Archive for September, 2010:

Cookinggames.com – from no Traffic to almost 200k Visitors per month

Written on September 21st, 2010 by directnavigation5 shouts

A few months back, I noticed the domain Cookinggames.com sell for $350,000. I questioned the sale. I then spoke with the purchaser Bill kara, a developer with online game websites. He said that the term was a popular games term. Well, Bill is doing something right. According to compete, the site has gone from 12k unique visitors per month to over 183k unique visitors per month. Bill, great job !!

Google Instant Predicts What Your Thinking. Whats So Special – So Does My wife.

Written on September 9th, 2010 by directnavigation5 shouts

Have you ever been to a party with your wife/husband/significant other and start telling a story. As your speaking, that person cuts in and finishes your sentence. Google Instant is like that person only they interupt you on every word you type. In Google Instant, each time you type a letter, Google predicts what your typing and shows search results that change with each letter you type.
either your going to like Google Instant, or you are going to hate it. There is no in between. How will Google Instant affect domains? I have heard thoughts on each side, however I think we have to wait and see. One thing is for sure, if it lowers Google’s revenue, it will be stopped. Unfortunately, I cant say that about people finishing your sentences.

Domainers, The Word For Today Is MOTIVATION

Written on September 7th, 2010 by directnavigation4 shouts

Many of us work out of their home. Most of us do so alone. I have worked for over 15 years out of an office in my house. While my “commute” is only 2 minutes, there are more times that I am late for work than you can imagine. The problem working out of you home is that it is very easy to get sidetracked. In addition, anyone in sales can tell you, some days your on and some days you don’t want to pick up the phone or turn on the computer. Most of us don’t have a choice, If you don’t work, you don’t have the potential to make money.

Summer is one of the things that gets in my way. While I do work, it’s at a much more leisurely pace than the rest of the year. Well, Summer is over. The time is now to get back to a 110% of productivity. Over the next day, I will be putting my game plan together. It will list business projects that I am currently involved in and new projects that I am considering. I will set goals and rewards if I make those goals. The rewards are my motivation. They could be money, accomplishment, or even some time to have fun. Either way, I am ready to go and I hope you are too.

Twitter to expand usage of T.co

Written on September 2nd, 2010 by directnavigationno shouts

Changes at Twitter is another good sign for the .co tld.

Per twitter’s email that I received:
“t.co URL wrapping

In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping service t.co, which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link. Wrapped links are displayed in a way that is easier to read, with the actual domain and part of the URL showing, so that you know what you are clicking on. When you click on a wrapped link, your request will pass through the Twitter service to check if the destination site is known to contain malware, and we then will forward you on to the destination URL. All of that should happen in an instant.

You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service; we expect to roll this out to all users by the end of the year. When this happens, all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL.

What does this mean for me?

A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed to web or application users as amazon.com/Delivering- or as the whole URL or page title.
You will start seeing links in a way that removes the obscurity of shortened links and lets you know where each link will take you.
When you click on these links from Twitter.com or a Twitter application, Twitter will log that click. We hope to use this data to provide better and more relevant content to you over time.”