Looking for Users That Click Ads Twice As Often? Find a 2-11 Year Old
Domainers and website owners have known it for years, young kids have no idea what is a paid ad and what is just a link. Studies over the last 10 years have pointed to data showing they will click at much higher rates than other age groups. According to the latest data from video ad [...]
And The Award for Worst Website for a Congressional Candidate Goes To…………………
George Hutchins. If you loved Geocities then I apologize, you will absolutely love this. It’s been about 10 years since I’ve seen such an amazing variety of fonts, colors, and flaming stat counters all on one page. The scariest part of the entire website is this guy is really running for US Congress, yes THE [...]
It’s Official: The Internet is Mostly Comprised of Junk, Spam, and Malicious Content, Are You Adding To It?
Website Security Labs is a company that uses a system called “HoneyPot” to scour the web at 40 million websites an hour searching for spam and malicious sites. What they uncovered is probably what you expected. Ninety five percent of all user generated content on the web is spam or malicious. Here’s what they found
13.7% [...]
My Newest “Fun” Sites Are Getting Closer to Completion “Hamster Insurance” and “Lazy Stripper”
If you’ve read my blog at all, you know I love to have a good time. If I don’t laugh at least 1/4 of the day it wasn’t a good day. Now don’t get me wrong, there are times for serious business and making money but in my spare time I love writing and making [...]
A Few Lessons Learned From TRAFFIC’s Test Track
There were plenty of great moments over the last four days at TRAFFIC. Many do’s and many don’ts, but I think I got more out of TEST TRACK than any of the other sessions. Here are a few ideas and thoughts that I was left with.
1. Public speaking is a practiced talent. [...]
7 Very Nice User Friendly/Easy on the Eye Website Designs
Web users love pretty. After pretty come functionality. Here are a few sites that combine both. As domainers, web development is not our forte, but as parking revenue free falls, domain owners are realizing there is opportunity above and beyond a little hasty mini-site. Beauty is only part of a site. We need good SEO [...]
Build Your Own iPhone App for $200 ….And use other people’s content to do it.
It was just a matter of time until someone created an App that let you create an App. AppMakr now does exactly that. AppMakr is basically a design engine that lets you take a feed, a search term, pictures, or any url and make up an app. It then ’scrapes” all that data and creates [...]
A Whole Nickel. Gotta Love Domain Parking
That’s how much money many of my domains have been making a day lately. They used to return dollars. I’ve never been one to complain about parking revenue, I’ll take what I can get. But at a nickel a day, I think my days of making good money are officially over. My father always says [...]
8 Unusual Ways I’ve Used to Promote Our Websites/Domains
I got the idea for this article after reading Bruce’s article on Advertising Fail and receiving the fine Christmas gift from Rick Latona. As a brick and mortar business owner AND a domain owner I often have to cross back and forth from traditional forms of advertising to “guerilla” type advertising. Knowing both sides of [...]
Looking for a Web Designer
I started to go back to Elance and then I got to thinking. If I’m looking for a good web designer why not go to the people that use them every day, domainers. Here is what I’m looking to do. If you’ve read my blog you’ve figured out that I invest in plant names. I’ve [...]
