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In This Issue:
The 50,000 Search Engines Myth
There are submission services (and spam e-mail
messages) that promise to submit your Web site to 50,000 search
engines. Thousands of search engines? There aren't thousands of
search engines on the Internet. Period. The majority of these 50,000
so called "search engines" are free for all (FFA) link pages or
special interest Web sites.
Submitting your site to thousands of FFA sites means you'll end up
with thousands of spam e-mail messages. In addition, you won't
receive a single visitor when you submit your accommodation site to
a directory of poets in Poland.
Currently, there are only three major players:
Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. They are responsible for the bigger
part of the search engine traffic you can get because they also
power other search engines. For example, the search engine on
AOL.com displays Google results.
There's only a handful of search engines that
really bring visitors to your site. As always, it's quality that
matters, not quantity. For this reason, we concentrate on the
important search engines when submitting our client's sites.
Leveraging Expired Domains
New sites
appear on the Web each day at a blistering pace. Just as thousands
of new sites are born each week, according to DomainsBot.com, one
hundred thousand other domains will disappear. What happens to
these domain names? Unless the owner continues to pay rent on the
defunct domain, the name will eventually expire and be offered back
to the public.
There are at least two
benefits to buying “used” rather than “new” when it comes to domain
names:
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A Better Name –
With so many of the best domain names already taken, many
businesses settle for a domain that is less than ideal when they
first get started.
- Better Rankings
via Keyword-rich Names – While you may have a great domain name
now, it may not include all of your best keywords in the name.
Consider Only
Relevant Domains
It is very important to find a domain name that is relevant to
your industry. For instance, if you own a bed and breakfast, don’t
purchase an expired domain name that was once hosting a clothing
site.
Some of the most valuable pre-owned domains are those that are
already included in Yahoo and DMOZ with a description relevant to
your site. These directories are great for improving a site’s link
popularity and traffic.
In order to find expired and pre-owned domain names, you need
to know where they’re listed. There are many services that maintain
large databases of domain names that have expired each day. On such
place is
Pool.com . This site
offers an expired domain names list via its searchable interface.
Best of all, it’s FREE. You can view their list
here.
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