About a month or so ago, it was brought to my attention by Page Howe that a conference dedicated to “all things emoji” would occur in New York just days before World Emoji Day.

A bit more sleuthing, and I uncovered what looks to be a 2-year-old conference certainly flying stealth under the radar.

A very common theme in the domain industry is venturing into the abyss of domain development. Domain investors often times are lead to consider domain development for a number of reasons.

Domain investors often conclude how lucrative the opportunity of domain development can be to increase the domain’s overall value as well as the opportunity for residual income by way of a full-fledge online business.

From personal experience, domain development is very much as deceiving as attempting to understand truly how big an iceberg is at surface level.

You’ve likely encountered this issue I’m sharing with you today in regard to whether or not hiding website and blog post dates impacts search rankings.

There is a camp of folks strongly believing that hiding the date from search engines is believed to increase search rankings and click-through rate of search results — giving the perception content is truly evergreen.

For example, Neil Patel’s website and blog hide the date from search engines and readers, as shown below via his website and Google search results.

As many of us throughout the world close the books on the first half of the year and start the second half of the year with a clean slate, I discovered Register.To is kicking off the second half of the year with a promotion to be happy about.

Last week I was reminded that one of my many websites was not secure when visiting it from phone.

Fortunately, this website is used for personal development purposes and not a customer-facing website.

Nevertheless, it was alarming to see the url or address bar of the web browser display in bright red lettering: Website Not Secure.

Last month I introduced readers to a WordPress plugin, Popular Posts, which is one of the best-kept secrets to boosting search rankings while lowering a website’s bounce rate.

In addition, I revealed the Popular Posts plugin was developed and designed to help website owners and operators gain clarity in regard to the most popular website content.

But it’s not the use of this plugin alone or the one to be introduced shortly that will boost search rankings and lower website bounce rates.

A few days ago, I discovered one of my domains while watching and listening to DomainSherpa’s interview with Rand Fishkin about understanding Domains through the filter of SEO and Marketing.

I was checking traffic sources for KickstartCommerce.com via Google Analytics (GA) and noticed an expired domain I purchased a few months ago was registering a large sum of redirect traffic to KickstartCommerce.com.