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Shill Bidding on Namejet Exposed – $100m in Shill Bids
(youtube.com)
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I'm surprised they didn't launch on hire.google, and chose to launch it on hire.google.com instead. Apparently Google doesn't see the .Google TLD as a priority for them.
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9y ago
Any idea how much he paid for that domain?
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9y ago
It's not about the financial aspect of it. Create the site and the content--that's the hard part. You can always monetize the site/content later on. Affiliate programs come and go, same with ways to monetize a site. You can a
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9y ago
If I was going to spend this much time and effort creating content and building a site, I'd certainly not be sending the traffic and sales over to Amazon. I'd most likely be drop-shipping products or actually carrying some invento
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>> Never thought the SEO actually paid off (these request emails look like they're generated from a template that can be easily automated(. There are services out there that make it really easy to manage blogger outreach, PR outr
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If someone puts up a site or page claiming to be a company or entity that they're not (i.e., "We make Stack Overflow, where the world's developers get answers...") then that's not a domain name or TLD issue. It'
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9y ago
Actually, if you search in Google for site:.feedback you'll see about 45,700 pages of .feedback sites indexed in Google. They are showing up for many brand searches. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A.feedback&
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Knud Jepsen A/S V. Rick Schwartz, Virtual Dates Inc
(scribd.com)
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You do have a point there about travel costs and hiring a speaker. But consider that sending those employees to a conference is not just about training. Those employees are representing the company when they attend, network, and quite possi
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Rightside to be acquired by Donuts Inc. for approximately $213M
(seekingalpha.com)
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I wonder if you can use this monitor in portrait mode?
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Samsung just unveiled the widest computer monitor you can buy
(businessinsider.com)
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Sergey Brin rumored to be building an airship for humanitarian missions
(theguardian.com)
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Venture-backed Co Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – to evade a patent dispute
(techcrunch.com)
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App gets approved by Apple, despite game not working--and the support links in the descriptions typically link to sites that don't have anything to do with the developer (the victim). So, when someone requests a refund from Apple, they
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Apple Allows Scam Apps from Rogue Developers on App Store
(minigames.com)
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Seinfeld-sourced paper gets into legit science journal
(kottke.org)
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Hidden Advantages of a Relevant Domain Name Extension
(thedna.org)
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Helpful? actually I've been pitching this same idea (don't rely on Google traffic for your business model) since 2004. I've seen too many businesses FAIL and have to lay off employees because they relied on Google traffic.
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10y ago
If your business model involves relying on Google for anything, then you need another business model.
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10y ago
Yes, they may not be in the spirit of the web. But if you have ever had a featured snippet (or earned one), you'll know that they actually bring a lot more traffic to your site. They hardly take away traffic from sites, as people are s
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10y ago
Or, you can use your robots.txt file and disallow Googlebot from crawling your site.
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I don't see this as scraping, actually. They're taking part of the content from a page and displaying it in their search results. They do that with the site's title tag and meta description tag. I would be more concerned abou
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10y ago
Featured snippets are just that--they've taken a snippet from websites and are displaying them at the top of the search results for certain queries. Google doesn't say that the information is correct--they do ask for feedback (the
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If you don't know what you're doing then disavowing can hurt rankings. But if you know what you're doing, disavow is awesome. It works.
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Google doesn't penalize sites if it's an honest to goodness quality site link. Just look at how Yahoo! is linking to out to college sports sites, ticket sites, gaming sites, etc. etc.. The problem is that many of the larger "
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I hate to say it, but if you're looking at Semrush or ahrefs for link data, those aren't going to be the best sources. Try Majestic or Link Research Tools. In regards to "keyword heavy domains and keyword heavy content with a
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10y ago
One engineer... but a LOT of volunteer editors.
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10y ago
I was trying to be snarky with that comment. Ha
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