Category Archives: Domains

Selling BoulderSEO.com

Posted on December 12, 2011

A great domain goes up for sale on GoDaddy.

BoulderSEO.comI have put the BoulderSEO.com domain up for auction: with the upcoming release of the top-secret WordPress real estate plugin, I have chosen to sell this prime property.

The BoulderSEO.com auction will be ending in 18 hours, so if you’re into Colorado, Denver, Loveland, or Boulder SEO (you get the idea!), check out this auction.

You will instantly rank well with this great domain.

Currently priced at only $660 – it’s a great deal! With literally no work done on the site since April, 2009, I still get 1-2 leads/month from this site. This domain will pay for itself in a month.

Go to the auction.

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YOURLS URL Shortener

Posted on June 20, 2011

YOURLS LogoI was having trouble finding the right URL shortening service. My requests for shortening were not too picky. I wanted two simple features:

  • Good statistics that are visible only to administrators
  • Edit the long URLs after generating shortened links

…but not one service has both features:

  • http://sn.im has editable URLs, a bookmarklet, but no stats. Oh, and they kept on deleting my links.
  • http://bit.ly has great stats, name recognition, but the links aren’t editable and the stats are public.
  • http://goo.gl is the fastest service (so they claim), they have good stats (maybe the best, since they include OS & browser information), but they don’t have editable links or private stats.

Other smaller offerings may have had both features, but they also seem unreliable. I wanted control of my links.  Read more…

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SEO & Switching Domains

Posted on September 16, 2009
Moving a domain SEO implications

Goodbye old friend. Hello shiny new domain!

Recently I moved my company’s domain from KatzWebDesign.net to KatzWebServices.com to reflect the change of the business name (over one year ago) from Katz Web Design to Katz Web Services, Inc., to reflect the in company services offerings, and to have a .com domain.

This is a simple switch, not re-launching a new website — just moving the same site from one domain to the next. Here’s how I approached the switch, and it’s a solid method to use for any domain switch:  Read more…

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Buying Domains at Auction

Posted on March 30, 2009

Domain rush hour!

Domain auctions are a rush — and a great opportunity

Earlier this month, I was shopping around for some domain names, and I found out that BoulderSEO.net and BoulderSEO.org were available, and that BoulderSEO.com was expiring shortly and going up for auction. I had never backordered a domain before, but for $18.95, it was worth trying out.  Read more…

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New Yahoo! domain prices — can they be serious?

Posted on July 8, 2008
Is Yahoo! nuts? They want too much moolah (piles of money)

Is Yahoo! nuts? They want a 351% increase for domains!

Might as well say “This is Yahoo calling…and we need your money.”

I just got an email from Yahoo! Domains (where I registered madeindenver.com) that says the following:

Important note: Beginning on July 1, 2008, Yahoo!’s annual domain renewal price increases to $34.95 per year.

Yahoo is going to charge $34.95 a year for domains, up from $9.95. This is unbelievable. I know they’re trying to bolster their bottom line so Microsoft and Icahn stay away, but is charging 351% more than before, and 500% markup the way to do it?  Read more…

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