Google, that massive advertising link farm, has taken the next step in its monopolization of Internet revenue generation by demanding its affiliates stop selling links outside Adsense. It’s recent penalization of sites selling links directly or through link exchanges is a case in point for government intervention into a monopoly. Any of Google’s affiliated sites must buy links through Google’s own Adwords or the site is banned from the primary search results and it’s “Google Page Rank” dropped drastically. The results are far less traffic and far less revenues for website owners. The practice is monopolistic in so far as it skews its search results in favor of those that buy from them, affiliates of their advertising network, and affiliates of its link farm. The public is defrauded into thinking that Google is a search engine as it expands its advertising link farm using heavy-handed gold shackles on websites and presenting in it’s primary search results its own properties and those of its affiliates.
While the slick media propagated through the Google PR machine tries to paint a very democratic process and the image of a search engine, the reality is far different. It’s recently adopted motto of “Don’t be evil” mere lip-service to a duped public as it continues to obscure it’s real schemes of complete domination of content and traffic.
For years Google has dictated the terms of websites style and appearance. Frowning on the artistic in favor of the easily searched text. In fact the reason such rules for laying out websites exist is solely for the incompetence of the programmers at Google to search or allow alternative ways to get information on a site into their engine. Flash sites are ignored rather than making an effort to index them. Penalized for creativity the Internet has been forced back to the initial dark ages of html based pages so that the crippled search engines could pick them up.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Selling Your Domain. To Auction or Not to Auction?
Looking to capitalize your domain names fast? Putting your domain up for auction may be just the ticket for sales with a side benefit of promotion.
The first ticket to ride is Ebay auctions. I have seen no proof that these provide a lot of big sales but they will garner sales for low priced domains. One thing to remember, a listing on Ebay will get search engine placement for your terms. I have used this technique to place million dollar domains up for attention and search returns. The unexpected result was a huge up-tick in parking revenues that offset the Ebay auction costs and returned better than any Google Adsense advertising would.
Finding ways to match domains to sellers has become a big business and many big name companies are working hard to facilitate – for an ever-increasing price. Investor funded efforts like Sedo and Afternic have dominated the domain sales market for years but are costly and recently doubled their fees. Individual and personal efforts have always been the most lucrative for sellers and the best deal for buyers. The way the business works no doors are closed so there is nothing better than looking at new avenues to market your domains.
Recently these big name houses have started to add online and live auctions to the mix. These auctions have provided increasing sales and are bringing more attention to the domain name market. All positive business as far as that goes. But what does it take to make these auctions?
Some of the big multi-million dollar auctions recently provide lists of names for auction and the promotion and activity seem to revolve around specific owners and in house domains. As the big houses now provide “better” service for “larger” fees one can assume that business model works all the way down the line of services.
How can you level the field or at least put your foot in the pie as a buyer or seller of domains?
Take the jump and get on as many auction sites as you can. Pay particular attention to free auction sites. Why? Free auction sites are most likely run by other domain owners and built out to promote the domains as much as gather attention for sales. Here is an environment where open floor auction is there for every search engine, buyer and seller free. It is free advertising with a possibility of sales and that cannot be beat.
One such site is http://www.winyourdomain.com/ run by the Win Your Dot Com people. This site is completely free. Listings, purchase and sales go without any cost to the buyer or seller. Support for the site comes from additional highlighting, feature listings, or just pure support donations to help get more advertising for the site. Win Your Domain is geared to the individual domain name holders to allow direct sales between buyers and sellers without the need for high priced fees. Once the sale is agreed the people can choose anyone to do escrow or continue to just do business as normal.
Putting your name up for auction is a good idea and you should add these suggestions to your domain-marketing regime.
Story by: Randy Penn
auctions
The first ticket to ride is Ebay auctions. I have seen no proof that these provide a lot of big sales but they will garner sales for low priced domains. One thing to remember, a listing on Ebay will get search engine placement for your terms. I have used this technique to place million dollar domains up for attention and search returns. The unexpected result was a huge up-tick in parking revenues that offset the Ebay auction costs and returned better than any Google Adsense advertising would.
Finding ways to match domains to sellers has become a big business and many big name companies are working hard to facilitate – for an ever-increasing price. Investor funded efforts like Sedo and Afternic have dominated the domain sales market for years but are costly and recently doubled their fees. Individual and personal efforts have always been the most lucrative for sellers and the best deal for buyers. The way the business works no doors are closed so there is nothing better than looking at new avenues to market your domains.
Recently these big name houses have started to add online and live auctions to the mix. These auctions have provided increasing sales and are bringing more attention to the domain name market. All positive business as far as that goes. But what does it take to make these auctions?
Some of the big multi-million dollar auctions recently provide lists of names for auction and the promotion and activity seem to revolve around specific owners and in house domains. As the big houses now provide “better” service for “larger” fees one can assume that business model works all the way down the line of services.
How can you level the field or at least put your foot in the pie as a buyer or seller of domains?
Take the jump and get on as many auction sites as you can. Pay particular attention to free auction sites. Why? Free auction sites are most likely run by other domain owners and built out to promote the domains as much as gather attention for sales. Here is an environment where open floor auction is there for every search engine, buyer and seller free. It is free advertising with a possibility of sales and that cannot be beat.
One such site is http://www.winyourdomain.com/ run by the Win Your Dot Com people. This site is completely free. Listings, purchase and sales go without any cost to the buyer or seller. Support for the site comes from additional highlighting, feature listings, or just pure support donations to help get more advertising for the site. Win Your Domain is geared to the individual domain name holders to allow direct sales between buyers and sellers without the need for high priced fees. Once the sale is agreed the people can choose anyone to do escrow or continue to just do business as normal.
Putting your name up for auction is a good idea and you should add these suggestions to your domain-marketing regime.
Story by: Randy Penn
auctions
Friday, August 31, 2007
New Streaming Media Search Engine
Streaming media sites continue to grow in astronomical numbers. YouTube clones are popping up by the hundreds each day. Most of these streaming media sites are niche oriented with specific social network specialties. Perhaps you are part of the streaming mass of sites cresting the mounting wave of video on demand?
The abundance of Heavy Metal music sites, joke sites, baby care sites, guitar workshops, film sites and a myriad of other niche content web sites show a wide diversity of topics. Many colleges and universities are getting ready sports streaming YouTube clones. Everyone from drama clubs to the corporate board are getting in on the net with streaming web sites. Thousands of people creating hundreds of sites on a broad range of topics each day. They are building out web sites with specialized niche content. The question then is how can a surfer find the niche site when it is not blatant in the URL itself or through heavy advertising costs that niche sites cannot afford?
Surfers and media web sites are slave to Google or Yahoo video to connect. Content creators must post content on Google and Yahoo Video hoping to get some name recognition and more traffic to themselves. You have given up the goat for the cheese.
This same media giant owns the top two major streaming websites, Google=YouTube. So one mega corporation owns the content and the peoples search of choice for content. This may not be evil but it is not good. Somehow they convinced content owners that they must upload their content to them so they can surround it by their advertiser links. Perhaps you will show up as 1,299,899 of 3,999,292,121 pages on a search?
There is a missing link between content rich niche streaming sites and surfers. All niche media sites are affected by an inability to directly connect to their base.
There is a way! Bring all the streaming sites together in their own social network to promote a community creating a niche media search engine. An online TV search site that is not streaming media or competing by using your content against you. A search site where browsing and search will get people right to the sites covering the topics they are interested in. All this provided free to searchers, members and all streaming media sites.
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes the OnlineTV Video Search hub springs to life.
OnlineTV Video Search has members and website owners take on the entry of site listings. This makes the OnlineTV Video Search rock. News, links, and descriptions are constantly updated matching the sites niche using keywords in the description. This assures that those looking for specific niche streaming web sites easily find it. It is edited to assure quality descriptions.
Anyone can be a member by registering and are encouraged to list newly discovered sites as well as vote and review all listings. Registration is required for these privileges and site owners are encouraged to list their own site for promotion.
OnlineTV Video Search allows members to comment and vote on site listings adding community and excitement. A rating system allows single votes on a site from a member and all of these factors float a site to the top of the charts.
Special design allows for fast retrieval of targeted search requests. A streamlined approach to design and database are incorporated without a lot of heavy graphics allowing fast page access; it is all about getting people to site listings. The faster members get onto the actual content site they are looking for the better for everyone.
Get on it. It’s free! Join OnlineTV Video Search engine and promote yourself. Help more surfers find the sites they really want! They will keep coming back for more.
OnlineTV Visions of the Future Today
onlinetv 
online tv 
video
The abundance of Heavy Metal music sites, joke sites, baby care sites, guitar workshops, film sites and a myriad of other niche content web sites show a wide diversity of topics. Many colleges and universities are getting ready sports streaming YouTube clones. Everyone from drama clubs to the corporate board are getting in on the net with streaming web sites. Thousands of people creating hundreds of sites on a broad range of topics each day. They are building out web sites with specialized niche content. The question then is how can a surfer find the niche site when it is not blatant in the URL itself or through heavy advertising costs that niche sites cannot afford?
Surfers and media web sites are slave to Google or Yahoo video to connect. Content creators must post content on Google and Yahoo Video hoping to get some name recognition and more traffic to themselves. You have given up the goat for the cheese.
This same media giant owns the top two major streaming websites, Google=YouTube. So one mega corporation owns the content and the peoples search of choice for content. This may not be evil but it is not good. Somehow they convinced content owners that they must upload their content to them so they can surround it by their advertiser links. Perhaps you will show up as 1,299,899 of 3,999,292,121 pages on a search?
There is a missing link between content rich niche streaming sites and surfers. All niche media sites are affected by an inability to directly connect to their base.
There is a way! Bring all the streaming sites together in their own social network to promote a community creating a niche media search engine. An online TV search site that is not streaming media or competing by using your content against you. A search site where browsing and search will get people right to the sites covering the topics they are interested in. All this provided free to searchers, members and all streaming media sites.
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes the OnlineTV Video Search hub springs to life.
OnlineTV Video Search has members and website owners take on the entry of site listings. This makes the OnlineTV Video Search rock. News, links, and descriptions are constantly updated matching the sites niche using keywords in the description. This assures that those looking for specific niche streaming web sites easily find it. It is edited to assure quality descriptions.
Anyone can be a member by registering and are encouraged to list newly discovered sites as well as vote and review all listings. Registration is required for these privileges and site owners are encouraged to list their own site for promotion.
OnlineTV Video Search allows members to comment and vote on site listings adding community and excitement. A rating system allows single votes on a site from a member and all of these factors float a site to the top of the charts.
Special design allows for fast retrieval of targeted search requests. A streamlined approach to design and database are incorporated without a lot of heavy graphics allowing fast page access; it is all about getting people to site listings. The faster members get onto the actual content site they are looking for the better for everyone.
Get on it. It’s free! Join OnlineTV Video Search engine and promote yourself. Help more surfers find the sites they really want! They will keep coming back for more.
OnlineTV Visions of the Future Today
onlinetv online tv video
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
FLV Video Share Sites Streamline Band and Music Promotion
FLV Video Share Sites Streamline Band and Music Promotion
Streamline your marketing and promotion with niche streaming web sites. The amazing onlinetv rage is right here and growing. Internet marketing attention is focused on broadband streaming media and nothing could be better for your music than a slice of that attention. This is a marriage made in heaven streaming media and music video.
With the free, built into Microsoft Movie Maker most everyone can take their audio file and with a little creativity make it into a compelling video. Music videos are no longer a barrier for bands to take advantage of the onlinetv revolution. Just pop some cool pictures or some video shorts from your mini-cam, lay in your audio tracks and viola! You have made a simple music video to get that song out. A video with title, credits, lyrics and a message where viewers can buy it will more than suffice as a promotional tool. Don’t forget “Where is the next gig?”
Who has not heard of Youtube or Google video? These amazing amalgams of everything under the sun stand as monolithic compendiums. There must be more than 100 million videos on these sites containing an inexhaustible variety of material covering every topic under the sun. This makes them the world’s largest central repository for video. Like a dictionary containing every word it has the drawback it cannot be read even if using an index to find something. If you are not the most popular or the featured few darlings your message never sees the light of day, except by you. Google’s top 100 videos are populated with soft porn girlies and that is hard to compete with.
Never let it be said that having your music video on Youtube or Google should not be done. Au contraire, that is the first thing you would do followed by posting that video to your MySpace account. What did you say? You don’t have a MySpace account? Then go get your Myspace now! The accounts are free, easy and worth the effort. Move! Get back here when you are done baking that cake.
Now it is time to put some frosting on your cake. Frosting for this project is exemplified with a video share site like MusicTV Video Share. A shared video website designed with a specific focus on music. This is the oldest site streaming on the Internet. Even before Real or Microsoft had streaming software MusicTV.com was broadcasting live bands from New York City and London using its own software. Every week over 20 live concerts of independent bands were broadcast live and then archived on the Internet. Amazing! Even Keane played for them! While they no longer stream live they have put up a new video-sharing site at http://www.MusicTV.com/share/ that offers almost all the features of Youtube as well as the name and heritage (page ranking!) of MusicTV. The video share site is now only weeks old so you have an opportunity to rule the front page and the search engine results!
You can download your YouTube flv file using http://www.vixy.net saving time to upload with the smaller flv file, or simply upload your original (under 100meg) right onto the MusicTV.com servers. The service handles the conversion of most formats if you do not have an flv file. You will end up with an embeddable flv video as well as a URL for places that do not let you embed or email! The page is a perma-link home for the song that can be attached to your “group” at MusicTV Video Share. The offered code works in MySpace.com, Blogger.com and just about all the web sites that allow embed code. MusicTV Video Share has community resources that include; your own personal profile, messaging, friends, favorites, play lists, groups and other tools to help you expand your fan base. You can use the community by populating your profile with your music videos, pictures, and information while you form a group using your band name to gather new fans. It works. You can then send email to your friends directly from your account at MusicTV. It is all simple and easy.
MusicTV.com has always worked for the independent musician and labels. Independent labels are invited to form groups and showcase their bands. There is a special program for selling your CD’s or downloads through Video Seconds the online DVD and audio CD sales outlet available on MusicTV Video Share.
The important thing is to get you onto these sites when they start and are fresh. MusicTV Video Share is new and will launch out in full this September. You have the opportunity to be the first there and that means front page! Google cache!
Niche streaming is the future and finding a place where you can stand out within your niche gets more difficult each day. You will see more niche streaming sites growing out as the proliferation of site offerings becomes overwhelming. Finding the bests sites to get your music heard and seen will be of great significance. When the next big wave comes are you ready to ride it? Get on MusicTV Video Share so I can see you already!
Streamline your marketing and promotion with niche streaming web sites. The amazing onlinetv rage is right here and growing. Internet marketing attention is focused on broadband streaming media and nothing could be better for your music than a slice of that attention. This is a marriage made in heaven streaming media and music video.
With the free, built into Microsoft Movie Maker most everyone can take their audio file and with a little creativity make it into a compelling video. Music videos are no longer a barrier for bands to take advantage of the onlinetv revolution. Just pop some cool pictures or some video shorts from your mini-cam, lay in your audio tracks and viola! You have made a simple music video to get that song out. A video with title, credits, lyrics and a message where viewers can buy it will more than suffice as a promotional tool. Don’t forget “Where is the next gig?”
Who has not heard of Youtube or Google video? These amazing amalgams of everything under the sun stand as monolithic compendiums. There must be more than 100 million videos on these sites containing an inexhaustible variety of material covering every topic under the sun. This makes them the world’s largest central repository for video. Like a dictionary containing every word it has the drawback it cannot be read even if using an index to find something. If you are not the most popular or the featured few darlings your message never sees the light of day, except by you. Google’s top 100 videos are populated with soft porn girlies and that is hard to compete with.
Never let it be said that having your music video on Youtube or Google should not be done. Au contraire, that is the first thing you would do followed by posting that video to your MySpace account. What did you say? You don’t have a MySpace account? Then go get your Myspace now! The accounts are free, easy and worth the effort. Move! Get back here when you are done baking that cake.
Now it is time to put some frosting on your cake. Frosting for this project is exemplified with a video share site like MusicTV Video Share. A shared video website designed with a specific focus on music. This is the oldest site streaming on the Internet. Even before Real or Microsoft had streaming software MusicTV.com was broadcasting live bands from New York City and London using its own software. Every week over 20 live concerts of independent bands were broadcast live and then archived on the Internet. Amazing! Even Keane played for them! While they no longer stream live they have put up a new video-sharing site at http://www.MusicTV.com/share/ that offers almost all the features of Youtube as well as the name and heritage (page ranking!) of MusicTV. The video share site is now only weeks old so you have an opportunity to rule the front page and the search engine results!
You can download your YouTube flv file using http://www.vixy.net saving time to upload with the smaller flv file, or simply upload your original (under 100meg) right onto the MusicTV.com servers. The service handles the conversion of most formats if you do not have an flv file. You will end up with an embeddable flv video as well as a URL for places that do not let you embed or email! The page is a perma-link home for the song that can be attached to your “group” at MusicTV Video Share. The offered code works in MySpace.com, Blogger.com and just about all the web sites that allow embed code. MusicTV Video Share has community resources that include; your own personal profile, messaging, friends, favorites, play lists, groups and other tools to help you expand your fan base. You can use the community by populating your profile with your music videos, pictures, and information while you form a group using your band name to gather new fans. It works. You can then send email to your friends directly from your account at MusicTV. It is all simple and easy.
MusicTV.com has always worked for the independent musician and labels. Independent labels are invited to form groups and showcase their bands. There is a special program for selling your CD’s or downloads through Video Seconds the online DVD and audio CD sales outlet available on MusicTV Video Share.
The important thing is to get you onto these sites when they start and are fresh. MusicTV Video Share is new and will launch out in full this September. You have the opportunity to be the first there and that means front page! Google cache!
Niche streaming is the future and finding a place where you can stand out within your niche gets more difficult each day. You will see more niche streaming sites growing out as the proliferation of site offerings becomes overwhelming. Finding the bests sites to get your music heard and seen will be of great significance. When the next big wave comes are you ready to ride it? Get on MusicTV Video Share so I can see you already!
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