Attempting to figure out the best price for a domain name or portfolio is quite comparable to trying to find a needle in a haystack.

Most domain investors are often blinded by domain sales anomalies produced by the bigger personalities of the domain industry — Schillings, Berkens, Schwartzs, and Roseners.

And if not jaded by domain legends, then most domain buyers and sellers often try to hang their hat on the tree of domain appraisals as just and fair pricing.

This couldn’t be further from the truth as you’ll soon learn when listening to my latest podcast episode: 10 Tactics to Determine Best Price for Domains.

How important or critical is having a sitemap for a website? Extremely important if you ask me.

The obvious current-day need for a website sitemap is more so for SEO purposes. Specifically, search engines crawl the sitemap.

In fact, submitting one’s website sitemap to search engines is one of the first actions to take when launching a website, especially if you desire good ole’ SEO love for Google.

Nevertheless, one of the things likely forgotten or simply done away with is the use of a human-readable HTML sitemap.

Token, College, Trail, and Door Top Verisign’s Trending Keywords Report for November

Yup, it’s the second week of the month and you know what time it is, right?  That’s right!  It’s time for Verisign’s Top Trending Keywords Report.

While still in its infancy, “emoji marketing” is gaining steam as each day passes, and a growing number of personal and corporate brands are adding emoji to their marketing toolbox and strategy.

From Hubspot to Visme to Neil Patel to “The Emoji Experts”, all of the aforementioned personal and corporate brands see no end to emoji marketing, having published their own emoji marketing guides, predictions and case studies.

As millennials $200 billion buying power grows, not including Gen Z’s influential buying power of $153 billion arriving to the market, emoji marketing is poised to reach unprecedented proportions of revenue for personal and corporate brands.

Not only are tech-related companies making good use of emoji to reach and serve more companies, but longstanding industries, such as the jewelry industry, are rolling up their sleeves and establishing their brands using emoji too.

If you’re like me and you find yourself using Apple Notes via your iPhone to craft content (like this article you’re reading right now!), you often wonder about the word count.

And if you’re really diehard, you’ll be consumed with character count (with and without spaces), number of paragraphs, total line count, and estimated reading time.

There are a number of paid and non-paid choices for discovering the word count of content.

However, I’ll share with you my favorite app when using Apple Notes to craft articles via my iPhone.

It’s crazy to realize the Internet is a little over 30 years old. Although I date myself when saying I remember life before the Internet and email, the invention of the Internet has forever transfigured how we live life and do business.

In some ways, the Internet has brought us together. In other ways, not so much.

Mobile-friendly websites have been the talk of the town for some time now.

In fact, Stone Temple reports that mobile usage jumped from 57% in 2016 to 63% in 2017, while desktop usage is steadily declining year-over-year, going from 43% in 2016 to 37% in 2017.

And if those numbers hold true, we’re only months away from discovering that over 70% of internet users likely favor their mobile devices when viewing websites.

So, what does all this mean for your website?