Comments Off on Not needing Google: the web version of a “Wide Moat”

It has been with interest I’ve watched the discussions about being dropped from Google over the last day. It seems as if the Epik website network has been dropped from the search engine listings. I never really looked at Epik’s offerings, so I don’t have an opinion on it. I think Rob Monster generally has something intelligent to say in his blog. In any case, as one commenter put it:

guess that will send them into bankruptcy. Once google cans you its over.

And I thought, my god, what a horrible position to be in. The reason this topic is so relevant to me is because last week we realized here at the office that easyDNS had gotten delisted from Google for over a month! The amazing thing about it was that we didn’t even notice.

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Comments Off on Revisiting the “Sweetman Protocol”: 5 Ways to Increase Your Domain Sales

After having lunch with YummyName’s Bill Sweetman a few months ago, I posted “5 Ways to Increase Your Domain Sales”, and after writing the article I took his program to heart and went out and implemented two key points from his 5-point program:

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Comments Off on What I look for in a potential web business acquisition

I sift through a lot of listings on flippa, ebay, and other venues and basically dismiss 99.99% of them. In a year I probably scan through literally thousands of listings and I maybe go ahead and actually buy one new web based business. After thinking about it, I came up with 6 things I look for in a website or web business that gets me interested:

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