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Apple Continues to Register Mystery Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

A few days ago, I uncovered the fact that Apple owns a bunch of mysterious domain names, most of which are resolving to a default Linux setup page on Amazon’s cloud. But today, after I reported that one of these mysterious domain names, trollqtkhoverlaysbynk.biz, was registered and then deleted, was just re-registered yesterday.

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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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My Last Blog Post of 2013

Bill Hartzer

Well, here it is, December 31st, 2013, the evening is drawing to a close. Not that 2013 was a bad year, or that it was actually an odd (unlucky 13) year. And boy did I deal with it: My most memorable (at least for me) blog post of 2013 was one of those. So in 2013, I saw a big change. place where it all happens.

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SEO Isn’t Dead. The New SEO

Firebelly

People who are aware of what’s going on with Google, but aren’t mired in the details of SEO every day may have heard the oft-used-but-incorrect phrase, “SEO is dead.” ” My utter contempt for any phrase that says “ is dead” notwithstanding, SEO is anything but dead. As far as I know.

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Which Ranking Factors Are Important In 2013?

Small Business Mavericks

Every two years Moz asks the most powerful SEOs in the industry what they think are the most important ranking factors right now. Recently, they published the 2013 ranking factors survey results. SEOs seem to think that future rankings may be determined by higher importance on social signals, authorship, and structured data.

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

Bill Hartzer

It turns out that we, as a campaign owner, were billed for 23 traffic hits by 7Search (see Figure 6(b) in Appendix) but nothing was reported by the parking service (see Figure 6(a) in Appendix) in December 2013. Clearly, the parking services kept the rightful share away from us as the owners of the parked domains. Domain Names'

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The Evolution of SEO in New Zealand

Bill Hartzer

If we study how SEO has evolved in New Zealand, we can learn a lot about how the field of search engine optimization has changed in the last few years. SEO companies were forced to become quite a bit more educated and sophisticated in their approach to ranking websites. SEO tactics vary a great deal from one company to another.

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