By Alan on Dec 10, 2010 in Domain Development | 32 Comments
In my opinion 2010 will go down in history books as the year when many of the world’s best names were acquired at prices never to be seen again. Why? Since almost all of the key purchases this year have been made by developers and end users. This is vastly different than prior years since [...]
By Alan on Nov 8, 2010 in Ad Campaigns, Domain Development | 6 Comments
According to MarketWatch.com Quinstreet has purchased CarInsurance.com for $49.7 Million. The Press release reads QuinStreet purchased all outstanding shares of CarInsurance.com, Inc. and related entities for $49.7 million in cash. This is not just a domain name sale but I will be happy to hear from anybody who thinks so for the pure entertainment of [...]
By Alan on Oct 29, 2010 in Domain Development | 18 Comments
I totally forgot about this until someone contacted me this morning. Around 4 or 5 years ago when we had a large real estate network operating online I got a call from one of our affiliate sources saying that we just earned $21,250 from a lead referral. It was a simple text link saying “Commercial [...]
By Alan on Aug 13, 2010 in Domain Development | 41 Comments
People buy GEO domains for two reasons. One is the obvious authority factor by having a domain like ChicagoDoctor.com but the other is because of the huge SEO advantage these names give. However what if Google changed local results one day and stopped displaying ALL organic results. Well, it seems like Google is testing this [...]
By Alan on Jul 28, 2010 in Domain Development | 13 Comments
I’m on this run posting about development purely because it really kicks me when I see so many wasted domains with parking pages and the general lack of any real SEO / Monetization presence at industry conferences. My personal opinion is DomainSponsor, NameDrive, SmartName and all these companies should be entitled to one booth and [...]
By Alan on Jul 23, 2010 in Domain Development | 44 Comments
This could be the post one day…. Are you prepared? I am not someone who lives under the illusion that my blog is popular or anyone actually wants to read what I have to say. However I am fully aware of the power that domaining.com has to provide traffic to people. In fact, I would [...]
By Alan on Jul 22, 2010 in Domain Development | 8 Comments
Let’s do another article while I am stuck waiting to speak with a client overseas. I have always insisted that any domainer serious about development quit reading domaining blogs and spend more time reading SEO blogs so why not give you some homework. My SEO knowledge is derived from 10 years of experience yet I [...]
By Alan on Jul 21, 2010 in Domain Development | 26 Comments
Since my last post was popular and seemed to open up the eyes of many domain owners on how to monetize websites outside of Adsense or parking a page lets get down to backlinks. The number of backlinks to a site from trusted and relevant sites gives great weight to a websites organic search ranking. [...]
By Alan on Jul 12, 2010 in Domain Development | 16 Comments
This article is mostly for domainers who are still learning to develop outside of Adsense. A week or so ago I posted about the basic elements required to have a $2 million property online broken down in number of leads / income generated per day. As we all know Adsense and other forms of PPC [...]
By Alan on Jul 3, 2010 in Domain Development | 48 Comments
In only a few short years a $2 million dollar sale happens and changes you overnight. All the work put in was against your parents dreams to attain a higher education from some over rated and expensive school just to get a degree (in some entirely useless subject such as foreign art or gymnasium techniques) [...]