Netsol releases white paper: Pros and Cons of Pay per Click vs. SEO. ***FS*** Why would a registrar go to all the trouble of writing a white paper on this stuff? It’s not to sell more domains, that’s for sure.. I smell a shift happening.. Registrar’s are worse copycats than Domainers.. Watch what happens at [...]
Post title comes courtesy of some European banker friends of mine… They sound like Henry Kissinger when they talk It was the thought that rushed through my head after reading the domain related story linked below. It’s an IPO color piece re: Name Media’s offering. I enjoy reading domain related stories viewed through fresh eyes: http://www.xconomy.com/2007/11/26/let-your-fingers-do-the-crossing-direct-navigation-companies-heat-up/ Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land gets the crispest quote [...]
“”Hi, No one will ever own a 100% of anything on the Internet…unless you, me, and everyone else in the world are nothing more than ‘lambs’…aka…sheep. Lots of really,really,really…smart people here…so I do not think anyone here is a lamb or sheep at heart…far from it. The fact Google owns 63.whatever of search right [...]
http://brontemedia.com/2007/11/23/how-much-domainers-earn/ This blogger does some digging. Not all domain portfolios are created equally of course. And earnings can be swung in many directions based on overhead (staff, salaries, fixed costs, offices) and implementation (PPC, CPA, revenue shares with upstream ) I have a friends with smaller >10000 name portfolios who make $314.28 per name per [...]
Charley writes: “”An Open Letter to Google I’m frustrated with Google. Google, I’ve had enough. I’ve been a customer since the beginning, when you sold search ads on an impression basis. I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars with you. Sure, I don’t spend as much as some of the big companies, but you [...]
http://blog.snipperoo.com/2007/11/death-of-the-do.html Summary: A guy who could have bought billions of dollars worth of domain real estate by applying his foresight (but didn’t) now declares “domain names dead” and hypothesizes that we will abandon domain names in favor of Rube Goldberg inspired Universal Search Locators (USLs) which will take over as the foundational elements of the web.. While I could [...]
http://www.nysun.com/article/66382 Quote here: “”Governor Spitzer of New York announced yesterday that his state will start collecting taxes on Internet sales made in New York, even if the etailer has no physical presence in the State. Whose to blame for this? It’s the affiliate programs. NY is saying that these affiliates are the equivalent of having [...]
Big Name Brand Marketers getting tired of old media, like TV. Considering bumping up subtantially more $ to the web. http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=70866&Nid=36310&p=116464\ Quote: “”…BIG-NAME BRAND MARKETERS ARE FED up with traditional media channels and are threatening to shift the lion’s share of their budgets online, according to Nick Brien, worldwide CEO of Universal McCann. “If [...]
Type in traffic will never go away, but the plumbing on the Internet is gradually changing… Consider that domain tasting has added millions of kept domain registrations since late 2004.. That bled tons of traffic away from error search in the browser… Then this morning it seems that the .cm (Cameroonian wild-card has expanded [...]
Adil writes: “”Hey Frank,Check this out. Google has now restricted the clickable area on the Adsense Ad boxes for websites. Apparently you are no longer able to click anywhere on the Ad box. You must click on either the text or url of the ad in order to be taken to the destination of [...]