The recent acquisition of SERP.com for $210,000 may look, at first glance, like just another six-figure domain sale. In reality, the transaction highlights how premium domains can function as practical growth assets for subscription-based software companies rather than vanity purchases. The buyer, SerpAPI, operates a paid API service that provides structured search engine results data to developers, agencies, and enterprises. Its business model depends on recurring … [Read more...]
Murder.net Gets A New Cover for “Explicit Content, Reader Reviews,” #Creepy
PALM BEACH, FL – Back in January of this year, I released “Murder.net - Countdown to The Next Nightmare: The First Fiction Horror Story Based Entirely On An Internet Domain Name.” What started out as just a way to make a cool domain name, well - a little cooler, is being improved upon for retail sale as I finally get around to the grueling marketing process which includes production in multiple formats (Print), (Kindle) (Audio-book) and sending copies out to review … [Read more...]
What Does Google’s New BERT Update Do? Most Significant Update In Last Five Years
PALM BEACH, FL - Google’s BERT update (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) effects up to 10% of search queries by allowing Google to better understand natural language processing (NLP), for the most part, in longer tail keyword searches. It is something Google has been working on for the last few years and allows Google to use particular words within a search query that change or transform the intent of the search. It is said by Google to be one of … [Read more...]
Google Say’s Don’t Buy Domains for Past Rankings; Knows When They Change Hands
NEW YORK, NY – In an article that came out in Search Engine Roundtable the other day, long-time search marketing expert Barry Schwartz points out that a Google employee named Aaseesh, tasked with monitoring Google’s Webmaster Central Help Forum, posted a comment which suggests that Google zaps a domains ranking juice, not only when the domain expires (which most have already suspected), but also when the domain merely changes hands or is sold. This adds a new layer of … [Read more...]