Posted by: bhartzer on: June 21, 2011
It is not very often that you come across a situation like this. The domain name JeffBezos.com has been sold at a domain name auction and then promptly returned to its rightful owner: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. I recently interviewed Bob Olea, the guy who bought the JeffBezos.com domain name and returned it to Mr. [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: June 16, 2011
From what I can tell based on a large purchase of domain names today by Google, the online search giant is planning some sort of campaign to encourage us to “get online”. Google has purchased a large number of State-related domain names including Get Online America, including the “get online” phrase along with a State [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: June 8, 2011
It looks like we are just about to get a new AOL Tech Guru. Based on a few new domain names that AOL has purchased today, including AOL Tech Guru.com, it appears that AOL is going to either rebrand their currently-owned tech guru (perhaps Engadget is a likely target), or start a completely new site [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: June 6, 2011
Schema.org is a new collaboration by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to start standardizing website code. They are trying to help you code your website in a better way so that they can understand your site better and its contents. But did you know that by using code on their site you may be infringing upon [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: May 25, 2011
According to a new tool by Google called Google Correlate, you can look back at a lot of data. So, I decided to search Google Correlate for Search Engine Optimization. Apparently on June 12, 2005, it was a historic day of epic proportions: more people searched for search engine optimization on that day than on [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: May 25, 2011
In April 2011 I first reported that Microsoft had acquired 47 domain names related to something (a brand or a company) named Synsup Labs. Those domain names had previously been pointed to the Bing.com search results. Now, the total number of domain names related to Synsup Labs that Microsoft owns is an even 50 domain [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: May 11, 2011
A few friend that is not very internet savvy asked me recently about what I do for a living. I told them about search engine optimization, and then thought that I would explain the history behind it. The history of search engine optimization, though, is interesting. For such a new industry, we have seen quite [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: May 9, 2011
Google is not following their own webmaster guidelines on their own web site. We all have issues with our web sites at one time or another. When we optimize our web sites we try to make sure that we follow the industry’s best practices. But that doesn’t always happen, even if you are Google. I [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: May 6, 2011
If you search at Google for a keyword phrase that includes a city name, most likely Google will show Google Places listings as part of the Google search results. But optimizing for this has become increasingly difficult, since what Google shows and when they show it is so inconsistent. Here is how Google Places is [...]
