After paying $1 million to purchase the rights to the Topix.com domain, Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta now has to deal with a couple of daily realities in the search world: changing domains could cause a dropoff in search engine-driven traffic, and Google isn’t exactly Nordstrom or L.L. Bean when it comes to customer service.

Andy Hagans recently posted about his linkbait marathon strategy to rank his sites at the top of the search results. Brian Provost posted about his love for domaining. Domain names may play a big roll not only in anchor text, but also in overall domain credibility, linkability, and defensibility.

Do you worry about the danger of giving a 3rd party service control over the most important part of your blogging business – your subscribers?

Well, we all know that MySpace pages have the potential to drive a ton of traffic.

Last weekend, when I moved my blog to this new domain, after moving the files from their old location at http://www.infohatter.com/blog/ to their present location, I needed to set up a redirect to ensure that traffic following links pointing to the old location would still end up at the right posts.

Stowe Boyd recently switched to a new blog and is struggling to get his technorati profile and RSS readers to return.

To further elaborate on a article I wrote: 301 Redirects And Domains With And Without WWW, I wanted to discuss the actual implementation of a 301 redirect on IIS.

It’s a fact, Page Not Found, known as a 404 error, can harm your website Ranking with Search Engines as well as being a Turn-Off for Visitors.

There are multiple reasons to redirect URLs. For one, your web pages may have moved but their old URLs may still live in users’ bookmarks or in search engine indexes. Without implementing some sort or redirection, that traffic would be lost to a 404 Error Page.

The need to include redirect in server access files is something many webmasters and site managers can come across. Including the correct text in order to inform visitors that the page or site they are looking for has moved is a relatively easy process. However, if search engine spiders and rankings are part of your web presence concern, there a few pointers that should be considered before altering your .htaccess file.

Are shades of grey SEO really Black Hat SEO?

I share my tale of woe about purchasing and using a “safe opt-in list” from one of those iMarketing gurus out there. For the complete series visit and open — ( http://www.CyberSpacemarketeer.com ) May, June, and October issues!

Due to many browser and other downloads, affiliate links are being automatically redirected to someone else’s affiliate links in many cases. You should protect your hard work and earnings! After all, YOU are the one who puts your sweat and your money into your advertising, your site, and your promotions.

My site is hosted on an Apache web server. Why is that? Because, in my humble opinion, Microsoft’s IIS web server is in no way qualified to service Internet web sites. (It is excellent as an intranet and applications server, however.) Another reason is the vast number of security issues that seem to pop up day after day.