I use an SEO plugin for Chrome. If you are on a webpage, you can just click it and it gives a lot of info about that page.

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Link to Chrome SEO extention

this , and there's one for firefox too. SEOquake plugin is pretty good too

does anybody have any thoughts on/experience with http://www.websitebroker.com/new-listings.html?

sry if it's been mentioned

I'm switching 2 of my most under-performing AdSense sites to Amazon and seeing if they generate sales. The products featured aren't expensive at all so the direct profit assumed from the switch isn't great. I'm not concerned though since I'm using them only to bump up my sales % to generate larger commissions on my more expensive Amazon products featured on other sites. I'll keep you guys updated.

Any thoughts on a domain that has an 'r' on the end? It is a frequently purchased noun, in a competitive niche. Sort of like motorcycler.com Are they substantially easier to rank? This would be a longer term side project...

Age is more important than the 'r' for ranking.

After about 3 days of the switch I already sold a product and bumped myself up to 6%. I'm glad I made the switch since this site's ads were not being clicked. It's not a lot of money either way, but diversifying my revenue stream is definitely a good thing.

Now they just need to follow my cookie and buy a car.

Do any of you guys do a ton of adwords PPC for clients or yourself etc?

I know how the system works and have ran $100 worth of Ads for myself back when I was a n00b. I do SEO work on the side for a friend's company for a relatively cheap hourly. I think this will entail PPC campaigns sometime soon. His site is a really big seller of college merchandise and I know he's had big PPC campaigns run in the best. I'll keep you updated if I ever get my hands dirty.

I have 2 domain names I might use for my site, they are both pretty good:

One is highly brandable and 8 characters. The particular name I guess is really old (good right?), I'm buying it through a site that sells domain names or w/e

The other is great for SEO, but 16 characters. Matches the keywords I'm looking for but "ing" at the end of it.


Which one would you guys go for? I plan on having this site around a long time with quality content by the way. This site has been a huge project of mine and has been consuming my life for the past 2 months. But I'm really on the fence about it what one to choose.

oh yeah a third suggestion, have the highly brandable site as my site name, and SEO the other one so it automatically leads to the brandable name....Is that at all worth it?

I'm no expert bassmaster. from what I've read here, brandable is better (option 1) in the long run.

As far as option 3, i'm not sure.

Are you sure it is all that brandable? A lot of sellers out there try to portray their shorter domain names that you can sort of pronounce or have weird extensions as 'brandable'. The term is overused. Sure, if you have a ton of cash you can brand anything, but that is a huge investment and the domain itself does not have much value.

In other words, why can't you brand the 16 character name? Does it sound really spammy like buy-mesothenoma-cancer-bills-online-now.com or something?

Since you mention this site has consumed your life and will be all high quality content, I'm assuming it isn't a one-off niche "hope to make $100/month in adsense / ********* / whatever" sort of deal. In that case, take the old brandable name 100%. Quality SEO'd content and domain age will be enough, and for a site you hope to carry for a long time, the brandability actually does come into play.

I'm also unsure of option 3's effects. I've heard that 301 redirects can potentially cause some pagerank decay, so I would probably not risk that in the pursuit of a probably-small gain.

You do lose some link juice with a redirect. I've read that more than once over the years and I'm pretty sure Google admitted it. I think it's a waste of time to simply build up an entire site and then just redirect it to another. I also think it might appear kinda shady to the search engines + users being directed like that.

If you're going long term you should brand it for sure. If it's going to be some small niche site, take the SEO. Depending on how good the actual SEO term is, like if it's an exact match domain with low competition or something, it might be worth it to buy both and make them separate projects that help each other in the long run. That depends on tons of factors though.

The SEO one really isn't that bad at all for branding, I won't say the other brandable domain cuz i haven't bought it yet.

outdoorreporting.com

Given the SEO + easy branding.....it makes a tough decision

I always feel weird about going to sites though that are simply search terms. Kinda like I'd feel weird at www.clothes.com instead of some branded site. It's like branded sites get rid of some of the SEO phoniness and give a better user experience just by the domain name. Maybe this is just me and I shouldn't worry about everybody else judging.

What's the site for? Outdoorsman? Camping type stuff?

Hunting and Fishing reports, not selling anything

I don't think there's as much SEO benefit there as you think. It's a good domain for what you're trying to accomplish with the site, but it's not as if "outdoor reporting" is a really popular or heavily searched keyword. Without researching it, I would assume that 'report' would be much better as well since I'd imagine people don't type in "sports reporting" or "superbowl reporting" so much as "superbowl report(s).

The top sites in the SERPs for "hunting and fishing reports" seem to be pretty big as well. From an SEO standpoint I wouldn't touch it, but if it's your passion site then go for it.

Just my .02. Once your site establishes itself as a hunting/fishing site in Google's eyes, you'll be set to rank for other keywords anyway. I'm sure you can monetize it by posting reviews/links to rods and bows and stuff.

outdoorreporting.com was the only one of it's sort available. The rest are taken by domain hoarders and just being held for ransom.

I'm not really going to be in charge of SEO stuff, but is it possible to make outdoorreporting do nicely for search term: _________ (state) outdoor reports

Since I have "outdoorreport" can the "ing" not matter so much cuz i got the rest of the word in tact?

outdoorreport.com is for sale... might be worth checking the price. I think both versions are pretty brandable. Maybe even the 'ing' version is better for you as there is something on the 's' version and people might be confusing you with that.

Question;

Anyone have any suggestions for sites that sell decent Flash templates? I like what is on bludomain.com but looking for more options. My G searches result in spammy stuff, and Sitepoint doesn't have anything worthwhile listed.

(I want this for my personal domain just to clean up my 5 year old design.)

Flash ey? :-p

Well, I'm sure you can find that on themeforest.net

Again, I don't think it's that big of a deal either way since neither keyword is super popular.

Maybe not the right thread for this but it's related so...

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