SEO Tricks: Vanity URLs on 3rd Party Websites Are Worth Almost $10

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Vanity URLs on 3rd Party Websites Are Worth Almost $10
 

<h3>Best Thing Since Sliced Bread!</h3>
<p>Recently lots of internet marketers hopped on getting Facebook vanity URLs claiming them to be a second coming of domain names. But the problem with networks like Youtube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc etc etc is that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, and it is virtually impossible to move a person from content consumer on those 3rd party sites into a customer on your site. </p>
<h3>Social Media Traffic Typically Lacks Value</h3>
<p>Most social media traffic is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. Rarely are You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login.</p>
<p>Sure you can drop them at the top of a sales funnel, but then you still have to convert them. And the people who are ahead of the curve with technology are often the hardest to influence via advertising, and are the least receptive of offers unless they hear of them recommended from friends. </p>
<h3>Social Media Mentions vs Independent Reviews</h3>
<p>If someone recommends us, then I would much rather have that recommendation point at our site from their site rather than through a 3rd party website that might go away at some point. The third party recommendations on social networks tend to be brief/short/limited in context, so they don't carry a lot of weight toward selling something, and those mentions are often You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and people recommending to their friends that they just grab a torrent of your work.



The natural bias of social media sites is toward people who value their time lowly (or else they would spend more of their time in tighter niche communities and/or in higher order business functions). Sure I have mentioned some of the recommendations for our stuff that people have done on social networks, but a link to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login is far more appealing because there is so much more context, and people who have read and followed that blogger for a while likely trust that review more than a random Twitter user trusts a 140 character recommendation.</p>
<h3>Viral Does Not = Sales</h3>
<p>Even the canonical example of proof of value of viral videos was not that successful. Millions of Will it Blend? video views helped the Blendtec company grow by less than a factor of 10. Many successful professional SEOs use SEO to increase the value of websites by that in less than a year, and have done so over and over again. With SEO you can create a million dollar business from scratch in about a year's time, largely because search has so much implied intent...so you don't need a huge traffic stream to monetize if you pick the right markets.</p>
<h3>Domain Names vs Usernames</h3>
<p>I was a bit slow to buy the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login domain names, but recently bought the pair for less than $500. They allow me to further dominate brand related searches, while blocking potential competitors in the search results. For $500, that is not bad! </p>
<p>Some Facebook user named Peter Simik is squatting the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login vanity URL and thinks I am stupid enough to pay $10,000 for it (assetize.com/accounts/view/210). I wouldn't give him $1 for it on principal. But there is not even a competitive threat there...people already have hundreds of connections to my real profile there, and few people are going to associate with the fake account.</p>
<p>More recently a couple readers highlighted that someone is on the newly launched You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login website using my picture and our site logo to promote some crappy SEO website I have never heard of (hunch.com/seo-techniques/result/do-it-yourself/1928754/). That is obviously illegal, but it will only serve to undermine the trust in such 3rd party networks if they are full of fake &amp; squatted accounts. </p>
<h3>Protecting Your Brand</h3>
<p>Services like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login allow you to register your username on over 100 web2 sites to minimize any time wasting that might be created by someone hijacking your brand. Most of the web 2 sites will fail, but time is money, and it is hard to know which ones will be a success right from the start.</p>
<h3>Even 1% of All Web Page Views Can be a Poor Business</h3>
<p>Sites like Geocities , Anglefire, and Tripod were stars from about a decade ago, back when general web communities were hot then. And most of those types of sites failed. </p>
<p>A year ago MySpace was predicting great growth, but they have since rescinded on their big real estate deal, Google complained about how hard it was to monetize the traffic, and just earlier today You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login:</p>

<p>MySpace announced plans to reduce its staff by nearly 30%, saying staffing levels were "bloated" and hurt its ability to be an efficient company. The social networking site, owned by News Corp., named a new leadership team earlier this year in an effort to reinvigorate the service. The move brings MySpace's U.S. work force to about 1,000 people.</p>

<p>As the Google ad deal is set to unwind MySpace, is downsizing their operation! According to Alexa, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and they are struggling to make a business out of it. </p>
<p>How many of these general social media sites will be around in a decade?</p>

 

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