A1 Domains
Did someone miss the memo?
Lately, I’ve seen about 50 new authors send in new articles that listed their domain that begins with A1- something.
Did they all miss the memo that the Internet is not indexed like the Yellow Pages? If your business was dependant on the yellow pages, you would name your business A1-something to get at the top of the listings.
Since no one should ever use the Yellow pages any more thanks to http://local.google.com/, it’s time to stop creating domain names with A1-something.
As far as I know, having an A1-domain will not give you any special rank advantages in the search engines or the …yellow pages. ;-)
Make sense or am I off base here?
Well, if this is so, why did you label your Blob Post “A1 Domains” instead of something that brings in better traffic from the outside?
Or did you title it that so all those who use it will come here to see how silly they are.
Back in the days of the Yellow Pages, High flying 80’s we use to list our franchisees who did mobile car washing as; “$5 Car Wash Guys” The Dollar sign comes up before numbers, and numbers come up before letters both of which are better than “A1” Yet even more interesting is Hispanic Companies which name their businesses a statement or question as those symbols are both before the name and after and if it were !Bravo Cleaning Company! you can see the benefit in the old yellow page world. Now then when your domain name is your company name and it is listed in directories often on the Internet you do come up first, for instance I remember a franchisee for our company in Atlanta, and there were two-pages worth of companies on the directory site and we were first with our “$5 Car Wash Guys” Strategy and we did actually get many calls per week from there. Now then this was well into 2000-2001.
I would differ in some respects as your company name gets picked up by directory site whose sole goal is to get people into Adsense clicks. they list many companies and if your company is “A1” then their companies might get clicks as frustrated surfers after investing time getting to the directory trickery site, will continue to click rather than back track on the back button. I discussed this exact thing with a Researcher of online strategies and sales from the University of Riverside CA. Anyway, I hear ya, Chris, it drives me nuts too, yet also from observation and experience it does elevate your “click to’s” by a tiny fraction. But 1-2% increase is better than directmail many times. Think on this. BTW- you are smart for labeling your title on your Blog “A1” even though you advice against it. Check the hit counter incoming directions, I bet you it will be 1-2% higher than other non-eventful Blog posts. All your Blog posts should contain key words if you want traffic. And I know you know this, because I have been watching your posts and thinking about your titles and the types of Ads which payout larger on Adsense then on other key words. So. Kudos for the undercurrent strategy while simulataneously bringing me valuable information and insight on your Blog. You are a multidimensional thinker and it shows by the success of EzineArticles.com
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