Getting traffic to your mini-site
| by Barry Goggin | February 25, 2009 |
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A mini-site is not worth anything without some sort of traffic. Traffic can be converted any number of ways or combination of ways but the amount and quality of the traffic is critical to the success of a mini-site. Since content on a mini-site is a lot less than that on an ordinary website, can you really compete for organic search traffic? Are there other sources of traffic you should be looking at? The answers in my view are “maybe” and “yes” respectively. |
Dot com or die?
| by Barry Goggin | February 18, 2009 |
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Many domainers have lived by the mantra "dot com or die". They are sometimes locked into .com for legitimate reasons and sometimes from personal beliefs or assumptions. When should you look beyond the .com world? Can ccTLDs make money? |
What Can I Do With A Domain Name?
| by Jamie Zoch | February 16, 2009 |
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The sad thing that many people do not know is YOU can own a domain name. The popular term known by many is "all the good ones are gone". True? yes and no because you can: |
Your website breeds new domain names
| by Barry Goggin | February 11, 2009 | |
If you already have a website, you have access to some unique information. It is so often seen but rarely acted upon. The search terms web users type in to find your web site give you some real insight into what are the most popular search terms in your arena. You can leverage these to obtain new domain names and capture more people from these queries. |
Underrated Traffic Source: Expired Domains
| by Nelson Tan | February 10, 2009 | |
Take advantage of expired domain names to boost your site traffic today! |
New Website Creation Tool Makes Building a Website Easy
| by Valerie Booth | February 06, 2009 |
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Developed for everyday, non-technical folks, BlinkWeb promises fast and easy website creation so you can build your own website within a day. |
Buying the domain name of a bankrupt company
| by Barry Goggin | February 05, 2009 | |
We are hearing about more and more companies going bankrupt in these hard financial times so domain names held by these companies may come on the market in the near future. Trademark domains may be off the table but some of these companies may hold generic domains. So how do you go about finding and buying such a domain name? |
Generating Organic Traffic to your Domains - building your Domain Investments
| by Morgan Linton | February 02, 2009 |
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At a time where flat is the new up it seems hard to believe that anyone could expect to sell anything for 10x, 20x or more than their initial purchase price - but in the domaining world, that't not all too hard. Domain names are relatively small investments - on average we hand reg our domains for under $10. Turning that $10 into $100 or even $1000 might not be quite as hard as you think. |
What is a quality website according to Google?
| by Barry Goggin | January 30, 2009 | |
A Google document from 2007 entitled “Google Guidelines For Quality Raters” was released into the wild last year. I wanted to analyze it a bit because if you are going to develop a domain, then this document describes what a quality site is, in Google’s eyes. Much of this information is what you should be doing anyway when building a website but it also describes possible traps you should try to avoid. |
What is Twitter? Tweet? Impact on Domaining?
Back to a domain specific twitter benefit, for domainers who develop their domains into blogs or websites, twitter makes a great extension or component of a domain. A perfect example is how savy big businesses are using twitter to connect to customers. Allow people interested in your domain niche connect with you and your site through a twitter account made specifically for your domain. This domain twitter method can also drive up the value and price of your domain if they both work smoothly together. Keep in mind, a twitter account and a domain relationship will not work in every situation. |
