Useful links and posts from other threads.

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I'm going to start adding some of the links and posts from other threads in this forum. Hopefully this thread will become a useful domain resources reference.

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Links on search engine optimisation

http://www.googleguide.com/
http://www.sitepronews.com/archives.html
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/6-10-2005-71368.asp
http://www.seo-glossary.com/
http://www.seo-uncovered.com/
http://www.searchengineworld.com/misc/guide.htm
http://www.incominglinks.com/
http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2005/aug/1prt.html
http://search-engines.allinfoabout.com/
http://www.seochat.com/

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Originally Posted by Paul&John

How to pickup a domain:
First of all search for keywords related to your site at http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/, then pickup the keywords from the top (for sure you won't find a domain name avaliable for registration for the top keyword/phrase), and try them in http://www.whois.sc/domain-explorer/ if they are free - use them with hyphens (keyword1-keyword2.com). Go for .com and .net.. (.org sucks). Nowadays i'm searching only for .com, but when i find an interesting one with .net i'll register it for sure. 9$/year doesn't hurt too much, when you can get a good ranking in SE - especielly in yahoo, it goes for domain name!
So that's it, happy searching

It's worth checking those links.

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Links for checking domain names

http://www.urltrends.com/
http://www.widexl.com/remote/link-popularity/index.html
www.GoRank.com
http://www.whois.sc/bulk-check/

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Originally Posted by Blinky

Google Sitemaps - You NEED them !

Everyone wants to get good google rankings. Now google has made it even easier for you. Just submit a correctly formatted sitemap to them, and you can specify the time it should crawl your pages (frequency), all your page URL's, and more. It doesn't guarantee a result, but it's a good step to make sure.

Again I'll refer you to sitepronews as they have a great article:
"Google Sitemaps Explained - How to Get Your Site Indexed With Google Sitemaps"
http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2005/july/6.html

Learn the right way to do it and your indexing problems could be cured forever

Another nice tip from Blinky.

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Originally Posted by seven

AllWhois - The most complete whois service on the internet

http://www.allwhois.com/

It's useful to be able to check on some of those obscure TLDs

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Originally Posted by seven

DNS STUFF - Free, fast, advanced and comprehensive web-based DNS and domain name tools
http://www.dnsstuff.com/

This is a really useful site to help you sort out name server problems.

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Originally Posted by Blinky

If you use firefox, get the pagerank status extension which allows you to see a site's PR and also if it is included in the google directory (or DMOZ), even shows you which category it's in if it is in the directory. http://pagerankstatus.mozdev.org/

Firefox is safer if you're exploring unknown sites.

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Originally Posted by Blinky

http://www.multireg.com/article494.html - Highest (published) Domain Sales over $100,000

Some great domains went for some great prices. It's be interesting to see how much domains can be worth if you choose a good one.

Taking a capital gain is always a nice option.

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Originally Posted by Blinky

http://www.seo-lab.com/seo-articles/...-for-yahoo.php Optimising for Yahoo SE !

Google isn't the only search engine.

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Originally Posted by seven

Search Engine Simulator -Checks if your site can be spidered by search engines. It will give you an idea how search engine see your page.

http://www.1-hit.com/all-in-one/tool...ine-viewer.htm

Sometimes it's difficult to design for search engines and human viewers.

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Originally Posted by seven

yahoo! vs. google - Compare Google and Yahoo results

http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-google.html

Yahoo is still a great search engine with some good traffic.

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Originally Posted by Head Boy

The didital point domain suggestion tool is back online - nice for checking wordtracker and overture rankings on one page.

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

It's handy to have two major keyword checkers on one page.

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Originally Posted by Blinky

One of my favourite blogs, where you can find information about all aspects of the SEO world. Really professional articles at times !

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/

Nice to dip into in your spare time.

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Originally Posted by Blinky

Keep up to date with the latest trends at google... see the highest ranking search terms, regional searches, and lots of other interesting stats with the google zeitgeist.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist.html

International version, with localised info:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/intl-zeitgeist.html

Worth checking to see if you can boost some of those old domains.

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Originally Posted by Blinky

Read the google blog so you can find out more about google's workings from google themselves. Not always SEO, but always interesting !

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

I didn't know Google had a blog on blogspot - they must be trying to improve their ranking.

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Originally Posted by Head Boy

Just in case any of you guys want to read it, I'm including a link to a great article on domains in the Business 2 magazine
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/arti...132510,00.html

It's well worth reading if you want to earn enough to buy a $65,000 Rolex.

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Originally Posted by Head Boy

There is a lot of misinformation floating around about using trade marks. I hope that this article will give Netponders an idea of the restictions and possible uses, but as ever, you should consult a local lawyer to make sure that it applies in your area.

http://www.publaw.com/fairusetrade.html

Worth a read if you own, or are thinking of buying, a domain name with a trade mark in it.

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Originally Posted by Jarmusch

Here's a nice tool that allows you to check overture results of the last 12 months, this way you can know if a domain gets regular consistent type-ins and it's not just a recent trend or the domain being close to drop.

http://www.ovthistory.com/

Nice link from the Throat fucks stats contest.

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Originally Posted by xanthias

well if you're interested in buying a domain from someone, you can use urltrends to check the link backs, pr, etc... all in one place. works like a charm.

http://www.urltrends.com/

I've added this because it's starting to appear in my server stats, and it's quite a handy tool.