This commercial caught me off guard because I wondered how many thousands or millions of viewers watching Sunday NFL Football actually saw the commercial and knew what it meant.

For those of you that are in the dark on new gtlds, they are essentially new suffixes for domain names. Most of the general Internet population is familiar with the most popular gltd, .com, just due to most websites end in .com.

However, there are roughly 20 or more existing gtlds that most people have seen over the last few years. These gltds, .org, .net, .me, .co, .info, .biz, .tv to name a few, are commonly used when the .com gtld for a specific domain is unable to be used or already registered by someone.

There has been much talk about domain leasing services throughout much of this year as the world wide web anticipates the release of 1,900 or so new generic top level domains (gTLDs).

In today’s post, I hope to shed a little light on the premium .com domain names and the various options you can take now in terms of renting, leasing or buying.

No one knows the future of .com or gTLD’s.

In my humble opinion, I think it is safe to say that .com will be around for years to come.

Rather than waiting on the new gTLD’s to be released, you’re better taking action now to rent, lease, or buy a premium .com domain name for your business when given the option too.

Exact match domains (EMDs) are domain names that contain the exact name of a business or an exact keyword for ranking high in search engines.

Because of the value and quality of such premium domains, people started registering exact match domains just to rank high and did not have anything worthwhile to offer.

Google launched an exact match domain algorithm to track such domains down and giving them less weight than those that were actually real websites and not spam.

So, today we will address the question of why companies should consider exact match domains when performing search engine optimization (SEO)?

I recently was invited to an Entrepreneur Summit sessions held in Round Rock, Texas by a close friend and business partner.

I always find it an intriguing challenge to hear from business owners looking for ways to launch, sustain and grow their businesses.

Having had a chance to address a small group of entrepreneurs about how to grow their businesses as it relates to SEO and domain names, at the table was a photographer, baker, imports/exports operator, and an online retailer.

I didn’t learn much about the online retailer as he wasn’t too forthcoming with his business or business model.

However, I thoroughly enjoyed answering internet marketing and business strategy questions about the photographer, baker and imports/exports operator.

We talked about and discussed many aspects of launching, sustaining and growing their businesses. I’ll attempt to highlight some of the questions asked and addressed in our short time together.

Here’s a look at the top 5 podcasts for Kickstart Commerce in January, ranked by number of downloads:

I received an email the other day from a customer that’s been us nearly 15 years.

About a year or so ago, we served this customer by upgrading their website design and hosting as well as implementing SEO retainer services.

Most recently, in an effort to speed up and optimize website performance, we implemented the use of Cloudflare for the customer’s website hosted via Bluehost.

If you haven’t heard of or not using Cloudflare, then you are missing out on realizing greater website performance and increased boost search rankings.

I originally discovered Cloudflare and all of it’s goodness from SEO Legend Bill Hartzer while attending DNHouston some time ago.

The reason I mention Cloudflare is because this is where my mind immediately was drawn to when receiving the customer’s email about not being able to successfully File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to the web server.

This post is for persons yet to realize their dream, purpose, and calling for their lives. What are you waiting on?

It’s hard to believe five years ago I set out on a journey to start a search marketing business.

Long story short, I’m a long way from where I started and planned to be. But hey, I started. 🙂

During this time, experience has shaped me into an objective communicator and publisher of interviews, podcasts, and videos in one of the wildest rides of my life.