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Adsense for domains killed off my thoughts

February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Google as most of readers probably know already is killing of Adsense for domains.

I like to park my extra domains & I also support WIXI which is the first domain parking company in Japan but…

I have to face reality, it’s ALL About the clients.

Throughout the years I keep reading domainers who parked their domains use terms like “quality traffic”, “My Traffic” “Conversions”.

Truth is Google has dumbed down domain parking. I’ve wrote many comments saying when SEM try to optimize Content Network first thing we do is turn off ads to parked pages. This wasn’t an option originally. Also ads on parking pages usually don’t convert. This statement will be the same across anyone running SEM ads.

From the domainers point of view Google is killing off it’s bread & butter. To people in SEM or to the clients, it’s not going to be a big deal. You’ll get less, drop some domains which Google won’t index anyway, & that’s it.

On Webmaster world or SE Roundtable you’ll see viewpoints of people handling these ads.

Again I have plenty of domains parked, but I can’t say my parked domains is bringing any type of “Quality conversions”. First no one has the conversion data except for Clients, People in SEM, & Google. I’m one of those folk in SEM it’s just a reality.

Filed Under: Domain Parking

WordPress Tips & IDNs

February 6, 2012 By 2 Comments

I’ve been having good results on developing & wanted to share some tips on wordpress.

I’ve used so many CMS systems since 1999 I can’t count. Currently I primarily use wordpress even the first version of IDN Forums had a wordpress blog in 2005. At the time there were only a few domain bloggers. My other sites at the time ran on Drupal, Mambo, or even on phpbb at the time. Anyhoot with the latest buzz on WordPress like it’s something new I’d like to share a few tips to ease you from plenty of frustration.

1. Buy a membership to a Theme site like Studio Press or Elegant Themes or even Graph Paper Press. One Price & get all their themes will save you in the long run. I used Studio Press since the month it originally came out. Truthfully I’ve made my money back tenfold. The Genesis themes are not as easy to modify as non Framework themes but they have really great support.

2. Custom Post Types – These things suck. Really they do. There are regular posts & Custom Post Types. Before all plugins attached themselves to regular post. Now Plugin makers want their plugins to be attached to Custom Post Types. The problem with that is that you have to modify every aspect of your site to get the Custom Post Type to act like a regular post. Custom Post Type Plugins don’t always show up on the front page of your site or even are selectable in lots of style options you want to make. You’ll know what I’m talking about when you get there.

3. Keep your installation up to date. I actually do it for several other blogs but the IDN readership is low so I haven’t exactly kept up with the Jones here. Keeping it up to date will have a benefit to search as Google does look at version numbers in their algorithm it seems.

4. Don’t use the same plugins you used 3 years ago. Test out new plugins. You might surprise yourself that some new plugin developer has made a better SEO or Analytics Plugin. Test Test Test.

5. Buy Good Plugins. Go to a site like CodeCanyon & but plugins. If you use those is sites to dominate non English markets you can pretty much create some great sites. Also try to test out Free versions that have an upsell you might find a few great plugins that way.

6. Blogging is about being social. Another thing I don’t really stick to on this blog but do for others. Give credit to others & they will write about you. One of my sites I’ve pretty much has a over 80% rate of having Japanese give me a link back.

7. IDN compatible plugins. There used to be like 2, then about 3, 2 to 3 years ago. There’s about 10 plugins on WordPress that enhance IDN Compatibility.

A little bit busy this week, still the beginning of the year, but wanted to feed yall with knowledge. (Hopefully) I’ll post one of the sites after I create about 4 of them.

Filed Under: Development, Domain Names