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September 14th, 2007

Hidden Gem on SnapNames

I just spotted a STOCK MARKET themed .COM domain on SnapNames that I believe has a market value in the low $xx,xxx ….

Can you get to it before me?

September 10th, 2007

Grey Hat SEO Tip to Game YouTube

YOUTUBE SEO YouTube captures about 14% of daily Internet traffic. Wouldn’t it be nice to grab a piece of the action? Here is a grey-hat trick to gaming YouTube’s “Top Viewed” and “Most Popular” section.

Step 1 – Make a YouTube Video
First off, the webmaster needs to make a video, that is also an ad for a website of their choice. The recommended software to use would be NERO which is a video making software. Make sure that there is no sound in this video at all, because this can interfere with Step 3.

Step 2 – Upload the Video
Upload the ad video to the YouTube. As many webmasters know this can take a large amount of time, so depending on length of the video the webmaster have produced. The webmaster will want to estimate then wait of uploading their YouTube video to around ten to fifty minutes wait time when uploading the webmasters ad video to YouTube.

Step 3 – Cloak the Video in an iFrame on a High Traffic Site
For this step, and for this trick to work, the webmaster need a high traffic website, almost every webmaster has one high traffic website in their control. What the webmaster does after the video ad is uploaded is imbed a zero by zero iFrame into the bottom of the webmasters high traffic website, then embed the webmasters YouTube Code into that invisible window on the bottom of the webmasters website this is what will increase the webmasters views because YouTube sees every impressions as a video view.

Step 4: Make Sure Everything Works
Make sure that the webmasters YouTube video is invisible. Check to make sure that the webmasters “views” on the webmasters ad YouTube video are increasing in number. Now all the webmaster has to do at this point is wait. Depending on what “high traffic” website the webmaster have, this can sky rocket the webmasters ad to the top of YouTube’s viewed list.

Step 5 – Build-Up Your YouTube “Honors”
An honor is something that the webmaster can be given for views comments and other records. After performing this the webmasters video will be placed in the top viewed this week and this month.This is only going to give the webmaster around 3 “Honors” , which will put the webmasters video ad on three separate top pages of YouTube. One way for the webmaster to get more honors is by chatting with other friends back and forth about the ad video by commenting through YouTube. This will give the webmaster the “most commented” honor which will put the webmaster on another front page of YouTube.

This will increase the webmasters traffic by thousands of unique page visitors a day. Totally free advertising rarely comes around in the webmaster world. But with this traffic generating advice any webmaster will start to see tons more traffic to his or her website.

September 7th, 2007

SnapNames Victory #2!

Just picked up another mortgage themed .NET domain for $450 off SnapNames!

The domain is long and lacks “brandable” value, but it IS a Keyword Matched domain, and I intend to develop it to get all the SEO boost out of the domain as possible.

I expect it will be rather painless to make back the $450 investment on this domain.

September 1st, 2007

PageRank Squatting: A Side Effect of Cybersquatting

Today I was trying to goto BoingBoing to kill some time, and I typed in boingboing.COM and oops, I got a parking page. (I didn’t realize that BoingBoing is actually boingboing.NET)

But this was no ordinary parking page… This crappy-ass Network Solutions parking page had a PageRank 5! How often do you see THAT?

So I fired up my SEO back-links tool to see where the PR was coming from.

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Wow! This domain was getting some killer link juice from really powerful sites, simply because they mistakenly linked to the .COM TLD instead of the .NET

And that’s not all. I fired up Compete to check out the traffic to boingboing.COM and wow, this dude gets massive traffic!

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My question is… Can the rightful boingboing.NET trademark their brand and file a complaint with WIPO to get their domain back?

August 27th, 2007

Matt Cutts is a SEO Gangster?

Spotted Matt Cutts on DomainTools blog throwing gang signs. Is Matt Cutts an SEO gangster? Sorry Jay, had to blot you out to make room for my jokes.

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Straight up G.

About DamnDomainer

I am an SEO professional from Los Angeles, CA. I work a day job as an in-house SEO for a large e-commerce site, but on the side, I develop my own web properties. In addition, I also do small contract jobs for an SEO company in Santa Monica.

I used to hate damn domainers because they took all the cool names, but if you can't beat them, join them!

As a self proclaimed SEOmainer, I am obsessed with the synergy between SEO and domaining, and I am determined to become the ultimate search marketer.