PowermatDigital.com Gets It, Acquires Powermat.com And Rebrands Before Launching Advertising Blitz

October 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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The new Powermat wireless charging product is advertising  all over television and the internet lately. I decided to look into the domain they are using in their advertisements, Powermat.com. Looking at the dmoz open directory project you can see that the company used to use PowematDigital.com (now forwards to Powermat.com) for their site and Powermat.com was used for a solar swimming pool heating systems company. The whois record for Powermat.com was last changed 08/07/2009 I assume that is when the acquisition took place. Interestingly enough on Powermat.com’s inner pages footer they are linking to the new domain for the solar swimming pool heating company h2otsun.com that used to own the domain. That linking condition must of been part of the transaction – probably a good deal for both companies.

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Understanding The Nofollow Link Attribute

October 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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Understanding how the nofollow link attribute works can help your developed product domain sites stay in good form with the search engines. Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to tell Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask if a link should be followed (voted for) or not (not voted for). These search engines use links and their corresponding anchor text as a signal of how to rank websites and pages, this tag was created to reduce web spam from comments and to allow sites to sell links without negatively affecting search engine results and not get penalized.

Example: <a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel=”nofollow”>cheap tickets</a>

Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask all interpret the nofollow tag differently see below for more information on each:


 Google Yahoo Bing Ask
Uses the link for ranking No No No Yes
Follows the link Yes Yes Yes Yes
Indexes the linked page No Yes No Yes
Shows the existence of the link Only if indexed Yes Yes Yes
In SERPs for anchor text Only if indexed Yes Only if indexed Yes

 
Most common use of the tag include using it on affiliate links, reader comments, and off-site links to sites that you do not want to vouch for. Using the tag on internal pages such as privacy, terms of service, etc to flow PageRank to other pages on a site have been debated that it works well and that Google ignores it.

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T.R.A.F.F.I.C New York Auction Inventory Initial Preview

October 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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Rick Latona and Moniker have released their initial inventory of domains up for auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C Domain Conference in New York from October 26th – 29th, 2009. I pulled out a few domains from each auction that I thought are great product domains.

Rick Latona Auctions preview

ChargingStations.com
GolfClubs.com
GarageDoorOpener.com
HerbalTeas.com
Hookahs.com

Moniker Auctions preview

Clarinet.com
ElectricGrills.com
MultiVitamins.com
PearlEarrings.com
RecipeBooks.com
Saws.com

Please note that these preview lists are not the complete inventory for either auction.

Update: Rick Latona final live auction inventory here

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GreatDomains October 2009 Auction Inventory Released

October 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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GreatDomains (powered by Sedo) October 2009 online auction has starts 10/15/2009 at Noon EST and runs until 10/22/2009 Noon EST. Listed below are a few product domains from the current auction list.

chocolatebars.com   25,000 – 49,999 $US
digitalvideos.com   1,000 – 4,999 $US
galoshes.com   1,000 – 4,999 $US

chocolatebars.com - 25,000 – 49,999 $US – Reserve
digitalvideos.com - 1,000 – 4,999 $US - Reserve
galoshes.com - 1,000 – 4,999 $US - Reserve

View the complete auction inventory

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Speedbag.com Product Domain On Auction At Sedo

October 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment  

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Speedbag.com is listed at Sedo as a feature auction, currently at the price of $1,750 from three different bidders and the reserve price met as of 10/13/2009 03:00 PM CST.

Quick facts:

Search Volume Data

Google AdWords Tool (Exact Match)

Speed Bag
Local Search Volume – September: 14,800
Global Monthly Search Volume: 18,100
Estimated Avg. CPC: $0.86

Speedbag
Local Search Volume – September: 1,900
Global Monthly Search Volume: 2,900
Estimated Avg. CPC: $0.78

Product Data “Speed Bag”

eBay data (Past 14 days):
Auction listings: 196
Avg. Price: $28.04
Sell-Through: 49.49%

Google Products Results: 1,574

Google Sponsored Ads: 14

Update 10/13/2009: The domain sold for $2,500

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