case study | Meatlessrecipes.com

Domain At Hand: meatlessrecipes.com

What’s Going On?
Miri Rossitto is a new client of ours and this is a name that we completed the development of on Nov. 25th of 2008.

meatlessrecipes.com is a domain Miri bought from BuyDomains last year. The site was parked up until we developed it. The keywords meatless recipes have a high advertiser competition with plenty of search volume. The site will appeal to Vegans and Vegetarians looking for recipes that fit their food lifestyle.

And The Results Are . . .
This domain has been live for three months. It is currently ranked #5 on Google for the keywords Meatless recipes and #8 on MSN. This domain should continue to climb from our marketing efforts.

At The End of The Day
I have to tell you, your service has been like finding the gold at the end of a rainbow. I have domains that I love but that I don’t have time to develop. And to be honest, my personal web development knowledge could fit into a thimble. So now I no longer feel like I am fighting a losing battle. I have great domains that are developed with great content and that gives me the time to work on other things. Whether that’s selling the site or working on an expansion plan, its one less step for me to do. And not to mention the fact that the site is ranking, the site is getting hits and I am making much more than parking while I am waiting to make my move. It couldn’t be more brilliant. Thank you again and again.   – Miri Rossitto  meatlessrecipes.com

Thanks Miri, we look forward to developing more of your portfolio.

~Ryan Hogrefe

Are you Developing Dropped Names?

Numbers do not lie – domain drop system sales are at an all time high and do not seem to be budging.  Buying domains from drop system is a great way to find a good deal on a great domain name whether you are a reseller or end user.

Here are the categories I break dropped domains into:

• Premium Drops
  • Obvious value behind the domain name itself.  Regardless of its previous development state – these names will always fetch highest values.
• Traffic Drops
  • The unsung hero of daily drops.  People analyze huge amounts of data to discern whether a domain name that is about to drop had previous development done to it and any existing traffic.  Much of this traffic comes from backlinks – which is the whole reason for this post.
• Useless Drops
  • Isn’t it funny some of the stuff people register?!  I know I am victim to a few late night registrations that make me wonder what I was thinking come time to renew.  These names have little or no value.

Which Drop Names Should be Developed?

Obviously, we believe that all premium domains need to be developed – it is why we are here after all!  I won’t get too deep into this.

Traffic drops however are an interesting case that deserve some explanation.

Chances are if a domain was developed and is dropping, it has established backlinks to it.  The previous mentality here was to purchase the domain . . . blackhole all traffic to the site to a parking page and suck it till it runs dry.  The problem I have with this is that . . . it will run dry.

The good news is – it doesn’t have to run dry.

Search Engine Safe Redirects

There are numerous ways to redirect web pages, however only a few methods that redirect web pages safely so that the search engine gods do not frown upon you.  301 and 302 Redirects basically alert the search engine spiders and let them know that whatever was here – has moved somewhere else.  So if you bought domainabc.com off of namejet.com and it had 300 links pointed to domainabc.com/some-page.html – we can simply let the search engines know that domainabc.com/some-page.html is now located at domainabc.com/new-page.html without having to contact all of the link owners and ask them to change.  Effectively, you just created 300 targeted links to a fresh page on domainabc.com/new-page.html – this is priceless.

Backlinks are the determining factor on why your site, versus your competitor should be shown first.  The more targeted backlinks you have – the better you will perform.

Why This Works?

I love the ability to buy a domain with tons of backlinks.  Link building is a time consuming processs – however this eliminates that cost of time and production.  Best of all – instead of waiting for your new backlinks to drop off because they are now pointing to a parking page – you have no worries and can continue operating a full speed.  The backlinks stay valuable and your site continues to flourish.

Here is a little tip for current site owners:  If you are looking for a push ahead in the link building game – it can be effective to purchase a domain name with backlinks and have them 301 or 302 to your main site.  Think of it as cannibalizing a domain for its linking power.

case study | Marketcritic.com

Domain At Hand: Marketcritic.com

What’s Going On?
Marketcritic.com was an established site that was converted to parking with back links.

This site performed well on parking. After reviewing the parking revenue we decided to develop a mini site to take advantage of the back links. We did a search engine friendly redirect from the old pages that no longer existed to the new mini site pages. This allowed us to maintain the back links and to keep a good reputation with Google.

And The Results Are . . .
This site is currently ranked #1 on Google, #1 on Yahoo, and #1 on MSN for the keywords market critic. This domain is a daily earner for us.

At The End of The Day
Marketcritic.com is good example of how to take advantage of drop systems and expiring domains. If you park a name like this eventually you will be flagged and lose those back links. Develop the site with aeiou.com and keep the back links.

case study | Repossessions.com

Domain At Hand: repossessions.com

What’s Going On?
Repossessions.com is a name that we developed on July 27th of 2008.

Repossessions.com is another keyword specific domain name. Repossessions has a large amount of keyword searches. In addition to just the keyword repossessions you’ve also got bank repossessions, car repossessions, home, etc. These keywords all have a very high advertiser competition with PPC prices as high as $9.38. We have provided five pages of keyword rich Seo optimized pages with a simple but affective design. Each page of content is chosen by combining the amount of searches and advertiser competition for the particular keyword.

And The Results Are . . .
This domain has been live for just over six months. It is currently ranked #4 on Google for the term repossessions and #1 on Yahoo. This domain is a daily earner for us and should continue to climb.

At The End of The Day
Repossessions.com is another example of developing a domain with keyword rich Seo optimized content to capitalize on searches and advertiser competition. Add our marketing process to speed up the rankings and you have a daily earner.

case study | Forces.com

Domain At Hand: Forces.com

What’s Going On?
Ted O’Keefe is a new client of ours. Forces.com is the first name we have developed for him. This site was completed just 2 weeks ago.

Forces.com was a design only job where we did some additions to our standard five page mini site. Ted supplied the content for each page. This site has twelve pages of content. Eight pages with additional drop down navigation for the special forces tab. Subdomains were setup for each content section. This is a great looking site that captures the look when you think of the armed forces. We can accommodate most any type of development request from simple additions and changes to our mini site or a full custom development project.

And The Results Are . . .
This domain has been live for two weeks. It is currently on the first page of Google#9 for the keyword forces. This domain should continue to climb in rankings for all related keywords.

“AEIOU helped me turn an undeveloped domain – forces.com – into a themed mini-site giving visitors valuable information and reasons to return. The unique design and graphics give no mistake about the site topic – military. AEIOU even offered good suggestions for capturing traffic by creating subdomains – special.forces.com. Allowing visitors to contact you through the site is worth the effort. If I was a military recruiter I would already have an army lined up!”
Ted O’Keefe

At The End of The Day
This site is a good example of how we can work with a client to meet special requirement or needs. We are now working on Ted’s third site and I look forward to helping him develop more.
~Ryan Hogrefe