Archive for November, 2008
Domain Name Wire (now located at DNW.com) had a good post entitled, “More Bad Domain Names” where he shares some names and then explains why they are bad.
Read on…
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November 29th, 2008 | Posted in Avoid Hyphens, Best Practices, Branding a Product, Choosing a Good Name, Easy to Remember Names, What NOT To Do! | No Comments
In the previous post I mentioned Microsoft may be rebranding LiveSearch again (remember MSN?). INC.com has a good article that states “it’s better to change (names and branding) than to stick with something that isn’t working”. The article is entitled, “The Rebranding Game: If at first you pick the wrong name, you can always try, [...]
November 27th, 2008 | Posted in Best Practices, Branding a Product, Choosing a Good Name, Easy to Remember Names, Internet Advertising, Promoting Your Website, Rebranding, Renaming, What NOT To Do! | No Comments
There are many news and gossip articles suggesting that Microsoft has a branding initiative underway. One of the best articles I’ve read is from E-Commerce News, “Will Microsoft Get Search Branding Right With ‘Kumo’ ?“ The articles say that Microsoft has been buying up various versions of domain names with ‘Kumo’ in them. This article [...]
November 27th, 2008 | Posted in Branding a Product, Choosing a Good Name, Easy to Remember Names, Internet Advertising, Promoting Your Website, Rebranding, Renaming, Search Engines, What NOT To Do! | No Comments
It is a well known fact that readers of are attracted to and stay at blogs and Websites that have good photos to supplement the content. Personnally, I enjoy creating Websites and blogs but I don’t enjoy messing with photos so I am always happy to find easy solutions. It doesn’t get much easier than [...]
November 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Adding Photos and Illustrations, Best Practices, Good Content, Promoting Your Website | No Comments
I was ‘Googling’ this morning and noticed some arrows beside the results that I hadn’t noticed before but I didn’t pay much attention to them. That is, until I read Elliot Silver’s posting, ‘Change Google Search Results‘ about ‘SearchWiki’ on Elliot’s Blog.
Wow! This seems like a major innovation in ’searching’ to me! You can “customize [...]
November 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Best Practices, Good Content, Search Engines | No Comments
NameWire: the product naming blog had a well written and thoughtful post on the use of hyphens and other punctuation in branding and in domain names entitled, ‘The Difficulty of Brand Naming Punctuation‘. The post offers some surprising examples including one about a super hero.
I have been tempted (and succumbed) on a number of occasions [...]
November 18th, 2008 | Posted in Avoid Hyphens, Best Practices, Choosing a Good Name, Domain Names and/or Sites For Sale, What NOT To Do! | No Comments
Forbes magazine had an article, ‘Teen Machine: Alloy comes up with some of the hottest books and flicks for teens. So why isn’t it, like, profitable?‘ Being a high school media specialist (librarian) I read the article with interest as Alloy owns the ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ books and movies which are very popular [...]
November 9th, 2008 | Posted in Choosing a Good Name, Domain Names and/or Sites For Sale, Easy to Remember Names, Internet Advertising, Marketing to Kids & Teen, Media Advertising, Other Forms of Media, Promoting Your Website | No Comments
Phoenix realtor, Mario Trejo Romero, had a good article on protecting your domain name or Website address in his article, ‘Make Sure No One Steals Your Web Presence!‘ His emphasis is on making sure that your domain registration is ‘auto renewing’. This IS important as many others may be interested in using your domain name [...]
November 4th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Tim Cohn posted an interesting entry on his ‘Search Marketing Communications” blog entitled, ‘Linkedin Plus Twitter Equals Who Knows What?’ A couple of things I liked about the post were:
a quote by Mr. Cohn: ‘If a single individual can alter the market’s identification and perception of who that individual is simply by owning their name.com imagine [...]
November 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Choosing a Good Name, Domain Names and/or Sites For Sale, Easy to Remember Names, Internet Advertising, Your name | No Comments