List of Contents
- Why Vintage Domains?
- How Do You Do It?
- Why Categorize?
- Leveraging Vintage Domains – Case Study: Poetry Portal
Why Vintage Domains?
What you should know when deciding on where and what to buy in terms of domains is the fact that established domains can wield considerably more clout in terms of search engine rankings than pristine entities.
Of course, as a rule, a domain's most important feature is the name itself. However, beyond mere naming some additional critical – but often overlooked – factors come into play. Choosing vintage domains for your web properties rather than registering them from scratch can dramatically increase your marketing clout because they will aid you in:
This is where our newly launched DomainsForTraffic service comes in. Here, you can get vintage domains (many of them live), much sought-after domain names, etc. at highly competitive fixed prices. No bidding nightmares, no endless waiting loops, no tacky vendors who won't deliver.
Check Out Your 5 Greatest Advantages When Buying From Us
There are five major advantages you can always bank on when buying from us:
What you should know when deciding on where and what to buy in terms of domains is the fact that established domains can wield considerably more clout in terms of search engine rankings than pristine entities.
Of course, as a rule, a domain's most important feature is the name itself. However, beyond mere naming some additional critical – but often overlooked – factors come into play. Choosing vintage domains for your web properties rather than registering them from scratch can dramatically increase your marketing clout because they will aid you in:
- building customer trust and confidence;
- capitalizing on existing incoming links;
- boosting your search engine rankings.
This is where our newly launched DomainsForTraffic service comes in. Here, you can get vintage domains (many of them live), much sought-after domain names, etc. at highly competitive fixed prices. No bidding nightmares, no endless waiting loops, no tacky vendors who won't deliver.
Check Out Your 5 Greatest Advantages When Buying From Us
There are five major advantages you can always bank on when buying from us:
- No more costly haggling with reticent, greedy or even fraudulent domain owners!
- No more second-guessing domain snappers' integrity!
(Ever seen a good expiring domain name stolen from under your eyes by the very company you've paid to snap it for you? Happens all the time …) - No more time wasting and potentially highly expensive auctions bugged by an uncertain outcome to worry about!
- The most competitive prices in the entire industry, with bulk discounts and special promotional offers regularly available.
- Now, capturing your high-impact premium domains is as easy as Click-and-Go!
How Do You Do It?
The reason we can do it this way – and at such incredibly low fees – is simple: We're not domainers and don't want to be! Our core business is software development and SEO services for our clients. To this purpose, we maintain an extensive network of domains to leverage as linklove pumps to our campaign sites.
As campaigns mature or expire, we like to phase in new domains to replace existing ones that have either fulfilled their duty or aren't critical to our developed campaigns anymore.
Besides, we'll be toning down client SEO and SEM services soon to re-focus on software development. For this reason we're melting down parts of our inventory. Plus, even while these domains haven't yet been sold, they'll still be serving as a useful link resource, so we are winning either way – and so in fact can you.
Because while we do, of course, want to turn a profit from this venture (after all, we're no charity organization…), we don't have to up the ante by charging extravagant prices as most professional domainer businesses do: It's not our mainstay and we'll actually be making money either way.
You see, typical domain dealer outfits are perfectly aware that they're playing a number game – they will never be able to sell their entire inventory at the exorbitant prices most of them are charging. Instead, every domain actually sold at such a price must subsidize hundreds of others, unsellable entities that essentially constitute only so much dead wood.
By contrast, we don't feature any such “dead wood” domains in our portfolio; nor do we have to cross-subsidize them in order to play the old “my inventory is larger than your inventory” game.
In any case, what you'll see being offered at DomainsForTraffic is merely a fraction of our overall portfolio. (And no, the others aren't currently up for sale, so don't ask!)
The reason we can do it this way – and at such incredibly low fees – is simple: We're not domainers and don't want to be! Our core business is software development and SEO services for our clients. To this purpose, we maintain an extensive network of domains to leverage as linklove pumps to our campaign sites.
As campaigns mature or expire, we like to phase in new domains to replace existing ones that have either fulfilled their duty or aren't critical to our developed campaigns anymore.
Besides, we'll be toning down client SEO and SEM services soon to re-focus on software development. For this reason we're melting down parts of our inventory. Plus, even while these domains haven't yet been sold, they'll still be serving as a useful link resource, so we are winning either way – and so in fact can you.
Because while we do, of course, want to turn a profit from this venture (after all, we're no charity organization…), we don't have to up the ante by charging extravagant prices as most professional domainer businesses do: It's not our mainstay and we'll actually be making money either way.
You see, typical domain dealer outfits are perfectly aware that they're playing a number game – they will never be able to sell their entire inventory at the exorbitant prices most of them are charging. Instead, every domain actually sold at such a price must subsidize hundreds of others, unsellable entities that essentially constitute only so much dead wood.
By contrast, we don't feature any such “dead wood” domains in our portfolio; nor do we have to cross-subsidize them in order to play the old “my inventory is larger than your inventory” game.
In any case, what you'll see being offered at DomainsForTraffic is merely a fraction of our overall portfolio. (And no, the others aren't currently up for sale, so don't ask!)
Why Categorize?
These days, search engine optimization isn't merely about stuffing plenty of keywords and synonyms onto your web pages. Information retrieval technology (IRT) and Computational Linguistics (CL) have come a long way in determining any given text's content even without significant keyword densities to inform the process.
Some cues in point are Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), Theme Vector Analysis and diverse spam detection patents registered by Google, Yahoo! and MSN staff, etc. – technologies and algorithms we cannot cover here in any depth.
To cut a long story short: The more focused your web sites are, the better in terms of achievable search engine rankings. Of course, in actual reality, it's a whole lot more complicated than that, but as an overall rule of thumb you'll be well advised to keep a very tight ship regarding what you're featuring on whichever sites of yours.
E.g. if you're promoting both Caribbean cruise discounts and sports memorabilia, be sure to keep them on separately focused web sites – and take care to assign the appropriate domain names to each. Whether this is actually better for your marketing in itself may be subject to debate, but it's certainly a lot more powerful in regards to search engine positioning.
To this day, having relevant keywords in your domain names can help you get your sites indexed and ranked faster and better. No, it's no magic bullet for all your ranking aspirations – but it certainly can considerably help the search engines in determining what your site is about in the first place. And obviously, anything that helps the search engines will be yours to leverage!
So in an ideal world you'll 1) purchase a relevant domain with a 2) vintage status and 3) build an equally relevant web site on it with lots of good, unique and targeted content to achieve best results. And while we cannot do the latter for you, we can indeed help you cover factors #1 and #2 in this equation!
These days, search engine optimization isn't merely about stuffing plenty of keywords and synonyms onto your web pages. Information retrieval technology (IRT) and Computational Linguistics (CL) have come a long way in determining any given text's content even without significant keyword densities to inform the process.
Some cues in point are Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), Theme Vector Analysis and diverse spam detection patents registered by Google, Yahoo! and MSN staff, etc. – technologies and algorithms we cannot cover here in any depth.
To cut a long story short: The more focused your web sites are, the better in terms of achievable search engine rankings. Of course, in actual reality, it's a whole lot more complicated than that, but as an overall rule of thumb you'll be well advised to keep a very tight ship regarding what you're featuring on whichever sites of yours.
E.g. if you're promoting both Caribbean cruise discounts and sports memorabilia, be sure to keep them on separately focused web sites – and take care to assign the appropriate domain names to each. Whether this is actually better for your marketing in itself may be subject to debate, but it's certainly a lot more powerful in regards to search engine positioning.
To this day, having relevant keywords in your domain names can help you get your sites indexed and ranked faster and better. No, it's no magic bullet for all your ranking aspirations – but it certainly can considerably help the search engines in determining what your site is about in the first place. And obviously, anything that helps the search engines will be yours to leverage!
So in an ideal world you'll 1) purchase a relevant domain with a 2) vintage status and 3) build an equally relevant web site on it with lots of good, unique and targeted content to achieve best results. And while we cannot do the latter for you, we can indeed help you cover factors #1 and #2 in this equation!
Leveraging Vintage Domains – Case Study: Poetry Portal
Date of report: 2005-05-14
Website: PoetryPortal.net
Domain registered on: 2005-05-03
Proxied: Yes
Recommended for: Blog + Books + Education + Entertainment + Fantasy + Generic + Lexical + Social + Vintage
Pre-launch policy: Following registration, domain was kept live with a generic “Welcome to poetryportal.net” index page sans outgoing or internal links, navigation, etc. No further content was deployed before final launch.
Website launch: The website proper was launched as a Wordpress blog on 2007-05-02. Average number of postings was appr. 10 per day.
Link building: Link building commenced on 2007-05-08 as follows –
Note: These were dynamic links placed entirely on weblogs. I.e. they did not stay in static mode on the respective blogs' index pages but were pushed down and off onto the next archive page as fresh postings by other parties were consecutively uploaded.
This implies that the links alone cannot be held responsible for the ranking results listed below as their respective PR bleeding value a) was shared by 9 other, competing links per index page, and b) was in effect only temporarily until the posting including the link had been pushed into the archive.
PageRank™ (index page): PR 0 per 2007-05-14
Rankings per: 2007-05-14
(all search terms/keywords without quotes)
Days since launch: 12
Google
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry portal – pos. #1 + #2 out of appr. 1,160,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: poetry portal – pos. #5 out of appr. 1,530,000.
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Search phrase + ranking: cash poetry contest – pos. #9 out of appr. 1,090,000.
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Search phrase + ranking: hard cash poetry contest – pos. #1 + #2 out of appr. 1,150,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry contest – pos. #1 out of appr. 1,080,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry – pos. #26 out of appr. 11,200,000.
See screenshot here.
Note: At the time of this analysis, Google had indexed a total of only 22 pages (out of 133) of the website.
Yahoo!
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry portal – pos. #7 out of appr. 556,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: poetry portal – pos. #37 out of appr. 4,500,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: hard cash poetry contest – pos. #12 out of appr. 714,000.
See screenshot here.
Note: Seeing that Yahoo! had only indexed 4 pages (out of 133) of this website at the time of this checkup, the above results can positively be rated “good/above average”.
Conclusion: The above results seem to confirm the commonly held view in the SEO community that, all other factors being equal, vintage domains indeed enjoy a significant advantage in terms of pushing rankings. At time of writing there is no “sandbox effect” whatever discernible.
While the documented search phrases cannot be rated as “extremely competitive” by today's standards, their actual degree of competitetiveness is far from trivial either. Moreover, the sheer speed (less than two weeks!) with which these results were achieved is quite dramatic.
This clearly demonstrates the value of opting for our traffic pulling vintage domains to leverage all your search marketing efforts!
Date of report: 2005-05-14
Website: PoetryPortal.net
Domain registered on: 2005-05-03
Proxied: Yes
Recommended for: Blog + Books + Education + Entertainment + Fantasy + Generic + Lexical + Social + Vintage
Pre-launch policy: Following registration, domain was kept live with a generic “Welcome to poetryportal.net” index page sans outgoing or internal links, navigation, etc. No further content was deployed before final launch.
Website launch: The website proper was launched as a Wordpress blog on 2007-05-02. Average number of postings was appr. 10 per day.
Link building: Link building commenced on 2007-05-08 as follows –
- 2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 4 site
- 2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 3 site
- 2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 2 site
- 2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 4 site
- 2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 4 site
- 2007-05-09 – 1 link from PR 1 site
- 2007-05-10 – 1 link from PR 5 site
- 2007-05-10 – 1 link from PR 4 site
- 2007-05-10 – 1 link from PR 4 site
- 2007-05-11 – 1 link from PR 3 site
- 2007-05-11 – 1 link from PR 5 site
- 2007-05-12 – 1 link from PR 4 site
- 2007-05-12 – 1 link from PR 4 site
- 2007-05-12 – 1 link from PR 5 site
- PR5: 4 link(s) (28.57%)
- PR4: 7 link(s) (50.00%)
- PR3: 2 link(s) (14.29%)
- PR2: 1 link(s) (7.14%)
Note: These were dynamic links placed entirely on weblogs. I.e. they did not stay in static mode on the respective blogs' index pages but were pushed down and off onto the next archive page as fresh postings by other parties were consecutively uploaded.
This implies that the links alone cannot be held responsible for the ranking results listed below as their respective PR bleeding value a) was shared by 9 other, competing links per index page, and b) was in effect only temporarily until the posting including the link had been pushed into the archive.
PageRank™ (index page): PR 0 per 2007-05-14
Rankings per: 2007-05-14
(all search terms/keywords without quotes)
Days since launch: 12
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry portal – pos. #1 + #2 out of appr. 1,160,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: poetry portal – pos. #5 out of appr. 1,530,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: cash poetry contest – pos. #9 out of appr. 1,090,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: hard cash poetry contest – pos. #1 + #2 out of appr. 1,150,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry contest – pos. #1 out of appr. 1,080,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry – pos. #26 out of appr. 11,200,000.
See screenshot here.
Note: At the time of this analysis, Google had indexed a total of only 22 pages (out of 133) of the website.
Yahoo!
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry portal – pos. #7 out of appr. 556,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: poetry portal – pos. #37 out of appr. 4,500,000.
See screenshot here.
Search phrase + ranking: hard cash poetry contest – pos. #12 out of appr. 714,000.
See screenshot here.
Note: Seeing that Yahoo! had only indexed 4 pages (out of 133) of this website at the time of this checkup, the above results can positively be rated “good/above average”.
Conclusion: The above results seem to confirm the commonly held view in the SEO community that, all other factors being equal, vintage domains indeed enjoy a significant advantage in terms of pushing rankings. At time of writing there is no “sandbox effect” whatever discernible.
While the documented search phrases cannot be rated as “extremely competitive” by today's standards, their actual degree of competitetiveness is far from trivial either. Moreover, the sheer speed (less than two weeks!) with which these results were achieved is quite dramatic.
This clearly demonstrates the value of opting for our traffic pulling vintage domains to leverage all your search marketing efforts!
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