Domain Name Renewal Increases SEO

Written by Jeff Gatesman Wednesday, 12 August 2009 04:57

Google has changed the algorithm used to rank web pages over 470 times in the last year! Surely you are not still trying to keep up with Google SEO, are you?

I've mentioned it before and until someone proves me wrong, I am going to stick with the adage that website optimization is key to your site being relevant, which in turn will get you good ranking in all the search engines. Relevance to search engines comes in many forms, and age is one of them. What exactly does this mean? Take the city of San Francisco for instance: they have the highest percentage of restaurants per capita in the country. In other words, if your restaurant stinks, it is not going to stay in business very long. Vis-a-vis, a long-standing restaurant in the Bay area likely has pretty good food. In the same respect, if your domain has been under your control and publishing content on the internet for a long time, it is probably going to rank rather well just based on that.

Of course, if you are new to the internet, this little perk is something you are just going to have to be patient for. But there is also the optimistic issue, wherein you register your domain for multiple years which sends the signal that your domain plans on sticking around for awhile. Here is a quote from Googles Historical and Age Data Patent:

Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year. Therefore, the date when a domain expires in the future can be used as a factor in predicting the legitimacy of a domain and, thus, the documents associated therewith.

When you consider the cost of domain registration, this is probably the best value in Search Engine Optimization you are likely to come across.

Spam and the BCC

Sunday, 08 March 2009 08:49

or How Do Spammers Get My Email?

Spam can be a frustrating, maddening nuisance: it overruns your inbox and some aggressive email filters can prevent you from actually getting the messages you want or need. So have you ever wondered how Spammers get your email address in the first place? Have you ever hit the "forward" button after receiving one of those viral cute/patriotic/religious/silly-test emails from one of your friends?

If you answered yes to the last question, then you have your answer to the first one.

It's called email harvesting and it is a well practiced technique used by people to amass huge lists of actual email addresses.

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