Frager Factor

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Domaining20.com: Are You Kidding Me?

"For our part, we throw a party when someone “steals” our content and links back to us. High fives all around the office"

Ps. The problem Scott is that most domain news is old news 10 minutes after it's printed and has no future value for search unless it's tagged properly and written for Google alerts and searches and not aggregaters..

From my mailbox:
Hello Owen / DomainSuccess.com / Frager Factor,

I'm writing on behalf of domain industry RSS Aggregator Domaining 2.0
(http://domaining20.com). Most of the top domain industry blogs have agreed to syndicate their content to us, and I would now like to request permission to re-publish your RSS blog feed on our site and in our Toolbar. You can learn more about me and our site at the following press release:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/domainnames/domaining/prweb4059134.htm

The benefits to you of syndicating your content to us in this way include increased traffic, SEO, and brand awareness. We provide much more SEO value compared with aggregators such as Domaining.com, NameBee.com, and DNHeadlines.com. Domaining.com and NameBee.com both 'bounce' users off internal links providing little SEO value to their content partners.

Each RSS post we syndicate is headlined with a long-term, one-way, "deep", H1 link back to your site in the header of the post. These links are archived on our site providing a growing number of related inbound links signaling your authority to search engines for long tail search terms. Any organic links embedded in your posts are left intact further strengthening your SEO and traffic.

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington strongly supports syndicating your content in this way, he says, "For our part, we throw a party when someone “steals” our content and links back to us. High fives all around the office... the aggregaters can figure out who broke the news.... reputation is gained." According to Michael Arrington, inbound links from RSS aggregaters such as ourselves are a key factor to TechCrunch's success online.

What I have done is I have already fully integrated you into our site so you can see exactly how this will look. Featured on our home pag are the most recent syndicated posts, and all older posts can be found in categories and tags down the right side navigation of our site. Inclusion in our RSS feed also includes you in our Domaining 2.0 Toolbar and our Top 100+ Domaining blogs web page too.

Please let me know if we can have your permission to syndicate your RSS feed? We will be heavily promoting the Domaining 2.0 site and Toolbar on Twitter, Facebook, AdWords, and in our email lists and other domain industry web properties. If you approve, we will keep it online and continue re-publishing your RSS feed to our site.

If you Do Not approve, just let me know and I will delete ALL of your RSS content and all links to your site immediately. I have put it up ahead of time for demonstration purposes and to save you and I time and for you to make a quick and fully informed decision as quickly as possible.

Finally, we STRONGLY REQUEST (but do not require) that our RSS content partners provide at least one reciprocal "do follow" link back to our home page from your / their web sites. This can be in the form of a simple text link from your Blogroll or a link using one of the images at the following page (http://domaining20.com/link-to-us/). Linking to us in this way helps reinforce the SEO juice in our links back to your site.


Kind Regards,

Scott Carde

--
Domaining 2.0

http://domaining20.com
http://twitter.com/domaining20

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Owen - I fully agree, one of the reasons we never replied to him.

Best quote I heard today ... "Why don't people spend thier time trying to create something new" when some people heard about this.

This site will be down in 12 months or less - just boring if you ask me.

and when he dissed Francois' domaining.com in the press release well, just showed no class.

Domaining said...

Owen,

I think you’ve treated my request a little too callously.

Let’s do a case study on the search term ‘The Frager Factor’ in Google. Go ahead, start by typing ‘The Frager Factor’ into Google.

The first ten results show up. I assume you want to own as much of this real estate as possible.

FragerFactor.Blogspot.com owns the first three results – as expected. The third result is Domaining.com – an RSS aggregator. Wait, you say, I don’t want an RSS aggregator showing up so high on my top results page on Google!

Not so fast though. First you must ask, what are the alternatives? What results would shift up and take Domaining.com’s place on the first page of Google if it did not exist? Well, you can start by looking at the next six results.

There are several spamming looking results below Domaining.com, including one at ReggingDRUNK.com that I’m sure you’re very happy that Domaining.com is ahead of.

The fact that Domaining.com is so high up on the list and in front of the other spammy sites is a boon to you. The result listed at Domaining.com provides an entire page dedicated to YOU. It includes no less than 20 links summarizing your latest posts in a professional looking format that direct users straight back to your web site.

Thank you Domaining.com. Thank you for pushing the link spam down and helping me re-claim the top results page in Google for me with a relevant professional looking page that includes 20 links back to ME!

Now click to the next page, results 11 through 20. There you’ll see Domaining20.com in the number 11 spot. That’s us. Yes, we’re there already. And we’re here to help too. We’re here to knock out those other irrelevant links on the first results page for The Frager Factor and to put in their place a nice and professional looking page that includes a large collection of links straight back to your web site. We help you re-claim and own that first page in Google.

But wait, for Domaining 2.0, the value doesn’t stop there. We do even more for you than Domaining.com.

Domaining.com bounces their users off of internal links. So you get pretty much zero SEO help from Domaining.com for your individual posts, i.e. your long tail search results. For every blog post we syndicate we link straight back to your site with a deep H1 or H2 link. This has the same effect as I described above, crowding out link spam in your search engine results pages for long tail search terms, and replacing them with pages on our site that link directly back to your site.

We provide a lot of value. I urge you to reconsider your position on the matter.

This is what Michael Arrington of TechCrunch was alluding to in the quote that I forwarded.

Regards,

Scott

Domaining20.com

s said...

I don't care about page rank or searches on Frager Factor. Less than 3% of my traffic comes in via Frager Factor. But with 7000 posts I have in the six figures of keywords covered that people do search for and at least 10,000 of those are #1 positions for words if domains would be worth over $1 million each. Please exclude me from your publication. I think it's sickening that you infringe on domaining's trademark to try to steal equity in his search prowess that tooks years and hundreds of thousands to achieve. This will end the topic for me. Any questions you can call my lawyer or even watch my interview with him on this topic on DomainSuccess.com/VIP