Entrepreneur Magazine Slips Up

Blog worthy blog applications don’t reach millions of downloads an hour by accident. WordPress has thousands of sites just for free template downloads, because so many people use Wordpress it has created a WordPress accessory traffic market. Many online domainers can feel confident they can easily develop a name from a Wordpress typo or other related site, just due to the constant global end user churn in WordPress blog site development.

Anyone using the blog engines and CMS managers knows that pretty sites are a result of design, templates, plugins, taste, content and more. To illustrate the case with one clueless website client is an eye opener. Scores of Joomla users (like myself) are very happy with the results we get. No mention in the article of the Joomla polls, sponsor tools, banner and ad plug and play, or news flash and other nifty publishing tools are made.

The article lists Posterous.com as a leading CMS which I had never heard of and never used. WordPress and TypePad were listed as thought they were competitors of equal rank, a fact every blogger knows is false. Wordpress is global because it is plug and play and very SEO capable. Drupal is a horribly unwieldy and the best successor to Joomla, DotNetNuke, is not even mentioned. To say that Joomla is on a “power par” with Drupal is laughingly uninformed. Except this is Entrepreneur magazine.

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Sports Name Fiesta in 2010

Look for sports TLD domination this year, says an insider. Sports domains in 2010 will become more valuable as with all quality, generic domains.  With more and more people/companies  understanding the need for a converging quality domain, the solidifying effort to increase their brand and online presence becomes more efficient. Sports fulfills the need for fresh dynamic content and a solid audience searching daily for new results.

If there are sports domains that include year numerals in the domain name, those domains have a shorter ’shelf life’ of value.  But promotion can make the years matter.  Witness the success of all the Nostradamus 2010 domain search result traffic. Hybrids of key niches, like gaming and sports, take place with a site like www.Gamingwizz.com.

This insider goes on to say “Obviously, the shorter, commerce related, and easiest to remember/type are the top names to go after.  The best thing with sports is the amount of fans around the world with so many different sports and teams.  All in all, there is pretty good potential in 2010 for sports niche domains.”

Bing has SEO Fling, Twitted on Facebook

 

 

Boxing Hero Pacquiao Takes Yahoo Trophy

Filipino demos can’t get enough of boxing hero Manny Pacquiao. According to search engine Yahoo!, “Manny Pacquiao” was the most searched term in the Philippines for 2009, edging out the late democracy President Corazon Aquino who came in a close second.

According to search engine Yahoo!, “Manny Pacquiao” was the most searched term in the Philippines for 2009, edging out the late democracy Preident  Corazon Aquino who came in a close second. Domains and sites  like “www.boxinghero.com” make development for sports boxing a reliable source of traffic from demos like this.

According to Yahoo the Phillipines’s search results emerged from an estimated 150 million online searches this year for the Philippines alone.

Yahoo!, which has a search engine function,  released graphic data showing “Manny Pacquiao” garnering roughly 25 percent of all searches in the Philippines. This was slightly higher than the number of online queries for “Cory Aquino” which hit almost one-fourth of the total.

This was followed by queries for Francis Magalona, Ondoy, Dionisia Pacquiao, Shalani Soledad, Eraserheads, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines, Mar and Korina and the Philippine Basketball Association.

“What is unique to the Philippines is that the boundaries between entertainment, politics and sports intertwine simultaneously, reflective of Philippine culture,” Yahoo! said in an e-mailed reply to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The Yahoo Phillipines search engine data list was led by commercial model Maricar Reyes, who was involved in a controversial sex video with suspended cosmetic surgeon Hayden Kho.

The online searches done by people who accessed the Internet from mobile devices such as mobile phones, however, had a slightly different flavor, evidence perhaps of the different demographics of mobile web users. (So perhaps dot-Mobi isn’t dead!!!!)