Domaining, Internet Marketing & SEO - DomainerSEO

Make a 1,000% Profit

I found a way to make 10x my investment in a short period of time, and I want to share this because I don’t think it’s a limited opportunity. What I am going to share probably won’t work for everyone, and it won’t work all the time, but I can tell you that I did this before, and I did very well. Snapnames and Moniker have made it very easy to list domain names for sale on Snapnames. The problem many people have is registering domain names that other people want to buy. Sure, I can go ahead and register 1,000 new domain names and put them up for auction right away, but if nobody wants them, I’m basically out $8,000

FTC Change in Endorsements and Testimonials Policy

Last November, the FTC stated they were concerned over the sheer number of complaints due to false endorsements and testimonials on blogs, forums posts, and other web media. They proposed to change their policy and require major changes in the industry. They took comments from the public through March. Here is a brief summary of what they propose to change: - not allowing paid blog reviews - not allowing product reviews when the product was supplied to reviewer for free if it isn’t disclosed the product was received for free - posts made on forums or message board by affiliate without disclosing they are an affiliate - testimonial section also including negative testimonials While most of it is legal mumbo-jumbo, I have included the official statements from the FTC on this proposed change with my commentary included:

Dear Facebook, I Think You Forgot Your “A” Game
May 5th, 2009 
by Rachel Andersen

To be clear, I’m a big fan of Facebook, both personally and professionally. As a 20-something I’m addicted to keeping track of friends and secretly stalking new people I meet.

As a search marketer, I’m a strong supporter of (relevant) business participation as an effective tool for brand awareness and customer engagement. With that said, I’m more than a little disappointed in Facebook’s lack of basic functionality and advertiser tools.

While Facebook offers a ton of great features (demographic targeting, RSS integration, custom tabs, etc) their lack of attention to detail has left the stale taste of missed opportunity in my mouth. Why? Let me explain.

Behavioral Based Ads Bad For Publishers and Scary For Users

Google just announced that it would start providing interest-based Adsense ads. I have a bit of experience with being a publisher that serves ad based on past user behavior and interests. That experience isn’t a very good one. If you are in the mood, follow along as I tell you my little tale of how behavior-based ads can be bad for everyone. (*names changed to protect the guilty and the innocent)

In a previous column I discussed the decline in revenue from parking pages. In this installment, we will look at some of the reasons that Revenue Per Click (RPC) has declined.

At DOMAINfest Global in January, Google representative Hal Bailey blamed the decline in RPC on Google-supplied parking pages on the decline in the world economy. Certainly, there is some truth to that, at least over the last 12 months or so. As companies see their business contract, they reduce their advertising, including their online advertising. As companies go out of business all together, they cease all advertising. Fewer advertisers competing for clicks means that they will be paying less for those clicks. On the other hand, my results indicate that RPC started to decline well before the current recession even started.