http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/379238678/ How many domain names do you own? One? Five? Over one hundred? You would probably be surprised about how many domain names I own and how many I have developed. Some are currently parked using a domain parking service. Yet some of the domain names I own redirect to currently developed web sites. And I ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/363971047/ SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, and Onward Search, a nationwide search engine marketing staffing company, has announced what they’re calling a “joint partnership” to promote programs that will increase the number of career opportunities in search engine marketing for job seekers seeking to enter the industry. Through this joint partnership, SEMPO and Onward Search ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/338178600/ According to Lycos, the rumors of an affair between Alex Rodriguez and Madonna caused a huge surge in the number of searches for their names last week. Other searches that surged last week were searches for Grey’s Anatomy’s Katherine Heigl, Nicole Kidman, Jesse Jackson and the iPhone. Lycos maintains The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/350819621/ Global digital marketing agency iCrossing has announced their findings of their Vertical Visibility Index: Automotive. They’re saying that Chrysler, General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Nissan are tops when it comes to online search visibility. The Vertical Visibility Index: Automotive is the first in their series of studies that analyzes the paid and organic/natural search media visibility. They ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/339230338/ comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. In June 2008, Google retained its lead in the U.S. search market capturing 61.5 percent of the searches conducted, down slightly from 61.8 percent in May. ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/357775793/ Paris Hilton fired back at John McCain in response to Presidential Candidate John McCain’s recent television ad. John McCain’s TV ad compared Senator Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Paris Hilton stayed atop the Lycos to(TM) Top Search Terms for the week ending August 2nd, 2008. Every week Lycos comes out with a ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/344691172/ Search Engine Roundtable recently pointed out that you can now search all of the US Government web sites courtesy of Google. Using Google’s new Uncle Sam search, you can now search the US Government websites. I can see how this would be very useful, especially if you wanted some unbiased government data. But wait! Last year ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/339518144/ On June 26th, 2008, I was looking at the domain name auction listings at SnapNames and saw a domain name that caught my eye. For some reason, I just “liked” the domain. So, I bid on it. Apparently I was the sole bidder, so I won the domain, fair and square, for $99. It was ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/370289062/ It seems as though everyone wants something done quickly, or nearly instantly. We want success quickly. We want to be successful online and we want to get links to our web sites quickly. We want traffic to our web sites quickly. There are many reasons why you would want to get an “influx” of links to ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/376237558/ Ask.com has re-launched their search engine for kids at www.AskKids.com. School is now back in session (at least it is for the kids here in Texas), so now is great time for kids to start using this new search engine. What’s important for me, as a parent of an 8 year old in third grade and ...]