Today I received a $50 domain inquiry for a top 3 word .com.

I’ll take a few moments to share a few thoughts for domain buyers and sellers.

I’ve received a few offers on this same domain over the last year, so I knew that I was not going to rollover and blindly accept this offer without doing a little research.

Just based on the previous domain inquiries and offers, the lowest price I was willing to accept was $25K.

As I do with every domain and right from the start, I also checked to see if the other domain extensions where registered, available, or developed.

And to my surprise and advantage as a seller, all other domain extensions were registered and a few had fully developed websites belonging to thriving businesses.

So I did what anyone should do, which is performing a few business searches to be sure that those businesses were legit.

It’s the silver bullet to SEO: Automation.

Every small business owner would love for SEO to plan, implement, execute, measure and sustain itself automatically.

However, the truth and reality is that it doesn’t. The End.

Okay, there is more to it that just stating the obvious and calling it a day.

This doesn’t mean that certain aspects of SEO cannot be automated.

In fact, there are many aspects of SEO that can be automated.

But the wisdom in automating SEO is knowing what to automate and how to go about automation.

Blinded by future rankings and the expected tsunami of traffic to be receive moments after signing their SEO agreement, business owners fall prey to paying large sums of money for services that either can’t be rendered or are rendered and leave their website severely penalized or de-indexed by search engines.

Too many times, business owners and businesses fall victim to the ole’ foolproof SEO automatic packages that tout overnight page one rankings.

Instead of taking the time to invest in SEO for the long haul, most business owners opt for the silver bullet approach.

Now, I can’t stop you or any other business owner in search of SEO strategies and services from falling prey to automating SEO.

While you can automate some of your SEO actions, there are some SEO actions that you should never automate.

Things have definitely been moving at a fast pace around Kickstart Commerce, especially pay-for-performance SEO (white hot!).

Customers that signed and executed agreements nearly 6 months ago are finding profitable success in generating greater website traffic and new customer relationships.

Their rankings have not only increased, but their website is listed for multiple listings and a variety of keywords on page one and two of Google. That’s right, the big kahuna of search, Google!

One of the reasons I make mention of the pay-for-performance SEO customers is that the commonality in their success is domain name and high-quality content. Yes, there is more to SEO than just domain name and high-quality content. The focus on domain name and high-quality content is what sets these customers apart from their competition and highly visible search rankings.

Again, a good bit of present day SEO and future SEO will depend on high-quality content being shared by real people finding value in that content, generating and boosting greater backlink profile and link building value. And one way to build and boost your website’s link building value is ensuring your website has a solid foundation in regards to a domain name.

It’s easy to write high-quality content, if your website is information driven, and place that high-quality content, or any type or quality of content on a long and not easy to remember domain name. Can the website rank? Why, yes it could and can rank.

But the real question, will the customers remember the website without having to go back through their varying search steps?

If your website depends on Facebook much like we humans depend on oxygen, then I suggest you better find a back air tank and real soon.

Gone are the days that you can share a post for the masses to see without paying one dime.

If you’ve had a personal or even a business page on Facebook, then you’ve figured out that not every post will reach your entire fan base when you choose not to pay.

For last 2 years, Facebook has cracked down on the promotion of business posts, and forcing businesses to use pay-per-post advertising.

Even when you do pay, only an additional segment of your entire fan base will see the posted message.

You have to pay premium pricing for your entire fan base to see your promoted message no matter how many likes or shares you receive for the promoted message.

Just wait one minute before you hit the buy now button for buying traffic, or at least read this post in its entirety before completing your order.

Website owners and managers are quite familiar with the term or phrase “buying traffic for their website” in some way.

For most, buying traffic for websites is a way to get quick, targeted traffic at bulk or high volumes.

Buying traffic is becoming very common nowadays.

Now there are several ways to buy traffic, such as PPC advertising networks (i.e., Facebook, Bing, and Google) offering internet traffic targeted by category, age, and country.

In addition, website owners are able to buy traffic from specialized SEO and non-SEO practices such as banner ads on a 3-party website or buying media blasts.

There are a multitude of methods, both search-safe and non-search-safe, to buy and receive instant website traffic.

However, before you choose to invest money in buying traffic from any source peddling such services as a method to increase website traffic, it is highly important to consider the pros and cons of buying traffic.

Let’s have a look at 9 tips I suggest web buyers consider when buying traffic for their website.

This is the question that most small business owners, desperately looking to increase their website traffic, want to know before they buy website traffic.

As it pertains to the web, most of the time, some would say the shortest path to success, fortune and riches is to buy website traffic.

Today I’ll share with you what signs to look for when you go to buy website traffic.

We’ll briefly cover how adhering to those signs can provide for an effective experience, and more importantly, a profitable experience that does not negatively impact your search rankings but increases search rankings.

Is it worth spending thousands of dollars on pay-per-click (ppc) campaigns if my website is not ranking well? Can you provide me with any PPC campaign tips?

What a loaded question with a variety of stances to answer from.

Initially when I received this question from a potential customer, I was tempted to answer with a simple answer of yes and why.

However, I decided to delve a little deeper and volley a response back to the potential customer by way of another question.

We exchange emails a few times before arriving at the potential customer’s pain: a website that once ranked well is no longer ranking.

The idea of using PPC advertising and needed PPC campaign tips came about when the potential customer had been in contact with a competitor and industry colleague.

This colleague had indicated with proof that they were spending a good bit on PPC campaigns after their website had been penalized to no existence by the latest Google update.

Not ever having an experience with PPC, the potential customer was gung-ho about moving forward with their PPC effort in hopes of boosting their web rank.

But where should they start?