Parked.com Mardi Gras Balcony I am not even sure where to start this post, I got home last night from New Orleans and realized that I had slept less than 8 total hours since I left on Thursday to head to Domainer Mardi Gras and all the festivities that surround it on Bourbon St. The team from

The blog will be quiet the next several days as I head to New Orleans for what is sure to be a great time at Domainer Mardi Gras. I am trying to comprehend having a conference on Bourbon Street after the Saints won the Superbowl, this should be a great time and I am sure there

During the Superbowl I did a couple blog posts with the second one being firmly planted in my mind as a good test for what real time search can do for traffic and why paying attention to real time SEO for certain events can help drive visitors. Being in the field we are in I was

I am sure many tech minded folks are talking about how unimpressive the Google superbowl commercial was. And to those of us using search to its fullest everyday it may seem very unimpressive. Many people are already talking about how it should of been for the Nexus One, or some other whiz bang new application Google

Just a quick post to remind everyone to check their junk or spam folder in whatever email tool they use. I am a big Microsoft Outlook user and sometimes the spam filter can be a bit aggressive and if I do not remember to go back and check the folder ever so often it can get

On Facebooks 6th birthday they launched a new layout that will be available? possibly tonight for? 80 million of their 400 million users. You read that right they now have 400 million users, not bad for a 6 year old company, what is really interesting is that the company started with a focus on social networks

Wow, now how is that for a domainer interview title, state code .COM owner interviews .ME state name founder, we thought it was neat. Brian Null, a fellow Missouri resident and owner of MO.com reached out recently to talk about the launch of Missouri.me, MissouriWine.net, and other projects of mine like this blog. I thought, heck, how

Tonight I decided to do some competitive analysis comparing traffic to certain towns and areas in Missouri to the competing newspaper website in the area. I had done this for a few towns before but this time I did so on a larger scale, I cannot say I looked at every newspaper site but enough where

For those that are not aware I thought I would do a quick post about a webinar that is coming up on Thursday the 4th of February. Smartname is holding the webinar to show off their thoughts on domain parking and selling strategies for 2010 and after seeing a demo of their new content site solution

I have had this discussion with people before, but thought I would throw it out here. How many times have you sold a domain name and then seen it pop up in a drop list or possibly even available for hand registration? I have had this happen several times over the past few years but one really stuck out tonight. I try to make it a point to keep a ...

I do not blog about it much but I am a bit of a gadget junkie, I had been waiting for the day that some sort of Apple tablet would be launched, now we know that is officially the Apple iPad. I even held off buying a new Amazon Kindle this past month as the

Well, just about got all my task list checked off (translation: honey do list) before I leave tomorrow morning to head out to LA for DomainFest 2010. I am looking forward to the networking at the event. After spending a good portion of my time at trade events in my past life this is the

When we launched our favorite Missouri website we knew the community pages really needed to have a much different look than the very front page of the site. The site is all about the communities and our front page really did not make it obvious how to get to those communities. It really was just

If you have not read all the news about social networking sites being the future of how we access information instead of search engines then you must not be reading what is happening in the online world around you. I will help you with the relevant news articles in just a minute. One thing I think people are missing sometimes is how the BLEND of m...

I always like to sit back and watch how "non-technical" people use the tools (like search) compared to how people that live online constantly use them. It can be enlightening and show you why certain things work and why others do not. As many people have shown with various graphs, numbers, marketing data, and other ways to show the same thing, lon...

One of the things I was curious to see was how much traffic I could get to my new Hyperlocal SEO site that I launched a few days back. As with any new site getting awareness and traffic to it can be a challenge unless you are putting an advertising budget in place. With this site though I thought it would be a valuable tool to see what having an e...

One thing many people do not realize is how the Missouri wine industry is growing, Missouri has long been one of the top wine producing states in the US (at one point grapes for Missouri were used to seed some vineyards in France after a widespread die off of grapes in France) and as of late there have been some very large new wineries popping up. ...

Today I woke up to an email from someone who had used the contact form on DallasTexasMortgage.com to ask me to call them to discuss acquiring the "site". I had meetings scheduled throughout most of the day but when I made it back to the office I received a call from the person (persistent, I like

I wanted to do a quick announcement concerning the "soft launch" of HyperlocalSEO.com. I had been contemplating launching a separate blog focused more on local seo and local search in general but wanted to make sure that I could put in the time necassary. Well, the great news is thanks to George Pickering from LocalExperts.com I have a solid partn...

One of the things that many people get frustrated with is measuring the progress of their search engine optimization changes. As we know it can take days, weeks, or even months to see results of the changes made to the site being worked on. And to make matters even worse, it will also depend on how "important" the search engines see the site as we...

Sometimes you just have to go heads down and focus on the task at hand. The past couple weeks (really month) have been just that way. Blog posts have been few and far between which means my todo list of blog posts is now something like 32 items long. All that brings me to something, as much as I have always been a bit high energy and enjoyed havi...

Most people that have ever sat through a long presentation or sales pitch have a love/hate relationship with Powerpoint. Many of the reasons for this can be tied to a few specific things that the presenter may of done wrong in the creation of the presentation. In most cases with a few tweaks the Powerpoint presentation could of been both informativ...

As we head into 2010 local search seems to be a hot topic. As search has continued to go more local it is more important than ever before to have a plan for your business to be found when people search. One fact that brings this home is that in 2008 people searching for local businesses online grew by 58 percent, it will be real interesting to see...

DomainingTips.com has partnered with Snapnames/Moniker for a "New Years Showcase" auction. Their are some great names being auctioned off with many solid .COM, .NET, and .MX domains available with what I would consider low reserves on many. A few of my favorites are Necklace.net and Armchair.net along with ComputerChair.com. Take a look at the ...

As a late Christmas gift I noticed today that we were getting traffic to a new site we are launching plus one of the Missouri.me city sites from a .GOV site. We all know that .GOV links hold very high regard with Google for SEO purposes, to have one of the first backlinks to a site we have not even launched yet come from a .GOV site is a great way...

Well, as I mentioned a few posts back we are starting to hit the one year milestones of our little business idea. Today marks the one year date of the initial checks being written to fund all the development, initial office space, hosting, etc that needed to be done. But, more importantly it marks the date that I committed to at some point in the ...

As was reported widely last month Google has decided to turn on personalized search for users that are not even logged into their Google account. If you are not familiar with personalized search, this is the algorithm Google uses to determine which search results to show based on your previous search engine usage. Previously you had to be logged i...

Shane (from DomainShane.com) left a good comment on a post I did earlier today (The Art Of SEO) about using affiliate links in blog posts and the risk of starting to seem like an affiliate marketer and then no one believing what you have to say anymore. He was not saying that I was necassarily doing that but did mention that people do start to be t...

As someone who spends the majority of his time thinking about local search and all things that pertain to small businesses taking advantage of all that the web has to offer I was absolutely overwhelmed by all the information linked to and provided in this great 2009 year in review post at SearchEngineLand.com: SearchEngineLand.com Local Search Rev...

Earlier this week I had a good friend come by to spending a few hours learning the ropes of searching for domains, where to back order drops, and the other things that I tell people before they even buy their first domain. It was a great few hours, a few weeks back he had indicated interest in the industry so I focused him on Domaining.com and sai...

Wow, what a difference a year can make. I am just kidding about the title of the post but I have been a major failure at keeping myself in shape this year. I just saw some Christmas pictures from last year while we were looking at some digital pics from this year and all I can say is CRAP!!! It is time to get my no excuses attitude back towards st...

I have tried to be as disconnected as possible the past few days which has now put me more than a bit behind on email and basically every other communication method I use. We live in the same area the majority of our family lives in which means we had three places to visit on the 24th, three on the 25th, then two on the 26th. I am Christmas partie...

Today I was talking to my business partner when we both realized it was one year to the day since the initial conversations that lead to the forming of Localtek and Missouri.me. At the time we did not realize where we were headed but the conversations we had were around geo domains, local search, and all things related. Yes that means we were havi...

Things have been NUTs around the office this month but it is Christmas time and well, a laugh needed to be had. We keep pretty serious around here most of the time but when it gets close to the holidays a little lighter atmosphere can help people stay motivated and decrease the stress that tends to occur around the holidays. Well, I thought I cou...

Yesterday I talked about heading to Domainer Mardi Gras and today I am booked and also heading to DOMAINfest. After spending several days in LA a few weeks back I figured it was time to head back and hang with Morgan Linton for a bit and the other fine folks who will be attending. I am scheduled to be one of the members of the networking group on ...

Well it is official, I will be attending Domainer Mardi Gras where I will be sitting on the opening panel with Chef Patrick and Sean Stafford of Comwired.com. The panel name is Show Me The Money here is a quote from the Domainer Mardi Gras site describing the session: Domainer Mardi Gras 2010 is focusing on new revenue opportunities in the do...

I promised some old school freestyle BMX riding videos of me from my high school days and I searched the archives and found it. I really cannot believe I am posting this. I really wanted to find my half-pipe riding videos but this is all I could find. I am NOT the blond guy. I am the other one:) You will see my ride up walls, up fences (ok I crash...

Today was the closing day of the Affiliate Convention and I must say it was an absolutely great experience. Sitting with some of the top affiliate marketing people on the web the past few days along with some of the top SEO experts was absolutely great. And if you ever want to hear a person that is passionate about their business listen to the Pres...

What a great day, met a ton of very interesting people and picked up some VERY interesting tips from some of the top affiliate marketing people on the web as well as SEO company leaders and experts. Got to meet the Thought Convergence team (caught Ammar Kubba at sign in by luck). Very small domainer showing at the conference but I would encourage ...