Before we turn the page on 2025, we took a look back at what resonated most with readers on Kickstart Commerce.

These are the top 10 most viewed articles of the year.

Before we turn the page on 2025, we took a look back at what resonated most with listeners this year.

These are Kickstart Commerce’s top 10 most listened-to podcast episodes of 2025.

Explore our top 5 list to find out which Kickstart Commerce podcasts were the most popular in December, according to their monthly downloads.

There’s nothing quite like opening Google Analytics and seeing real-time users spike into the hundreds. That rush hit me recently on a site that typically sees maybe 50 to 100 visitors a day. At first, it felt like a win. Then I looked closer.

When I wrote “108 Actions To Increase Website Traffic and Search Rankings” back on December 30, 2014, nobody was asking how to rank in AI Search.

Why the bulk-reg question still lingers, and what prior years have taught and keep teaching us.

Years ago, I asked a simple question: Is bulk hand-registering domains actually worth the time and money?

At the time, the domain world was in full hand-reg mode. Ali Zandi registered 4,600 domains in one shot. Josh at DSAD was treating bulk regs like a daily workout. Rick Schwartz was mining the phonebook for custom domains. It wasn’t just a strategy—it was the strategy.

Fast-forward years later, and the question hasn’t gone away. If anything, it’s gotten more complicated.

Why do businesses ignore the problems, continuing to cost them the most?

Years ago, I wrote about the most overlooked and expensive mistake businesses make: forgetting to renew their domain.

And here we are years later, and the story hasn’t changed much. Domain renewal failures still happen every single day, and they still cost companies real money, real customers, and real credibility.

But here’s the thing. Renewal lapses aren’t the only threat anymore. Today, businesses are losing traffic, email, security, and revenue for a whole new set of reasons hiding in plain sight.

If missed renewals were “the big one,” today’s overlooked risks are death by a thousand cuts. Let’s walk through the most common problems I see from clients, expired domain auctions, and everyday search marketing work.