As you probably heard, domain names are the real state of the 21st century. Whether you want to build a personal blog of a startup company, the first step will be to find a good and available domain name. The task is not an easy one, but with the help of the 30 tools we listed below we are sure you’ll manage it!

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Some of you may remember my debut Search Engine Land post which looked at the process for buying an iPhone 4 on various UK retailers. The article went down quite well so I’d like to repeat this process for another set of websites to see how they convert visitors into buyers.

This time I’ve chosen a few UK supermarkets that allow you to place orders online. This is an interesting topic given that Amazon recently moved into the grocery market and therefore started competing directly with established supermarkets.

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Richard writes in with a question: “When can a person tell a blog is just about making money with affiliate sales vs. truly helping a person or business? Sometimes they sound really alike.”

This is a great question. Many bloggers–myself included–run promotions for both our own and other products on a regular basis. Some blogs are heavily promotional, with an affiliate link in nearly every post, whereas other bloggers make their money mostly through advertising and only rarely include affiliate links in their posts.

First, let’s look at things from a blogger’s perspective. Then, I’ll give you a few metrics to help you decide which marketers to follow online.

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Read The Full Story: How I Generated Over 6000 Ideas to Write About on My Blog in 15 Minutes

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Why One Size Fits All Is a LIE

September 2, 2010

I HATE buying shoes. It’s not just a mild dislike. It’s an actual hatred of buying shoes. Why? Because stores never seem to have anything that fits. Sure, now I’ve discovered online sites like Zappos to buy shoes from, but I’d still give any local store less than a 10% chance of having anything that [...]

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Going Beyond Social Media Reach

September 2, 2010

We’re a little too focused on collecting humans like marbles. Our fans. Followers. Subscribers. Impressions. Once upon a time, numbers like gross circulation mattered a bit more, because the available channels and paths for information were somewhat limited. So by putting yourself visibly in one of them, chances were pretty good that you’d actually be [...]

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Video: How to find how long a domain has been registered for

September 2, 2010
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The Decline Of The Ebook, And The Search For “THUD”

September 1, 2010

There was a time when an e-book was considered a novel idea. It turned into a gold rush. People throwing stuff into a PDF file, throwing some slick marketing behind it, and basically creating income out of thin air. Obviously an attractive concept. Then the gold rush mentality took over. People sold a lot of [...]

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21 Tips to Boost Your Blogging Mood

September 1, 2010

Most of us are so jazzed when we first start blogging that the thought of our blogging spirits ever sagging seems ludicrous. Sooner or later though, life happens, and our attitude takes a hit. Maybe our family or friends don’t support our blogging endeavors, or perhaps our traffic and subscriber numbers are still camped out [...]

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20 Must Know Reasons To Start A Blog Today

September 1, 2010

Blogging isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, actually more and more people and businesses are seeing the benefits to why they need to start a blog. Since I shared with you the hard truths about blogging with my 5 Reasons You Should Not Be A Blogger Now that you know what it takes to build a [...]

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Video: How To Use Google’s Realtime Search

September 1, 2010

Google’s Realtime Search has a new home at http://google.com/realtime and new tools to make your real-time search experience faster and more comprehensive. Learn about Realtime’s geographic refinement and conversations feature and learn how to set up your own Google Alerts for Realtime results.

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Google Map In Web Search Can Drop Your CTR Up to 65%

September 1, 2010

Google showing maps and local listings in the pure organic web search results is nothing new. For example, the image below shows a search for [plumber 10010], NYC plumbers. Now, if you are not in that local listing and you are in the web search results, what are the chances of you getting clicked on? [...]

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New changes could mean massive changes for SEO

September 1, 2010

Its been quite a month for search, including significant changes to the search engines pages, as well as a number of noticeable acquisitions for the mighty search behemoth that is Google. In particular Google’s recent acquisition trail would tend to suggest very much a focus on search and social – something we haven’t seen recently [...]

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7 Social Bookmarking Tools You Should Know About

September 1, 2010

Over the last few years I have been few active on a number of social bookmarking sites including Digg and StumbleUpon. I have picked up a number of tools along the way that have helped me with staying active on a number of communities with ease. I thought it would be a good idea to [...]

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Google universal ranking factors

August 31, 2010

Google is much more than a search engine that searches for the best webpage to fit your request. Over the years they launched many different vertical search engines like Google News, Google Books and Google Places. More and more results from those vertical search engines tend to appear in the regular search results, creating universal [...]

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Is Yahoo Dying? Yahoo’s Results Now Come From Bing

August 31, 2010

Yahoo just announced the transition from Yahoo Search powered results to Bing powered organic Yahoo search results is now complete. The search ads are still from Yahoo but the free, organic results are now powered by Bing in the U.S. and Canada. Read More: Official: Yahoo’s Results Now Come From Bing

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Don’t Get Hacked: How To Secure WordPress Against Disasters & Being Hacked

August 31, 2010

With so many publishers large and small running on the WordPress platform it is a natural target for hackers. The overall security of your site depends on a lot of factors, including the security protocol your hosting company implements at the server level. Some hosts are more secure than others. You should investigate your host [...]

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9 Ways to Use Twitter Lists

August 31, 2010

If you automatically follow everyone who follows you, then you may find your home feed a bit overwhelming. In order to keep up with all of the people you want to follow based on their interests and your connection to them. Here are nine great Twitter lists to create and ways to use them. Read: [...]

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How To Get Loads of Traffic with Infographics

August 31, 2010

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you know the flavor of the month for link baiting is INFOGRAPHICS!!! They’re everywhere, and many major online publications (Huff Post, Fast Company, BoingBoing, Mashable, etc) make it a habit of running cool infographics each day. What’s more, infographics hit the front pages of social giants like Digg, [...]

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Are You Getting Scammed? 5 Sure Signs Of An SEO Scam

August 31, 2010

Photo by Don Hankins In the past few weeks I’ve received several e-mails from readers about how they had been scammed by various SEO firms and so-called experts. Today I want to show you 5 things to look out for before you hire an SEO company. 1. They promise a top rank On the surface [...]

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How To Get Your Stuff ReTweeted On Twitter

August 30, 2010

Photo by seanmcgrath Twitter can be a great way to get traffic but you are losing traffic unless you come up with interesting and tasty headlines that get readers’ attention. In his latest blog post, How to Create Headlines That Get Retweeted, Tim Ferris explains the art and science of crafting headlines that get attention [...]

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Video: How I Deal With Twitter Spam

August 30, 2010

Twitter is a great tool for broadcasting your message, connecting with clients, and getting traffic.  But it has attracted numerous spammers who send you messages that are nothing more than ads. Most of us just ignore them.  But I want to show you a simple way to fight back.

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Your Grandma’s Guide To Search Engine Optimization and Keywords

August 29, 2010

Photo by Jane Rahman This post was originally published in July, 2008 Search Engine Traffic, SEO and Keyword Choice Search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN have complex algorithms that decide what pages will come up in search results for a given keywords phrase. We can construct content pages with SEO (search engine optimization) in [...]

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This is bizarre and funny

August 27, 2010

I just came across this website that offers eyelashes for your car.  (I guess some people are just not getting enough attention!) When I first saw it I couldn’t help but laugh and tell others about it. What does this have to do with getting traffic? This site is doing something that is funny and [...]

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Video: Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights

August 27, 2010

In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones.

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3 things you can do with your e-mail list to build traffic and make money

August 27, 2010

We’ve all heard the phrase “the money is in the list” but too often people make a list and aren’t sure what to do with it. So I want to show you 3 simple ways you can use your list to build traffic, make better products, and make money.

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Video: Gary Vaynerchuk on customer service

August 27, 2010

Customer service is at the core of every business. This is especially true in the online world where reports of customer service can spread like wild fire and kill your business. Note: This video has some language that might be offensive to some of you What do you think? Do you think Gary is right [...]

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How Jade Craven Builds Trust & Traffic

August 27, 2010

Photo by A6U571N We want traffic! We all want traffic and more of it. I know I do. But is more traffic what we’re really after? Or is it something else? My guess is that you don’t want traffic for the sake of traffic. Instead your end goal is to make  sales from a product [...]

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Freakin’ Awesome SEO Firefox Extension

August 26, 2010

I just bought Top Google Ranking Yesterday I decided to test drive a product called Top Google Ranking and so I bought it and went through the course material. Overall I thought it was a really good course on how to rank high in Google. It all begins with choosing the right keywords. I want [...]

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300+ Traffic Resources

August 24, 2010

Photo by Linh_rOm Introduction In the last couple years I have written hundreds of posts on traffic generation and recorded 200+ videos.  In an effort to make everything more accessible I have made a giant list here. Latest Posts 2 Reasons Your Keywords Suck (And How To Fix Them) The #1 Reason Why You’re Not [...]

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