en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/556232 Comments by Reece http://llll.com/domains/good-seo-bad-seo/#IDComment23874333 Thanks Mike! That means a lot coming from you -- big fan of your blog by the way in case you haven't noticed :) Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:01:16 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/good-seo-bad-seo/#IDComment23874333 http://llll.com/domains/post-length-short-blog-posts-long-blog-posts/#IDComment23731201 Hi alamperti, Thank you very much :) Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:33:09 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/post-length-short-blog-posts-long-blog-posts/#IDComment23731201 http://llll.com/domains/post-length-short-blog-posts-long-blog-posts/#IDComment23653038 Hi Ray, For now, I'm just enjoying it as a personal blog. I've placed a few ads on it in the past, however all but one of them were for free to friends of mine to help promote sites of theirs. Money isn't much of a problem and even with the enormous traffic growth over the past month, I still doubt I could make much more than maybe 1k a month off of it, so I'd rather keep it clutter free. At the moment, I'm trying to upgrade my own skills more than anything else -- reading everything I can get my hands on related to domain development, SEO, SEM, and keyword research. Blogging forces me to verbalize acquired knowledge and the pressure of pleasing blog readers encourages me to make sure I do my reading each day so I can provide them with something worthy of their time tomorrow. I have a few non-monetary goals which I would like to achieve, mainly centered around increasing traffic from search engines and growing the blog from PR4 to PR5 hopefully within the next 6 months. Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:37:10 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/post-length-short-blog-posts-long-blog-posts/#IDComment23653038 http://llll.com/domains/domaining-domain-development/#IDComment23652041 Completely agree Ray -- well said. Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:22:21 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/domaining-domain-development/#IDComment23652041 http://llll.com/domains/post-length-short-blog-posts-long-blog-posts/#IDComment23644791 Josh, thanks for summarizing that and adding your thoughts on it :) I see it the same as you -- I can't understand how Google would do something that would penalize millions of blogs out there unless Google has something against blogs. The paranoid "Google is out to get blogs" opinion seems to be that Google wants big brands to rank higher in the SERPs as they have money to spend on paid search and if they see organic search converting well for them, they may be more inclined to spend (or spend more) on paid search. Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:13:29 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/post-length-short-blog-posts-long-blog-posts/#IDComment23644791 http://llll.com/domains/post-length-short-blog-posts-long-blog-posts/#IDComment23641144 Ray - thanks for your kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the article. I've been doing a lot of reading on SEO lately and I was quite surprised myself to see how valuable high PR links are -- no wonder why people are willing to pay hundreds and even thousands per month for a good link despite the risks involved. Ross -- thank you for the correction. I'm a big fan of Problogger.net and read it almost religiously :) You make a very good point that loyal readers will be more inclined to read a longer post than first time visitors -- that's something I didn't write about in the post and truthfully, something I didn't think about but certainly makes a whole lot of sense. Thanks for your contribution Ross and I'm glad you liked it. Josh -- One think that has me particularly worried is about all the nofollow links I've given to other sites. Thinking it didn't hurt my pagerank, I've probably nofollow linked out to a hundred different sites and now to think that's the equivalent of having 100 dofollow links in terms of pagerank damage and no link juice going to the sites I liked enough to link out to... What a mess. Something a few of the posters were talking about on SEOMoz was about blog comments and nofollow -- if every nofollow link is going to hurt you, then a good blog post is essentially going to be punished in the rankings for being good through receiving more dofollow links from all the people who enjoyed the article enough to leave a comment. Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:12:15 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/post-length-short-blog-posts-long-blog-posts/#IDComment23641144 http://llll.com/domains/domaining-domain-development/#IDComment23571473 Thanks Samir! I'm glad you liked it :) Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:52:19 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/domaining-domain-development/#IDComment23571473 http://llll.com/domains/marketing-are-domain-companies-doing-all-they-can-do/#IDComment23552719 Hi Adam, I'm not quite sure what happened however I can't get your post to show up -- sorry about that. Thank you for providing the Afternic sales link -- I forgot about Afternic having that. Sun, 7 Jun 2009 06:55:49 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/marketing-are-domain-companies-doing-all-they-can-do/#IDComment23552719 http://llll.com/domains/domain-development/#IDComment23504907 Ray, thanks for your kind words. I've been spending a lot more time developing and focusing on improving my ability to develop -- domainers can say what they want, but I don't see many people making a decent living off PPC earnings anymore unless they' got in a long time ago... I'm in the same boat as a lot of domainers -- my web development skills are on the weak end, I'm still learning how to use Photoshop, etc. Too many domainers make excuses for why they don't develop before they even give it a serious try. I have yet to meet someone who was born knowing how to code a website :) Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:01:33 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/domain-development/#IDComment23504907 http://llll.com/domains/selling-short-domains-ebay/#IDComment23285117 Josh, Thank you very much for taking the time to write such an in depth article about selling domains on eBay. I know a lor of domainers (myself included) would probably use eBay a whole lot more if we better understood how to get top dollar for our domains and you've certainly elucidated what would need to be done to achieve just that. Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:30:35 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/selling-short-domains-ebay/#IDComment23285117 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23190422 Great post Alan, thanks for stopping by. I would imagine anyone trying to form a brand around a .cm domain would have a very large percentage of their traffic mistakenly typing in .com, which is kind of ironic when you think of things. Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:40:33 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23190422 http://llll.com/domains/domain-development/#IDComment23188492 The angle I was looking at it from Snoop was for people with large quantities of weaker domains -- I don't have any "category killers" myself, so I can only speak about what I have and know. Someone that has say, 1000 domains that were bringing in $3 per month was making a comfortable $36,000 per year, minus renewal fees and any other costs associated with owning the domains. Down 70% now, that number is $10,800. When you take off renewal fees before and after, you initially had about $28,000 and now have about $2,800 (assuming an $8 per year renewal fee), so instead of your revenue being down 70%, it's actually down 90%. With better domains or developed domains, I guess the people who financed their purchases at a much higher valuation are in a similar boat. Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:00:37 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/domain-development/#IDComment23188492 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23186787 Hi Stephen, I'm sorry if my post offended you -- I must admit, I've been in a pretty bad mood the past few days hearing about how excited some people are about .cm while we have everything else going on in the domain industry and I let anger get the best of me... If anyone wants to rewrite/paraphrase the article for their site, please feel free to do so (not asking for a mention or linkback - just happy word will get out to people who need to read it). Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:20:41 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23186787 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23180864 Hi Elliot, Thanks for stopping by. I completely agree with you there about Golf.cm, Vegas.cm etc being okay. I'm of the opinion that it's wrong to register trademarked domains like Microsoft.ext in any extension - the fact this extension will no doubt get significant traffic for such domains only makes my opinion more negative of the people who go out and register such domains. Sammy, Yes, it's very unfortunate that the mainstream public (and even well-educated professionals) have that opinion of domainers. A few bad apples spoil the bunch. Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:19:19 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23180864 http://llll.com/domains/niche-domaining/#IDComment23175986 Hi Ross, I was worried about whether that might hurt my SEO due to Google thinking that I've created a new page. I know I'd be better off with permalinks long term. Would the best idea be to 301 redirect to permalink versions of the posts? Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:00:36 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/niche-domaining/#IDComment23175986 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23168517 Ray -- that's a perfect example of the domain industry saying one thing (that we're not cybersquatters) and doing another (praising someone who clearly is). Wed, 3 Jun 2009 05:00:13 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23168517 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23166289 Yeah I have to agree with you Snoop -- it's hardly fair that someone can go out and reg a domain for $8 and, under the present system, a corporation be forced to pay thousands to acquire this TM-infringing domain. Wed, 3 Jun 2009 04:08:56 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/are-you-that-fucking-stupid/#IDComment23166289 http://llll.com/domains/selling-2800-llllcoms/#IDComment23158099 Hi SBox, Yeah - sorry about that. Hard to stay all that organized with so many domains! Bulk discounts are certainly possible -- please email me: reece(at)LLLL.com and we can discuss. Wed, 3 Jun 2009 01:28:10 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/selling-2800-llllcoms/#IDComment23158099 http://llll.com/domains/do-not-buy-bbinet/#IDComment23050314 If that's true, the owner of the domain should be thanking me for putting it out in the open so he becomes aware that someone is trying to sell his domain. Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:30:18 +0000 http://llll.com/domains/do-not-buy-bbinet/#IDComment23050314