Archive for February, 2008

February 22nd 2008
Napkin Pirates and Domaining

Posted under Domaining

Napkin Pirates - A New Site, A New Challenge

There is currently an SEO challenge going on in the Kansas City area. We are all gunning for top organic rankings for the term “napkin pirates.” I, being an SEO and Domainer, have decided to leverage both disciplines to be successful in this SEO challenge. As such, I have purchased ThemedPartySupplies.com to use as a test case to see if I can get a brand new domain to rank in 30 days.

I will be certain to keep the readers of this blog posted as to my progress in this challenge. Any readers of you out there that are feeling extremely kind, I humbly request incoming links to my new napkin pirates website and/or this post. Thank you so much for your help.

Stay tuned!

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February 13th 2008
Pre-Release Domains - 2/13/2008

Posted under Pre-Release Domains

Here are two pre-release domains that are available today through NameJet. I’m going to leave it to you to pull traffic data.

  • anewsmile.com - “New Smile” is a targeted term for the dental industry.
  • fartjar.com - I admit that I had one of these as a kid. I’m tempted to go get this one for myself just for old times sake.

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February 13th 2008
Yahoo Puts Parked.com On Notice

Posted under Domaining News

Yahoo, in its efforts to find ways to make less and less money has notified Parked.com that it will be enforcing its rules on traffic arbitrage. Here is Yahoo’s statement.

“All other types of traffic including bought traffic, traffic driven by PPC campaigns, traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted. If your traffic originates from any sources other than type-in and search engine traffic, you will not be entitled to payment as per this Agreement. Regular checks are carried out and we reserve the right to suspend any domain from our Service at any time, on our sole discretion, if we reasonably believe that you have violated this Agreement; for example, if we suspect that the traffic on your domain is bought, generated or redirected in any way that contravenes these terms and conditions.”

And so the shoe drops!

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February 12th 2008
Pre-Release Domains - 2/12/2008

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Here are the names I like for today. These are pre-release domains at NameJet. Premium domains are included.

  • collegephones.com - No Google data.
  • commercialenergy.com - 2 vol, 2.02 ACPC, 5.80 MCPC, 8 - 13 CPD, $20 - $40 cost/day
  • extenders.com - 2 vol, 1.39 ACPC, 3.19 MCPC, 146 - 185 CPD, $170 - $290
  • greenautofuel.com - No Google data.
  • greenrankings.com - No Google data.
  • hawaiigolfcondo.com - No Google data.
  • kidgolfer.com - No Google data.
  • nettax.com - 2 vol, 1.17 ACPC, 2.93 MCPC, 7 - 12 CPD, $7 - $20 cost/day
  • oembags.com - 0 vol, .78 ACPC, 1.71 MCPC, 0 - 1 CPD, $1 cost/day
  • quickly.com - 3 vol, 1.40 ACPC, 4.11 MCPC, 253 - 320 CPD, $290 - $540 cost/day

VOL - Google’s volume estimate
ACPC - Avergage cost per click
MCPC - Max cost per click
CPD - Clicks per day

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February 8th 2008
It’s Time to Sell a Site

Posted under Domains For Sale

As much as I hate to do it, I have decided to sell MySpaceLayoutDirectory.com. It is currently listed on SitePoint, so give it a look if you are interested. Here’s a link to make it easy to find.

View Auction

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February 5th 2008
Pre-Release Domains - 2/5/2008

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Here you go folks. Enjoy!

By the way, the premium domains are in this list as well.

  • aspengraphics.com - 0 vol, .52 ACPC, 1.49 MCPC, 0 CPD, $1 cost/day
  • biblefeed.com - No Google data.
  • dailytoy.com - No Google data.
  • malecooks.com - No Google data.
  • motortire.com - No Google data.
  • mydaybags.com - No Google data.
  • petpill.com - 1 vol, 2.84 ACPC, 5.69 MCPC, 0 - 1 CPD, $1 - $3 cost/day
  • texasinsurancelaw.com - 1 vol, 5.29 ACPC, 11.02 MCPC, 2 CPD, $7 - $20 cost/day
  • upinsmoke.com - 1 vol, .43 ACPC, 1.12 MCPC, 4 - 5 CPD, $2 - $3 cost/day
  • webquery.com - 1 vol, 1.45 ACPC, 4.21 MCPC, 3 - 7 CPD, $4 - $20 cost/day, Currently 23 bids.
  • writeproperly.com - No Google data.

VOL - Google’s volume estimate
ACPC - Avergage cost per click
MCPC - Max cost per click
CPD - Clicks per day

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February 2nd 2008
ShoppingKansasCity.com Has Launched

Posted under Domaining

As a domainer, who is also an SEO, who is also a web developer I have been spending my time developing and SEOing some of the properties in my domain portfolio. This gives some explanation to the posting hiatus that has come as of late.

I have several projects in the works, but today I am going to go ahead and roll out a Kansas City Shopping website that I believe is ready to hit the wires. Take a look and see what you think. As you will notice, this is an example of what can be done with a domain property in a relatively short amount of time. It has content, it has been SEO’d, and I am already sending it traffic.

The idea for the site is to drive traffic for some targeted shopping-related terms, specifically for Kansas City, so the site can get in front of a valuable set of visitors. Once that happens, the valuable traffic can be sold to those who want it but can’t get it on their own.

The domain name of the new site, ShoppingKansasCity.com, lends itself well to the overall SEO plan even though the name itself does not bring in much type-in traffic on its own. For those of you who are interested, the lack of type-in traffic is likely due to the order of the geographic qualifier in the keyword phrase and the overall number of terms in the targeted phrase. As I mentioned, regardless of the type-in traffic, I know that the valuable terms are still in the domain name and therefore they will bring along the weight that is afforded to URLs containing keyword-rich terms.

Take a look at the site if you get a minute and keep an eye out as I continue to develop out my domain portfolio in the coming days.

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