Posted on June 15, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Here’s something that caught my eye today. The popular blog about Donald Trump’s search for proteges, TheApprenticeBlog.com has been sold for merely $1,636.00. Granted that with each season’s passing, The Apprentice is getting less and less news-worthy. The proof is in the pudding with the last season languishing in the ratings.
However, in the hands of an expert SEO, a domain with as much content, community following, and proven revenue should be fetching more than $2000, don’t you think? The blogs generate more than 5000 page views per day and is also a respectable PageRank 5 with nice rankings in Alexa. Or do you think it was fairly priced, or bought too high? Love to hear your thoughts! You can see the eBay listing for the completed sale here.
Posted on May 15, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Traditionally, site promotion has been about getting your pages to rank high on SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) at all cost. Google has maintained its grip on webmasters and bloggers by dangling this quest like a reachable oasis in front of us. Well, not anymore! Bloggers now have alternative SEO methods and new philosophies in their quest to reach a wider audience.
The last post about Squidoo ended with a suggestion for Squidoo to focus on being a lens search engine. Aaron Wall also interviewed Seth Godin, and Seth explained that
[...] Squidoo for the lensmaster is a place to point to your blog or your company or your organization. [....] For a surfer, it’s more direct, more trusted and easier than a search engine in some ways. It’s a place to start, a place to leave, and easy directory. [...]
In the same vein that Squidoo is a search engine for lenses, Technorati has become the benchmark search engine for blogs. There are different benefits to optimizing for Technorati, and the process can be easier than optimizing for traditional search engines like Google. (more…)
