Old domains that have clean histories can be incredibly powerful - even if they’ve been somewhat stagnant over the years. We’re fortunate that slicksurface.com was registered in 1999 - it gives us a bit of help ranking in search engines.

Controlling spiders on your site can be difficult. Now you find they’re accessing pages you never intended because they view the robots.txt file as case sensitive - even if they know your site is not case sensitive…

Google Alerts is a wonderful service - but you don’t always get what you expect when you set up a Google alert. Case and point - old pages in an “as-it-happens” alert…

According to comScore, Firefox users are younger and richer than people who use Internet Explorer…

Picking a new domain name can be frustrating. You come up with a good name only to find out it’s not available. Surprisingly I found some good domain names on my bookshelf - and they were available…