You are starting an online business venture and have heard that new sites lack authority and could take months before they see visitors, you don’t really have the budget for  ppc  or indeed SEO yet can afford an initial outlay on a website. You are not really concerned about how the website looks and have decided that page rank and a site that is already indexed are more important as of course is the age of the domain.

Where would you buy this site from ?  Who to trust ?

You know that there are domain auctions out there but are looking for an established website.

Dan Horton lost a bet today .. to me HAHAHA, after I blogged about Marc Chagall, he said that I was trying to rank for that term, so I bet him a £10 that the post wouldn’t rank in www.google.co.uk by 5 o’clock today.

So why did I win, well it was pretty obvious that if that Google was going to fix the Logo Link to Serps and Universal Serps.. remember “50th anniversary of the LEGO brick” I was #2 with in 1 hour of that logo.

butPatrick Altoft spoilt it :) at least I won a tenner.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Marc+Chagall&num=100

DaVeN

If you can remember back in January I blogged about the design side of Bronco, launching a Chesterfield Sofa site, in that post I mentioned one on how to help them sell a 15ft Lime Green Chesterfield Sofa .. (which I can handle OK ) more on that later, but if you need a 15ft chesterfield sofa it’s here

OK there was a side bet of a £100 between the partners which made the whole project more fun, you see no one in my opinion that went to the main site would buy that 15ft beast ;), so we built www.onebigchesterfieldsofa.co.uk and tried to give the beast a character and guess what it worked, somebody found Ches ( that’s the beast’s character ), loved the idea and bought him and ordered a few more, you see you can sell anything on the Internet

DaveN

I feel this could be massive and the Se’s are not going to like it,

A complete overhaul of the way in which people register domain names on the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris. at present we have country level tld, but now business and cities can request their own TLDs, so TLDs such as .sco for Scotland, or .ldn for London, and .nyc for New York could be come place but I bet on .news, .porn .kids and so on will be the ones where the bidding on land grab will happen.

also domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts, was also approved.

Man I hate it when Matt does it to me, but this time it was Rand, He posted What Google Doesn’t See CAN Hurt YouI hadn’t read the comments but I did my own quick check whilst eating lunch .. a Pork Pie actually by the time I had finished the Pie I had decide Rand was wrong and the site was cloaking or doing something silly with the way it serves pages, working a lot on large scale ASP / .net CMS system I see lots of odd things ;)

But I always check a few things, I identify myself as various spiders, use a slightly different variety of the SEO page tool and to see how the server responds, ibl’s etc etc and this server was well … misbehaving a little

Now the question I would be asking if I was Matt is why when I look at the page that is listed in your Sitemap XML from home computer I get a 301 but if I a GoogleBbot goes it gets a 404, shouldn’t you be serving the same content to everyone :) and lets say if I was Matt would I be digging a little into the Press Releases and the content on the database side ?

I not blaming Rand don’t get me wrong I’m sure he asked the owner first I mean in this day and age you really have to be careful cause Google is everywhere and knows everything… well 98%

DaveN