Comments on: Domainer.com: Domaining Evolving? http://www.techsoapbox.com/domainercom-domaining-evolving/ Soapboxing every damn day Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:25:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ahmed http://www.techsoapbox.com/domainercom-domaining-evolving/#comment-4447 Ahmed Wed, 30 May 2007 04:20:54 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/domainercom-domaining-evolving/#comment-4447 That is quite the statement Ted - any proof of them firing 60 people? I thought their TrueLocal division was doing purty well - no? That is quite the statement Ted - any proof of them firing 60 people?

I thought their TrueLocal division was doing purty well - no?

]]> By: Ted http://www.techsoapbox.com/domainercom-domaining-evolving/#comment-4445 Ted Wed, 30 May 2007 03:09:34 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/domainercom-domaining-evolving/#comment-4445 Domaining is definitely still alive at Geosign. They canned over 60 people today(roughly 1/5th of their employees), mainly from their Publishing division and focused on strengthening their domaining/search marketing business. Their whole arbitrage business has been killed by Google, so they switched gears to make their core focus bottom feeding search engine fodder. Domaining is definitely still alive at Geosign. They canned over 60 people today(roughly 1/5th of their employees), mainly from their Publishing division and focused on strengthening their domaining/search marketing business. Their whole arbitrage business has been killed by Google, so they switched gears to make their core focus bottom feeding search engine fodder.

]]> By: Ahmed http://www.techsoapbox.com/domainercom-domaining-evolving/#comment-4370 Ahmed Mon, 28 May 2007 20:25:56 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/domainercom-domaining-evolving/#comment-4370 About Google - I agree. You are doing your end. And in my comparing you guys to popurls - it is the exact same idea. Does popurls even have permission to use those feeds? I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was no. Plus they have ads - so really, the meat is the same. Anyway yes - I am keeping my eye on this. Six months of learning and tweaking can make a huge difference :) About Google - I agree. You are doing your end. And in my comparing you guys to popurls - it is the exact same idea. Does popurls even have permission to use those feeds? I wouldn’t be surprised if the answer was no. Plus they have ads - so really, the meat is the same.

Anyway yes - I am keeping my eye on this. Six months of learning and tweaking can make a huge difference :)

]]> By: Adam Sadowski http://www.techsoapbox.com/domainercom-domaining-evolving/#comment-4369 Adam Sadowski Mon, 28 May 2007 20:17:46 +0000 http://www.techsoapbox.com/domainercom-domaining-evolving/#comment-4369 Hi Ahmed, I'll take the positive out of the review, in that you've called it a good first version :-)... We think we've got a distance to go, and we've got great things planned, including user participation. All I can say is keep an eye on us! Firstly, the fact that Google doesn't recognize or utilize the "cite" attribute doesn't invalidate its use. We are looking for simple ways to give attribution. We feel the syndication model is both valid and empowering to individual bloggers. There's no reason that "cite" couldn't be a simple way of republishing author content that recognizes the authoritative source, like rel="nofollow". We get bloggers to agree to our terms before we even touch their feed, but we felt that attribution should be in the source code as well. "Cite" should be used anytime you cite an article. Search engines should recognize that. And we should encourage them to do it. Second, content on the site is not a second thought, but our research has showed us that users are more interested in products than content at the moment, and the home page layout reflects that. And I'll take issue with you saying that the site isn't truly useful. Users can do comparative searches across dozens of retailers for any kind of bag! Isn't that useful? Different sites will get different implementations. As well, we cannot, and will not forget the domain owner in this equation. Many of your readers may like to forget them, but they are our customers and our partners. They need to make money, and most sites will need to have a commercial option to ensure they continue to get a revenue stream as well as the brand and site equity we will build for them. Thirdly, we have not done that much SEO (especially in the store), because we don't think that we should. Most of the store URLs are dynamic and we feel that we should reflect that. But like I said, keep an eye on us, because these implementations are really just the beginning. Hi Ahmed,

I’ll take the positive out of the review, in that you’ve called it a good first version :-)… We think we’ve got a distance to go, and we’ve got great things planned, including user participation. All I can say is keep an eye on us!

Firstly, the fact that Google doesn’t recognize or utilize the “cite” attribute doesn’t invalidate its use. We are looking for simple ways to give attribution. We feel the syndication model is both valid and empowering to individual bloggers. There’s no reason that “cite” couldn’t be a simple way of republishing author content that recognizes the authoritative source, like rel=”nofollow”. We get bloggers to agree to our terms before we even touch their feed, but we felt that attribution should be in the source code as well. “Cite” should be used anytime you cite an article. Search engines should recognize that. And we should encourage them to do it.

Second, content on the site is not a second thought, but our research has showed us that users are more interested in products than content at the moment, and the home page layout reflects that. And I’ll take issue with you saying that the site isn’t truly useful. Users can do comparative searches across dozens of retailers for any kind of bag! Isn’t that useful?

Different sites will get different implementations. As well, we cannot, and will not forget the domain owner in this equation. Many of your readers may like to forget them, but they are our customers and our partners. They need to make money, and most sites will need to have a commercial option to ensure they continue to get a revenue stream as well as the brand and site equity we will build for them.

Thirdly, we have not done that much SEO (especially in the store), because we don’t think that we should. Most of the store URLs are dynamic and we feel that we should reflect that.

But like I said, keep an eye on us, because these implementations are really just the beginning.

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