Archive for the ‘Internet Marketing’ Category

Really looking forward to speaking LIVE this morning at The Learning Annex Internet Marketing Expo and seeing Marc Ostrofsky who sold Business.com speak as well.

Join us if you are in NYC…..

The following domain names are either available for hand registration at the time of this post, or are pending delete and will be available shortly.

AllCigar.com
TunaBagel.com
VisitTheMall.com
MomFranchise.com
MySnowGuide.com
NYCityGuides.com
iTuneCoupon.com

With passion and an entreprenurial mind….these domains have potential.

@AndrewHazen

After a great night in NYC at a domainers meet-up, thanks again Elliot, I awoke this morning to a few inches of snow on the ground with another 8″ – 12″ to come….

As tradition has it, I check my blackberry before getting out of bed and began to see emails that asked if our Internet Marketing Company is open today…my first response is “Why, is the Internet down?” – I say that half-kidding because the mission of Prime Visibility is to “deliver extraordinary internet marketing services that exceed our clients expectations!”

Regardless of the weather, our eTail clients such as Lauren Hutton, Brother, Bagel Boss, MetroCandy, AllFreshSeafood, FadToys, etc. are all open for business regardless of the weather as well as clients like Lucille Roberts and the N9NE Group.  In fact, when the weather is bad more people are typically inside, at home, and on the Internet MORE….which is a BETTER time to market to them, increase PPC, send targeted emails and offers, etc., etc.

Now please DO NOT think for a moment that I do not care about the safety of the Prime Visibility team – I wholeheartedly do!  We are extremely fortunate enough to still operate, work and execute ANYWHERE we are so long as we have a computer/laptop and internet access….how great is that??  So while I am in the office this morning and I ain’t alone!  I feel good knowing that we are serving clients, thinking strategically about the weather and marketing and delivering on our mission to “deliver extraordinary internet marketing services that exceed our clients expectations!”

Have a great day and be safe!

Later today, Google is due to launch a social product that will compete with the currently popular social networks – Facebook and TwitterAs the Wall Street Journal reported, Gmail will get a new module that will stream media and status updates of online friends. This module sounds like a Gmail Labs feature which could be enabled or disabled by account holder’s choice.

The LA Times blog ran a good piece entitled “Would adding status updates mean Gmail is having a case of Twitter envy?”

Google has already enabled watching YouTube videos in Gmail Chat. Whatever the integration into Gmail would be like, there’s always a kill switch to bring the service back to normal.

Silicon Alley Insider is already calling the feature Google’s “Twitter-Killer.”

As a Long Islander and self-admitted domain addict, I have always had an interest in LongIsland.com owned by Invision. 

Recently, the opportunity presented itself to purchase LongIsland.com where the asking price was $500k – $1M; a price I was not willing to spend at the time…..however, in the past few weeks, feels like months, a lot has transpired and TODAY, hours before the closing of an online silent auction, the reserve price on LongIsland.com was lowered to $350,000.  Please note that I was aware of the price reduction before the sale was over…

While I sat in a new client meeting in Manhattan, I stared at my phone just waiting for the results….and then it happened, the domain LongIsland.com SOLD for $370,000 and at this point I don’t know who the buyer is but I sure am curious and even more curious to see what they do with this site based on some of the stipulations set forth with the purchase – see listing here

This domain has SO MUCH potential it’s insane!!  I won’t go too much into now as I’m sure the new owners might want to consult with us first…

Social media is on EVERYONE’S minds these days….some look to companies like Prime Visibility to strategize and execute social media tactics while others handle all the social media inhouse.  In either situation, it is important not to loose sight that it is VITAL to turn your team/staff into social media ambassadors.

Today’s iMediaConnection has a nice article entitled just that: Turn your employees into Social Media Ambassadors

Article Highlights:

• Develop a policy that outlines corporate guidelines for communicating in the online world
• Build a centralized hub for employees to communicate both internally and externally
• Encourage management to actively spread the message through social media.

Make sure everyone on your team is creating social media handles in social platforms such as twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, etc.  Does your company have a social media policy?  If not checkout our latest Prime Insights due out soon as we cover that very topic!  Not getting Prime Insights?  Be sure to follow us on twitter @PrimeVisibility and we will let you know when the next issue goes out.

My internet marketing company, Prime Visibility recently began to perform search engine optimization services for Historical-Autographs.com and within weeks of implementing our SEO,the natural search rankings kicked into high gear for this killer domain.

Since our optimization has been implemented, Historical-Autographs.com has already achieved the following organic search rankings in Google:

#8 out of 1,480,000 for: historical documents for sale

#8 out of 75,700 for: historical autographs for sales 

#4 out of 5,890,000 for: historical signatures for sale

#13 out of 243,000 for: historical autographs

This clearly reinforces that a keyword-enriched domain name that is properly optimized can achieve killer Google rankings.

@AndrewHazen

You know how I feel about my coupon sites….I’ve got nearly 50 of them!  This weekend was unbelievable for AllPizzaCoupons.com….with the following Google rankings, the site got plenty of qualified traffic this weekend:

# 7 Pizza Specials

#10 Pizza Delivery Specials

#11 Pizza Coupons

#9 Pizza Restaurant Coupons

# 1 & #2 Frozen Pizza Coupons

I also see that AllFastFoodCoupons.com did very well too, traffic is up nearly 1,000% and doesn’t indicate that it’s slowing down at all.  Got to keep tweaking the SEO and inbound links…only two weeks until the Super Bowl.

By @AndrewHazen

Being that I am a domain name addict, I had to check to see what was happening with haiti-related domain names given the recent tragedy…

I first checked HaitiEarthquake.com which was regsitered on 1/12/10 and redirects to a google page talking about donating money for relief…This is a GOOD use of the domain name.

HaitiEarthquakes.com is a parked site (which means they make money from serving ads) and was created on 1/13/10…hopefully this domain will be used with good intentions since it was just procured!

HaitiEarthquakeDisaster.com was created on 1/13/10 and looks to be taking paypal donations…..doesn’t say what organization it is and when you click on the paypal button to “donate” the paypal page shows “Gift Baskets N Gifts”….certainly suspect – BE CAREFUL!!

HaitiEarthquake.org was regsitered today 1/15/10 and appears to be parked at the moment…..

Makes you think; doesn’t it!

Have a great weekend……

Good post over at my Internet Marketing Agency on “Is Twitter’s Data Worthless?

It illustrates that Google and Microsoft are paying just about $0.03 for every 1,000 tweets they index in search results.

Please check it out and have a great day!