Category — Ethics

Many search marketing professionals will echo that quality of content is a very important, if not the MOST important, factor in search ranking.  I strongly believe that you must develop sites and online assets with consumers in mind.  I don’t mean consumers as in people who will buy something, I mean consumers as in INFORMATION consumers.  People use the internet every day to consume information of sorts.  Even when someone is searching to buy something online, they are still trying to consume information on the best deal and the best product for their needs.  We need to start developing our websites with the information consumers in mind and not advertising or money.  The money and compensation for work will come no matter what, as long as you provide a great source of quality content.

This brings me to another topic:  How to monetize the traffic that our high quality sites and content have brought in.  I will be posting on this later.

Today was a very important day in the domain industry.  Network Solutions has done something very stupid and bad for the industry, overshadowing domainers with scrutiny and negativity.Jay Westerdal has confirmed that when you attempt to register a domain name at NetworkSolutions.com but choose not to purchase the name immediately, the name then automatically becomes registered by NETWORK SOLUTIONS in a blunt attempt to extort more money from the would-be registrant.

For up to four days after the initial attempt, you would be able to purchase your domain for the price of $34.99 back from Network Solutions.  After the four days has expired, the name is then shown to domain snipers and spys around the world for the chance to register and snap up.

This is absolutely ridiculous and very un-ethical.  I never recommend that anyone ever register a domain through Network Solutions, but now I will intentionally advise against using Network Solutions for ANY reason.  Network Solutions will now be known to me as a sphincter.