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My Once In A Lifetime Project - Domains.org

I’m going to keep this brief and to the point, so not to bring up any crazy and/or stupid questions.

This has nothing to do with WickedFire.com.

This project will be completely on it’s own.

Internets.. let me introduce you to Domains.org. Domains.org, meet the internets.

The domain was registered ONCE in 1996, and has been held by the same owner since then.

It currently ranks as #9 in Google for the coveted keyword - domains

It gets a pretty impressive amount of typein traffic, and search traffic.

It makes more annually than most affiliate marketers do, and this domain hasn’t even been developed the way it will be over the next few months.

We’re currently looking for partners. If you provide any type of service or product, and you’d like to pitch us, contact me.

We don’t need developers/designers, so if that’s your gig, there are plenty of other outlets for you guys.

I just want to tell everyone who got pissed off at me over the last week due to me not being around to respond to their emails or messages, THIS is why I have been so busy and secretive. I still have to finish writing out the architecture project plan for it, but this is THE project that I’ve been looking forward to. Big thanks to my new partners on it too.

In a few months or so, we’ll start dropping more information on what our plans will be for developing it. I can say that we’re going to be creating services for both the everyday naive business owner that just needs a domain, and also for the secretive domainer market industry.

I won’t be leaving WickedFire, but I may end up taking a less active role in posting and dishing out information. I still have plenty of big plans for WF, so I can’t just cut myself off just yet.

Internet Marketing Industry People I Respect… And Then The People I Don’t Really Care For!

Last week I made a bit of a ranting thread on WickedFire as a way to get some stress and other crap off my chest that had been bugging me for a while. I didn’t do it for linkbait, I didn’t do it to pick a fight, I didn’t even do it to entertain anyone but myself. I did it solely for the purpose of the fact that I have just been so sick and tired of reading the same shit over and over by people who don’t have a stinking clue as to how to really do what they say they do! I mean, there is only so much a person can take when visiting other blogs and then hear or see the same crap being posted all over the industry about how great or how unique this one guy’s advice or blog is, when really, it’s just the same shit, over and over and over again. It also turns out, that most people are sheep. It’s true, you can admit it if you know you’re one of those people.

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TrustRank - Alpha Service Complete; A Look Inside The Beta Service; Radio Show In The Works!

To all those who purchased the TrustRank beta service for $400 per TR report and recommended authority/trusted links, you should have it in your inbox. If you didn’t get it, please email me on my aojon.com email account. Be sure to include the PayPal transaction ID, along with the domain and topics/niches. I had a few bounces, so make sure you whitelist my email address. I’ll be sure to get it to you this weekend.

After AD:TECH NY next week, I’ll be launching the next phase  in the TrustRank service. It will be more of an a la carte type of service. One of the things to look forward to will be not only recommendations, but actual link work done for clients. It’s a semi-automated process, meaning, since I can’t fully automate it without sharing the information with a programmer, which I refuse to do, I’ll be hand picking the domains for the clients, and having them fed into an older custom app I found in my arsenal from a little under a year ago. It will do the job just fine and will allow you to sit back and get links without doing the work yourself. It should go a lot faster, and produce some great results. I’ve already tested it out for some friends for free, and on some of my newly acquired domains. So far, it’s worked 100% of the time, so hopefully it will stay that way without any issues.

I had some clients who submitted domains and topics/niches for other countries and languages, and surprisingly, this service can work for just about anything and any language. There was even a casino and pharma client, and at first I didn’t think there would be all that many results, and that I would have to refund them, but to my surprise, it actually produced some really solid results.

I thought that the most interesting part of this first service was that during the recent PageRank change, almost none of the results via TR were changed, or downgraded rather. Many of the results actually shot up a few notches. I had to change a few people’s TR scores because they went up a lot quicker than usual, so it was as if Google was saying “alright, your PageRank is too high, so let’s take some away, but we’ll compensate you with more trust/authority”. Not sure who decided that on Google’s side, but whatever, no complaints on this side of the fence I’m sure.

Another interesting part was seeing empty domains, like newly expired/deleted ones, jump a few points in TrustRank (nothing to brag about, still pretty damn low), but retained their PageRank even though when I ran it through some “very accurate PR testing tools” they appeared to be fake PR. I still don’t understand that, and quite frankly, I’m not going to even bother trying to understand it, because PageRank has no effect on anything except if you’re selling links on your site to people who still believe that PageRank matters (aka - 98% of the SEO industry and webmasters).

I’ll be at AD:TECH NY from November 4th-7th, so don’t expect any responses from me or blog posts either. We don’t have a booth for WickedFire either, but there may be a meet up point on the 5th. Check WickedFire.com for more details. I didn’t plan anything personally, but we did it last year at Copeac’s booth, and it was fun to finally meet so many of the members. Plus it made Copeac look like an uber popular booth, haha! No I’m kidding, they are great people and always have a ton of foot traffic show up.

That’s all for now. Catch ya on the flip side.

Oh yeah… There’s a radio show in the works. It won’t be anything like that one pilot episode I did almost 2 years ago either. We are going for a more quality in content but with a very sarcastic/humor focused program. We’re still debating on whom we will be hosting/streaming with. The choices right now are - WebmasterRadio, DI.fm/SKY.fm, or hosting/streaming it ourselves.  One of my good pals from my brief college and fraternity stint does funny voice-over work, and can mimic just about every great character voice I know of, so we plan on using his talents for some intro and commercial work. I really want to have a live show too, so people can call in and voice their opinion. More on this after AD:TECH as we are still working out the details.

Lightning Round On WickedFire.com Tonight!

Well.. as I wrote on WickedFire, I’m going to host a live WickedFire Lightning Round tonight at 7:00 PM EST for an hour. Lightning rounds are VERY fast paced and allow you to ask questions and get answers right away in real time. The topic is “anything internet marketing”. So if you have ANY questions you want an answer for, I’ll do my best and answer it for ya. The only requirement is that you be a member of WickedFire.com which is free and takes a whole 2 mins to register for! That’s it. So tell your friends, and get your ass down to WickedFire forums. It’s been a pretty long time since the last one, and a lot of people have questions.

WickedFire Lightning Round

$1M Over A Weekend Answer!

Alright kids.. so you’ve been waiting for the answer to the $1M over the weekend post I made a while back, well, I think it’s been enough of a wait, but I have to ask you to wait one more day, because instead of releasing the information here, I’m going to be a guest on WebmasterRadio.fm’s show Good Karma. Kinda ironic too eh? Someone like myself who doesn’t seem to give a shit about karma on a show labeled good karma? Ha!!

I’ll also be giving away FREE passes to Affiliate Summit East in Miami (July 8th-10th 2007). If you’re not a member of WickedFire, and just been a lurker, you best get your ass to the registration, because the VIP WickedFire party sponsored by Copeac is going to be fucking insane. It’s going to be in a mansion on a private island. The only way to get to it is via a yacht we are renting. Lots of free food, booze, music (private DJ), hot women, and networking. All the must-have ingredients for a great party!!

So tune in live tomorrow at 4pm EST at www.webmasterradio.fm for the Good Karma show with Greg Niland and me! We’ll be throwing it down and having a really fun time. Not sure if we are going to be giving out many tips, but if you can come up with some good ideas or questions for the show in their live IRC channel, you get a free pass to Affiliate Summit East 2007 courtesy of WickedFire.com. Not a bad deal!

This is going to be funnnnnn!!

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