This is a public service announcement. June 22, 2008
Posted by unemployedalcoholic in Fulfillment, Goals, Inspirational, Life, Passion, Purpose, Society, curious finds, music, popular culture, self-improvement, trends.Tags: experience, failure, success
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Kesmodel’s domain book… June 19, 2008
Posted by unemployedalcoholic in Books, Domains, internet, popular culture.Tags: Books, culture, Domains, internet, kesmodel
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…is finally available on Amazon for about $30. Cool beans, just ordered a copy. “The Domain Game” by David Kesmodel is, apparently, a well-researched documentary on the rise of the domain industry, covering the success stories of today’s biggest players in domaining, including Schilling, Ham, Chernoff, and many others. The book has gotten good reviews from bloggers in the community and I too am really looking forward to this read.
Hopefully the publication will shed some light on this niche industry and attract more attention to our world with the general public.
Will make another post about this once I finish reading it, if there is anything new to add.
Song lyrics websites, something to sing about… May 31, 2008
Posted by unemployedalcoholic in Domains, Society, music, popular culture.Tags: Add new tag, Domains, lyrics, music, songs, websites
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Another random thought for the weekend. I often like to look up song lyrics. For some reason, I can never settle for bookmarking one specific lyrics website and going there for every song I look up the lyrics for. Now, I think over the past year or so, I’ve ran into DOZENS of DIFFERENT websites that basically offer the same thing (song lyrics). Of course, it is difficult to differentiate this product offering… They’re all based on a similar concept, some kind of a cute design that’s simple to navigate, several of categories, and tons of advertisements. Nevertheless, all of these lyrics sites I’ve come across seem to rank very highly in Alexa, almost every one I hit happens to be in the top 100k.
The lessons of this phenomenon as I see them:
1) Content is indeed king, even if the content is redundant, and has been reproduced multiple times with similar content presentations. Just make sure that the content is well-organized, in demand, and somewhat useful. A shitton of interlinked HTML pages will do… HMM! Ideally, this will not remain the case forever, someone is bound to start cleaning up the internet of this mess sooner or later. On second thought, perhaps the word “WEB” by definition implies a messy concept…
2) Search engine traffic is hot. Type-ins? I don’t think so… Doubtful that people previously unfamiliar with the resource would type in “LyricsFreak.Com” in the address bar, yet this is a site comes close to having top 1k Alexa rank. Some people go for quantity with domain names, some go for quality. Sometimes, just having a dot com that makes sense with tons of sought-after information is enough for a guy to live on…
