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So am I
Not tonight Prodomains - I'm as sober as a judge unfortunately
Not tonight Prodomains - I'm as sober as a judge unfortunately
Maybe this thread or a new one tomorrow will take a different stance - looking at the impact such ongoing changes will have to all our business models. and how we are all going to address them
Always nice to have a few extra strings on your Bow
I've always thought whatever niche you work to in domaining/websites try to spead your bets. it's all too easy to hit on a wining formula and stick with it. Then unfortunately a change in wind blows the whole house down.
from a personal point of view i've always worked towards end user sales. ie wordplay domains. Not as easy as some may imagine. That mixed with generic word sales, A single wordplay registration may take a couple of hours of analysing, plus usually a day or two of consideration. But, it's worked for me. (my pending list usually a dozen or two long). and following this thread has made me a little more grateful
Traffic - i doubt any get 20 clicks a year before they're brought
I'll Pm you a couple of .coms - i don't really want them indexed.
This market really isn't easy for couk's due to it's size. (although I have shifted a few UK and considering they are not advertised or listed is probably pretty good). End users are always looking for Trade and product names, It's not to hard to latch on which market areas are in growth (and of course when you come across a domain that has a wider usage field. Happy days)
several penalties going on at once:
this is a page penalty only and not a site wide penalty
keyword density has definitely been tuned down massively ( use seobook tool - http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/ )
if more than 3% on page for ANY 2 or 3 word term that is not a keyword in your url you get a penalty for that page
Solution - Adjust content
Internal anchor text links massive bashing especially for anchor text overdoing
we do not yet have any decent numbers on this to see
Solution - Reduce internal linking ( good video here http://www.seomoz.org/blog/6-changes...teboard-friday)
External linking
Assuming you have a profile that is similar to how it should be...we use Tesco's and see what mix is and try to come as close as possible to them....then we are are seeing no issues.
But we don't do the dirty link stuff so we are not able to test.
Define great content? Paying £5 or £7.50 for 500 words of padded waffle is not going to get you great content. I've run a website site that used specialist writers and journalists for well researched content and we got special rates of £250 for 1000 words. One of the people we used wrote for the Times and at the time they paid £1250 for 1000 words, that's great content.
Many of the sites you see on here are built with no passion and exist for reasons that offer nothing to visitors (I include my own sites as well), they're parasitic in nature and Google is in many cases doing it's customers a favour.
Define great content? Paying £5 or £7.50 for 500 words of padded waffle is not going to get you great content. I've run a website site that used specialist writers and journalists for well researched content and we got special rates of £250 for 1000 words. One of the people we used wrote for the Times and at the time they paid £1250 for 1000 words, that's great content.
Many of the sites you see on here are built with no passion and exist for reasons that offer nothing to visitors (I include my own sites as well), they're parasitic in nature and Google is in many cases doing it's customers a favour.
That's a fair enough point, but how many people can afford to pay £125 per 500 words? I know that I certainly couldn't, especially if you want to constantly update the site with more content.
The Times and Guardian are paying more than this and can't make money. So look forward to a world of gibberish and cat pictures.
Of course they're happy because you're making it even easier for them to be lazy and better than that, you're doing it for the thick end of fuck all. Your content isn't worth £125 because given that you often won't have any knowledge of the subject you're writing about you will probably use Google to find and rehash what others have written.