Dominic "The Hodge" Hodgson» SEO

Domain Name Generators and Resources

Dominic Hodgson — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:43:27 +0000

I have a lot of domain names… its like an addition.. so many ideas and each one has its own domain name (or 3 + relevant extensions) this year I’ve actually managed to start putting some of them to use and building some sites / apps around the ideas but I will need more!There are very few resources I actually trust with regards to domain names, I’ve had a few too many services where I’ve found the perfect name thats available and by the time I get to the checkout the automated service as registered it and the price has a few extra 0′s on it.

I use namecheap for all my .com and .us domains apart from having a very nice panel and quick system, they always have a decent coupon and support is brilliant.

My uk domains I’m with ukreg but I’m weighing up the cost of having everything on namecheap as its one place.

for naming my domain names, I use a dictionary, thesaurus, makewords and bustaname, by combining these resources I can usually get a good domain after a few hours of trying, I’m quite picky about domain names, they have to be short.. and this latest project is proving difficult to name due to the competition.

I’ve looked on sedo for domains but I’ve honestly not bought anything off of there yet.

Do you have any resources? why not comment on the post

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Comment Spam Of The Week

Dominic Hodgson — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:59:34 +0000

Yooo..

I kno it has nothing to do with what you wrote, but have you ever heard of –DELETED– . They seems to promise free ringtones

PS. Dont be an ass, this is NOT spam

awesome…

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Mushrooms Are A GoGo

Dominic Hodgson — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:01:38 +0000

I am writing this post about mushrooms to demonstrate to Lorna about Google indexing blogs, if this is Tim Nash reading this, expect him to also rank for Mushrooms Are A GoGo pretty soon (git!)Lorna has just started to work for vanguard and I’m trying to explain seo, what better resource to use than my own website where I daily trash rankings in the process of “testing stuff”, This will also be part of my talk at bamboo juice!

I think personally that because Lorna is sat next to me as I type this.. google won’t index this post as fast as it normally does and I will end up with egg on my face (and no actual mushrooms to go with it).

If you have no idea what I’m on about…. Welcome to my world!

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The Future of Search

Dominic Hodgson — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:13:59 +0000

Last night was Ignite Leeds and I did a bit on what I believe is the Future of Search, I don’t know why but someone asked for the slides so here they are

I’d write a bit more of a commentry but I’m off to see some husky racing soon

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Leaving the world of taps to new ventures

Dominic Hodgson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:46:25 +0000

At the end of the month, I will be leaving Big Bathroom Shop to work on some new things, I’ve learned a lot in the past few months working with the team and I leave knowing that the SEO campaign is off with a good base and the affiliate campaign is flying. As for me, I’m not 100% sure what’s next, its a bit risky in this economic crisis time but I’ve got some amazing jobs and freelance gigs on offer and I’m gonna take some time out to think about what’s next for TheHodge, yesterday I confirmed that I’m speaking at CAPEuro at the end of the month on an SEO Panel (Based on some of the clients I worked with whilst at stickyeyes), Tomorrow I’m travelling to that there London to give a talk at Affiliate Window HQ on Affiliate Management Tips and Tricks and then in April We’ve got Bamboo Juice, add that to the many Barcamps throughout the year I am going to try and get to and The Think Visibility Conferences, its already going to be a pretty decent year already (due to the fact that we are only about 11 days in!).

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Don’t Vanity Search, Google Alerts Bring The Vanity To You

Dominic Hodgson — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:02:45 +0000

It really surprises me the amount of people who havn’t heard of google alerts, I love them, every time a word or phrase is mentioned on a blog, website, news article, groups post or video description (you can pick and choose), you get an email or now it can update an RSS feed! fantastic

Many people like to search there name or nick name and see who has mentioned them recently (of course I do ), this makes the job so much easier, you don’t need to look for new listings because they are automatically emailed to you.

I have quite a few google alerts set up these include

My Name
My Nickname
Every site I own’s name
Most of my competitors within those sectors
News I want to keep tabs on

Add this to twitter search and your pretty much covered!

(Google alerts does have its downsides, for one there is a tonne of email, it sometimes doesn’t send an email (Its a Google BETA of course!), and sometimes it sends pages a few times)

What are you thoughts, do you use any similar tools, do you hate Google Alerts? Love it?…Comment!

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Things To Do After You’ve Installed WordPress

Dominic Hodgson — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:20:02 +0000

I don’t consider myself an expert but I must have installed wordpress a couple of hundred times, there are some things that I do everytime, plugins I install and settings I follow, hopefully these will help some people.

Permalinks – I wish wordpress would do permalinks from the get go but I understand because of the multitude of servers they go on, they don’t work on all of them.

Recommended Permalink Structure : /%category%/%postname%/
(However if you think your blog should be in google news, use this one /%category%/%postname%-%year%%post_id%)

Feeds – Activate feedburner / feedproxy / whatever google feels like calling it this week, but activate it with mybrand, I’ve outlined how and why to use mybrand before but its a great way to keep track of your subscriber levels and find out a bit more about them.

Plugins -Wordpress now has this great ability to install plugins without going to the wp.org site, which means I don’t have to link to the plugin pages anymore I can just give you the name to search for in your installation, but because i’m a proper blogger now, I will .

Headspace2 - I used to use all in one SEO but I was recommended Headspace2 and switched immedialy, not only does it do the correct title tags, it also has some get extras like connection to the yahoo term extractor for tagging.

Feedburner Feedsmith – Handles all the redirection for you to feedburner, even works with mybrand

Twitpress – Automatically posts a New Blog Post message to twitter once, you’ve published

YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, the best related posts plugin I’ve seen so far to be honest

Subscribe to comments – this is a great plugin that allows people to get a notification when someone responds to a comment on a post, get to build up a bit of dialog

RSS Footer – Sticks your blog url on the bottom of each post in the RSS feed, perfect for defending against scrapers.

Permalink Redirect – redirects all the urls with funny shite at the end ?&= to the proper urls

Google XML Sitemaps - not 100% convinced but it can’t hurt

Thats it for now, I’m sure I`ll come back to this post and update it but is there anything that you do? any plugins you recommend, do you agree or disagree?… let me know

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Weird Keyword Rankings Round Up

Dominic Hodgson — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:17:18 +0000

I love looking at analytics to find out what people used to find my sites, heres a few of the odd ones that are probably “really really really longtail”

is peter kay a woman now?*
real diggers for kids
strange women you tube
dollar in the arse
domenic a great girl
how can humans talk if they carn’t speak
wii country karoke
“the game” dom (apparently, i’ve now lost)
am i spamming?
and i looking for the address for linda hodgson
can i go to high school if i’ve done my gcse’s
diggers, childs birthday party
dom in a mankini (erm…)
dominic the nazi (worring)
heather stickyeyes
how much do you have to pay for a charity place on the great north run
i’m sick of microsoft
if you lie pina colada’s and getting caught in the rain
is dominic weird (probably)
next time i’ll only go to have coffee with people
people are prepared to walk m to a bus stop
pictures of female geeks
seo shoes
stickyeyes complaints
tanker driver jobs
ten steps to become a geek
www i went to open hotmail
you tube diggers

Some of those are cracking , what do your search logs say? are there any intresting stats from your blog / website?

*Theres actually been quite a few about Peter Kay and his sexuality, but I don’t want to post anymore on that because after the last post, he (she?) might start looking at some defamation of character thing and I’ve already had some legal trouble recently, don’t want any more

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Sheffield People

Dominic Hodgson — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:18:50 +0000

Yorkshire forward are have a competition with barcampsheffield to promotion sheffield.. you have to make a webpage / video or do something fun to promotion Sheffield.. here’s my entry,

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So I’ve got a new job

Dominic Hodgson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:47:59 +0000

Afternoon all, I just wanted to take a bit of time to post that fact that two weeks ago I left my position at Stickyeyes after two days of unemployement, I become employed at a company called Yardmist, owners of cheap suites and bigbathroomshop.com, my time will be split between working at hodgehouse, OBH and the offices in Blackburn..

I will be doing what I’m pretty good at (I like to think) which is handle the SEO, PPC and Affiliate’s for BigBathroomShop.com, The affiliate program is due to go live in a week or so, so I’ll be hitting some of you up about joining us .

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