Joe Nocera writes …
A few days ago, Dan Savage had his lawyer send a nine-page, 4,000-word letter to the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Mr. Savage, 59, runs Sourcetool.com, a business-to-business Web site that acts as a directory, listing — and ranking — hundreds of thousands of companies that sell industrial products.
Like many Internet entrepreneurs, Mr. Savage built his business model around Google when he started it in late 2005. Using Google’s AdWords program, he planned to make bids on specific search terms — “ball bearings,” say — that would ensure that a Sourcetool ad would be placed high on the right-hand side of the Google page whenever someone searched for places to buy ball bearings. That’s how paid search works.
Talking Business - Stuck in Google’s Doghouse - NYTimes.com
Advertising, Google, Site Development
Kyle Eslick writes …
Wow, is it just me, or can Brian Gardner read minds? As most of you know, I maintain a large portfolio of domain names as sort of a hobby. A couple of weeks ago I invested in a couple of Geo domains with plans to develop them into portals for their respective city niches. With the focus of the internet continuing to become more and more local, I think these types of domains are the best way to invest money online right now.
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Site Development
Rick Latona writes …
We’ve been building, SEO optimizing and markting our domains as mini-sites for a couple of years now. I hate parking and most of you know this.
When we build a site we put custom written content on it and then do link building on the domain so that Google and the other major search engines will feel it is relevent. The end-result is that the names get listed in the search engines and have rankings that continue to improve.
What we’ve put together is a simple formula and an asembly line process that can quickly and cheaply allow us to take any domain, slap a simple design on it, 5 pages of custom text, and a day of intense link building all at an affordable price.
aeiou.com is now live. Mini-sites done the right way, here’s why…
Site Development
By ABHA BHATTARAI
Published: July 29, 2008
Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a Web site that was “very, very poorly done,” and begged the owners to sell it to him. He then redesigned the site, added advertising and drove up traffic. Last December, he sold it for $173,000.
Find an Undervalued Asset. Fix It Up. Flip It. (Now It’s Web Sites, Not Houses) - NYTimes.com
Site Development
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: July 21, 2008
For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company, on his Web site, MacRumors.com.
It had been a hobby — albeit a time-consuming one — while Dr. Kim earned his medical degree. He kept at it as he completed his medical training and began diagnosing patients’ kidney problems. Dr. Kim’s Web site now attracts more than 4.4 million people and 40 million page views a month, according to Quantcast, making it one of the most popular technology Web sites.
My Son, the Blogger - An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors - NYTimes.com
News, Site Development