Grab a drink and a snack. You have quite a bit of reading to do today… 😀

If you’ve been around this blog long enough, then you know that I have an affinity with geo-related and geo-service domains.

Most people within the domain industry tend to qualify geo service domains as exact match domains.

Personally, I too often define geo service domains not to be only exact matches but also partial match domains.

Dear KC Readers,

Today is the last day of March. This month marks the 3rd anniversary in the journey of KickstartCommerce.com.

The last 3 years have been amazing, to say the least. There have been ups and downs, big losses but even bigger wins.

My confidence as a writer has been boosted while my writing has grown leaps and bounds. I’m not perfect and there is still room for improvement.

This has been and will continue to be journey. I made some changes over the last 3 months that have drastically put the blog on a different course than when I first started.

I want to share with you and others in hopes that this story inspires each of you to maximize your potential towards achieving excellence and greatness in what you’re called to do in life.

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?

What exactly is Hummingbird?  I don’t know, go Google it.  Okay, I’ll stop or not.  Okay, one more.  Go ask Siri, I’m sure she has a good answer awaiting your questioning.

In SEO terms, Hummingbird is Google’s ranking algorithm that consists of the following but not limited too:

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!

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.

How is your website’s backlink profile looking these days? Are you steadily garnering new links from a multitude of high-quality websites?

If you can’t answer those questions honestly, or you answered honestly with only a handful links not worth writing home about, then today’s post is strictly for you.

And don’t worry, I’ll go light on you although I probably shouldn’t.

Nevertheless, I’m providing you with the link building strategy round up that will do the following:

1. Inspire those of you that are not currently link building to get started if you have not a clue where to begin sound and search-safe link building
2. Give those of you a good swift kick in the pants if you’ve approach or manage ongoing link building in a lazy manner
3. Correct those of you who have gone towards the dark and wayward path of eating at the “all-you-can-link-buy” buffet

I encourage you to read, study, and re-read each link building post in this round up series.

If you have questions, then please don’t hesitate one bit to drop a comment at the end of this post.

It’ll be my pleasure to help answer any questions or concerns you may have as it pertains to sound and search-safe link building.