Internet Marketing Strategy

Unless you happen to think of a bad-ass domain name (that is still available for registration) by yourself, the best chance you have of getting a rock solid domain name, for use or sale/trade, is to watch recent domain expiration lists. More specifically, the daily domain expiration lists. I’m not talking about The Domain Name After Market from GoDaddy, where increased interest in a domain name usually results in the non-acquisition of said domain name. I’m talking about drop lists from registrars of domains that are actually expiring and are available for immediate registration through whichever registrar you please. Searching for and through these domain expiry lists can be a bit meticulous, though, so I’ve compiled a resource of links that you can bookmark and save for future reference.

Expired Domain Name Search Engines & Dump Lists

• EBUB.COM Deleted Domains List
  Pretty solid, easy to navigate through, includes Chinese domains.
• NameJet Dump Lists
  Dump lists for the next several days or the entire coming month.
• ExpiredDomains.net
  Easy to filter through dump lists, includes German domains.
• Expired Domain Boss
  Search domains pending deletion up to three days in advance.
• Expired Domains Finder
  Interface is decent, PR/Backlink search, small database though.

Curated Periodicals of Expired Domain Names

• Best Expired Domains
  Curated list of expiring domains, usually with DMOZ links and PR.
• All Internet Ideas Expiring Domains
  Curated list of expiring domains for new businesses or niche sites.
• DNXpert Expired Domain Names
  Curated list of expiring domain names: real words and niche sites.

Do you curate a periodical list of expired domain names or know of a good expired domain name search engine to add to this list? Message me on Twitter, my handle is @typelife.

Finding a domain name you like that is available for registration as well can often be a chore enough, let alone picking a domain out that utilizes a TLD extension as part of it.

What, you say? I’m talking about domain hacks, which are domains that are words or phrases that use a TLD extension as part of the URL. Sites like blo.gs, del.icio.us, domai.nr, and ma.tt are domain hacks. Let’s just say it gets a little frustrating sometimes.

Well, you can quit worrying (a little bit at least) because there are several search engines that do the bulk of the work for you. You can perform dictionary searches against these websites, and they even have suggestions for you!

• Domainr
• Wordy
• Xona Domain Hacks

Last time, in WordPress on Steroids Pt. 1, I expressed the important of accommodating users who were accessing your website via a mobile browser. Now, let’s make the experience better for all of your users.

WordPress Optimization

Optimizing your website now prepares you for an influx of traffic in the future, as well as just making things run smoother (not to mention faster) in general. Optimization is an ongoing process that never really stops, but you can do one thing immediately, and that is to start using caching.

DB Cache is a caching engine that stores database query results as opposed to html output, resulting in less space on the disk that is taken up for cache storage. Your visitors always get real information while keeping CPU use to a minimum.

Leveraging Scheduled Posts

Most blog authors use the scheduled post feature to pre-load content into WordPress to be displayed at a future date. Why not build reader anticipation and generate hype for posts you’ve already scheduled? Well, it’s easy, with this little snippet. You can place it anywhere in your template files, or create an HTML Widget and place it in there.

$show = 5;
$q = new WP_Query('post_status=future&order=DESC&showposts=' . $show);
if ($q->have_posts()) {
    echo "<ul>\r\n";
    while ($q->have_posts()) : $q->the_post();
        echo "<li>";
        the_title();
        echo "</li>\r\n";
    endwhile;
    echo "</ul>\r\n";
}

Expose ALL Content to Readers & Search Engines

It’s very common to see a “Most Popular Posts” or “Featured Posts” widget on a blog, and yes, they are effective. However, this draws the reader to a very specific point in your site’s workflow, and this point is at the very end of the user experience. Why not highlight all of your content equally? You can do so by showing off random posts from your archive in your sidebar, with the Random Posts Widget. Who knows? You might have more diamonds in the rough than you think, and you could get your user stuck in an infinite loop!

I’ve been noticing alot of start up companies developing more and more interesting concepts when it comes to search technology, and evolving it into a more aesthetically pleasing and less metciulous process getting your desired search results.

Sure, you’ve heard about the advancements in user powered search engines like Cuil and Stumpedia, but the only search engine that REALLY has made me give it a double take is SearchMe.

SearchMe‘s interface is already visually stunning, and after a few modifications to the interface (and of course after they have a comprehensive database of search results) … I think I might actually switch from Google! Be careful, if you go to the video search engine, you might fall in love! SearchMe has truly innovated video search interfaces with their carousel display style that you can see.

Other features available make SearchMe truly unique, such as the ability to group your searches into “Stacks” … which allow you to categorize your searches and keep them organized, making it easy to delve into past searches and find an old result with efficiency, instead of retracing your steps on the search engine itself.

Get ahead of the game and submit your websites to SearchMe today!

If you’re a true internet marketer, you spend alot of time dealing with “buzz” … “buzz” is what we refer to the hot tickets on the web as.

This tool cuts down on time spent looking for the best keywords to start with, note that I say start with. You still want to use other tools like Wordze and Wordtracker to generate your more optimized keyword lists and keyword phrases!

CyberWyre’s Current Top Internet Searches tracker the current fifteen most searched phrases and keywords in real-time, enabling you to stay on top ahead of the buzz and your competitors!

Link: http://www.cwire.org/current-top-15-internet-searches/

Welcome to the next evolution in social networking, Stumpedia.

Stumpedia is a sociallly powered search engine that takes input from humans to index, organize, and review the pages of the internet.

You can submit search queries, and add your own entries to the search engine results pages, and furthermore, you can “vote” items on the result pages to bump them up or down. It’s a great way to receive targeted backlinks, while providing useful data to a growing community.

I really like where this system is going, but there seems alot of room for user manipulation of the application, but I’ll stick it out and see how it goes, you should too!

Someone asked this question on a message board I frequent, and, while this question is asked all the time, day in and day out, I realized that no-one in all the blogs, message boards, and documentation websites I visit has seemed to visit this topic yet.

There is really only one answer.

Ready? I’m going to sound like a broken record.

Constantly update your site with fresh, related content and always be on the lookout to build quality backlinks with other sites in your niche.

Sound familiar?

Also, be sure to stay on top of new search trends and marketing strategies, you must stay informed so you can inform others.

Now you have the knowledge of how to receive 10,000 visitors under your belt, happy?