Internet Business

Well, there is a lot of talk about how important, the age of a domain is, and what role it plays in search result rankings. From the various things that I have heard by search engine specialists, and from my own personal experience, I would have to say that it probably does play some small [...]

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The worlds most popular internet video site, youtube.com plans to share revenue with the creators of the unique video content that powers the site. Youtube users watch a reported 70 million videos per day. This factor, together with increases in technology that powers the internet, could have the capacity to revolutionise our entertainment, and make [...]

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According to the dnjournal weekly sales report,  the domain joystick.com sold for US$65,000 which is a low price to for the number one sale for the past week.  The domain was sold at snapnames.com and the buyer was nameadmininc.com from the cayman islands. The overture tool is currently not working, so not sure what the [...]

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Wordpress 2.1 Ella, in line with the jazz theme, named after Ella Fitzgerald was released on January 22. Details on all of the features can be found here. I have yet to familiarise myself with the new features, but the control panel, does have a somewhat different look to it, though the differences do not [...]

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According to the dnjournal weekly sales report, the past week, there were three six figure domain sales, exito.com for US$121,560 and ultimateguitar.com for US$101,676 both via moniker. Sedo also managed to broker the sale of vn.com, a rare two letter .com domain for US$100,000.

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This article by Andy Hagans lists his opinion on some of the top link baiting services. “Getting high quality editorial links is currently the single most important factor in getting a site to rank” Google is constantly evolving, and the type of inbound links that may have once worked, may not necessarily work in the future, [...]

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According to this blog post, Guy Kawasaki is consistently ranked between the 35th and 45th most popular blog according to Technorati. The blog apparently gets around 30,000 page views per day, yet only makes US$280 per month from adsense. I dont mean to put that down, considering this blog has yet to make a single [...]

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According to the nytimes, google has acquired a small stake in a chinese website called xunlei.com that allows users to download music and videos via the internet.

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Wordpress 2.0.6 has been released today and “it includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade” Further details can be found here.

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Finally got around to signing up at the digitalpoint forums and found this interesting thread on someone who had increased their adsense revenue from US$10 to US$800 per week. I tend to agree with the approach of building a few really good sites that make a decent amount of money versus a large number of [...]

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