Welcome back!  You may be a bit groggy this morning, but shake it off.  We’ve got work to do and a lot of it. It’s time to get back in the swing of things and back to the normal week-to-week life.

We’ll get things kicked off today with 9 domaining actions that I religiously perform when I end and start a new year. I’m certain the ideas and thoughts to be discussed will help you tremendously.

You may already perform some of the domaining actions.  If you are, then you’re reaping the benefits of increased profits, reduced costs, and less stress with a more succinct organization.

If not, then today’s your lucky day.  This is a fair warning that this guide is a lengthy read of nearly 2,200 words, but hang in there, it’ll be well worth the read.

Using these 9 domaining actions, I give you quite a bit of insight, and tips and tricks for how I successfully manage my domain portfolio from year to year.

We’re kicking of this year with a bang, releasing a MUST-READ ebook topic: Local SEO Marketing.

Yes, there’s an abyss of local SEO marketing content covering a vast number of options for small businesses to locally market services and products.

The list is long, including marketing and advertising options such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Yellow Pages, Yodle, CitySearch, MerchantCircle, Door-to-Door hangers, and many more…

But I’m not covering those topics in this book. I’m sharing and showing you another less traveled road that only a few are dare to travel.

That’s right, I’ve worked quite hard over the last year researching and experimenting with a variety of techniques and strategies to command local market share for a range of businesses.

And I wrote an ebook to share with you and the world about what I learned in my quest to understand local SEO marketing for myself and others.

In short, getting more revenue and customers in a local market can be quite the challenge for the every day small business and it’s owner (that’s you and me too!).

After all, I’ve been there with my own businesses, and executing local SEO marketing is not an easy nut to crack.  Why, you ask?

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.

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.

As you know or may not know, Kickstart Commerce offers affordable domain leasing for our growing portfolio of domain names.

Typically, when I receive inquiries about some of my most popular domain names and met with stick shock from uneducated domain buyers, I always offer a payment plan to buy the domain, or a leasing payment to use the domain for a set period of time should I not want to sell.

I’m not always successful with the latter option as most domain buyers who are not able to afford my portfolio of premium .com domains tend to move and settle for a lesser priced domain.

But much like physical real estate, I’ll continue to hold my oceanfront property for the right buyer to come along and see the value in paying my asking price.

Nevertheless, today’s post will help those of you looking to purchase by way of leasing that one game-changing domain name that will morph your business into an online powerhouse brand.

As quiet as it is kept, I’ve released yet another eBook designed to help small business owners grow their local business.

But Shh…, don’t tell your competitors before you had a chance to read, plan and execute Local Domain SEO strategies.

What is Local Domain SEO, and how will it help my small business?

In comparison to 84-page A Practical Guide to Effective SEO read, the latest release of Local Domain SEO is a quick and short 26-page read comprised of the following:

How can I increase my website’s traffic and search rankings?

This is the most common question I hear from potential and existing customers looking to gain an edge in search rankings and generate more qualified traffic.

And of course, no matter how I try, there is never enough time to sum up all of the SEO actions one can take to increase website traffic and search rankings.

For those who use WordPress, I simply recommend a few general settings changes and the installation of Yoast or All-In-One Webmaster plugins for starters.

Then there are those who have a static website I recommend content marketing via blogs and articles.

And let us not be quick to forget or diminish the value of social media networks.

Out of all the thoughts previously mentioned, we are barely scratching the surface in addressing the 200+ search ranking factors.

In addition to fielding potential and existing customer SEO questions, I’ve personally had a chance to document the process for creating, developing, and sustaining a few niche websites I’ve started in recent weeks.

I tried my very best to document the 108 actions I’ve used and followed, per my SEO guideline.

Using this exhaustive list of proven SEO actions, every small business owner (that’s you!) can execute these actions on an ongoing basis to increase website traffic and search rankings in hopes of capturing qualified customers.

So if you’re ready, let’s get started!