How To Not Fail At SEO

Great content doesn't automatically earn attention, links, and traffic. There are exceptional resources, images, videos, and articles hidden across the web. They are lost in obscurity, unable to gain attention based on their own merit.

If you build it... they won't come. If you build it, they might not even care.

How do you create value, and how do you spread it across the web? And how does search engine optimization (SEO) work into that question? And how does it support the strategy as a whole?

Just how do you avoid failing at SEO?

I recently gave a presentation on how to not fail at SEO, which I'd like to share with you. In the process of putting this together, I distilled a number of thoughts and ideas that have been churning around in my head for some time.

If You Build It, No One Cares

As it turns out, great content doesn't equal great traffic. Far from it.

But ironically (or perhaps paradoxically) content really is still king. It's more important than it's ever been. But it's harder to get eyeballs than it's ever been, too. What's a website to do?

4 Takeaways for SEO Teams

• Good SEO integrates with the business and is part of everyone's vocabulary.
• Good SEO stays hidden behind the best user experience. Its success depends on the best user experience possible.
• Good SEO is patient. SEO is a long road, give it time and invest in the long term.
• Good SEO accepts risk and encourages failure. Push your teams to take risks.

Value on the web is created in much the way it's created offline: influence, authority, contribution; these are the words that incite successful web ventures. But so are funny, useful, and dumb -- yes even dumb is a word that can incite success online.

We can really never know what will succeed online, be considered valuable, and pull traffic in. All we can do is listen to our users and cater our sites and services to them.

The best way to create value online is to answer people's questions, to solve their needs, to appeal to their emotional responses in unique ways. To speak to the heartbeat in human beings. That's the best way to begin the creation of value.

But how do you promote it and get people to notice, to care, to come?

I've already said that great content doesn't equal great traffic. However, here's the secret: great content combined with a great user experience and great SEO is a combination that guarantees traffic. It guarantees relevant, targeted traffic, and lots of it.

Guess What? The User Comes First

It turns out that great SEO -- and it's absolutely essential in the process -- is dependent and hinges upon content and a positive user experience. It's not the other way around.

SEO doesn't come first in this equation. SEO relies on content and user experience; they come first.

One cardinal rule when evaluating the excellence of a firm or consultant's SEO ability is to see where in the balance they place SEO. Narrow-minded practitioners make the mistake of placing SEO front and center on a site. When that happens, the user experience suffers and the balance gets shifted to search engines over content, over substance, over things that SEO relies on as fuel to a rocket.

Crap SEO thinks only of itself. Good SEO thinks of users first.

This isn't an attempt to make a fashionable statement about what sounds good on paper. This is borne out from experience impacting company's bottom line revenues by focusing on synergies between information architecture, user experience, great resources, and SEO. If we pare this down to a rule for SEO to live by, it's simply this:

1. Make the best user experience possible.
   
   
2. Leverage for maximum SEO without disrupting that experience.

SEO should be an invisible layer beneath a smart site architecture and fantastic user experience. Good SEO is unseen. Except in server log files and bottom line revenue metrics, of course!

Dos and Don'ts for SEO Teams

Having constructed the argument that SEO's need to rely on content and UX to do its job well, let's run through some dos and don'ts for SEO teams.

Don't:

• Bring SEO into the picture too early, before you have a product or service. Before you have good content. Before you've thought about your users.
  
  
• Put SEO front and center on a site.
  
  
• Place restrictions on your SEO team. SEO can't be stifled and succeed. It must have room to breathe, innovate, and create.
  
  
• Rush SEO and expect too much too quickly. It's a slow growing tree, and SEO takes months (and even years) to bear its fruit.
  
  
• Listen to what anyone says about SEO, including me. Carve your own path, chart your own course, and take cues from trusted friends, colleagues, and peers. Take a little and move forward, but don't take any of it as the final word.

Do:

• Give SEO teams their own development resources. Implementation is the single biggest hurdle to successful SEO campaigns. If you really want results, you'll need to give it development cycles.
  
  
• Build SEO into the business flow. Get the C-suite talking about the channel, get UX teams thinking about it. Development, PR, brand, marketing, and creative all need to know SEO exists. This facilitates active SEO that doesn't wait for problems to occur, or for communication issues pop up. In contrast, reactive SEO sits on its hands waiting for a problem to happen.
  
  
• Encourage and facilitate creativity. We need to be accountable with realistic ROI projections. We need this to prioritize projects accurately. Don't hammer ROI so hard that it stifles creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. That is where the greatest rewards lie in SEO -- where nothing is guaranteed. Great rewards lie in the fringes.
  
  
• Allow your SEO team to take risks. Management that is willing to let SEO take risks, and fail, is going to see great successes. Failure is critical to success, in everything from personal growth to SEO. Teams should adopt the mindset of failing quickly, in order to get quick feedback and adapt.

Sure, this is pretty idealistic stuff, but the best work and greatest rewards usually are. If we are to take SEO to the next level, if we are to achieve for company's beyond their expectations, idealism is essential. We need vision.

Conclusion

Encourage your SEO teams to take smart and daring risks. Watch them try, and fail, and try again. Watch them adapt. And watch them succeed.

Join us for SES San Francisco August 16-20, 2010 during ClickZ's Connected Marketing Week. The festival is packed with sessions covering PPC management, keyword research, search engine optimization (SEO), social media, ad networks and exchanges, e-mail marketing, the real time web, local search, mobile, duplicate content, multiple site issues, video optimization, site optimization and usability, while offering high-level strategy, keynotes, an expo floor with 100+ companies, networking events, parties and more!

List of Oscar Winners 2010

List of Oscar Winners 2010
The best celebrated accident beings in American cinema Academy Awards Winners Announced the 82 or the 2010 Oscars has aloof accomplished was captivated at the Kodak Theater, Los Angeles, United States, Sunday (7.3.2010) night bounded time. Many actresses and actors who abounding the commemoration which additionally becomes a appearance to appearance off their clothes. This accident is one of the best celebrated accident accessible blur lovers the world. 'The Hurt Locker,' went on to become champions exhausted the Avatar. Besides the film, who the added winners? This is a account of the names of Oscar winners 2010:

Best Picture:

- The Hurt Locker

Directing:

- The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow

Actor in a Leading Role:

- Jeff Bridges-Crazy Heart

Actor in a Supporting Role:

- Christoph Waltz-Inglourious Basterds

Actress in a Leading Role:

- Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Actress in a Supporting Role:

Mo'Nique-Precious: Based on the atypical "Push" by Sapphire

Animated Feature Film: Up-Pete Docter

Art Direction:

Avatar-Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

Cinematography:

- Avatar-Mauro Fiore

Costume Design:

- The Young Victoria-Sandy Powell

Film Editing:

- The Hurt Locker and Bob Murawski, Chris Innis

Foreign Language Film:

- The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)-Argentina

Makeup:

- Star Trek-Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

Music (Original Score):

- Up-Michael Giacchino

Music (Original Song):

- The weary-Crazy Kind Heart

Sound Editing:

- The Hurt Locker-Paul N.J. Ottosson

Sound Mixing:

- The Hurt Locker-Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett



Congratulations for the winners and abide to assignment to aftermath affection films.

Facebook's Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened

It is the first time that some of the site 's secret code has been made public and the lack of users private data security is seriously questioned. Hopefully this incident does not permit hackers to have direct access to private information but it is an open window for identity thieves. Indeed Facebook users, 2 out-of 5, divulged too easily their personal details like phone number, address or full name - they happen to be too friendly and trusting with people they have never met.

The UK fraud prevention is worried because this trend is increasing especially in the younger, more vulnerable generation. It has been shown that in the last six month a record number of fraud has been committed including an estimated of 40.000 identity thieves.These cyber-criminals can create a false identity by gaining access to personal information displaying on Facebook online accounts or infiltrating employers computers networks. Even if Facebook guarantees that users private data has not been compromised by this leak - people are now questioning the security of the website.

benefits of the Isolated Sandbox

• Secure Web Browsing: Running your Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie means that all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be discarded trivially.

• Enhanced Privacy: Browsing history, cookies, and cached temporary files collected while Web browsing stay in the sandbox and don’t leak into Windows.

• Secure E-mail: Viruses and other malicious software that might be hiding in your email can’t break out of the sandbox and can’t infect your real system.

• Windows Stays Lean: Prevent wear-and-tear in Windows by installing software into an isolated sandbox.

Recuva - File Recovery, Get back files deleted by Virus

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Recuva (pronounced recover) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Windows Vista Ultimate NVIDIA Evolution SP2 32-BIT

Author: Neuropass

Code name: Nvidia evolution

Language: English US

Size: 1.59 GB (1,718,167,552 bytes)

Architecture: 32-Bit

Version based: Vista Ultimate

The information in this post is supplied “as is”. No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,reliability or content of this post. The Author shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of theuse of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this post..This is only for testing purpose and all the following files should be deleted in 24 hours time.

Nvidia evolution has been tweaked for a best performance and stability with particular reg tweak and other important setting . This time i completely left the possibility to personalize it with your favorite apps.(exactly like Ambra) The speech support hasn’t been removed (If you are a gamer guy you’ll need it in order to use software like ventrillo and others) and so almost all the languages. Printer drivers included.

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition is a comprehensive set of tools that accelerates the process of turning the developer’s vision into reality. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition was engineered to support development projects that target the Web (including ASP.NET AJAX), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Mobile devices.

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP

In addition, Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition requires:

Computer with a 1.6 GHz or faster processor

384 MB of RAM or more (768 MB of RAM or more for Windows Vista)

2.2 GB of available hard-disk space

5400 RPM hard drive

1024 x 768 or higher-resolution display

DVD-ROM Drive

Additional features may require Internet access.

Google SketchUp 7

Create 3D models and share them with the world

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. Build models and add them to Google Earth

Get started right away.

Most people get rolling with SketchUp in just a few minutes. Dozens of video tutorials, an extensive Help Center and a worldwide user community mean that anyone who wants to make 3D models with SketchUp, can.

Model anything you can imagine.

Redecorate your living room. Design a new piece of furniture. Model your city for Google Earth. Create a skatepark for your hometown, then export an animation and share it on YouTube. There’s no limit to what you can create with SketchUp.

Get models online for free.

You can build models from scratch, or you can download what you need. People all over the world share what they’ve made on the Google 3D Warehouse. It’s a huge, searchable repository of models, and it’s free.

Password Protect USB

“Protect an unlimited number of folders on your hard drive or USB external drive.”

Password Protect USB is a software program designed to protect an unlimited number of folders with your personal passwords. To protect your information, you do not have to move all your files to a special secure folder; you can set a password on any folder containing your sensitive data. The first time you need to run Password Protect USB from the installation directory. After that, you can simply right-click the folder in Windows Explorer and select Lock With Password Protect USB from the right-click menu. You can protect folders on your hard drive, USB external and removable drives. If you install Password Protect USB right on your removable drive, you can protect/unprotect folders at any computers your drive is connected to. To unlock your folder, you do not need to run the program: just double-click the folder in the right pane of Windows Explorer and enter your password. The program was designed with safety in mind. For example, if you try to protect a system folder, which is crucial for Windows to run properly, Password Protect USB displays a message explaining why you should not do that. Password Protect USB supports Windows XP, 98, 2000, NT, ME, Vista. It is very user-friendly. Download Password Protect USB now.

Monterey Barcode Creator & Generator 3.3

“Barcode creator software formats such as Code 39, Code 93, Code 128 and Code 39″

Barcode creator software is our answer for customers who are looking for a simple, easy, convenient solution to print bar code labels. Using Monterey Barcode Creator is all straightforward yet it yields powerful results. The Barcode Creator supports most major barcode formats such as Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, Code 39 Extended, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8, POSTNET and much more. It allows you to save barcode image in a variety of formats, such as EMF, BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF and PNG.

1. You can create virtually all linear barcode formats, including Code 39, HIBC, Code 39 Full ASCII, Code128, UCC/EAN 128, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, EAN-13, EAN Supplements, Bookland, Industry 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Codabar, Code 93, Telepen, Royal Mail, and USPS POSTNET it is a serial code generator
2. You can export the barcode image in Windows Enhanced Metafile format (emf), or in other common graphics formats such as BMP, JPEG, GIF and TIF.

Scripts Encryptor 3.0.2.1 - Enkrip HTML & JS

Scripts Encryptor will be a handy tool for web page developers seeking the way to protect their on-line content from reverse engineering as well as from webbots collecting email addresses and other personal data. Improved Scripts Encryptor can now work not only with JavaScript data, but also with HTML files that might contain JavaScript blocks, and also with C/C++ source files. Unfortunately, HTML and JavaScript code does not allow any substantial encryption the same way as when you compile source code into executable file or when you save Flash movie in a shockwave format. The only way to protect HTML and JavaScript is to employ obfuscation, i.e., scrambling of the contents.

There are many obfuscators available on the web that mostly use scripts to do scrambling. A big downside of this method is that to fully view such page, user’s browser should support scripts and have them enabled, which significantly limits number of web browsers that such encrypted page will be viewed on. Moreover, there’s always a possibility of a new security upgrade from Microsoft that will either show a virus warning, or won’t completely open your page that was encrypted using scripts with other obfuscators.

Scripts Encryptor does not use scripts to obfuscate HTML and JavaScript, instead it uses space stripping, escape sequences and Windows Script Encoder method to scramble web pages. Scrambled pages become fully clear for web browsers but almost unreadable when viewed as HTML, or attempted to alter with an editor. To see what happens with a web page after scrambling by Scripts Encryptor check samples section below.

Main Features:

Scripts Encryptor provides the following options:

* Obfuscation (scrambling) of JavaScript, JScript standalone files;

* Obfuscation of HTML and HTML-style files that might include JavaScript, JScript blocks inside;

* Encryption of JavaScript, JScript data in a file or imbedded in HTML page using Windows Script Encoder method (emulation of screnc.exe by Microsoft);

* Compression (reduction of size) of HTML/JScript documents without obfuscation (to downsize your bandwidth and increase loading time);

* Flexible settings for obfuscation that allow to fine-tune level of scrambling;

* Ability to preview obfuscated page and compare it with an original document;

* Scrambling of C/C++/MFC source code files into solid code chunks making them hard to view and edit;

* Checking of missing and/or extra semicolons in JavaScript, JScript code;

* Ability to organize (decrypt) JavaScript, JScript files (including those encrypted using Windows Script Encoder);

* Support of international code pages and file encodings (overall Unicode support);

* Ability to change code page and file encoding while saving in a file;

* Ability to make a Unix-compatible file (with a single linefeed at the end of lines);

* Compatible with Windows XP SP2, and IE6 popup blocker in general (so your previewed code is not blocked as potentially dangerous);

* Command line support (so you can use it on your web server or as part of another software).

Facebook Opens Profile to the Public: How to Hide!

Here are some tips to prepare to defend the privacy attack!

Facebook's plans are clear. The social networking site wants to use the collected personal data of Facebooks members to increase its revenue. Indeed it will serve to target advertisement to individual users and you will notice this in the week to come, new advertising features are going to be added. Facebook's current priority is making advertising more personal, as because of the media's anonymity targeted online advertising is rather difficult. Search Engines don't know enough yet about their users to fullfil their commercial potential.

This is a simple reason why Facebook wants to make all this private information such as favourite music or details of personal/private events accessible to the public especially to advertisers and marketeers because they know it is a goldmine and they want to profit from it.

In the long term, Facebook's will transform from "its online talking shop to a massive distributive network for services and advertising." according to the TIMESONLINE .

So if you don't want your private life be a part in this 'amazing' transformation, learn How to hide on Facebook.

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Barn Buddy Hack Facebook - Learn How to Hack The Facebook Barn Buddy Application

Barn Buddy is one of many free Facebook based sociable games that allow you to interact with your Facebook friends in a playful and fun way. The game is a so called Verified Application, which means Facebook has tested it and proven it to be safe for use and installation.

Barn Buddy Hack Facebook

The game was published in the latter half of 2009, and has got super popular in a very brief time. The intent of the game is to grow crops on your farm and then trade them in order to take money for additional items for the farm or more seeds. The more you care for your plants, the more you will gain when you sell them, and caring for the plants is better if your friends help you with it, so many people actively boost their friends to take part in their farming.

You can also tease your friends by thieving their crops or sending bugs or weeds on their farms, or send them special Barn Buddy gifts in order to help them. Of course you might also see some of the problems a real life farmer might run into, such as weeds showing up about your carefully planted plants or bugs trying to fill their bellies by munching on things that are really not meant for them. In these events, you have to figure out the problems by using various farming tools.

The game is broken into different levels, and as you get more experienced in planting and harvesting, you will be able to come up to the next level. Higher levels also open up new alternatives. When you move up, you will be able to plant other plants which were not available before, which will gain you more money. You will also be able to mail better and greater gifts to your friends, and when you reach certain levels you will also be able to expand your farm.

You start out with 6 plats of land, and the first elaboration takes place when you gain level 5. Reaching level 5 will add another plot to your farm. The more friends you have, the smoother you will be able to gain experience points and advance in the game.

Barn Buddy Hack Facebook

How to Hack Facebook

facebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 300 million active users worldwide.

Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service. Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.

Facebook is pretty awesome, but it is far from perfect. More than once, I’ve heard complaints about some of Facebook’s technical aspects. Sadly, Facebook isn’t open-sourced, so users can’t change anything themselves – or can they?

By using simple pieces of Javascript code, or by applying Firefox Greasemonkey userscripts, users can change the appearance and workings of Facebook themselves.

Learn how to hack Facebook accounts for fun, or tweak something useful. Believe me, it really is all in your hands.

Facebook Account Javascript Hacks

In these following hacks we’ll be using basic Javascript to toy around with Facebook. Note that we’re not going to hack into Facebook accounts, or anything of the like. Most of these ‘hacks’ are temporary and will disappear once you refresh the page. They also won’t be visible to users on other computers. So why are we doing it? – Because it’s fun!

These Javascript snippets, which we’ll supply below, simply need to be pasted into the address bar. Hit enter, et voila!

Changing Profile Colour

This will change the colour of your Facebook bar to a color of choice.

Just paste the following code in your address bar and hit enter. You can replace ‘red’ with any color you want – black, white, green or even orrange. If you want to reverse the effect, press Ctrl+F5 for a hard reload of the page.

Understanding and Mastering Keyword Rich Domain Names and PPC Marketing

Keyword enriched domain names offer you several benefits and advantages. Just by looking at your domain name, someone can tell you about the main theme of your web site. In fact, keywords can help you create a brand name for your business. Furthermore, the keyword enriched domain names can help you advertise and promote your web portal by using the most modern method of search engine optimization (SEO). However, the merit and applicability of SEO efforts depend directly on the quality of the domain names in relation to their keywords. Hence, the importance of keywords in SEO is very critical and urgent if you want to make your web portal commerce-enabled.

Domains with good keywords can help you adapt very useful and lucrative PPC marketing techniques. PPC marketing is a growing business technique that helps you build a very strong online presence. An innovative technique helps you advertise you business by using good keywords. In practice, PPC marketing involves airing advertisements for your web portals by using practical keywords. If someone clicks on your advertisement box placed on different web sites, he or she will navigate to your site and have a look at the contents published in the web site. A productive click occurs when someone actually visits your web site.

To make your PPC marketing efforts practical and cheaper, you must ensure that costs of clicks are low. To achieve this, you may wish to raise the base click through rates (CTR) and enhance the quality of web pages. However, to ensure better success, you must have a keyword enriched domain name at your disposal. A good domain name will give credibility to your web site. This will eventually help you raise the CTR.

You can write a PPC ad by adhering to established principles of PPC marketing. In fact, there are three main parts to your PPC advertisements.

a) The Headline

b) The Ad Text

c) The URL to Click

However, the last part of the PPC needs is very critical to the success of PPC. Before starting your PPC campaign, make sure that you stick on the following rules.

The importance of domain name extensions: Domain extensions are very important for PPCX campaign. While people still use extensions like .biz and .net, using a .com extension still makes lot of sense. This extension is very professional and it gives a sense of professionalism to your web site and PPC campaign. Finding a good .com domain name could be very difficult these days. However, a careful search may help you find an acceptable name that can eventually help you flag off your PPC campaign.

The power of capitalization: Make sure that you capitalize the keywords in your PPC ads. This simple step can help you generate many PPC click through to your web site. It is also possible to raise the quality score of your web site in the Google search engine.

Employing keyword enriched domain names are very crucial to make your PPC campaign a successful one. It will also help you generate enough traffic to the web site. Domains that contain practical and feasible keywords can assist you in making your online venture into an individual business brand.

How to Build a Website the Easy Way

Most people are venturing away from the basic website setup these days. More and more people are creating their personal sites through blogs but still need a website building program for creating their capture pages and websites for their products and services. In this article I'm going to share with you how to build a website the easy way.

WordPress Blog

WordPress blogs have become more popular. The search engines just love WordPress and they are free to use, except for hosting. You can pay someone to customize a theme for you or you can choose from the numerous free themes and templates online. There are so many great plug-ins to choose from and the best thing is you don't need to know one single thing about coding.

This is one of the easiest way to get your site up and running immediately.

XSitePro

XSitePro is a great program to use if you want to build capture pages and websites. They also have a variety of different themes you can choose from or you can customize your own. Once again, having to know HTML coding is now a thing of the past.

If you have any problems or questions about how to use certain features there are three different ways you can get your questions answered. They have a live forum where you can find almost any answer to a question you may have, the help menu will just walk you through how to do pretty much everything or you can always contact their customer service.

Once you have everything initially set up, your site can go live with just one click of a button. Updating and creating new sites are easier than ever and can be published instantly.

Most people who venture online to try their hand at some sort of business have no technical skills when it comes to building websites. It's extremely helpful when you can learn how to build these simple and easy sites through programs that are set up as "what you see is what you get". That's the best way to learn for anyone who may find this type of work challenging.

Your worrying days are over. You don't have to hire someone to do all the work or wonder if this is something that can easily be accomplished. Put your faith in yourself and start out simple. If you want to start out slow, learn how to create a WordPress blog first before moving into a website building program such as XSitePro. Your friends and colleagues will be very impressed when they found out that you created these sites yourself. That's how to build a website the easy way.

15 Ways to Become a Better Domainer

The competition in the domain industry is steadily increasing as more and more people are becoming aware of it's global impact in today's financial marketplace. Professional investors and huge corporations are staking their claim of this internet real estate and have turned this once primitive name exchange into a booming multi-billion dollar industry.

Today's domainers are needing take their domain investing to another level in order to have continued success and profitability. Below are 15 Ways To Become A Better Domainer.

Utilize the forums

As I've said in previous posts, the importance of domaining forums in the domain industry are vital and serve as a great resource for beginners and professional domainers alike. Whether you are looking for some honest appraisal opinions or asking questions that only another domainer would know the answer to, the domain forums are there to assist. 24 hours a day, 365 days a week, this constant stream of domain information has shaped many beginner domainers into today's greatest professional domainers. If you're not a member of a domain forum you should greatly consider joining one today.

Are you a domainer or a domain developer?

Are you buying domains for quick profit sales? Are you buying domains for the long-term traffic revenue? Are you buying domains to develop and birth new traffic? Whether you choose to do one or all three, you must come to terms and clarify a solid game plan when it comes to your domain investments. It's reasonably okay to have a few domains being developed but your overall strategy needs to take shape and be narrowed down to a specific objective. Developing a domain name takes time, effort and more time, but the possible payoffs are always huge. Buying domain names in bulk for quick sales is also profitable but relies more on a constant sales initiative to be successful. Either way, you need a tactical approach on how you want to market your domains.

Dissect your portfolio

I once spoke to a guy who boasted a domain portfolio of over 3000 names. After hearing how he was considering selling a few of his "best" domains, I offered to peruse the list and maybe assist with finding some end users that might be potential buyers. He agreed and the next day he sent me a list of about 1000 of his best domains that he was willing to sell. To my surprise over 90% of them were, in my humble opinion, not worth much more than the reg fee. I contacted him back and explained that I was only to find about 75-100 names that could possibly be decent sales. He was stunned. He declined and stated that my appraisal was not correct and thanked me for my time. 3 days laters, I received an email from the exact same guy asking for assistance in selling the 75-100 domain names I previously found in his list. Seems that during those 3 days, he spoke to a few other domainers and received the same appraisal and evaluation of his so called "best" domains. This guy thought since his domains contained popular words like gamble, casino, sex and technology that it automatically made his domains super valuable. What he didn't consider was the multiple hyphens and terrible combinations of typos and keywords. Don't be the domainer with a huge list of terrible domains just to brag about how large your portfolio is. Trim your "extra" domains and streamline by selling or trading and use the profit for investing in quality names that are earmarked for immediate revenue or immediate development. Be proud of the overall quality of your portfolio and not just the number of domains it contains.

Know your rep

I amazed on how many people I encounter that in the domain industry that have no idea who their representatives are for such companies as Sedo, Moniker, Go Daddy and other big domain powerhouses. The representatives of such companies exist to assist their members who utilize their services and are hands-down the quickest and easiest way to get something resolved if you feel a mistake has been made. If you have domains either parked or offered for sale with a domain company, I highly suggest sending a quick email to find out who your representative is and do you best to maintain a professional and courteous relationship with them. It's easier to ask assistance from someone whom you know and knows you than it is to ask a complete stranger. And don't forget to vote for your favorite domain rep at next years Domainers Choice Awards.

Stay clear of Trademark Infringements

This should be a no-brainer. Time and time again I see domainers struggle with the headaches caused by trademark infringements and bad faith domain registrations. Not only do most of the trademark claims filed at the WIPO result in the domain being transferred to the appropriate party, but it also indicates that your choice in domains is questionable and therefore proving that you are still purchasing non-quality domain names. Domains that infringe on trademarks are not quality. Ask any lawyer. Save your registration fee and steer clear of legal woes.

Auto-renew

Now that your portfolio is streamlined and contains only select domain names, you definitely don't want to lose or let any of them drop and take a chance of someone else buying you lovely internet real estate. Do yourself a favor and set your domains for auto-renew at your domain register where purchased. It's a terrible feeling to have someone else scoop up one of your prize domains just because you didn't or couldn't find the time to renew the registration. Visit this great article by the Daily Domainer that explains the life-cycle of a domain name and don't let accidental "drops" happen to you.

Limit the hand regs

Hand regs or hand registrations are domains that are purchased from a publicly available source at a regular registration fee and are either brand new (never been purchased) or have expired and no longer owned by the previous owner. Go Daddy is a domain registrar that is popular with domainers and consistently used for hand regs. The possibility of stumbling along a unregistered domain is always there and the opportunity for someone to register a new domain name that never existed and create value to it is also conceivable, but in essence, most domain names that are hand regged are simply non-researched, impulse purchases that pad a domain portfolio with non-value names. Distinguish yourself as a profitable domainer and limit the amount of hand regs you add to your portfolio. One good way is to wait 24 hours before registering a hand reg domain and then re-evaluating before buying. You may lose a registration every so often but in the long run you will save on unnecessary registration fees and useless domain name ownership.

Stay current with news and sales

To be successful is to be informed. The pulse of the domain industry is constantly evolving and therefore it is beneficial to a domainer to know exactly what is the next potential opportunity or trend being created within our industry. If you buy domain names, you are an investor. If you are an investor, you need to stay current with the news of your investments and other people's investments. You can do this by monitoring the recent domain sales and news offered by many websites that are specifically geared towards todays domainers. One of my favorite websites is Ron Jackson's DNJournal. You can find great articles, news and the popular Year To Date domain sales. You need to know what domains are selling, which domains are being bought and how much they are being bought for. Invest time in your investments and reap the rewards. Predicting the next big trend is priceless.

Blog around

Domaining blogs are sprouting up everywhere with domainers eager to share their experiences, setbacks, lessons learned and tips with anyone who wants to listen. We all need to take advantage of this free and useful information by visiting various domain blogs and getting another person's perspective on our industry. And don't forget to subscribe to their RSS feeds, if it is offered, and have all this new information sent directly to you to read at your convenience... for free. Subscribe to this blog here.

Diversify with other TLD extensions

While some domainers swear that .com is the only extension worth being bought, there are others, like me, who think it's absolutely insane to dismiss all other TLD's and only buy one flavor of domain name. The popularity of .TV and .Mobi and the ongoing success of ccTLD's has risen and is playing a prominent part in today's domain marketplace. Generic domains in any of these extensions are being recognized as a highly sought after commodity with no signs of slowing. Familiarize yourself with other TLD's beside .com, .net and .org and evaluate your domain purchases on a global niche scale the next time you go to buy a domain.

Consider fractional domain ownership

Fractional domain ownership is simply a group of people that own a domain name and share in it's profits, development and use. There is not one sole owner because it is owned by the entire group. Owning a portion of a high value domain is a great way for a newcomer to the domain industry to begin and understand the ins and outs of professional domaining and share in the profit growth associated with that certain domain. It also allows "regular" domainers to group funds together and own a very premier domain name without one person having to pay the entire purchase price. Look for this trend to boom in 2008.

Optimize your parked pages

Once you buy a domain name, it is up to you whether your domain will contain a fully-functional website that you can customize/adsense or whether you will "park" your domain and allow targeted content to automatically be placed and monetized per visitor. If you choose to park your domains, it's imperative that you understand how domain parking works and how it can be optimized to bring better results. Sedo is a popular place for domain parking and allows users to see detailed stats and account information for each domain parked on the Sedo network. Revenue is shared with Sedo each time someone clicks on content on one of your parked pages and relies on consistent traffic to be a steady stream of income. Brush up on your domain parking information here.

Update your WHOIS information

The WHOIS database is sort of like a directory of purchased domain names that contains the owner's contact information, purchase date and expiration of a certain domain. One use of this information is being able to contact a domain owner and inquire about purchasing the domain. Without the correct information in the WHOis database, a potential buyer may not be able to contact the current owner and allow an offer to be placed. Contact your domain registrars and make sure your WHOis information is current and correct. If you opt not to be contacted by potential buyers, you may consider using a service that purchases domains for it's clients and keeps their information private. There is also an option to pay an additional fee at some domain registrars for private domain registration.

Contact more end users

So you have a great domain name that is considered gold in a certain industry. Great job. Now, if you have decided not to develop it and simply want to profit from a sale, I highly suggest contacting an end user. What's and end user? An end user is someone who would use the domain name specifically for creating brand recognition in a certain industry. Here's an example: Adam owns organicdogfood.com and Bob owns an organic dog food company in Texas but uses the domain BobsSuperGoodOrganicDogFood.com. Adam contacts Bob and offers a shorter, brandable and easier to remember domain name that can increase Bob's exposure on the internet for people searching for organic dogfood. Adam has just contacted a possible end user. A domain name can usually be sold to an end user for more since it is valued more by the actual user of the domain instead of a regular domain buyer.

Change your views on the domain industry

Are there still opportunities to be successful in today's domain industry? Yes.

Is there still time to take advantage of the booming domain sales? Yes.

Is it still possible for a domain newbie to come in and thrive even with a small initial investment. Yes.

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