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Homeowners Insurance Covers Blogging Liability? »

A very interesting article by a guest blogger at Savings.com today stating that Bloomberg is reporting: “Some bloggers may be covered for online lawsuits under the personal liability coverage of their homeowners or renters insurance policies” Worth a read – check it out here http://www.savings.com/blog/post/The-Hidden-Costs-of-Blogging-for-Money-(or-for-Free).html

Red Bull for the Eyes .. Amazing … »

Gunnars Optic glasses – Amazing. Seriously I feel like my eyes were just injected with Red Bull. For anyone who works on a computer this will be the best money ever spent. The glasses were designed to help reduce glare and provide a better overall experience for people working on a computer (among other things). [...]

VaultPress – Solid WordPress Security »

So I got an invite to VaultPress last week and its pretty fair to say this is one service everyone with a WordPress hosted site should get. In fact, it should be made mandatory as no other service comes close in my opinion. Imagine the hours put in creating your content, editing images and defining [...]

Geo Domains may Lose LOTS of value »

People buy GEO domains for two reasons. One is the obvious authority factor by having a domain like ChicagoDoctor.com but the other is because of the huge SEO advantage these names give. However what if Google changed local results one day and stopped displaying ALL organic results. Well, it seems like Google is testing this [...]

The ULTIMATE LIST for MONETIZATION »

I’m on this run posting about development purely because it really kicks me when I see so many wasted domains with parking pages and the general lack of any real SEO / Monetization presence at industry conferences. My personal opinion is DomainSponsor, NameDrive, SmartName and all these companies should be entitled to one booth and [...]

$350 Million Acquisition – CreditCards.com and NetQuote »

Bankrate, Inc. announced on June 24 they will acquire CreditCards.com and NetQuote for a combined $350 million. This is a monster deal (and not a domain sale for you blokes who think every company sold with a .com is a domain sale). According to compete these 2 sites have over 2,000,000 unique visitors a month [...]

Francois of Domaining.com Retires … Site Shutting Down »

This could be the post one day…. Are you prepared? I am not someone who lives under the illusion that my blog is popular or anyone actually wants to read what I have to say. However I am fully aware of the power that domaining.com has to provide traffic to people. In fact, I would [...]

Top 25 SEO Blogs – SEO Bookmarks You Need »

Let’s do another article while I am stuck waiting to speak with a client overseas. I have always insisted that any domainer serious about development quit reading domaining blogs and spend more time reading SEO blogs so why not give you some homework. My SEO knowledge is derived from 10 years of experience yet I [...]

How to get Backlinks – SEO / Monetization Advice »

Since my last post was popular and seemed to open up the eyes of many domain owners on how to monetize websites outside of Adsense or parking a page lets get down to backlinks. The number of backlinks to a site from trusted and relevant sites gives great weight to a websites organic search ranking. [...]

Affiliate Programs and More – SEO »

This article is mostly for domainers who are still learning to develop outside of Adsense. A week or so ago I posted about the basic elements required to have a $2 million property online broken down in number of leads / income generated per day. As we all know Adsense and other forms of PPC [...]

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