Comments on: The Problem With Duplicate Content

By: WQ

WQ — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:13:34 +0000

Yes, PPC revenues are definitely down along with the rest of the economy.

Starting to bounce back a bit here.

Fortunately, we made enough from PPC in the past few years to not have to worry about the current situation.

As far as using other affiliate programs and development, we are starting to dibble and dabble in that. It has not proven itself to make us any money yet, at least not anything worth talking about – but I’m hopeful.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:47:52 +0000

Have you thought about switching-over to do some more affiliate-based marketing? PPC revenues are down – that is an absolute fact…how has this transformed your business over the last year?

I appreciate all of your feedback @WQ and hope you understand that I am always looking to learn more! Since I am focused on search engine rankings rather than direct-nav I am always interested to learn more from those with strong direct-nav portfolios.

By: WQ

WQ — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:44:22 +0000

“are you parking or developing your names?”

We use PPC.

By: WQ

WQ — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:40:43 +0000

@Jim

Can you share a few of your strong dotcoms?

I’d have to see it to believe it

I cant remember seeing your name in the whois when looking up solid dotcoms in the past…most the folks I know say type ins have been steady and some like F. Schilling seem to think that new tech like the iPad is good for direct nav (See post on DNW).

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:34:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing @Jim!

By: Jim Holleran

Jim Holleran — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:09:43 +0000

@WQ

Been around since 1998 and own many strong .com names. Type-In traffic is declining on average and many people don’t want to admit it. I have personally seen that with English .com’s and 95% of the people told me the same thing at DomainFest when I talked in private about this.

However, I own many Spanish .com’s since 1999 and type-in traffic on those have increased because of the explosive spanish market.

Morgan tells the truth and he knows what he is talking about. Plus he is one CoooooooooooooL dude!!!

Thanks, Jim

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:58:25 +0000

Excellent point @WQ – I will reach-out to a number of people I know with strong type-in portfolios and see if any of them are comfortable sharing some data here.

One question – are you parking or developing your names?

By: WQ

WQ — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:51:51 +0000

More people use search now sure. 10 years ago search wasn’t what it is today.

I do not see this as negative for type in traffic though…and this is from someone (me) who makes a living from type ins and has for 10 years.

If someone says type ins have been going the way of the Dodo Bird I would like to see their domain portfolio first before I make any conclusions.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:28:32 +0000

Thanks @WQ – definitely would be good to hear from these folks. I spoke with a handful of people at TRAFFIC and DOMAINfest that said their type-in traffic was declining but I’m not sure they want me to blog about them. Maybe I could do a post and put together a survey on this issue.

You do agree that more people use search now than they did ten years ago though…right?

By: WQ

WQ — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:25:27 +0000

I find that its usually the ones that do not own a bunch of generic type in getting domains that say type ins are declining.

How many of the bigger players that have been around for years are agreeing with this?