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Branding Moves Into Web Domains by socialmediatoday

If you’ve tried to buy a web domain lately, the process can be daunting. With over 95 million sites registered with the .COM suffix, as well as another cool 35 million across the .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ AND .US. domain extensions (according to WHOIS), the pickin’s are slim. Many new companies even go as far as to develop their brand name around the availability of a domain, particularly by inventing a word like Google, Zillow, and Twitter. However, help is on the way… sort of.

After three years since it was originally announced, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has finally approved the expansion of Top-Level Domains (TLDs) which will allow companies and organizations to turn their own brands into Internet domain extensions (imagine iPad.apple) or to create broad generic strings such as .CAR, .SPORTS or .BANK.
URLs have never been easy to transfer from one person to another, though URL shorteners like bit.ly have at least made large, unwieldily addresses more manageable. These new TLDs hope to allow companies to brand their internet extensions—take “PS3.Sony” or “IS350.Lexus” for example. Canon has already expressed their interest in nabbing up the “.canon” extension.
The new TLDs offer a unique branding opportunity, but they aren’t cheap. According to Mashable, the application fee alone is $185,000, and the annual fee is $25,000. ICANN predicts between 300 and 1,000 new TLDs could be created.
While this seems like the ultimate post-advertising opportunity to brand your web-presence (presuming websites will be around by the next decade), that price point will make it unattainable to most. Though it seems like the expansion has the potential to usher in a change that may ultimately trickle down to smaller businesses and individuals, the price point must first become a little more manageable.
Naysayers are skeptical, however. We’ve had access to .TRAVEL, .MUSEUM, .JOBS and .MOBI for years and I can’t say I’ve used a single one. .MOBI may be a complete failure now that sites can tell if you are on a mobile device and automatically switch to mobile-friendly versions.
Will these new domains buck the trend and truly move towards a more branded web? Or will they become expensive relics as our collective digital presence continue to change? The comments are yours…

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Backorder Domain Names at BackOrderZone.com | Backorder Domain Names: Buying Aged Domains: Buying Aged Domains In this post I will discuss buying aged domains with pag...

Buying Aged Domains

Buying Aged Domains

In this post I will discuss buying aged domains with page rank and the things you need to be aware of.
I have to give credit to my friend Terry Kyle (Terry’s product: Best SEO Course I’ve ever used – affiliate link) who has taught me how to do this the right way!
Before I discuss how to buy an aged domain with page rank, I first want to discuss why this could be useful.
The fact is that search engines trust domains with age and page rank, so if you have a domain like this then it can be easier and faster to rank in the search engines. This is especially true if the domain has a Yahoo and/or DMOZ listing.
I’ve bought domains for as little as $40 that are PR 3 and listed in DMOZ, so it’s not that expensive, but you do need to know what you are doing.
When buying a domain from someone, the most important thing to do is check that the domain has not been dropped. What this means is that the domain has not expired at some time in the past and not been renewed by the owner. If this has happened, most SEO experts will agree that the domain has lost a lot of its value.
The best way to check if a domain has been dropped is to head over to www.domaintools.com and use there free service to check the domain out. The image below is an example of what domaintools shows you when you find a dropped domain.

You can see in the blue circle that it reads, “3 drops”. This to me is a domain that I would not consider buying, as you run the risk of the domain losing it’s page rank on the next Google update.

Another thing you need to do is check that the page rank is valid, and you can do this by doing a quick Google search like this: info:http://www.domain.com

You replace the URL with the domain you are looking at buying, and also test it without the www. What you are looking for is that the first result that Google has is the actual domain itself and not some other domain.

The reason you would do this is because some dodgy domain sellers will redirect page rank from one domain they own to another, so it gives the domain it’s page rank, but then they remove it once you’ve bought it. This may leave you with a page rank zero domain!

Here’s an example of a fake page rank:

In the example above you can see that I searched for info:tacticnews.com, however the first result that Google has is for www.burninginfo.com. This shows me that tacticnews.com is a forged page rank domain, and one I would not buy.

The other thing to check is the quality of the backlinks that the domain has. You can do this with any link checking tool, or even Yahoo site explorer. But just make sure you search for good strong backlinks, and not a whole bunch of low quality garbage links. You want to aim for at least 2 or more links to the domain that are of higher or equal page rank.

The reason for this (again thanks Terry for pointing this out) is because if by chance one of the links was removed then your domain should still hold it’s page rank because there is another high page rank link still in place.

One more thing that you should do when deciding whether to buy a domain or not is check and see if any of the inner pages of the site have page rank too. You might be looking at a PR 4 domain, and find that there a several inner pages that also have PR 4. This is very handy, because all you need to do is recreate these pages and you can use them.

To check if inner pages have page rank, all you need to do is search for the domain in Google like this:

site:http://www…..

However you also need to have the free firefox plugin called SEO Quake installed and switched on. The reason for this is that it will show you the page rank of the results. In the example below I have shown a domain that has home page of PR 4 and an inner page of only PR 0, but it still illustrates my point.

Anyway I hope these lessons on buying aged domains was useful for you, I don’t have room in this post to go into detail about why and how you can use these domains, because there are many ways. However if you are truly serious about SEO, I can’ t stress enough how great Terry Kyles course on SEO is.

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Backorder Domain Names at BackOrderZone.com | Backorder Domain Names: The Benefits of Extending Your Domain Age: The Benefits of Extending Your Domain Age May 20th, 2009 | General by Rank Pay SEO A search engine’s ultimate goal is to find the best ...

The Benefits of Extending Your Domain Age

May 20th, 2009 | General by Rank Pay SEO

A search engine’s ultimate goal is to find the best way to present the most relevant search results to its users. As such, Google and the search engines employ over 400 new changes to their ever-growing algorithms every year to help combat potentially spammy and illegitimate websites from ranking well. One method for identifying potentially legitimate websites over illegitimate sites is a website’s domain age and registration length.
A website’s domain age is something that cannot be manipulated or faked, which is why the search engines place greater weight on older domains and domains with longer registration dates. The older the domain generally means that more time, money, and resources have gone into it. Websites that are attempting to manipulate the search results typically have a short life span, with the webmasters understanding that one day soon their website may be banned from the results. Therefore, it isn’t cost effective to register a domain for years knowing that one day soon that website will no longer rank.
Register your domain for as long as possible; the longer the better. Google, Yahoo, and MSN will be able to see the extended registration date, which will help your rankings in both the short and long term. It shows the search engines that you are dedicated to the domain and the future of its development. In one case, we have seen a client’s website go from outside the top 100, to top 20 within several weeks! Have a question regarding domain age and registration length? Please feel free to contact RankPay support.

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