As most of you know, a good portion of my posts on this blog have been primarily targeted at small to medium-sized business owners looking for SEO tips and tricks.

This audience (that’s you too!) desires to promote their website(s) safely to search engines in order to increase search rankings and results, and get more customers and cash.

In between the various SEO posts, such as today, I sprinkle a few blog posts about domain names or the domaining industry in general.

Today’s post will blow your mind as it pertains to domain names and China, and how both are settings records right at this very moment in time.

What’s going on in today’s domain market for both buyers and sellers is very much reminiscent of the mid to late 1990’s when the Internet was just budding into existence with premium domain names.

My goodness. Christmas is only a few days away, and I’ve witnessed additional traffic in Austin (as if we need any more traffic). Most of the traffic are people that have no business driving, but again, that’s just my opinion.

In other news, today is actually a special day for me and more importantly my son. Today is my first born’s 3rd birthday! We had a party for him yesterday, and what a time we had celebrating his life and the gift from God he is to our growing family.

Getting down to business, there are quite a few decent domain names worth watching and bidding on. Hopefully you get a chance to snipe or snag a few of them. Click the links for each domain to view more.

For those of you wanting a bit more domain insight amidst the various SEO tricks and tips, I’m including a list of domains that are expiring in auction today (and will do so from time to time, primarily once a week to start). All domains are without a reserve and available for purchase. And full disclosure, none of the domains are currently nor have they ever been owned by me.

In addition, it may be surprising to view the list of domains below and see short .net domains increasing in price. The driving force behind this .com, .net, .cc and .cn phenomenon is China. China is investing tens of millions of dollars in 3 and 4 character domain names (more detail on this tomorrow).

Nevertheless, the next two weeks are likely to be fairly quiet in the US due to Christmas holiday. But if you’re into domains and want to snap up some amazing deals, then I suggest you not checkout over the next two weeks. Stay engaged and be on the lookout for some incredible domain auction steals.

Okay, take a look at today’s domains below, and don’t forget to click the domain to view current auction pricing.

Is this your business?

• You’ve had your website and blog optimized for SEO. Check.
• You post content for customers first and search engines last. Check.
• You plan and measure the effectiveness of your SEO effort using web analytics. Check.
• You’ve tried pay-per-click advertising. Check.
• You’ve tried guest blogging. Check.
• You have and are actively using social media profiles. Check.
• You’ve had press releases written and submitted. Check.
• You have local business page listings across a variety of online and offline entities. Check.
• You’ve tried give-aways, contests, whitepapers and various digital materials to educate and inform customers. Check.

So, I know you’re thinking “what is there left to do?”, right?

If your business has consistently accomplished all of the above on an ongoing basis where applicable, then congratulations as you’re ahead of most small businesses and businesses in general. But not so quick!

Have you tried small business SEO tips using domain names?

Yes, domain names can be used as a very value-add SEO weapon for small businesses to drive more local business, capturing more customers and making more money.

Today, I’ve provided you with a round up of my best domain name articles that discuss how small businesses and businesses in general can execute small business SEO using domain names.

So happy reading, and let’s get you on your way to capturing more customers and making more money!

We’re back in the saddle for another roundup adventure.

Today’s round-up will help those of you searching for good content centered around the essentials of buying and selling domain names.

From novice to expert, I believe you’ll find a good bit of content spread far and wide throughout the internet.

From DomainSherpa.com to DNForum.com to Domaining.com to DomainNameWire.com to DomainBoardroom.com to name a few of the many domain news places, you’ll find and uncover an assortment of knowledge when it comes to buying and selling domain names.

Today, I’m sharing with you my top 7 posts for buying and selling domain names.

I hope you can glean knowledge from each piece of content and implement some of the various domain selling and buying techniques to benefit yourself and others you may know.

Two years ago this very day, March 7th 2013, I sat wide eyed in front of my 21-inch monitor and endlessly stared into the blank abyss of a Google doc file.

It was quiet this night in our home as my wife and almost 3-month old son slept the night away.

I had started on this document roughly one hour ago, and yet I still found myself blank as a winter blizzard storm across the fields of the midwest.

The clock read 11:04 pm.  Oh, why was I awake, you ask?

Today is a good day to share and learn about expired domains SEO.

Quiet as kept, there is a growing aftermarket of domain names, specifically the expired domain market.

From Sedo to GoDaddy to Park.io to NameJet to SnapNames to name a few, many business owners, domainers, developers and more are sniping expired domains right and left (even right now as you read this very article!).

And I’m not talking the bottom of the barrel expire domains either. I’m talking about highly-valued expired domain names that they are buying for pennies on the dollar of the expired domain’s overall value in some cases.

But why would anyone buy expired domains?

Well, I’m glad you asked! I’ll share with you some of my most popular expired domains SEO content in today’s round up.

And although finding and buying expired domains is much like attempting to find a needle in a haystack, when you find that one needle or diamond in the rough, the SEO value you’ll attain in search rankings, traffic and new customers will make your work and effort all worth it time and time again.

So let’s get started, and I’ll share with you proven tactics and techniques of how to use and not use expired domains as a part of your overall SEO strategy.