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June 1, 2010

Expired Domain Traffic - To Buy Or Not To Buy?

Filed under: Domains — admin @ 11:21 am

It seems everyone is jumping into the “traffic domain name” game - either purchasing them for their own use or purchasing traffic from others who own these domains. For those that don’t know, a traffic domain is one that has either expired and still receiving traffic, or one that is being typed into the browser url location (type-in traffic) by users looking for a particular website. These are hot little properties but often abused as some register typos of an existing popular domain - such as Google for example. Yes, Virginia, there is a lot of traffic in those typos.

I own a number of expired & type-in traffic domains and have overall had good results. The worst one gets about 10-15 visitors a day but manages to earn anywhere from $5-$20 in revenue through a pay-per-lead program I use. Combined, all my traffic domains pump out a nice chunk of change without me even having to host them, look at them or even think about them.

On the other side of expired domain & type-in traffic is services which allow you to purchase traffic from domain names which they control and manage. Now you would think this sounds pretty good after what I reported about my own traffic domains, but the sad truth is that the majority of these services are complete scams.

Oh yes, they’ll deliver the “targeted” 5,000 or 10,000 “hits” you purchased, but the reality is that the actual traffic from their domains either doesn’t exist at all (generated by software to create an illusion of unique visitors) or comes from sources like auto-surf sites. And it’s not like you can really monitor & evaluate this traffic to know if it’s real or not, and you certainly have no way of knowing if it’s targeted or just junk hits. You’re basically putting all your trust in the site offering the service and since none offer any guarantee that the traffic will bring you sales, they’re off the hook.

Look at it this way - let’s say a service is offering 100,000 premium targeted visitors for the very low price of just $49.95. Think about it. If you had 100,000 targeted real visitors at your disposable, would you sell them off for essentially pocket change? Of course not. If you were selling a product for $29.95 and only 1% of those 100,000 visitors made a purchase - then that would be 1000 sales totalling $29,950. Can you really believe that they would let that amount of money slip through their fingers just so that they can do you a favour?

Do yourself a favour - If you’re thinking of purchasing traffic from one of these services, keep your money to invest in more reliable and proven options or learn about finding and registering expired domains (an article on this topic coming soon) and register them for yourself.

December 14, 2009

Laws of Similarity between Material and Organic Entertainment

Filed under: Domains, Internet SEO Resources, Travel Tips — admin @ 12:42 pm

Similarities ‘tween material and graphic amusement

The show must proceed as they say and so it will be in both social media and entertainment in social life. Weather you run a blog or an entertainment ballpark like Rollercoaster Park, Tivoli or Universal Studios, you will need traffic and visitants to your entertainment ballpark or your blog.

To gain the quantities of traffic you will need to advertize your entertainment establishment or your website. Particularly for your blog it is also really important to meter the dealings and analyze the visitors behavior. Traffic generators are also extremely critical and you must meter and study key phrases and Google traffic, this can be done for free utilizing Google Analytics or the Free Trial SEO Support.

No matter if you have a blog or a physical world amusement park you must present your visitants extraordinary experiences, something they will remember and something they will come back for. There are some similarities ‘tween true and organic amusement and both accomplish a role in modern day life. It would be wrong to reason different.

The most serious amusement websites draws just as many visitors as do material amusement parks like Disney Land or Tivoli. There are, of course, divergences in the manner the entertainment will look, on-line you only have a screen to produce the context but the accessibility is a great deal higher on the net, which can be seen in every household, while amusement greens are merely found in the neighborhood of larger cities and the upper order amusement parks can only be noticed in a few places in the globe.

November 28, 2009

Why are domain names so important?

Filed under: Domains — admin @ 9:54 pm

Selecting a great domain name is important for two reasons: first, a catchy and memorable name helps people remember it; and second, a well-thought out name will enable you to attract people through the search engines. Your domain name is, in essence, the logo of your online business. It needs to express who you are, what you do, and what products or services you offer.

The bottom line is that a good domain name can go a long way toward generating traffic to your Web site and building your reputation. That, in turn, will result in more customers and better sales.

1999 was the year of the big dot-com boom, and there was a feeling that there were huge sums of money to be made from the web - but back in 1999 people seemed more concerned about branding than business plans. Inspired by the success of names like Amazon.com, a raft of dot coms came (and went) under snazzy-sounding titles. There was a huge land grab for virtually all words in the English dictionary, plus every other combination of words people could think of. Most of these sites were never developed, but domains were often priced at huge prices.

Premium domains are high quality domain names that are for sale and only available in the secondary domain market.They have excellent marketing and branding value, but also serve as an investment.

As good dot-coms become more and more scarce, the demand and prices for premium domain names has continued to increase.

“A domain name’s importance emerged as a valuable element of an organization’s brand, and the numbers validate this trend,” Matt Bentley, CEO of Sedo.com, told the E-Commerce Times. “Though we’ll likely never see the sale prices of 1999, when domains like business.com fetched $7.5 million, valuations for key domains have definitely begun to elevate to demonstrate their importance to business and organizations all over the world.”

The dot-com crash that saw hundreds of start-up businesses on the Internet close up shop in 1998 and 1999 is not discouraging new Net entrepreneurs. A record number of domain name sales in 2005 shows that business presence on the Internet is stronger than ever.

A domain name that reflects an organization’s brand and offerings is vital to driving new business.

Last year saw an explosion of growth for the secondary domain marketplace, as more organizations purchased the ideal domain name to drive their brand.

http://www.idealurl.com