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Category: Web promotion service

  • Domain Development Plans

    After 8+ years using SEO tools we arrived to the conclusion that most clients are not willing to buy and learn new complex tools, but they would be willing to purchase of services instead. This is the age of Instant Delivery, after all.
    For this reason we are puting together a series of plans that convert empty domains into Google-ranked, money-making, marketable sites.
    Creating quality content is possible, but requires a real writer. They charge about 15 cents per word, with standard quality. With our products, we can charge less than 8 cents per word.
    A valuable resource for websites is a script that provides interactive features: a blog, a forum, a news aggregator, a classified ad system or others. We can install any of those for a minimum value.
    The whole thing can be hosted and surveyed to avoid spam attacks in one of our servers, all with different IPs to avoid being marked as web spammers. We also monitor the web rankings and traffic, to ensure the search engines are not excluding the client’s site.

    Plan 1 – Small Site

    Setup

    Host the site in a Linux Server with 10 mb of space and 100 mb of monthly transfer
    Define Keywords (in collaboration with client) – Create a logo – Create 1000 keyword phrases to use along the site – Create 100 content pages with original text – Install a script for content management – Create a sitemap and a Google Webmaster account to manage it – Submit to 50 directories

    Maintenance
    Hosting – Monitor legitimacy of traffic and Google ranking – Write 300 words per month

    Cost: U$D 300 and U$D 30 per month

    See our Domain Development Plans for more details and options.

  • Technology Transfer by means of SEO, Web 2.0 and conventional web tools

    The author is completing a methodology to be sold to Universities as part of a Technology Transfer Program.

    There will be a Consulting Marketplace, with all possible categories to help classify the offers and demands, and to allow efficient matching of problem posers and problem solvers. Both companies looking for solutions and individuals offering services can find each other and become partners.
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  • My very naked special way to promote my ideas

    I just released my ebook “Naked Business Proposals”.  A freeware version can be downloaded at my site. A paid version can be obtained paying $39 .


    The  book has 40 business ideas that I created and intend to take to the market. Most of them are Web projects, each one based on a different subject or business model. 5 or 6 are health related, and the rest cover most fields. I have the concept and the technical elements to carry them out, but not the financing.

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  • Investing in Domains: revenue thru Adsense – How much and when

    Investing in Domains in these days more profitable than putting the money in bonds, stocks or any other financial instruments. Of couse, this is November 2008 and the markets are quite upset. My view is that they will come back to almost normal in a month or two. In the mean time, Domain Development is a very good alternative.

    Since I started DomainGrower.com I am trying to predict how a domain will perform, depending on its name, the intended market, and the investment the owner is ready to do. Every domainer wants to make sure the investment will be highly profitable, and they ask about Google Ranking, Traffic, Adsense revenue, maintenance cost, increased domain-site value and finally, profit.

    I am not able at this point to provide exact projections or a formula. However, I have now a pretty good idea of how the domain can grow and how much will return.

    Very good domains convert visits into sales at 1% or more. This is quite unusual, but sometimes we see it. When your domain does not sell any particular item, just adsense clicks, the conversion rate can be 0.5% and be very good. It is also important to assess the quality and quantity of the traffic. If your visitors are real estate investors ready to buy expensive property, the clicks will be very valuable. Maybe U$D 40 or 50.

    On the other hand, if they are poor Hispanic teenagers looking for free music or porn, their clicks will be much less valuable, maybe $ 0.03.

    My advice would be to focus on a niche audience, providing some free service that could mean value for them. Adsense revenues will help pay the bills.

    After that, you can start thinking into selling some valuable items. As your audience grows you can find new demanded fields where you can offer quality contents. At that point, maybe 6 months after start, you will jump from red to black numbers. In a year, the increased value of your site will be also reflected in the domain name value.

    Ask us about the value of your existing domain or developed site, and listen to our domain growing suggestions.

  • Support for purchasers of our GGG software

    The GGG (Great Gateway Generator) project was born in 2002 as a gateway page generator. Over the years there were 2 spinoff softwares: Keyword Thief (a keyword retrieving spider) and Synonymizer (a content generator). There are also some beta-stage PHP scripts that complemented the main product: Octopus Link Quadrangulator, Search Engine Optimized FAQ System, and Delinker.

    Over the years we collected several testimonials from customers who succeeded in improving their SE rankings using GGG, and we used it to provide service to our customers. Several buyers requested special features and appointed custom programming from us. Most of those improvements were incorporated into the products.

    We suddenly realized that the gateway pages WERE NOT the reason for the good ranking results obtained with GGG… Something else was, and the links had something to do with it. Thus, the product should might be renamed from Gateway Generator into “Optimized Site Generator”, “Website Ranking Enhancer” or something like that. The new name would also reflect the fact that the product did not rely on Black Hat techniques, like gateway pages.

    The many changes in the Google algorithm have not affected the ranking power of GGG. However, there is a need in a strategy change. Very large projects are no longer acceptable, because the sudden increase in pages and links is seen as unnatural by the Search Engines. Slow but permanent site growth is now required. In GGG, that means periodically adding more domains or directories as secondary hosts holding random pages.

    The other change in Google is related to subtle penalization of domains that do not follow some hidden guidelines, like “No Content Duplication” and “No Bad Neighbourhood Linking”. For that, we are developing special tests that set off the alarm before having the offensive pages indexed.

    Having said this, we admit that we never completed an extensive testing on the optimal settings of the GGG Projects, the minimal and maximal values for keywords, domains and pages, and the limits for safe operation without getting penalization.

    At this point we have 3 goals:

    – create an effective communication channel for users of GGG. At this point, I publish the results of the Web Ranking Experiments in this public blog. However, the most critical info will be mailed to paid subscribers of the future Page Generators Newsletter.

    – release GGG 4.0 in no more than 3 months.

    – offer a Website Ranking Enhancer service for those who do not have the time and patience to obtain the new software, create the contents and upload the pages. We will use the latest GGG, Synonymizer and Keyword Thief, plus all the knowledge on optimized page generation that we have collected and keep collecting.

    – run a permanent Testing System for our GGG pages, in order to be aware of the best site settings according to Google, and to provide the best possible service to our customers.

    – acquire more hosting services with different IPs, in order to host our pages without loss of ranking value.

    For all those web promoters out there that want to enhance their web rankings, we announce different service packages in this site.

  • Detection of Google Domain Penalization

    Sometimes the effort we make to position a website is fruitless, and the client and the SEO wonder why.
    A full penalization is obvious: the website disappears from the search engine under every keyword, even under its own domain name. It won’t have a Google PageRank, not even zero. And it is common for a domain banned from Google to rank perfectly well in Yahoo and the other search engines, more lenient penalizers.
    Nevertheless, partial penalization is hard to detect. The website has a worst ranking than it should, and there is no way to know why or for how long.
    A good website and link strategy analysis can suggest some of the exclusion reasons, and the measures to be taken. However, even after asking and begging the search engine for forgiveness, a response could take months. The best thing to do is to rapidly create a new site with similar content.
    To be sure the best is to run the Penalization Test. It involves selecting a group of uncommon keywords, or even made-up ones. For example, the Antolineck family. Its members are Gualter Antolineck. Serap Antolineck, Rupert Antolineck, Torib Antolineck and Egbert Antolineck. The name and last name of each brother must appear in the URL and in the Title, and once in the page body under the H1 header.

    5 brothers

    We create one page for each brother, hosted in each tested domain. We also create a sitemap in an independent well ranked domain pointing to each brother. Something like: “The Antolineck family is composed by (Gualter link), (Serap link), (Rupert link), (Egbert link), (Torib link).”
    That’s it. After a couple of weeks we will see the results. We will search Google for every brother, and register the rankings. And if we search for Antolineck, every indexed page will appear, ordered by the real positioning value of each domain. This value is not necessarily the same that Google’s PageRank.
    For this example I used a made-up last name, completely absent in search engines, for clearer results. However, the test can be performed under less common but existent words, say 1000 results. In this way the search is more natural and detects the -30 or -100 penalizations (descending 30 or 100 results in any search).

    Are the domains penalized? We will soon see. Will the domains be penalized because of a test? There is no breaking of the S.E. rules here.

    penalized brothers

    I plan to repeat the test periodically with my own and my client’s domains, because if a penalization occurs I need to instantly be aware of it and fix whatever it is that I did wrong. The test is also open to individual SEO webmasters who want to share the data.

    Ask a SEO-focused webmaster to position your site. Webmasters today are quite specialized, and the guy that designs, programs, writes and hosts, does not necessarily get you a good ranking…

  • Integral Domain Development Service

    We are launching an integral service for Domain Development. It is a standard Web Design and Web Promotion campaign, including:

    • Domain
    • Hosting
    • Design
    • Optimized WordPress blog with all the SEO plugins
    • 20 weekly postings with original content (modified by me, from the web)
    • Submission to search engines and directories
    • Guarranteed Top Ten position for some (uncommon) keyword or money back

    You will see it advertised as:

    INVEST IN VIRTUAL REAL ESTATE, THE 2008 GOLD RUSHSECURE A TOP RANKING IN THE SEARCH ENGINES

    DOMAINS ARE MORE VALUABLE AS THEY ARE LONGER ALIVE

    It can be used for:

    • Personal Marketing –> get a blog to promote yourself as an employee, consultant, politician or whatever.
    • Idea Marketing
    • Regional Real Estate Marketing –> for Real Estate companies that already have an institutional website, but desire to strengthen their position in a specific region.
    • Small Business Marketing
    • Individual Product Marketing –> for large companies that already have an institutional website, but desire to build traffic on a single product.
    • Niche Marketing

    By the way, look in Google for Domain Development Service , and this DomainGrower.com site is 1st among 12,400,000.

    Prices can divided into 3 ranges:

    • Standard 300-400 U$D
    • Intense 600-800
    • Full Effort 1900-2500

    Ask us about it!

  • Site-specific stop words in Google: what they tell us about the indexation quality

    This is the 4th article in the Googleometry Project Series.

    Saturation is usually defined as the number of indexed pages in a website. However, supplemental results can be a significant part of the indexed pages, with no ranking value whatsoever. So, a deeper analysis of saturation and indexed pages is needed.

    We define 3 kinds of poorly indexed pages:

    – Foreign Pages: pages not assigned to any known language, so it show only if the searcher uses “all the Web” in the Language Preferences.

    – Pages non associated to keywords: the only appear in the listings when you request site:domain.com, but they have no keywords associated with them. So, they are useless.

    – Pages in the Reduced Indexation Set. Those pages are shown when a Stop Word appears in the search query. This indexation is probably limited to the page Title alone.
    We researched the effect of combined searches such as:

    site:domain.com keyword1 OR keyword2

    Experiments were performed along several days, but data sets need to be obtained in the same day, because there is some day-to-day variation.

    We found these consistent indicators of website indexation quality:

    – number of pages within English filtered pages, versus pages for all the Web. This setting is modified in the Preferences section of Google. Google not only supplies English pages, but also quality-filtered pages. Most pages in any Web search are discarded in the English-only search, although they are in perfect English. These works equally for Spanish or French pages.

    For some reason, the English searches tend to place the Supplemental results inside a link, the well known: “In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries….”, while the Web searches directly add the Supplementals at the end of the regular organic results. 

    Stop Words are specific for each site.

    Ask us for specific experiments that you want us to run…

  • Life imitates Digg

    Ideas have a complex, little-known dynamics. As humans do, they are born, grow, reproduce and die. In the struggle to survive they fiercely fight other ideas. Being slim, original, useful and fertile are good attributes for them, while complexity, similarity to others and poor expression are forces that keep ideas in the obscurity.

    We idea-marketers are in charge of dressing-up ideas and send them thru the appropriate channels into the battlefield. Digg.com is one of the preferred channels, because of the wide exposure for winners. In addition to sending my fighters to Digg, I optimize them for Google and Yahoo. In the Web business that activity is known as SEO, search engine optimizing. To advance the comparison, getting a good position in the search engines is like a long tournament between 2 knights, where horse, armour and other weaponry play a heavy role. Digg is  more like box: only pure idea strength leads to victory, in no more than one hour.

    Speed is critical in our times. Today, the 100 Year War would be a 100 Minute War.  A Digg posting titled “Let’s Declare War on Britain (or France, or Iran)”, will soon get a couple of diggs with several buries, and that would be the end of it. A huge bullet saving.

    It happens that many ideas in Real Life, as in Digg, are faced more often with indifference than with opposition. If my boxer is good but unknown, he will probably never reach Madison Square Garden. On the other hand, a John Doe pushed by Don King will get immediate exposure.

    Digg has the “celebrity effect” built into his algorithm, privileging the known, successful coaches. Once you are famous, you blow your nose and you are in the news. If you are a Top Digger, your crap will always be noticed. It is a combination of good diggs and buries, good submissions and good friends, what gets Digg fame. As any politician knows, if you vote for the proper guys, and against the bad ones, and you have many powerful friends, you get to the top. Again, life follows Digg…

    Do box promoters ever fix matches? Do actresses ever sleep with a producer to get a role? Quite likely.

    Do Web Promotion agencies ever force a Digg story to the top, using Black Hat techniques? Also true.

    Black Hat, in SEO terms, means doing what the search engines, or Digg, do not want you to do…

    In both lives, virtual and real, those with a decent budget and a good manager have an edge against the immense competition.

  • Winners of the Innovar Contest 2007

    I wrote an article about the winners of the Innovation contest in Argentina, with images and a brief description of each invention.

    http://www.domaingrower.com/innovar-contest.htm

    Since it was full with the photos I preferred to publish it as a separate page, with tables, in this website.

    I also submitted the article to Digg.com, to see if an original article with quality contents (not mine) could climb to a decent ranking in Digg.

    The poor results confirm that you need a little “push” from paid voters in order to get decent exposure in such a croweded unspecific social network.