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Patrick Gavin, who has been involved in search engine optimization since 2000 and previously co-founded Text Link Ads which was acquired by MediaWhiz in 2006 – took a BIG BET this past November when he purchased the DotNet Domain SearchEngineOptimization.net at BuyDomains.com.  Patrick Gavin certainly doesn’t do anything small and he’s working on other projects to help others with SEO that can help you make the most of your website. 

Wanna learn how to take your Developed Domains to the top page of Google?  Who better to learn from than someone who has a trackrecord of success, than Patrick Gavin?   He’s proven keyword rich names coupled with a good service, whether they are DotNet or hyphenated, can become very successful businesses despite all the Category-Killer dotcom competition.  Patrick Gavin’s Big Bet on SEO

Patrick Gavin’s Big Bet on SEO

As others have reported when this story broke, Patrick’s SearchEngineOptimization.net wasn’t even cached in Google – at the time of this posting, the URL is indexed by Google.  It’s not even close to showing up in top 10, or 20, or even 50 Results pages – but that’s OK, Patrick has a 1-year plan to get his URL to the top of Google Search Results Page 1. 

Patrick has launched a blog using WordPress on the domain name – and chances are over the next few months, you’ll be seeing some changes. 

What’s Patrick’s goal behind this big gamble?

The idea for SearchEngineOptimization.net was to create a free SEO learning center where the teaching was done in a unique way.  The site will be a living case study chronicling the success or failure of ranking this very site for “search engine optimization”.  It will walk you through the steps I am taking to rank this site and track the results with full transparency.

I recently (over?)paid $62,500 for the domain SearchEngineOptimization.net  It was a parked domain that was not even cached in Google.   My goal is to take a domain that at the time of purchase is not even indexed in Google (so does not rank for anything) to #1 for “search engine optimization” within 365 days and teach visitors exactly how I did it (or failed to do it) along the way!  I will cover such topics as: Keyword research, Domain research and diligence, Domain negotiation, On page optimization, Link building, Tracking success, etc, etc.

DO IT YOURSELF! SEO for the rest of us

Patrick is also launching DIYSEO.com in early 2010 – with the goal of helping the rest of us with SEO – those us with very very small budgets.  And there’s a blog already online in lieu of a site.

But what about the small business that can budget only $500 and 25 hours per year towards online marketing?

At DIYSEO we are going after a different market in a very different way.  Andy and I both get many inquiries every week from small business owners (think real estate agents, small car dealers, restaurants, and part-time entrepreneurs) looking to get better exposure in organic search.  We have devised a way to give that expert advice to small business owners in a semi-automated yet highly customized format.

If you listened to all the Skeptics

If you’re in our boat, with a limited budget, limited expertise and certainly limited good domain names – if we listened to all the skeptics, we wouldn’t be here.  There are probably a ton of Industry experts cringing at the thought of anyone paying this kind of money for a Dotnet – but chances are Patrick knows what he’s talking about, and he’s not afraid to put his money where his mouth is.

After all, he sold a very successful business “Text Link Ads” to MediaWhiz – and the URL for the website is text-link-ads.com.

As we reported early yesterday morning, Sedo brokered the deal of Russia.com for $1.5 million dollars.  NewMedia Holdings, the sellers of the domain name own an impressive portfolio of domain names with a focus on geo domain names ranging from PuertoRico.com to Scotland.com. 

NewMedia uses a Turnkey Travel Site Platform for their Geo Domains

The same framework is used on all of their geodomains – a framework that you can use to get your geodomains up and running for a cost.  According to NewMedia’s Web Consultancy at Paley Media,

Each of the Country Domains appearing on this site were created and are managed by Paley Media using our technology platform.

Our technology platform is supported by a proprietary content management system that combines industry standard web publishing software with server side tools. This solution provides our customers with full control over the design, structure and interactive functionality of thier travel sites.

Our turnkey platform includes the following features:

◦A Fully Integrated Booking Widget;
◦Advertising and Banner Managment Administration;
◦Server and Project Administration;
◦Unified Member Registration;
◦Hotel and Establishments Directory;
and
◦Traffic and Web Site Analysis. 

NewMedia Uses WordPress, Too, for Sites

Like Birds.com and Autoracing.com

Keeping it simple, NewMedia also uses WordPress as a solution for most of their non-geo domain names like, Birds.com, AutoRacing.com, and Airplanes. 

NewMedia Holdings’ Notable Properties

NewMedia’s properties include:

Airplanes.com
Algeria.com
Autoracing.com
Bangladesh.com
Birds.com
ChinaTrade.com
Ecuador.com
HorseRacing.com
Morocco.com
Musicians.com
Nepal.com
Nicaragua.com
PuertoRico.com
Scotland.com
Snowskiing.com
SouthAfrica.com
StockMarkets.com
Ukraine.com
VirtualCountries.com

Twitter has revolutionized the social networking world with it’s popular microblogging platform – and with it’s own search Engine in real-time it’s got big plans for the future.

But Twitter Vanity URLs have been surprisingly successful at ranking in the search engines. Who is the Domain King of the Twitter Vanity URL world?

Writers Write, Inc

While you might own some of the best category-killer domains in the world – there’s an entirely different land rush going on with Twitter, and there are several Twitter Domain Kings who got in early, registering names from twitter.com/science to twitter.com/blackfriday. In the Twitter Vanity URL world – there is one Domain King and it’s Writers Write, Inc.

They have some of the best vanity urls on Twitter. Here’s a look at just a sample of their category-killers:

twitter.com/toys
twitter.com/science
twitter.com/shopping
twitter.com/fashion
twitter.com/beautytips
twitter.com/bestsellers
twitter.com/gourmet
twitter.com/gadgets
twitter.com/blackfriday
twitter.com/health
twitter.com/pets

Twitter Vanity URLs rank well for keywords

If you don’t think that registering a keyword rich vanity URL doesn’t matter, perhaps you should consider what Writer’s Write, INc. has done.

Their twitter.com/blackfriday ranks on Page 2 of Google. And with Twitter gaining more credibility – they stand to do well.

Twitter skeptics can be pretty rowdy.  They claim they don’t see the value of using another social networking tool, despite the popularity of Twitter and the rising numbers.  They claim they don’t get the idea about following people or having people follow them back and that it’s just a waste of time. 

A lot of the skeptics say, “Who cares what other people are doing?”

Well, you’d be surprised what other people are doing – especially when they’re trying to do the same thing you’re doing in the Domaining business and they’re tweeting about it.

Getting Domain Development Help Through Twitter

We have tons of followers now, nearly 25,000 on Twitter for our Domaining account – which translates into traffic each and every time we send out a link. Whether it’s one visitor or a hundred visitors – it works out great for us, because we haven’t paid a single penny for advertising.

Last night we decided to ask our Twitter friends for HELP with SEO on one of our websites — ArmyVehicles.com – and the response was extraordinary.  Within seconds (not minutes) dozens of people were crawling ArmyVehicles.com providing us with ways to improve the SEO on the website. Not just regular readers with no background in SEO or website development, but people with years of experience in both fields.

A BIG THANKS to everyone who provided feedback, especially Tia Wood who gave us some much needed advice on things to fix (working on them now). Not just one piece of advice, but several – all value-added for us.

Followers: Quality? Quantity? You Just never know

Some of the best conversations we’ve had on Twitter are people we would’ve never expected to reach out to us. And we run several Twitter accounts to help promote all of our sites — most numbering in the thousands of followers and quickly growing.

Say what you want about Twitter, but the site is a huge help. Whether you’re plugging a product or looking for advice. It’s hard to argue with its benefit until you really try it.