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In the world of getting online with your domain, the world is becoming increasingly difficult with registration of your domain and what options are available to you to protect your privacy. When registering your domain via a registrar like Godaddy or Bluehost, the registrar will send information to the central organization ICANN, who in turn validates with your provided credentials via email, you must do this within 15 days. If not, you may loose the domain. In turn ICANN also publishes provided information to the WHOIS database, leaving private information for anybody to grab, flood your email with SPAM and hackers, services companies to bother you.

At this time you have no way to opt in or out to protect your privacy. It is unbelievable to have to pay for privacy protection via your registrar. It is time we streamline this process to protect your privacy without putting phoney registrations of domains in place. We suggest you read options below, so you are better informed on domain registration , privacy and thoughts by others on this matter. Enjoy the information and reading!

Content Marketing has become an increasingly important part of a successful and strategic marketing mix. Today, marketers can become their own content publishers and develop audiences to attract attention. This benefits them in three key ways: it builds brand awareness, creates brand preference, and expands the brand’s reach to more buyers and potential customers at a much lower cost.

A few days ago Google pushed out a new and major algo update for local search (which industry's leading SEO resource "Search Engine Land" called "Pigeon" update). There aren't many details disclosed about the so-called Pigeon yet, but webmasters report considerable changes in their local rankings over the past few days.

To make sure you've got all the freshest information at your fingertips, Link Assistant put up this short compilation to explain what "Pigeon" is, how it affects your rankings and how to adapt your SEO strategy for the changes.

This Monday, a bug in OpenSSL, revealed by security researchers at Codenomicon an independent security firm and also at Google, is named Heartbleed. Two third of the active world wide websites are compromised by this security flaw.

Referring to Heartbleed, Bruce Schneier a security expert wrote in his blog post this week:

On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.

The "age of the customer" has made it more imperative than ever to cultivate healthy client relationships. But more of those interactions are occurring on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Foursquare and social Web resources. And that has inspired more SMBs to look to the emerging category of social CRM.