The need to fill the void
I had a thought earlier today while taking the subway.
If you can't find a decent website in the top 10 results of Google.com when searching for a topic, there is a need for someone to buy the domain and build a website around it. It's that simple.
Actually, it's not really, when you consider the click through rates of inventory of people seeing the ads on the page, the type of people who are searching for the terms and if they are consumers or clickers or not, the % of people who are searching for those terms are people who directly navigate to the site or not, if your site is especially pleasing for them to transact on the click through model and a bunch of other criteria.
However, I'm thinking for anything significant in traffic volume & the domain exists, I think it's worth a shot given the price of domain registrations these days.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
Introduction to the team: New Writer
Copying over...so this is Bradd "pasting" Brandon's post. Sorry Brandon...
Greetings...
Bradd, the GM for this new blog asked me to write up a little bit about myself before he hired me to start writing for the blog. He thought it would be a good idea for future readers of the blog so they would know the qualifications of the person who was writing about these posts which may have a large impact on the domain industry moving forward.
Briefly, I am currently a Director of a small company in South Korea. Before starting work at this organization, I worked in the dot com field for about 8 years in one of the largest online advertising companies (where I first met Bradd), the largest retailer online and the largest (at the time) travel company online. I have been doing off and online property valuation since 1993 and have even spent a couple years in Real Estate to apply the offline expertise where I successfully built a business that attained the #2 ranking in production in our office. Our office, by the way, was the city which included Bill Gates little suburb Medina.
I got my first taste for domains & their value in 1996 when the Internet boom started to take off. I didn't stick with it because I didn't have the capital to support all the interest along with the little bit of cynicism that perhaps these would not be as worth as much as they are now. And boy was I wrong with that small thought -- I should of gone with what my gut tells me & from this point on, I'll be writing about what my gut tells me for all the readers benefit here.
In terms of Keywords, the other topic we will write about, I fell in love with these at my time at Expedia (oops, did I let the cat out of the bag? I'm sure you can guess the other two companies as well). A coworker of mine who was the SEM Manager at the time introduced me to Overture's Keyword suggestion tool & since then, there's been no turning back. Keywords to me basically represent what people want online. The trends, the numbers and the statistics in one form or another represent the human psyche in the virtual world. While it may not be keywords forever or Google dominating the world wide web landscape in terms of search forever, there will always be something that translates our semantic seaches into websites or whatever provides us the information we are seeking. I love spending time evaluating keywords.
Thank you for taking the time to read my writings & good luck with all your purchases of domain names. Like offline real estate, property is limited online in domain names & until the future tells us differently, the value will only go up. If you even slightly believe in the economic principle of supply & demand, you should definitely believe in the value of domain names moving forward.
Greetings...
Bradd, the GM for this new blog asked me to write up a little bit about myself before he hired me to start writing for the blog. He thought it would be a good idea for future readers of the blog so they would know the qualifications of the person who was writing about these posts which may have a large impact on the domain industry moving forward.
Briefly, I am currently a Director of a small company in South Korea. Before starting work at this organization, I worked in the dot com field for about 8 years in one of the largest online advertising companies (where I first met Bradd), the largest retailer online and the largest (at the time) travel company online. I have been doing off and online property valuation since 1993 and have even spent a couple years in Real Estate to apply the offline expertise where I successfully built a business that attained the #2 ranking in production in our office. Our office, by the way, was the city which included Bill Gates little suburb Medina.
I got my first taste for domains & their value in 1996 when the Internet boom started to take off. I didn't stick with it because I didn't have the capital to support all the interest along with the little bit of cynicism that perhaps these would not be as worth as much as they are now. And boy was I wrong with that small thought -- I should of gone with what my gut tells me & from this point on, I'll be writing about what my gut tells me for all the readers benefit here.
In terms of Keywords, the other topic we will write about, I fell in love with these at my time at Expedia (oops, did I let the cat out of the bag? I'm sure you can guess the other two companies as well). A coworker of mine who was the SEM Manager at the time introduced me to Overture's Keyword suggestion tool & since then, there's been no turning back. Keywords to me basically represent what people want online. The trends, the numbers and the statistics in one form or another represent the human psyche in the virtual world. While it may not be keywords forever or Google dominating the world wide web landscape in terms of search forever, there will always be something that translates our semantic seaches into websites or whatever provides us the information we are seeking. I love spending time evaluating keywords.
Thank you for taking the time to read my writings & good luck with all your purchases of domain names. Like offline real estate, property is limited online in domain names & until the future tells us differently, the value will only go up. If you even slightly believe in the economic principle of supply & demand, you should definitely believe in the value of domain names moving forward.
Transferring over from Keywords and Domains...
I thought I'd buy the actual .com domain as well in addition to reserving the subdomain within blogger.com. When typing in Keywords and Domains (all one word) .com, I noticed that the two "d's" in a row may be confusing for future typers of the domain. So, I switched it around, found the domain was available and "Wallah!," it's now Domains and Keywords.
I'll be migrating over the posts (since there haven't been an incredible amount yet). Just thinking, but it wouldn't be a bad idea of blogger.com or another great blog site like wordpress would have a service where you can move from one blog to another transferring over the posts, pages, etc. so you could have a smooth transition and the original dates on the posts. I remember making the switch from Xanga to Wordpress on another blog I write and it kind of looked stupid when I first copied over the posts. Just an idea...
I'll be migrating over the posts (since there haven't been an incredible amount yet). Just thinking, but it wouldn't be a bad idea of blogger.com or another great blog site like wordpress would have a service where you can move from one blog to another transferring over the posts, pages, etc. so you could have a smooth transition and the original dates on the posts. I remember making the switch from Xanga to Wordpress on another blog I write and it kind of looked stupid when I first copied over the posts. Just an idea...
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