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Interview with Sean Markey on all things SEO domains

September 13, 2024 by Raymond Hackney

Sean Markey is one of the people to listen to when it comes to SEO domains in my opinion. Sean announced yesterday that he is starting a SEO Domains brokerage. So I sent him some questions on all things SEO domains. I hope you enjoy the interview. Q1) I saw on X you are starting […]

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Google’s John Mueller “Your domain name is never going to make or break your SEO”

February 16, 2024 by Raymond Hackney

John Mueller from Google had conducted a chat on Mastodon, there was a question that was domain name related. An #seo question from the X-Twitter world: In the domain name, is the use of dash ( – ) recommended or not? Mueller gives a few points and ends the first reply with “Your domain name […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Google, SEO

Domain Names and SEO strategy

January 11, 2024 by Raymond Hackney

Dynadot published an article on their blog that was authored by one of our advertisers, .INC. The article is not about domain investing but rather SEO. From the article: Best Practices for Optimizing Your Domain for SEO 1. Use Your Domain Name in Your Website’s Content One of the easiest ways to incorporate your domain […]

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Endomondo.com closes at $75,000 after being dropped by Under Armour

June 18, 2023 by Raymond Hackney

Endomondo.com closed at $75,000 at DropCatch. You might have been wondering why so high. This was a popular fitness app from Under Armour. Maymyfitness.com wrote: On December 31st, 2020, Endomondo was retired and rendered inoperative. Under Armour will remove Endomondo from all app stores and will no longer provide bug fixes or customer support for […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, SEO

HealthyChild.org closes at $60,000 with solid link profile

September 22, 2022 by Raymond Hackney

HealthyChild.org was another big link play that closed at $60,000 on GoDaddy auctions. Taking a look Ahrefs Domain Rating 68 Backlinks 181,671 97% dofollow Referring Domains 3,727 85% dofollow You can take a look at what the website looked like thanks to archive.org. It’s a shame the $60K is not going to the work the […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy, SEO

SmartAboutMoney.org closes at $141,000 Stellar link profile propelled the auction higher

July 20, 2022 by Raymond Hackney

SmartAboutMoney.org closed for a whopping $141,000 at GoDaddy auctions. This does not mean raise the pricing on your money related .orgs and don’t use it as a comp when you are selling keywordkeywordmoney.org. This was purely a link play as the domain name has an excellent link profile and a high domain rating according to […]

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Filed Under: .org, Auctions, SEO

Websites can go into a state of limbo due to Google algorithm bug

November 29, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

Roger Montti published a piece over at SearchEngineJournal.com with regards to a Google bug that leaves websites in a state of limbo. It’s funny because someone on Thanksgiving was telling me they could not get their website to rank, even for their own domain name. In a Google Office-hours hangout, John Mueller answered a question […]

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Filed Under: Google, Search Engines, SEO

Gambling-law-us.com $57K in 2019 goes for $100K in 2021

November 4, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

Gambling-law-us.com closed at $57,000 back in November of 2019. The domain was paid for and they put up a website up. The domain previously was owned by an actual lawyer that practiced law related to gambling. The new owners made it clear they were not lawyers in the footer of the website. The site provided […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, SEO

InstaWidget.net closes at $54,500 over 6million backlinks

July 29, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

InstaWidget.net closed at $54,500 at GoDaddy auctions. The link profile is off the chart. Ahrefs reports: Domain Rating 90 Backlinks 6,193,413 80% dofollow Referring Domains 26,684 98% dofollow Their Twitter page shows: InstaWidget is the tool (widget) to add photo album of Instagram to your blogs or websites. A lot of money for a lot […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy, SEO

VITAMINDCOUNCIL.ORG closes at $62,300

June 13, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

VITAMINDCOUNCIL.ORG closed at $62,300 at GoDaddy auctions on Sunday. Why? It’s another SEO link play, although when I see the first 100 links Ahrefs provides I am not sure they are the greatest links, someone with a stronger SEO background please chime in with a comment. The Vitamin D Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales, SEO

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