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Re: From Home Office to Office Space

BryanGray — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:07:22 -0000

I do have a home but our neighborhood has pretty strict rules which includes no storage sheds.

Re: From Home Office to Office Space

Adriana — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:54:19 -0000

Bryan, do you own your home? If so, you could add a storage shed to your backyard, wire it so you have lighting, heating, and cooling, and then for the cost of one year of your current office, you can still be close to home & family, but out of the way enough to be able to concentrate on work. You'd also more than likely increase the value of your home. HTH.

Re: How To Mitigate The Impact Of An Affiliate Bottom Feeder

buchin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:01:01 -0000

Hi,
I agree with you. We should host our affiliate or landing page differently each others. This makes our I unique and good.
I myself recommend hostgator, MT is expensive.

Re: How To Mitigate The Impact Of An Affiliate Bottom Feeder

kris — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:11:19 -0000

I hate to hear stuff like this. I wish these people would raise their ethics. If you would like a 6 month ad space on my blog or a blogroll link, feel free to drop by the site and let me know. Good luck and best wishes on increasing your profits. Nice article.

- Kris

Re: How I Turned $800 into $192,000 and counting Flipping Domains

Fajja — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:45:51 -0000

Very good read, would be nice to make those kind of sums!

Re: How I Turned $800 into $192,000 and counting Flipping Domains

Vincent — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:09:59 -0000

am impressed! it was a lesson.

Re: How I Turned $800 into $192,000 and counting Flipping Domains

Carter — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:07:36 -0000

Great Story Congrats!

Re: Ad Testing: Don’t Leave Money On The Table

Domainer — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:30:19 -0000

Ok, I'm convinced. too bad it's so damn dull compared to domaining or site layout!

Re: Google Search Engine Localization and the .US ccTLD

Namehugger — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:25:43 -0000

well, if you want to make sure - you can always geotarget your .com, .net, .org or .info to the US. Although i'm like you, i think these gTLD's are already considered targeted to the big US of A.
and - if this is the case - i'd rather keep my .com over a .US - with its existing US ranking and also solid results to my rest-of-world searches (Turkey, Indonesia, China, New Zealand etc). They never cease to surprise me.

Re: The Art of Bragging

Domainer — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:00:20 -0000

subtle bragging ("that probably doesn’t make more than $100/day") indeed!
nice post

Re: Keyword Domains: The SEO Trump Card

obsess — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:52:04 -0000

nice! i wouldn't have thought to hand reg MySpaceLayouts.org - which shows my .com bias. Very impressive.

Re: How I Turned $800 into $192,000 and counting Flipping Domains

BryanGray — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:58:49 -0000

Thanks Jim. Good point. I'd like to add there are quite a few people that have been in the game less time than easily have me beat. It's all about taking action (and calculated risks).

Re: How I Turned $800 into $192,000 and counting Flipping Domains

Jim — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:34:17 -0000

Bryan

As a NP member, I had seen your sale threads. Your story is really inspiring for other domainers.

But really want to tell you, even those with more knowledge and skill in domain industry not all achieved same, means some good luck are also with you along with your good effort.

Best Wishes

Re: Best of the Web Affiliate Program Does it Right

Russell — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:13:17 -0000

Good point about people not realizing its an affiliated link since there is no parameters or redirect, hadn't thought of that benefit.

I know I am usually weary of a recommendation if it is accompanied by an affiliate link.

Re: Best of the Web Affiliate Program Does it Right

BryanGray — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:24:22 -0000

Great comment Russell!

After further review I stand corrected and feel like a bit of a dunce on this one. BOTW does use cookie tracking on their side. Ughhh...

With that said I do like the idea of not having an affiliate ID as part of their default link. One less thing to get hijacked and one less shady url that visitors have to think about before clicking. I should also note that they do offer an affiliate ID appended option if you do want to use the program in another manner such as a widget.

I also agree that this method does favor the program. It's genius for gaining massive link juice which only fuels the appeal of their product specifically.
Of course, my sitewide links do carry the nofollow tag.

Re: How I Turned $800 into $192,000 and counting Flipping Domains

BryanGray — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:15:59 -0000

Thanks for the compliment Russell. Glad you liked it. ;)

Re: Best of the Web Affiliate Program Does it Right

Russell — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:06:31 -0000

The only one who benefits from this as far as I see is Best of the Web, for receiving the extra link juice.

1) Cookies would still be required to remember where that visitor originally came from so this doesn't really apply to the cookie issue. It's simply a difference between URL parameter vs referrer tracking.

2) Browsers don't always report the correct referrer, from my tests with this well over 10% were incorrectly reported as direct type-in.

3) It prevents anyone from advertising off site such as in widgets, SEs, other sites they own.

4) If malware can block/intercept cookies it would be just as easy to spoof referrers.

As an affiliate I would be very suspicious about the motives behind this type of tracking.

Re: How I Turned $800 into $192,000 and counting Flipping Domains

Russell — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:46:14 -0000

Very inspiring post. Your blog is quickly becoming one of my favorites.