With just over 2 billion websites on the world wide web, forever increasing second by second and minute by minute, a high percentage of websites don a .com domain. In fact, almost 75% of all globally registered TLDs are .com — that’s just over 150 million.

While most tend to choose and use .com as their preferred extension, there’s a growing number of personal and corporate brands selecting non .com domains to represent their digital presence.

There are more than 500 million blogs out of 1.7 billion websites in the world. Now try to imagine how many links are in the world? Exactly, there are likely just as many web links as there are stars in the universe.

With over 200+ factors to rank websites in search engines, primarily Google, a healthy backlink profile carries substantial weight in whether or not a site ranks well or ever finds the light of day on Google’s page one search results.

Many bloggers, myself included, are so focused on producing content in hopes of increasing visibility and search ranking, that we often forget about the simple things in operating a blog.

Simple things like ensuring there are no to only a handful of all sorts of links that are not broken. The longer one blogs or the older the website, the greater the percentage for there to exist broken text and image links.

What a wild ride 2020 was, and for a multitude of reasons. The good, the bad, and ugly, to say the least.

There are many defining moments that touched us all — global pandemic, quarantining, masks, colossal loss, the movements, an election, and a long list of others.

As for the domain industry in general, 2020 will be remembered as the year of digital transformation and revolution. It’s the year of businesses making a mandatory pivot to digital empowerment online, or shutting their doors for good.

Many sales, purchases, and great memories were made domaining in 2020, with many more on the way in 2021.

As we move forward into the great unknown of 2021, take a moment to listen to the most downloaded Kickstart.fm podcasts recapping 2020 from some of the most innovative voices in the domain industry.

Wishing you a Happy New Year, and a year filled with health, wealth, and safe living! 🍾🎉🥳

Podcasting has been around for quite some time, nearly 15 or more years and counting. In 2004, the term “podcasting was coined by newspaper journalist Ben Hammersly as he wrote about the potential for boom in amateur radio.

Due to cheap MP3 players, blogging, and audio software, online radio became a thing. A year or so later, Apple releases iTunes in 2005 and hits 1 billion subscribers in 2013.

One of the most recent milestones of 2020 in podcasting is the Spotify and Joe Rogan $100 million licensing deal for his podcast and podcast content.

How many times have you wished to expire a WordPress Post or Page only to discover it must take action manually?

Whether to end a contest, game, sale, or product/service in the wee hours of the morning and right in the middle of a busy day of meetings, I have just the answer you’re looking for.

Today’s tutorial explores the various options available for those with a desire to expire WordPress Posts and Pages automagically.

Let’s dive in and review plugin expiratory options!

There are nearly 4.75 billion people connected via the Internet worldwide. That’s nearly 60 percent of the world’s population.

Once limited to the physical location where we reside, the Internet has vastly opened the door for everyone to connect with one another around the globe with a few simple keystrokes.

The Internet, especially search engines, has forever changed the way we live and do business. In fact, most of us now Google, Bing, or Baidu our way through daily living. But have you heard of The Bulgarian Search Engine?

Many often credit computer engineer Ray Tomlinson as the person to have birthed digital marketing by sending the first-ever email in 1971.

Whether it was him or not, no one can argue the fact that digital marketing has forever changed the way we live and do business across the globe.

Digital marketing has evolved and continues to evolve. From computers to the internet to smartphones and more to come, we live our lives through devices in one way, shape, or form.

What’s most intriguing is that we live bound to the critical undergirding of a numerical label known as the internet protocol address, often disguised as a human-readable, unique domain name.

The better the domain name, the more likely your family, friends, vendors, and customers are apt to remember and visit your name time and time again.

Otherwise, if your domain is hard to remember, then it’s much like building a business miles away from the main thoroughfare.

Not many people will ever know you and your business exists.  In fact, you’ll invest exuberant amounts of time and money introducing your brand over and over again.

For this reason, it’s imperative to qualify, buy, and develop the best representation of your industry or branding for your business or personal brand.