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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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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Check the Whois on Your Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

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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How to Pick the Right Domain Name for your Business

Bill Hartzer

And when it comes to driving more traffic to your website later on, if you have chosen the right domain name then you will have a huge advantage over your competitors. , I’m the guest speaker on July 9, 2009 at Bido.com in their online chat area, come by and we can chat one on one about domain names and SEO.

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How to Start a Successful Blog in 7 Easy Steps

Rebekah Radice

Blogging is for anyone interested in extending, launching, or reinventing a brand. You’ll take these answers and incorporate them with your keyword research into your domain name. Tips for Your Domain Name. Keep it Relevant – Your domain must tell the story of who your company, industry, or niche is.

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Facebook Privacy Gone Awry: Search Engines Indexing Email Addresses from Facebook

Bill Hartzer

One of the best things you can do is start using a social media monitoring tool to start tracking mentions of you, your company, and your brand online. Setting up the alert to track the ‘keyword’ your domain name without the www part of it will most likely help in notifying you in the event that your email address shows up online.

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Their domain name Their post type – length, frequency and value. Their Domain Name Another great thing to analyze from these blogs is their domain name. I personally believe that your domain name will affect your blogging career and how people look at your blog. All this info.

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How Not to Increase Online Credibility: MediaPost Fail

Bill Hartzer

Is that MediaPost graphic claiming that the home page of Aldi’s is a Parked Domain Name? Rather than doing some simple research by Googling Aldi to get the facts right, the image used in the story is a graphic/screen capture/thumbnail image of Aldis.com , a domain name that is not owned by Aldi Foods.