Interconnectivity is now the driving force behind the world economy, but it can also be one of your greatest threats. Your data is the key to your clients? fortunes, and any threat to its privacy is a risk that you have to manage. Depending on where your servers are located you could be putting the

Let me share something with you that might not be obvious. Suburbs of big cities are good candidates for domain development. I've found that they are generally under serviced which means businesses are more likely to consider internet advertising, there are less competitors for the advertisers and you need to use less resources

In my continued series about domain development, I'd like to take a few minutes say THANK YOU to David Castello for everything he is doing for geo domain owners. David has more than a decade of in-the-trenches experience in the geo domain space. He doesn't TALK about doing it, he's done it! He's tried everything

Deep back links, using relevant anchor text, from trusted sites, used to be all you needed to get ranked and stay ranked in the SE's. There's a new trend rising to the top of the bucket these days. Ranking with trust It has widely been believed that the SE's would trust your site and rank your pages based

At one of the sessions at TRAFFIC New York 2008, Brad Geisen and Rick Schwartz talked about the sale of Property.com and how it was a perfect fit. If you missed the announcement, please read Rick's press release. I've got to admit that the sale to Foreclosure.com sounded like a perfect fit. I was looking

I'm in the process of researching a series of articles on mass and mini site development services. If you follow me on twitter you might have seen be talking about it already. Why my opinion matters Why bother reading my posts? You're being paid or something right? That's a great question. Nope, I am not being paid.

My pal Sahar posted about the anti-competitive madness going on with Domaining.com on his blog today. Domaining.com is a RSS feed aggregator just like alltop, yahoo, google etc. They're building traffic and selling ads on the backs of other people's content. Plain and simple. To try and tell your content providers what they can post...

Andrew at dnw.com had his Wordpress hacked recently. I noticed it at around 5am EST and tried to contact Andrew to let him know, without success. Ultimately, my buddy Elliot was able to get the news to him. Wondering how I noticed dnw.com was hacked? I got the same warning in Firefox that a

I saw a TV commercial earlier this week for Debt.com and I thought "hey great use of a generic, the guys behind that company really GET IT!" Even though their pitch of "getting into debt was not your fault" is laughable, it still looked like someone was going to get lots of TRUST from visitors and

Everyone talks about generic domains being the best, buy generic domains if you can afford it, generic domains get more type in traffic, blah blah blah. Let's consider for a moment that the true value of a generic domain is one thing and one thing only - TRUST. Search Engines Ask anyone who has done full development of

Ahhhh! There are development opportunities out there every day. NewYorkStrip.com is a perfect example. It is for sale for in the low 4 figures. Looking at google, it gets about 50,000 searches per month for the exact key phrase and there are plenty of long tail terms for it too. The monetisation options are wicked easy for

In the summer of 2008, we got our hands on a city.com domain with great potential. The city is waterfront, has a high median income, high real estate values, six figure population (aka visitors) and about 10,000 businesses (aka advertisers). The previous owner of the domain had problems with building sticky content for visitors, making money from...

There is buzz everywhere about domain development being Domaining 3.0, the next big thing, the big push in 2009 etc. Many great blog posts have been written on the topic lately as well. I have been doing a lot of development for internal projects and well as with some of the domain owners out there, and

Lahaina.com is a geo domain site with content about Lahaina Hawaii. The domain was registered in 1998 (Woohoo!). Although the site ranks high for its primary keyword, I think there is a lot more than can be done to develop this domain name. Let's look at the site a little closer. Overview of the Site The site is

There has been a lot of discussion about geo domains lately from Andrew, Elliot and Rick, to name a few. In the summer of 2008, we started development on a city.com geo domain. The domain was active with about 150 pages of content and 300 visitors per day. In five months, we have expanded the

A domain name is a lease, much like a telephone number. You don't own the domain, the registry does, and you don't own your telephone number, the phone company does. What you do own, are the rights to use the domain. You can assign the rights to someone else (sell the domain) or you

There are many plugins and other solutions to block spam from your Wordpress blog. There is a lot of debate as to which methods work best but I think that manually approving comments and using comment captchas is a lot of extra work turns visitors away. The biggest problem I have had is with people using

If you're like me, you've recently upgraded to Wordpress 2.7. One of the great features of 2.7 is the built in threaded comments and comment paging features. Good news These comment treading features allow your visitors to reply directly to comments on posts instead at at the bottom of the list. You can control how

Ten years ago, you used to be able to get 100 backlinks with and anchor text of "dedicated server" and you'd rank in the top 10 for that search phrase. Those days are over. With anti-google-bombing filters and other spam filters, sites that use the same anchor for their backlinks are not ranking well,

Is it just me, or did the jackass that owns beijing.com just leave a suitcase of money on the table by running a parked page on his site for the past 2 weeks? From a user standpoint, the parked site is useless. You keep clicking links and more links and never really get to the

Unfortunately, Bido has been experiencing some down time lately. After I wrote about Bido's launch, I suspected that there were going to be issues with handing load and scaling. It looks like these are the issues the team is facing now. I don't know the specifics of how the Bido platform is configured, but from the notes

There is a lively discussion at Mike's blog today about taxes and domainers. Mike points out the following: Many domainers are US based, but other major domainers are located in tax free countries thereby giving those domainers huge advantages over the US based domainers. Being a Canadian who moved to the Bahamas more than 10 years ago, I...

Have you ever wondered how that email address listed on your web site gets onto those spam lists or how copies of your web site content ends up in places that you don't want it to? Well, many times the reason this happens is because bots and crawlers are spidering your web site data for nefarious