Google Wants Your TV Names

There is a burgeoning hybrid opportunity for Google and TV domain names. The possibilities for names that Google can use, or that customers of home televisions with Google search capacity can see, opens up a new range for end users for websites, portals, and TV calendar listings. Names with “TV”,3D, set, “watch”, screen, home, channel, and other tech keywords are in demand.

Video plays a new role in ever more congruent SEO to domain name partnerships and value building online. Sites with “best of’ lists and video links will be fun home entertainment, family fun instead of programmed network shows stuffed with commercials. Websites composed of programmed TV viewing that families or niche watchers want can win the SEO wars. Nostalgia TV and cable viewing from video uploads and film segments has already made Hulu.com and Guba.com popular sites.

How does this change the business model for site development? Movie content makes search engine optimization the new driving force for website development. Articles and links to other TV based sites can also bring up the searchability quotient for these names and the sites behind them. Fansites becomes destination viewing with the new Google home TV site model. Your email list can start the home viewing wave and help get the word out.

This gives the SEO campaign for any TV name new legs. Given that entertainment is already a huge market for domainers and name auctions, and even deleting names and drop list auctions, domain developers should have at least one television name in the launch works with Google home-TV potential. Do fans want to blog or chat the shows while they watch? You bet they do. This is social TV networking.

Site managers and webmasters can formulate affiliate strategy to reach the home consumer. As home television and computer driven apps converge, a website with video and Google SEO matrices plugged in, wins. Because home viewers can surf your YouTube channel and maybe move on to your site if the spirit moves them. The webmaster without YouTube sinks in the SERP.

Chrome TV-searched visits to your site could be the elusive end user your sites has been waiting for. Google-owned YouTube connected sites will have a little more depth in the Google SEO than random video sites. All those domainers holding TV names and HDTV names and 3D names, as well as the Dot-TV extension of any relevant television or big screen tech name, there is a new focus for your end users and resale customer buyers.

Yahoo Steers New Road Forward

Three years into the future, Yahoo Inc of Sunnyvale, California plans to be helming a company with the largest digital media content, search engine,  and communications business in the world. The three year roadmap of Yahoo under Carol Bartz was delivered by Chief Product Officer Blake Irving. The division between the projected goals of media and the concrete focus on products perhaps tells the tale.

Yahoo wants to be innovative, but has yet to master Twitter and Facebook. Yahoo News is trite and often misspelled, but Yahoo aims to keep people at its sites longer. Yahoo.com is stuffed with ads and Java code on loading, but it is strangely losing email customers to other vendors.Yahoo has middle ground presence in the domains business and its hosting offerings are not competitive among first tier web hosts, yet is splashes web hosting offers to bargoon domain sale buyers.

A fitting prescription to Yahoo’s vaulting ambitions might be Physician: heal thyself. The chief strengths that made Yahoo.com a leader, (remember sites by Homestead!) were its early adopter user base, frist to market search engine vibe, and broad free-Web appeal. Yahoo now suffers from Google-itis, the wish to be Google without harnessing its resources of business model. Yahoo is not aging well.

Yahoo intends to recapture search engine utility. Reality check to end users: When was the last time you searched Yahoo first? The SEO space is dominated by market leaders. Some might argue Google is already there, but Google has not entered the content space, and with the purchase of Associated Content, Yahoo has. The usual noise regarding Twitter and Facebook integration was heard.

Yes Google is global, a T-Rex of Internet monoliths. Yahoo was sort of the friendly Triceratops with the bristly head who was a herbivore but left a big footprint, as well. But Yahoo has suffered declining ad revenue and inroads of spam and email problems, and Gmail remains successful. Leaning on an Apple user base may also be a waste if the Windows 7 Phone takes off, because foremost on the “product runway” at Yahoo is Android apps.

But Yahoo doesn’t make or produce the consumer electronics it hypes. There are several other channels for consumer to go for that. With 17% market share, Yahoo’s web search engine is hardly the main attraction, now although it once was. The journalism of its home page leaves much to be desired, (part CNN and part OMG). Yahoo features are blogospheric in strength, with sports the best in a readability drilldown.

The only faintly new thing Yahoo is doing is fashioning a geo-specific Starbucks login page, (Which will still be heaps better than what Starbucks brews up).  Heading up Yahoo news this last weekend was how to save money at a Starbucks, an interesting marketing approach to a partner’s goods. But if Associated Content can groom its new model for Yahoo News, then supply-side content writers can enter the Yahoo journalism fray.

One spark at the end of a long tedious tunnel is Yahoo’s refreshed domain offer at $1.99 per dot-com name. Touted as a Small Business offering, the web hosting attached does approach the Godaddy similar pricing available at present. For hobby site makers and bloggers and one domain owners who never plan to go the third party development application route, this is a steal. But Godaddy’s Hosting Connection still rules those waves.

For domainers looking at the recent dot-com and renewal price markup, with a Yahoo $1.99 name their Paypal will say Yahoo! Although the renewal is $35, many Yahoo email users may prefer a short lightbulb-to-login web hosting and domaining click path. Full DNS control at Yahoo.com domains makes exporting to the hosting of your choice more smooth than before.

From the Crystal Ball: If Yahoo ever got their hands around the 99 cents domain coupon like Godaddy’s recent campaign, they would be looking at 5,000 new domain owners an hour looking for fresh content.Those are new email account holders, new Android holders looking to manage their websites or blog while in line for a latte. Starbucks is a partner, correct?

Developing those sites tutorials could be the pages that Yahoo wants ts readers to hang around at. And a limited time domain-establishing SEO content  package, with link wheeling advice and promotion tips, as well as material piped from Associated Content partners (on a select basis, of course) could bring Yahoo into the white-hot Internet domain development scene.

Attracta SEO Disappears from Hostgator

In a startling, development, this Hostgator customer was surprised to see the much-touted Attracta SEO tool disappear from the Cpanel overnight. Two accounts are/were doing very well there.The space in the SEO tool area has a free consultation offer unrelated to Attracta. The space in the featured “Free SEO” tools section has something called Boostability. I don’t remember Boostability being there before.

No message from Hostgator, regarding this nor any announcement as to the destiny of the account profiles with said service,was in the Hostagtor Cpanel interface. No alert was nigh, pending, forthcoming or in existence. The Attracta site is still up. Any idea what happened to the profiles and the work completed for our domain and site SEO accounts? Bueller? Bueller?

Pool Skim for Monday Sept. 27th

Deleting from the list today is a smattering of numericals and other domains. The name salad starts off with 1carrot.com and then progresses from there. This and 1dollarclick.com could bring some lettuce. The name 1nightnparis.com could be a bed and breakfast portal. 1stcollect.com could be a royalty site. 2010posters.com could be walled up.

The series 2012nflmockdraft.com through 1016nflmockdraft.com are dropping at Pool.com. A huge series of 24-7 names also drop. The domain 2minutecall.com could have staying power. The nom 3amtexts.com could have digital appeal. A series of 411- names also drop at Pool.com today. More at Pool.com.

Pool Skim for Sunday September 26th

Many exotic noms churning the shark infested bidding waters at Pool.com. Foaming at the top of the froth are the likely numericals. The domains 100 ItalianRecipes.com and 100MovieQuotes are born traffic magnets. the likely follow-up name 100quotes.com has quizzical potential. 123bids.com could be the store portal of tomorrow. 12monthcarlease.com could have a domainer in the driver’s seat.

The march of the 1800 number names commences tomorrow at Pool.com. The name set includes 1800files.com and many others. 1800chase.com, 800carkey.com, and 1800golfbag.com as well as 1800nyctaxi.com make geo and niche ideas come to mind. 1dollarbiz.com gives a lot of bang for the buck. The domain name 1roomlife.com could be a minicam video hit.

The nom url 1stopkid.com makes a domain shortstop out of a parenting search. And the sport name 2010-football.com could be a hyphenate traffic touchdown. The shorty domain 2-cp.com could also be a high scorer. The name 20dollargolf.com could be a gift site or a geo locator. Many, many 247 names on the pool.com list wave. Such as 247livemd.com. The domain 2cool4mail.com is a philosophy statement.

The url 300gas.com could be a buck saver in the neighborhood. The name 30minrecipes could take a half hour to resolve. The domain name 3daydeal.com could be a trifecta of domain value. the name 3-dpods.com could phone it in. The url 3gbike.com could be a dimensional cyclic name. A seris of 411 names fall from the Pool.com waves, 411bid.com among them. 411ww.com could be warcrafty, and 411hiv.com isn’t about the birds and the bees, specifically.

The name 4drealm.com is for domainer namer gamers. 4Fresno.com is geo specific. The name 55to.com could be speedy. 5rules.com is short and sweet. The domain 7daygames could mean a day of rest. 8000g.com is cryptic but memorable. 80day.com and 80web.com could be link mirrors. The site at 96tv.com could be a video site for nostalgia tubes.

More deleting names at the drop at Pool.com.

Domains Posting Big Numbers for Q4

Moving into the fourth quarter for 2010, domains are picking up velocity in the auction sector. Typing-test challenger url ipo-installment4.com collected a stunning $100,000 in recent bidding frenzy,  reports greatdomains.com. Outdoorliving.com bagged $68K and also shorty name cscm.com collected $20K and passed go. Environmental shocker blackocean.com swirled at $6K, that’s a bookmark to remember.

Even more action in the four figure rodeo kept wannabe domainers ogling the sales tally. Curiosity buy www.cocomama.com vended for 12,000 £ , that’s one to tell your kids about. Huge niche topper rawdiet.com collected a raw $10,000, tapping the green foods traffic happening  now online. Social possibilities abound with the big ticket name allhere.com sold for $9,999. And the positively MLB name buysteroids.org batted one outta the park for a cool hotdogging $10,000.

Pool Skim for Saturday Sept. 25th

The Pool waters are swimming with opportunities to be picked off by wary netters.

Backorders still possible on these names. Antbp.com could be the environmental hotsite of all BP haters for all time. Apple-faq.com and Apple-faqs.com could be very good but a copyright fight could also be in store. The domain name appzweb.com could be a very good link directory name. And 2014 green.com could be an outstanding blog portal with pre-programming to beat the band.

Numerical names as always have some special domain names coming up for the bid. 1-888-quoteline is a possible url. 1-800vote.com could be the pax populus of the Web. (or a survey site). The name 1800got2010.com could be cryptic but relevant through this year or for 2010 dated products ongoing. The domain 2010 laptop.com practically begs a bid just for the hybrid keywords alone. 21links.com could be an economic but interesting paid links portal.

More at Pool.com.

Intend.com today at Greatdomains.com auction valued by Valuate.com ONLY $5

I was  planning to bid on the domain, Intend.com at GreatDomains.com because the bid was just over $300 yesterday. The stats shows there are over 600 uniques last month. I was hoping to fetch it up in low x,xxx.

Then I looked at Valuate.com domain appraisal, it was only appraised at $5 for the domain , Intend.com .

It was a strange appraisal by Valuate.com. May be there was something wrong. I was thinking to bid upto around $3,000 but the domain auction ended for $6,000.

OnlineCollegeDegrees.com Sells Big for $22K

Get your wallets out, domainers are buying. The indications are good for developing education market and niche domain names again. The SEDO hot nom de jour was Online CollegeDegrees.com, sold for $22,800. This long but focal domain name will be successful capturing a huge and active traffic segment of both online services and education click and SEO eyeballs.

Also from the SEDO list, SwissTV.ch also headed the top European list of continental domains abroad. A domain movieshowtimes.com rang in $16K in change, and  visitnyc.com sold for just over $10K. Domain names such as modernspa.com sold for $5,5K and RussianTube.com vended at $5000. Sportsads.com sold for $3,000.

Go To Meeting Free Trial

I spotted the one month free trial on the pages of Entrepreneur for a service that i think many domainers are ready for. Although the coupon code “Entrepreneur” didn’t actually work when I tried to sign up at GoToMeeting.com, using no code worked fine. A credit card sign in was needed although no charge was taken.

I recommend GoToMeeting for online meetings where various parties from completely differing locations can group in on a meeting with serious telephony robustness and mute mode options. GoToMeeting.com is a nice  meetup point to have. For mobile employees, travelers, or exercise enthusiasts the meeting can happen with the touch of a cellphone or speakerphone button.

For domainers states or countries apart, and collaboration team members of personnel to communicate at once and contribute vision and ideas, such a resource is convenient and productive for all. Communicating verbally lets the whole team know who the players are. Individual project personnel can hook up later to share project ideas and continue the energy flow.

This is a great collaboration and project management value add. Now Ipad-convenient, the GoToMeeting means everyone from just getting out of the shower to walking the dog can attend the meeting on time. The web conferencing service is a nice tool for those of previously spoiled at workplaces with these kinds of perks. The webinar and training options also have a 30 day free trial, and webinars increase the profile and marketability of any venture greatly.

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