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Got original content? If not, you could get sued. So goes the conventional wisdom now developing as the frontier of Internet media, law and standard operating practices grows another branch. Those RSS feeds may not be “free” after all. For rogue operators online, the “cut and paste” method of website development may be a thing of the past. The hounds of copyright legality are upon content thieves.

Taking a bead from a domain industry leader, I reference (and cite under pain of death) Elliott Silver’s comprehensive blog post today concerning content theft. The relevant article in Wired revealed the significance of getting published in conventional print run and digital media under a syndicated banner even in this day and age. The cost of these media operations assumes use of the material under its own auspices.

The company Righthaven actively pursues legal cases against websites that puncture the value of the native content by posting it on their websites and deriving SEO value and reader interest. The details of the copyright actions pursued by this company are something every website administrator needs to know about. This is in fact a sort of domain insurance, where activities like content writing and posting build value in a site.

It should go without saying that new website ventures should contain original content. but so many newb bloggers haven’t learned that concept. And many more domain speculators actively lift feeds and copy and paste entire sections of websites as a matter of course in the race to adsense and search engine revenue. The issuing of takedown notices is a time consuming and complex activity not all bloggers and webmasters understand how to do.

Who is doing the stealing? Bloggers and other webmasters, for the most part. Silver’s article sketches a swipe at the poor Web journalism practiced by many online text contributors, but the real picture is so much more broad than that. Many (but by no means all) domain speculators populate websites using models of virtual copy theft and content “relocation”.

For what can only be slivers of cents on the dollar, random webmasters draw from the RSS feeds of multiple sites and indiscriminately repost to fill up their site pages. This practice is uneasily as common as it is overlooked and underenforced for online copyright violation. More companies like Righthaven, online services that look to police online copyright violation are needed.

Infringement is an art form for many webmasters. They seek to diffuse and obfuscate the original post yet steal or repost most of it on their own sites, often without any link or pingback to the original site.But if internet practices lawsuits go forward, a new set of rules might soon be in place.  A new rubric of online content policing might spring forth.

Many webmaster who conscientiously invest in original content would like to see this happen. Hosting companies may get involved at some point. There is a rule of common sense that should be part of every hosting company terms of service. Content theft should be an act that terminates hosting company liability. Sites composed of over 50% stolen content could be taken down by disconnect notices.

And just think what the Google rankings would scramble to show then.

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Reading a book about Google was inevitable. This book was an eye opening primer in basic domain wisdom. But the knowledge inside the tome “What Would Google Do”‘ goes much further than any one online market segment. Written all the way back in 2009, much of the simplistic approaches to online business can be tooled especially to a domainer profit model.

Making smart mistakes, joining networks, and concentrating on delivering best product and nothing less is a welcome refresher. The concept that “life is  a beta” may be a soft sell to hard nosed domainers. References to the Google economy and the concept that middlemen are doomed may be up for debate or at least a half-hearted shrug.

The idea that “free is a business model” and that “nothing can compete with free” is being proven right now in realtime clicks and mortar stores with Panera bakeries. Neighboring eateries can’t compete with pay as you go prices. And Panera polishes its franchise with every chopped price. Google didn’t write the book (NPI) on business success but they do enjoy co-opting the brand.

Being collaborative is nothing new, neither is the concept of making mistakes well. Most industry advice books, especially in the tech related fields, emphasize trial and error. But this can be expensive for the everyday domainer. Thinking inside the gift economy, grabbing the freeware of the open source portal, and embracing the gift machine that is the Internet are all included.

Jeff Jarvis in “What Would Google Do” encapsulates and expands on his blog material from buzzmachine.com. If you are stranger to the blog this is all new news. Google and the Internet are indeed social media.And Jarvis explores several cases were the internet media is exploited incorrectly for public relations and profit motives. Jarvis preaches against being “evil”.

But somewhere the case is lacking that Google is guardian, the last bastion of a business seal of approval. The perception that a business operating outside the Google envelope needs to be “reformed’ may meet askance by several industry watchers. But Jarvis’ approach has brought new life to old company models. Is any business Google proof? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Domainers can best use this book as a tool to learn to think three dimensionally about to puncture and exploit captive domain traffic markets. Jarvis suggests giving control, respect and organization to customers, (which I seem to be alone in wishing more mobile customers of websites were on the receiving end of).  Information is power, but the idea that FaceBook is a “fake’ currency is intriguing.

Domainers can read this book and enjoy how Jarvis road maps certain domain markets and reveals potential domain name investment values to invest in. For a domain speculator to buy geo names or real estate names is nothing new, but it’s nice to hear a SEO expert say so too. Jarvis reports that the real estate market online is ripe for explosive development, and he’s right.

The application of Googlethink may not always heal. The case studies are contemporary, however, and deal with extremely relevant and updated business profit models such as airlines and “vanishing” newspapers are food for thought. Turning the customer experience around can make a domain (and its corresponding website) pay.

But a book spent evangelizing Googlification and Googlethink is not necessarily captivating reading. The success story wears thin because readers can’t start their own Google in the basement. Some readers may wonder how much of Jarvis’ advice can relate to markets where Google does not dominate, such as insurance and law. But maybe that’s for the next book.

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This is the age of the mobile domain name. Everyone has got not just a cellphone but a smartphone, an Internet portal users can hold in their hands in line at the fast food place, waiting for the movie to start in the theater, and waiting for the kids to come out of school. The mobile domain name website designer needs to feature an app for browsing site visitors to utilize. Just signalling one point on the landing page for mobile users is a start.

Everyone has got a cellphone. Infants and pets have cellphones. barbie has a cellphone and her doll has a cellphone. But not everyone likes the navigation or reduced footprint mobile access to Internet sites offer. My take on the mobile use of websites is that the visitation to any website can enjoy huge traffic bursts as long as there is a unique, standalone, easily navigable application (app). This can build in a number of directions.

I am confronted daily at my local bus stop by people who don’t know when the bus gets there. They are all holding cellphones. The reason they can’t access the local bus routes via internet is that the website for this service (mta.net) is the most bloated internet presence ever constructed. Getting schedule information is a tough dig.

Talk about a bloated online destination. Mta.net is the worst and most overpacked online enterprise I have ever seen, and its schedules are buried under a site map sinking under the weight of too much pablum.  The overdesign of this site reaches critical traffic stalls regularly and the bus schedule I normally use has a permanent error built into its Adobe page split between the 5th and 6th age of my most used bus schedule.

What if I made a website that featured the bus arrival times and schedules for my local bus stops in an easily mobile-navigable format for simplistic mobile phone users to track and access? It sounds like re-inventing the wheel. But if the data owners don’t like their wheels to be accessible to riders, someone else can showcase the wheel and its dynamics.

Navigating an Adobe brochure on a cellphone with a screen size the size of a Lorna Doone cookie doesn’t work for me.  But checking the schedule of the MTA bus route 183, MTA bus route 96, and MTA bus route 222 maps tos a series of clicks which culminate in (you guessed it) the entire multipage bus schedule download. This is awful to tab through on a numeric mobile phone keypad.

But what if a local website hosted these schedules in navigable form so that mobile users could grab their  data while waiting curbside? Furthermore, a fun marketing idea might be to print stickers with this url and slap them on the bus stops so people would get the idea. Instead of worried faces and unnecessary delays, bus riders could access schedules “on the hoof”.

If a vendor or internet source online offers data in an unpalatable format, there is no law that says you can’t repackage that data on your own site and garner the clicks. By identifying bad websites and poorly accessible data, webmasters of would-be mobile features can target a repackaging strategy and spread the word. And domainers promoting these sites may see some tasty traffic.

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After all the industry-speak and techno-blather about mobile apps died down, I was hoping these terms could die the death of so many over-hyped computer and Internet lexicon casualties. But it took an experience with a mobile device and a website that failed the mobile test to help me understand just what a mobile domain could deliver. Domains need to furnish mobile shortcuts to cellphone users beached on an overcooked website.

I was at a Starbucks trying to log into the Starbucks mobile website on my cellphone. I was trying to log into my Starbucks account and reload my card. Usually a website will make it very easy for you to spend money there. But not Starbucks. I navigated the website for 25 minutes and was not able to log in or reload my card. The Starbucks site simply wouldn’t allow it.  So much for the “rewards” program.

The problem is that Starbucks has not designed a website with mobile users in mind. It has designed a website that includes every coffee type to order, every philanthropic program, every possible non-coffee option jammed on the front page. Mobile users will burn minutes navigating this nightmare using the mobile internet access afforded by cellphones. Logging in is a challenge or a chore.

The Starbucks mobile experience was a joke. The Starbucks staff couldn’t help me do it. Every coffee type, promotional gift gimmick and rebranding idea was stuffed up front on the mobile menu. Starbucks thinks people in a hurry want to read about growing traditions in Costa Rica while thumbing the ‘reload” button. Too bad the site couldn’t handle it.

When a website stands in the way of the loyal customer repurchasing goods, there is a problem. This got me started thinking about a shortcut to set up online to access my favorite mobile apps. This would be a domain or site to use when trying to get online at my preferred sites. But could my web links enable logins where the mobile site destination architecture failed?

If you are a website designer or webmaster, you may have noticed lately that even the most titanic brand and websites have gotten simplified. The mobile version of many websites should not be necessary. Only four or five main navigation pathways should be functionally necessary on any website. Categories of links should sort them in navigable order. Vending goods or services should have priority and a clear path to mobile access.

Using the alphanumeric keypad for my cellphone’s internet navigation portal is troublesome and not particularly intuitive. And when Googling results I often have to take the luck of the draw just to speed navigation to a particular site. But what if a domain name or site set up a one stop shopping spot where I could navigate favorites without storing them on my cellphone? And what if somebody put up a panoply of websites with links to the immediate business send of the these websites, so I wouldn’t get lost in navigation limbo?

Food for domain thought. When reviewing the drop lists and thinking up new mobile names, think about the types of sites people want to access most. Think about how many of these portals are loaded with too many bells and whistles, overdesigned web sites and landing pages crammed with every conceivable public affairs message and brief. There are too many.

Closing the distance between the point mobile users want to get to and where they start can reap big rewards for clever webmaster domainers. Domain buyers should keep an eye out for quick typeable short names that deliver custom link pages or sorted quick links to popular and difficult to find necessary links. There could be traffic in it.

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The Domain name offer can come in from the cold with the new era of blog databases and instant websites. A template or open source application used for an existing domain’s website means that any buyer can take advantage of premium content original to that domain name as part of the purchase price. This can be termed a “domain sweetener”.

Adding sweetener to your domain can be as simple as allowing the buyer to utilize the current hosting where the domain is lodged. Server information is generally given with the WHOIS record.  The WHOIS record must always be accurate for this reason. Unless a Privacy option is purchased at the time of the domain name creation, the registrant’s name phone number address and fax number is visible to the public. And even Privacy entailed records have bid or offer links at the lookup point.

What functions as a sweetener? Bundled domains with other sub-TLD’s, Emails with the domain or a free renewal might be other domain sweeteners. The ability to transform a nibble of interest into a successfully executed domain sale may take some sweetening on the seller’s part. The trick is knowing when to add the sweetener. Only the seller knows how motivated they really are to get some cash out of the deal.

Domains will attract lookups and type in interest form time to time. the record of these lookups can be tracked by referrer traffic form the WHOIS. This can be viewed from the statistics utility in the web hosting menu. The concept of the WHOIS lookup concedes that a likely buyer is checking out who owns the domain name, how long they have owned it, where it is hosted, and what the owner is doing with the domain.

A domain buyer will check out whether or not the current owner has a lot of time or investment put into the name. The theory is that a domainer will sell a name more cheaply if they haven’t developed it themselves.  Or the prospective buyer may want to see if the domain name is parked and thus assess its potential value as a parked revenue generator. The offer for the domain name may include the content seen online.

Existing content in the form of databases or text files can also function as a domain sweetener. If the domainer has invested in domain development at all, these files can be furnished with the domain name sale as a sweetener. The incentive should be communicated that valuable planning and effort are attached with the domain purchase price. The sweetener should be signalled when the buyer has had enough time to consider an offer.

For this reason, domain name offers to buy should have a deadline and a “window of opportunity” attached. This way the prospective buyer has to evaluate how motivated they are. The domain name price will not be a given with a horizon of forever, but an opportunity to buy the domain name at the stated price within a secured period of time. The communication regarding the sweetener should come from a motivated seller near the end of the offer period.

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I happened across a FaceBook conversation between a high school pal and an old friend. They were commenting on the one’s website as a reflection of his artistic career. The website domain was his proper name.  I certainly have been on the lookout for what would doubtless be an exciting showcase of multimedia achievement of impressive dimensions. And then the page loaded.

It should be said that this individual was an unmistakable artistic talent from grade school on, with formidable potential for artistic, commercial and monetary success. I wouldn’t be surprised if someday those lucky few who received signature illustrations as yearbook signings were flogging them on Ebay for millions. Yes, he’s that talented.

Imagine my surprise when I checked out the website. Keep in mind this was a website conceived of and designed by an artist, someone not only capable of forming and organizing the visual impact of a website but completely conscious and well-versed regarding the  limitless dynamics and references of a visual artistic statement and the lucrative outcome of a successfully executed promotion website.

(On a technical note, the placeholder forward “under construction” page means the name records need to be properly administrated.) The latest entry was a year old. The contact information filled the most recent entry, filling the “frame”. Most artists and designers utilize this space to furnish at least one high resolution image projecting their creative flair and imaginative skill with some artistic medium.

The website was a flat black Blogger layout with no distinctive banner, graphics or logo except the miniaturized stamps of other peoples’ id’s. The text rolling behind the (faint white) title was a mishmash of instruction usually transformed by web designers into intuitive graphic interface options. This  text was so “default” it looked like a haphazard addition, as if the artist was giving browsers a pass to dismiss the effort.

Why this would be featured this way is a mystery to me. Even more astonishing was the form of the blog text itself. At the very least I expected a custom theme!! Who better to take advantage of the graphic possibilities of a custom web design than a background illustrator at Disney? But nooooooo. And searchability was out the window. The top Google result for this guy’s name was somebody else on FaceBook. That’s epic fail SEO when one considers this domain is comprised of his actual name.

The masses and masses of text were unreadable in their density, not separated into digestible snippets. Worse, the links to the artist’s portfolio were non-embedded hyperlinks concatenated onto the descriptors!! Seriously random blocks of unjustified text ran in every direction.  It was virtually unreadable. Nothing on this site inspired me to click, despite intense personal interest.

I was hoping for some YouTubes touring his work with some self-installation fanvids showing his inspirations, work habits, discussion of pieces for sale….but no.

In this modern world where custom animation can be packaged and featured on a blog effortlessly I found…a vacuum. Unless you paged wayyyyyyyyyy down. If you are going to title your site ‘Illustrations” why not actually have one on the title frame? i would love to see a Flash option slideshow of all the cool characters and backdrops in the miniaturized cells featured wayyyyyy down below the initial page load frame posts.

What I was expecting was some kind of tone on tone elegance with embedded videos and self-narrated tours of his work.  A personal website is the only place where an artists has complete visual control to exhibit their own design of how they want visitors to experience their art and vision. Appearance is key. It should be polished, intuitive, attractive and sticky. This whole website said “go away”.

TheYoutube links and reels could have been on the margin, which was wasted in ….dead black. The usage of black to color a website is the modern equivalent of wearing white after Labor Day. A tasteful web design the David Linley website, although I prefer the Wedgewood blue theme of years past. This is one of the benchmark sites I think of when commercial art meets promotional website elements for marketing commerce and design.

I showed my cousin the Linley website, and he’s a bespoke woodworker using multiple found woods in his Oregon workshop to devise marquetry tables of stunning conception and execution. My cousin remarked of the Linley wares, “That’s a lot of gluing and pasting”. But the elegant design helped sell the concept of high end design. Even children understand the concept that your wares should match your website.

The would-be artist site in question not only is the opposite of creativity it sends  a dull, static message that is the equivalent of an ambivalent shrug. Where are the dynamic videos exhibiting the artist’s own voice and reviewing their successes and achievements and new ideas? We are living in an era where people’s kittens do backflips and get 50,000 page views. Surely, Nick, you could break out the video camera and press “record” a few times?

Blogging and website design is a lot gluing and pasting too. What is the site looking to promote? How is the action of a visitor to be guided? Surely a modern artist of an caliber knows how to package and market themselves appropriately. This is not the website of someone who was painting murals on neighbor’s garage walls in junior high.

I would embed an audio file welcoming visitors in Nick’s own voice and doing the job of that wasted title text. I would expect some feature graphics composed by Nick and thus copyrighted for his own use. I would stack a bunch of clickable YouTubes with titles like “how I became an artist, the path to a commercial career” and “new directions I am exploring now”.

And gee, if only he might compose a custom banner with all his creations lined up to absolutely kill the viewer with color on blakc impact. Considering Nick turned me onto Eyvind Erle, the master of dynamic color on black stylized animation art, you’d think an homage would be both strategic, savvy, and appropriate.

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I was disappointed to see one  of the websites I had long admired lapsed into “domain for sale” status. This was Oscarbuzz.com, a site which featured upcoming Academy Award nominees and likely winners. The site had  a lot going for it, and I wonder what happened to change the webmaster’s mind. You can learn a lot about the type of site you’d like to build when you keep checking one that is not yours.

I especially liked the customized lexicon the site had that marked the symbols for awards wins next to the movie title. This was a “scoreboard” feature that kept the site bookmarked and sticky. As a movie fan, I as much as  everyone else was wrapped up in who won the big trophies in the film industry. This site was a funny and pointed send up of the entire “competition”. You could catch up on the Oscar race from time to time as the awards ceremony approached.

First of all, the name has a lot going for it. Any noun made into a domain name with “buzz” at the end has a ton of potential at the outset. (Disclaimer: I neither know nor have been contacted to help vend or market this domain). Seeing the parked and “for sale’ sign up made me blink. What happened to the database? Surely it would be better to vend the name with the legacy words form the tons of articles that were up.

I believe there should be an online clearinghouse for disabled blog databases. If the archived material does filter out through Google in 4-5 years, then an aging database is a thing of beauty and a joy to behold. In practical terms a database can be edited in one day to reflect heightened SEO entries for a month. That’s a big time savings for an entire month right there. Shopping for the database paired with the domain is a serious sales idea.

A similar site is Oscarwatch.com, which is still up and running. i was shocked to see how little SEO bite at Alexa.com Oscarbuzz.com had. I was sure I had seen a live site up many times and this was not reflected in the site or domain name profile. I am hard hit to realize that domainers have their resources spread so thin that even viable sites must fall by the wayside for lack of time or available effort to expend. Get some guest bloggers or set up some news feeds, fed that animal!

This si when those domainers and webmasters using templates to build and maintain blogs and websites win out. For every crafty multifeeding blog absorber out there there are a dozen names in their closet that might benefit from  a little spring cleaning. But when all is said and done, do the best domain projects get the care and feeding?

The workhorse domains are the ones that need constant care and feeding. but special project domains can make for showboat websites that play large for potential clients.

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I was reading an article about a team of fix it men who post repair guides to their website. The article was about their reverse engineering efforts to discover how a mobile device worked. The online repair guides were developed from the tech team figuring out how the device worked and explaining it to the layman. The high SEO values for repair guides and fix-it searches per device make and model make for a sticky site.

Since the Internet is full of laymen (cough, cough) looking for a way to save expensive repair bills and do it themselves, this idea brings huge traffic. The search queries for how to fix home electronics or mobile devices have grown with the advent of portable technology. Nobody wants to pay a repairman!

Repairing this and repairing that can make for a slew of profitable sites. Just organizing the links to existing videos can make a great site. Keywords and introductions, even reviews of repair and fix-it videos make a successful site model. And the content won’t age. These names can make traffic stats that support a profitable auction resale of the name.

But the focus value should be on a template for development.  The rhythm of successive sites deployed is the goal. Too many  domainers acquire names up the ying-yang and develop none at all. They make the entire website launching process thousands of times more difficult than it has to be. It’s like watching someone starve next to a bunch of bananas, because they are too nervous they’ll peel it the wrong way to get anything to eat.

The marriage of a hot technology and purposeful document available at the site makes for eager visitors. New technology and the use of gadgets people don’t fully understand has become a normal part of everyday life. Also normal is the online access and search for device operation assistance. Those providing reviews, how-to advice, coaching and repair guidance can own a proprietary part of the web and build domain value as well.

But the winning domain development plan does not need to be an actual repair site, but it can be a website addressing any need the visiting site public may have. Figuring out what the public needs to know is the first step,  providing it is the second part, and  figuring how to let them know they need it is the third part. Fourth is massaging the public awareness of the availability.

The keywords to such a site garner various oenatomological approaches. How the domain name word sounds and if it sounds similar enough to what the site is about can matter. The word “repair” should obviously feature right behind the noun. Ideally this would be perfect except that domain speculators have likely taken all those names very early in the original domain real estate gold rush. Buying such a name would be in the five to six figures.

Domains that lead to content rich websites build traffic value that can be used to secure a bid for resale or bolster an auction listing. And the world of video and the inevitable YouTube should shoulder the burden of the hosting. YouTube will be granting $5 million in video blogger awards to its members, and that’s big money for those who have mastered the craft.

Many webmasters invest a fortune in video capable web hosting before realizing they can upload their videos onto YouTube and embed the frame in their lightweight blog. Nabbing a blog app these days is just a borrowed folder with a  redirect, until a better hosting solution comes along. The cementing of a blog’s identity with original content is always going to be the meat and potatoes of any blog.

So, get out those pencils and paper and start mapping a new site plan for your domain based repair site today. Try some morphologies of “fix + noun” or “noun + repair”. Check the registrars to see what’s already taken or what combinations of domain names are involved. Work the how-to video and YouTube coaching craze for all it’s worth. And have fun doing it.

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Domaining an app is the hottest web development move out there. A happening domain needs Tube support. Youtube.content can be developed and produced using simple tools online. The video media format can be packaged by a multitude of resident system applications, freeware obtainable online, and custom retail video editing software.

Domainers can try their hand at helming projects which a wide variety of users will see. Endorsement of the material can lead to word of mouth and end user referrals. New apps are churning out like wildfire right now for new devices like the Ipad and portable handheld and gaming sites too. Video slices or “tubes” can be embedded easily with tags and captions to create an interactive site that gives visitors something to do.

Domains can hold whatever custom content their webmasters decide upon. these can be coaching tutorials, screenshot by screenshot demonstrations, videos, narrated audio slide shows and other media. The affiliate offers can be blended into demonstrational material that encourage visitors to click on ads. Domain keywords can be emphasized with video images and image tags reflecting actual content.

A website authored by a domain holder can be optimized for site SEO and traffic statistics. The content can be tagged as a how-to video and also as educational, occupational, and promotional. This type of material is readily discoverable and very searchable. The ease with which these types of videos can be made and uploaded is a result of the viral video phenomenon sponsored by YouTube’s popularity. Desktop microphones make any webmaster a narrator.

The domainer who promotes their website using coaching video, how-to methods, tips and tricks, shortcut techniques and screenshot demonstrations has many advantages. The webmaster can decide what words and narrative text and captions get featured, presumably keyword-rich and SEO optimized. The domainer can set up complementary sites and link them together.

A site plan which concentrates a density of words and themes in the content around the site domain keywords will be successful in aggregating visitor traffic. Referrals to the coaching material will also get linked to from forums, online bulletin boards, and member communities of the subject topics. The site plan can outline the key steps in each “lesson” and provide yet another spoke in the SEO discoverability wheel.

Beginners making videos and slideshow media can sketch their plan using Powerpoint outline view notes or slides printed out for jotting down ideas. Screenshots can be defined into surgical coaching material by making highlighted areas using Paint and the selection tool with the colored outline box delineating the referred-to area.

Webmasters should provide how-to content by asking and answering questions about the process or technique involved. What kinds of people will be viewing this presentation? What kinds of language and images will they respond to? What general references and specific details will they expect to see? What kinds of action need to be demonstrated, and how does this fall in with the overall site goal?

Uploading video concoctions to YouTube assist in server hosting costs and allows the domainers to build a site channel that refers YouTube surfers back to the target web site. One key draw for site visitation is to allow continued searchability of the video at YouTube and then cover the video space with a link to the destination website. This brings fulfillment oriented site visitors.

But by hosting exclusive video,  a webmaster can originate valuable content. By authoring original programming they turn their domain name into a brand and their website becomes an advertising portal that turns into a channel. And video channels quickly become very sticky websites with a ton of buzz, just the thing a domainer likes.

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Realty is a hot, hot, hot, domain market. Home staging and home remodeling are some of the most popularly visited and heavily trafficked sites online. Property address domains can be so easily associated with the prospective buyer’s notes they can just keep referring to the site for full color images and floor plan details. And property domains created specifically for a given street address can be extremely inexpensive to purchase.

Property address domains make the most of an appealing street name and number to help sell the home. Instead of writing notes or keeping realty flyers, the prospective buyer can email the link to themselves or even communicate it other family members or friends for advice and feedback about the property. Details and photos can enhance the history of a property or residence in the prospective buyer’s eye.

The domain business relates to the setting up of a word or number combination with the top level domain denominator to make an online address, or uniform resource locator. The url can be a business tool and a brand. The realty business of buying and selling properties, land parcels, buildings, and homes, in and of itself can benefit from domain name creation and website hosting to supplement

Most Internet users now ask for a url or domain name if they intend to look up a site for information or further review later on. But a realty company will force a prospective buyer to sort through a database of records and fulfill a long list of choices about bedroom and bathrooms, and then pick through pages of listings. Motivated sellers can put their own property website and manage the marketing themselves.

While a realty address domain name may not have specific resale value, the value it will have to spur a realty sale will have a resale profit packaged within its final valuation to the property seller. If a seller does not want to exact address given out, what better way to sell a home and list its full features and host images than a custom realty domain name? Sellers can update the site with more information as they go along.

One example of this is how realtors have heightened the pneumonic device of a domain name to reinforce the “curb appeal” of the property by immortalizing it as a domain name. Realty domain owners can also review geographic traffic statistics and determine who their prime targets for marketing and promotion might be. If the price of a property drops, visitors to the website might be notified.

The searchability of a property for sale by prospective internet shoppers and realty investors is heightened almost to a meteoric degree when featured as its own website and domain name url. The SEO discoverability of the property website and domain name can be fashioned by the seller to suit their perceived buyer market. A seller can feature a video tour or a audio narration of a recent remodel.

Especially for tract properties and a home for sale by owner, a domain name of a realty address can instantly boost visibility and create a marketing space for a property controlled wholly by the seller and not featuring a residence, building, or property with others in the same price range or geographical area. When a property is for sale by owner, a website with an url can allow for customized marketing.

Realty is a competitive field and many home sale markets are flat. The best marketing and promotion will win out in these circumstances. When the abbreviated descriptions appear in property listings in newspapers and realty company publications, the terse 25-word sentences don’t do justice to a property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sellers sometimes feel frustrated about how the realtor is advertising the property.

Realty companies spend a fortune on these listings and advertising and may not care to feature a certain property or certain descriptive terms. But a website with a realty address domain name or property address url is completely under the domainer’s control. The seller of the land, building, or residential home can use their own address domain name to govern how the property is shown to the online world.

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