(archived) MSN used to rank new pages very quickly, however, lately this is not the case. I know backlinks rule in MSN and it is filled with spam, yet one of my sites that has done 100k uniques organic visits this month from Google alone, has seen only 3 MSN hits. I suspect there is some type of problem going on indexing new sites, or their algorithm simply does not index new sites quickly anymore, which many people have suspected for some...

Recently I have been thinking about 2007 and while setting some goals, both personal and business related, I am also trying to figure out what the next “big thing will be in the internet marketing arena. I believe that social networking sites, and video sites, will be the big players in 2007. The term “social media optimization” or SMO will start to play a major factor in old school marketing plans. This is simply a good...

(archived) It must not have been more than a month ago when somebody at Name Pros forums posted a very long list of still available LLL.mobi domain names. I thought I’d register a few just in case and so I did. If I had only known! If I had only known that a month later, the LLL.mobi’s would not only be gone, but selling for 6 or 7 times more than they were bought for. Obviously I had a hunch. Why else would I register 4 of...

(archived) The Traffic EAST tradeshow yesterday saw over 4.9 million dollars worth of domain names sold in a live auction. Bids were from live bidders and left bids. Topping the list was Cameras.com which sold for $1.5 million dollars. VB.com went for $130,000 and mortage.net went for $149,000. After each large sale, their was a loud applause and cheering heard. The auction was played live on Webmaster Radio. What’s most interesting...

(archived, may 2006) What is click flipping anyway? Click flipping is a term used for a specific adsense + adwords ROI strategy. It goes a little something like this. Buy clicks from adwords at x amount of dollars Receive visitors and in turn clicks to adsense for y amount of dollars. Y amount needs to be high enough that it covers x amount and then some profit. How is this achieved then? It is very hard to find the right niche in the...