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
Newfound Names - Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 16:8
Google Changes - 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 stopped displaying ALL organic results! Well they may have just started ....
Newfound Names - Friday, August 13, 2010 - 22:37
The ULTIMATE LIST for MONETIZATION a Domain 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
Newfound Names - Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 3:27
$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
Newfound Names - Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 23:40
Francois of Domaining.com Retires … Site Shutting Down Francois of Domaining.com retires due to reasons which do not require an explanation. He has decided to stop domaining.com and move to a more leisurely life in France focusing on family [more]
Newfound Names - Friday, July 23, 2010 - 12:0
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...
Newfound Names - Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 4:24
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.
Newfound Names - Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 23:31
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
Newfound Names - Monday, July 12, 2010 - 20:58
$2 Million Dollar Sale .. In only a few short years a $2 million dollar sale happens and changes you overnight. All the work put in was against your parents dreams to attain a higher education from some over rated and expensive school just to get a degree (in some entirely useless subject such as foreign art or gymnasium techniques)
Newfound Names - Saturday, July 3, 2010 - 21:49
iGaming Auction LIVE – Top Picks / Gaming Domains Moniker and SnapNames are certainly everywhere these days and in one of thier first appearances at iGaming that I can remember they seem to have put together some good names in the auction currently live on the SnapNames platform as part of the iGaming Supershow for the gaming industry. Some of the names in auction
Newfound Names - Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 15:16
$16,000 and 33 Bids … 24 Hours left to Go Andrew from DomainNameWire.com has an auction going on at snapnames Ending Tomorrow so we are in the final hours and I must say its a nice well rounded inventory. With over 24 hours left to bid there are already 33 bids and over $16,000 in sales. We all know most bids happen in the last
Newfound Names - Monday, April 26, 2010 - 12:23
Google Taking Over Lead Generation – Bad News for PPC and SEO Ask anyone using the Google Adwords program and you will quickly find many people building businesses around the success of their PPC campaigns however unlike how Rome wasn’t built in a day Google can crush you overnight. The latest change to the Google search results for mortgage related terms such as “mortgage rates”, “mortgage cal...
Newfound Names - Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 10:13
Sex.com .. No, A Much Bigger Sale has Happened - AutoInsurance.com Forget about sex.com – some of the most valuable domains in this world surround lead generation. Ask any developer and you will get the most common 5-10 categories as the most valuable.
Insurance, Mortgage, Weight Loss, Finance, Debt and others.
One of the biggest domains sought after by hordes of people over the years has seemed t...
Newfound Names - Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 16:56
$25.5 Million – ReliableRemodeler.com Another domain which was developed but would probably see no more than a couple hundred in auction is ReliableRemodeler.com According to Quinstreet’s SEC filing “In February 2008, we acquired ReliableRemodeler.com, Inc., or ReliableRemodeler, an Oregon-based company specializing in online home renovation and contractor re...
Newfound Names - Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 23:10
$10.2 Million – ALL CASH - CardRatings.com I love hearing stories about development especially with domains most domainers would never bid on. As the mammoth Quinstreet filed to go public more of thier purchases are now public. CardRatings.com, a site with just under 100,000 visitors a month (not an enormous amount of traffic by any measure) was sold for $10.2 million CASH (m...
Newfound Names - Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 18:25
Michael Castello – Rock Star Domainer! What I love about this business is most domain investors never grew up wanting to be in the domaining industry. Most of us fell in to domains by one way or another but never from a childhood dream of owning a domain name.
Fact is anyone around for 10 years + probably never had a computer
Newfound Names - Monday, January 4, 2010 - 15:24
18k Visitors and 70k year – Why the Web Rocks Every year people come up with great ideas to make money online which do not involve parking and these stories should inspire all.
The million dollar home page was the original money maker and one that has tried to be repeated many times over (with no such luck) however with the advances in social media since
Newfound Names - Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 14:46
#1 SEO Site but not the SEO you think With online courses, full day seminars and formal certification to show potential employers these SEO guys certainly seem to know their stuff.
Most of us would love to have a domain like this as it is not just a great name to show the world your seo expertise and build a (more)
Newfound Names - Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 13:40
