Joe Hayes {dot} Org

Came across this list of the first registered domain names on the internet. Thought it was rather interesting who jumped on the bandwagon first. It’s great to see they weren’t poker domains, heh. At any rate, here’s the list.

1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM

Google doesn’t like paid links, they’re the thorn in the side of returning the most relevant search results. For the last several years web directories have been an overused method of not only getting new sites indexed but also ranked. One of the first steps many seo’s make for promoting a new website is paying for reviews (*cough* buying links) in popular directories. Well, Google has had enough.

SEO, an acronym for one of the most misunderstood concepts for a webmaster. Optimizing your websites for search engines isn’t voodoo, in fact 90% of it is basic stuff almost anyone can do without any prior experience. While some of the more advanced methods like link building and link baiting deserve an article all to themselves, the stuff covered here get to the core of what we’re after - to  get your pages in the search indexes and have them rank for the key terms you deserve.

So you’ve started a blog? Congratulations, unfortunately though - if you build it, they will not come. Who’s they? Visitors, traffic, people coming to your website to read what’s on your mind. There are many things involved in the building of a successful blog, none more important than writing stuff people actually want to read.

On the homepage, one of the more effective places to implement Google Adsense is after the first post (same for any other archive type page, like the categories). While the CTR (click through rate) won’t be as high as placing the code above the first post, or after the first post title, it’s much cleaner and will provide a ‘less spammy’ place to put the code. Remember, folks are here for your content - not your ads.