SEO, Buying, Selling and Developing Domains
November 30, 2011 — Google, Bing, Facebook and Twitter are among the websites that a US judge has ordered delist domains linked to sites selling counterfeit Chanel goods, a report by Ars Technica claims. According to the report, the US district court for Nevada ordered more than 200 sites be removed from the search results of “all internet search engines” and “all social media sites.”
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US Judge Orders Search Engines Social Media Sites to De-list Fraudulent Chanel Domains
Several years ago I hand-registered a number of pronounceable and brandable 5-letter domain names. Domains like these have already become a rarity in a fairly short time. I submitted one of my favorites, “Jabsy,” to BrandBucket last year where I listed it for sale at $3,999. The domain received an offer yesterday for $2000 and I accepted it.
Just like my first GoDaddy premium listing sale earlier this month, BrandBucket received a 30% commission on the sale and there was additionally a fee for logo design and marketing. My take-away this time was $1,300 or about 162 times my initial registration cost of $8.
You may be curious why I accepted an offer of $2000 when my asking price was double that. Well, the sale of this domain also came with a hard lesson learned. I made one of the more common domaining blunders, having an old sale indexed in search engines.
I try to stay on top of deleting old sales post content, but it slipped my mind during a recent short-sale and it ended up hurting the bottom-line of the offer at BrandBucket.
I received word from a BrandBucket representative that a buyer was “very interested,” but had done his homework and believed I had purchased the domain from a forum sale for $500 some time ago. In actuality, it was me offering the domain for sale during 1 week of raising funds to launch the new DotSauce Domain Club.
You can imagine how viewing the $500 price tag on the same domain listed for sale for $3999 would affect an interested party’s offer.
I am not going to dwell on what could have been, but I am definitely going to be wary about making this mistake again. When listing your domains for sale on blogs and forums, be sure to remove the post content after the sale has been finalized or it will remain indexed on search engines.
Savvy buyers will look up the name on Google to see its history. So, if you have old sales on domain forums, auctions, classifieds, Twitter, etc. I recommend you do some spring cleaning and delete anything that may be harmful to your current domain sales marketing efforts.
160x Domain Flip at BrandBucket and One Hard Lesson Learned DotSauce Magazine
Major domain news is making the rounds through SEO and internet marketing communities today. Google’s latest “content farm” update targeted low-quality content and keyword domain names may be next on the agenda for changes to Google’s search results.
According to Aaron Wall of SEOBook, brand names have been given a boost to ensure doorway pages remain indexed. It has also recently come to light that Social Media directly effects search rankings.
The benefits of using generic domains like RealEstate.com or keyword rich domains such as DomainNameNews.com have been well-known for many years. It’s currently seen as easy by many industry professionals to get a top ranking for desired keywords if your domain name is an exact match of the keyword phrase.
In his latest video update, Google’s head of web spam Matt Cutts hints at the possibility of yet another algorithm change. Google may be reconsidering the weight it provides to keywords in domain names.
…we have looked at the rankings and the weights that we give to keyword domains, and some people have complained that we are giving a little too much weight for keywords in domains. So we have been thinking about at adjusting that mix a bit and sort of turning the knob down within the algorithm, so that given 2 different domains it wouldn’t necessarily help you as much to have a domain name with a bunch of keywords in it. – Matt Cutts
Depending on how severely Google “dials back” the value of keyword domain names, we may see a negative effect on keyword domain values. However, quality domain names are increasingly in-demand and good keywords have inherent value beyond an SEO boost.
As quality domains become scarce and appealing new domain extensions are made available, there will always be opportunity for premium quality, short keyword domains. Domain investor Elliot Silver recently chimed in on this discussion with a great point, exact match domains can be brands too.
I suspect that those targeting long-tail keywords with three-word domains and hyphenated domains may find the SEO advantages diminished. Domains with similar content using a brandable domain will have a fair shot at ranking for targeted keywords.
The major advice we keep hearing from Google during updates is to ensure quality content. This image shows a prime example of the kind of flawed search results this algorithm will be targeting.
The domain name “ExpiredDomains.com” simply has a login form and no content, and no keywords in the title. Amazingly, this site ranks well for the term “expired domains.”
If you have developed mini-sites or are using a domain parking service for keyword domains, there may be some trouble on the horizon. I highly recommend beginning development on your best domains using a content management system such as WordPress. Quality content should be the top priority for a competitive website. Blogging is becoming increasingly important to remain visible online.
Relevant and unique content offers the best experience for your visitors and that is ultimately what Google will continually attempt to deliver.
Google May Adjust Keyword Domain Rankings: How To Avoid Getting Dropped DotSauce Magazine
The web service takes a different approach on online safety by helping parents properly manage their children’s online use. Online search engines like Google and Yahoo have special settings to let the user control the results of his/her searches. It can be set from off, to moderate, to strict with just a click of a button, without any permission and passwords
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The internet as problem, the internet as solution
It’s no big secret that domain parking has taken a revenue hit over the last couple of years. We’ve all seen the gripes on forums and blogs demanding more innovation in monetization strategies. Others are even calling the death of parking .
Magnetic Brings New Revenue To Parked Domains
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Magnetic Brings New Revenue To Parked Domains
Flying.com parent company adds another web site to its collection. UsedAirplanes, Inc., the parent company of Flying.com and UsedAirplanes.com, has purchased the domain name and web site UsedAircraft.com to add to its expanding arsenal of web properties. Earlier this year the company acquired Flying.com for $1.1 million . I interviewed company President & CEO Mark J Horne at the time, and he explained the decision as a “no-brainer”: “On an investment standpoint, if you had a million dollars cash right now, what do you do with it?,” asked Horne
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Flying.com Acquires UsedAircraft.com
In the beginning, search engines were crap. I dont mean to knock the pioneers, but they simply relied too heavily on what webmasters said their websites were about. Thats why porn sites ranked for searches like, the whitehouse. People are shameless if they can scam their way into money, youd better believe theyll do it. Follow the Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine …
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Beginners Guide to Link Metrics
After months of speculation over Google’s future in China, the Internet giant on Monday followed through on its pledge to stop censoring search results in the country by redirecting mainland traffic to an unfiltered site in Hong Kong. An announcement on the..
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Google stops censoring search results in China (San Francisco Chronicle)
Traffic is one of a site s most important assets because it is the primary element of conversions leading to sales. The number one source of website traffic is primarily search engines led by Google. However search engines do aim to provide the best results for their users so they will seriously penalize websites which are known to be hacked and hosting malware in their domains. Unfortunately it …
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Has Your Website Been Hacked? (SEO Chat)
Entrepreneur paid $1000 for MP3.com domain name, got 10,000 unique visitors in the first day. For an interesting domain name story, check out TWiST #42 with Michael Robertson , founder of what became MP3.com. In minutes 54:00 to 58:00 of the show, Robertson discusses how he bought the domain name MP3.com for $1,000 back in 1997
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Time Capsule: MP3.com Bought for $1,000 for 10,000 Visitors a Day
Over 97% of all searches on real-time search engine and infrastructure provider OneRiot are now driven by the company’s partners who use OneRiot’s API to serve real-time search results. Today, OneRiot is announcing the next version of its API , which – among other things – gives content owners the ability to create real-time search engines for their domains and sites. The new API will also allow …
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OneRiot Launches New API for Real-Time Search and Introduces Twitter-Style Ads (ReadWriteWeb)
Typos in URLS may earn Google millions of dollars, a Harvard study says. Google – Harvard University – Search – Search Engines – Tools
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URL Typos May Earn Google $500M a Year (ABC News)
End user lead generator is a game changer. End-users, end-users, blah, blah, blah. I get so tired of people talking about selling to end users, but expecting the domain exchanges to do all of the hard work for them. Until Estibot 2.0 , contacting end users about buying your domain names was a lot of work. But the service has taken the grunt work out of the process, making it effortless to find potential buyers for your domains
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Estibot 2.0 Makes Finding and Contacting End Users Easy
SAN FRANCISCO – Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams.
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Fake sites trick search engines (The Durango Herald)
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo make efforts to purge search results of fraudulent sites, but removing them all “impossible” Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams.
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How scammer sites trick search engines to hit the top (Baltimore Sun)
With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe search engines into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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Search sites unwitting accomplices in scams (The News Journal)
Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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Caution: Fake sites can fool search engines (The Indianapolis Star)
Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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Fake Web sites can fool search engines (Louisville Courier-Journal)
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