domain names. Most of these domain names were registered by Apple exactly one year ago, and after coming up for renewal they have not renewed them. Name Server(s) NSERVER.APPLE.COM (has 2,449 domains).

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Beware of Domain Name Parking Scams and Schemes

Bill Hartzer

If you own a domain name, and you don’t currently have a live website on that domain, then one option is to park that domain name and potentially earn revenue from it. Whatever you do, don’t leave the default name servers and let your registrar keep all the revenue from your domain name.

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My Best Blog Posts of 2013

Bill Hartzer

2013 was a pretty exciting year, and there has been a lot of activity in the search engine optimization industry this past year. Here’s my wrap-up of my most memorable and best blog posts of 2013. Regions Bank Fails to Renew Domain Name – Web Site Goes Down – I love to write about these sorts of things.

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7Search, Others, Accused of Traffic Stealing in Domain Parking Research Paper

Bill Hartzer

In the paper , the authors accuse 7Search of traffic stealing: For example, we confirmed the existence of traffic stealing from monetization chains captured by our crawler connecting three of our domains (parked with PS5) and our PPR campaign with 7Search. 7Search isn’t the only company named in this paper. Methodology.

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Don’t Pay for Search Engine Submission

Bill Hartzer

I just received one recently, and it is actually a notice that would appear that you might be paying for domain name registration. There is no obligation to pay for this order unless you complete your payment by Sep 12, 2013. Our services provide submission and search engine ranking for domain owners.

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Google Showing Multiple Domains in SERPS for Site: Command

Bill Hartzer

Google is showing multiple domain names in its search results when the site: command is used if domains pointing to the main domain include the canonical tag. Let me explain by giving you an example. The screen capture above shows more than one domain for a site:billhartzer.com search. byrAO2qP5o0.

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

Bill Hartzer

In fact, I have actually seen notices from Google in Google Webmaster Tools that give examples of article directories where these low quality links live. 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?

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