Domain Owl

Every blog owner has now come to know that a necessary chore of every blogista or blog owner is to weed through the spare comments on the blog. But the cryptic inattention to detail is confounding. When people with keywords that fit your site insist on leaving links of unrelated topics and material on still a third topic, it’s fit to cause blog rage.

I am also enraged to find that on many of my blog sites the submitted comments are argumentative and rude, as if there is any value at all to my posting this? This kind of comment is guaranteed to be deleted. So why bother leaving it? No blogger wants that kind of material on their site. How can links which are never accepted help anyone’s SEO?

Furthermore I am getting comments where blogs I have under development are being submitted. This is surprising since the posts they are writing comments to don’t exist. The blog posts they are “replying” to are listed as “coming soon”. There is no content to read or respond to.

I can only conclude that the software submission used for this type of blog comment must be verified and only these type of comments stand out. Pity the poor clients who think they are really purchasing SEO. I can also infer that these visits are intended as malicious. For some motivation of their own, submitters are using my url for target practice.

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One blogger here on Domainowl.com has noted that domains were $6.99 with privacy included. Sorry, but you’re wrong. Dot com domains are still $8.50 at Smartico (I checked). If anyone is interested in other Indian or Asian domains here are some discounts:

.CO.IN, NET.IN, ORG.IN, GEN.IN, FIRM.IN, IND.IN are $4.89 with a maximum of one year registration to be enjoyed by Smartico customers.Another single year limit discount is .IN domains, which are $4.83, .ASIA names are $12.03, (single year domain purchase limit) and and .CN.COM’s are $12.03, ten years limited.

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I was speaking in consultation with a colleague today, and while going over the ideas for a new website I noticed a particular emphasis on the site design. I realized it had been so long since I had heard anyone fret about using a public template, or develop using overly customized code, or even properly launch conjunction sites, I was moved to mention it aloud.

It seems obvious to me by now that the whole dimension to designing a website has almost vanished as an aesthetic art and been wholly replaced by the architectural need to build an SEO capable site first and foremost. The site plan Google submission, the DMOZ listing, and the bots traveling over the site every day has become an outsize priority for every site.

Webmasters can see how link building, paid link exchanges and article submission have taken over the web. They can see this especially well when administrate the polyglot mixture if spam comments that flood the WordPress that are neither relevant nor grammatically formed into real sentences. The mechanized manual submission software many non-English speakers are using has a lot to answer for.

Bulklinking is the new sport of domainer kings. The bulk of a domain’s launch expenses and the main thrust of its establishment on the Internet frontier is a loud neon sign proclaiming its existence. Being able to seed your link in as many directories as possible has long been an SEO goal, but one of questionable theoretical relevance. i recognise this as afact of current web site commerce and many others do too.

My problem is the manner in which many mechanized software programs slam my websites with useless comments daily. I am not a machine and I have to delete these manually. I have one blog which has over 3,000 pointless links that make no sense with comments that are gibberish. The sentences are just random words. This is practically more time consuming to eliminate from my administration interface than an actual site hack.

What I believe should happen is that these linkers should be judged as the equivalent of spam and be treated as such. Their web hosting companies should be contacted. Spam sites and remailers and emails where spam email originally comes from is regularly reported to the site engines from downranking and eventual discounting of the site data. Spam commenters utilizing random assignment of comments to blogs and websites should suffer the same fate.

There should be a bulklinker database just like the universal spam list and the same sites who pay Rupees to cement innocent websites with layers of nonsense. Most of these comments have no relationship to any of the keywords for the sites concerned.There ca be no benefit whatsoever to their site and the link makes my site anonymously supporting junk site urls and seem relatively discounted form an SEO perspective.

Since I know which link directory websites I have added my sites to and which I have done nothing with, I can see how universal and inconsiderately applied some of these list additions are. Some of my websites have been targeted simply because someone thought I would be spending a fortune on affiliates or fraternal sites links and thought they’d hitch a ride on my site.

But all these suppositions rest on my ability to weed out my spam. Er, (cough) the comments area. That’s a lot of work my spam folder is dragging down my day with. My worry used to be that there might be a genuine comment and now it doesn’t matter. The sheer time necessitated to be spent on deleting junk comments from my blogs makes me want to report these spam comment sites somewhere. But where?

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One of the most common and accessible ways to publicize a blog or website is to publish an article at Ezines.com and earn a backlink to your chosen url for your trouble. Making the Internet aware of the domain is the web developer’s job where SEO is concerned. But how many domainers avail themselves of the opportunity? The smart ones do. The passive-aggressive domainers don’t.

I actually know domain name owners who have never submitted a backlink who honestly believe their domains should be enjoying robust offers. My most sincere efforts at educating them fall on deaf ears. They are the aristocrats of the domain market, who never need to stop to the tricks of the trade that every domain name owner and reseller knows about.

One of the first things a potential domain name owner does when searching out name value for a possible bid is to Google or otherwise search the web for traces of PR effort. These are experts in assessing domain name values. they will be looking for sites that have a backlink to the domain named website for sale, hopefully at sites that have a topical link to the subject material indicated.

Usually a domainer has a talent in one kind of  niche where they excel at bringing a certain facet of SEO value or page rank performance to a domain name or website. they have honed doing this to a fine art, and have several licenses and memberships to the appropriate websites and forums to get others to help. What they want to know is, how can they supplement current effort to arrive at a resalable margin of profit?

Is the press aware of the website? Is content present on the site? Is there a Dmoz entry? Do backlinks with topical relationships to the keyword exist? Is there any link exchange relationship that show a commitment to elevating traffic and developing the domain name and website for accepted principles of domain value elevation? How much has the site owner or domainer who owns the name currently done beyond buying the name?

Keeping a blog or website updated with fresh and dynamic content keeps the search engines and site value estimators happy. But SEO it doesn’t do anything for PR unless the traffic flowing to the site can grab onto keyword specific content. Potential buyers need something to grab hold of and take a bite out of for further development, traffic enhancement, ad page rank growth and other name marketing options.

To enhance resale potential of a name, and not just to promote current SEO value and page rank, owners of domain names need to be actively engaged in leveling up (in gamer’s parlance) the profile of their website online. Even if the domain name only has a parked page, the domain name’s value is always in play as long as it is registered. That is a big window of opportunity.

Ezine allows articles of multiple topics to submit them for consideration and share their knowledge or particular point of view. Ongoing utility of the Ezines.com engine online is a shotgun in the domainer’s bag of tricks that needs to stay oiled and ready and fired regularly to really be of any use. A serious question to anyone looking to make money selling domain names is:

Do you Ezines?

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