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Hey Mike,
You state that mini site development "doesn't work, doesn't have a chance" and yet you yourself are trying to sell mini sites. We have been developing our own inventory for years now and have had great success with it. Since we had the process down - we brought it public to offer our services to other domainers. We are our biggest clients and KNOW that the process works. Allow me to talk about your points.
At aeiou.com we never promise the world. In fact we turn down more than half of the domain submissions due to the fact we feel that they would not make great candidates. If we were so prone to sales, why would we do this? I believe in providing a quality service to our clients and that is exactly what we do.
As far as pricing goes - we have no plans on changing. Yes there are plenty of competitors out there that offer services at a fraction of our price - but that does not mean the product or service is the same. The other majors donât do the time intensive expensive link building.
You can ask any of our clients - we tell them straight up - our websites are not meant to be works of art. They are meant to be effective at gaining additional search engine traffic and monetizing it. All content is written in house by our team of writers and if you find anything that is 100% ripped it is due to it being a fact. We do not use recycled content - and will never. Upon completion of each of our developments, our clients receive a full link building report detailing each link building effort we performed. You stand on your soapbox, but obviously you have not worked with us to know this process. We have quality control systems in place and check our writers for their honesty daily.
Our 1 year ROI goal, is just that - a goal. We screen each domain to make sure they fit the bill and do our best to protect our clients investments. It does not take domains with type in traffic to meet this goal. In fact some of our best performers have been names with ZERO type in traffic.
Our goal is to target the main keyword in the domain name. Nothing more, nothing less. Our optimization shows this as you pointed out.
In the case of unemployed.com, it was banned when it came to us. We have been working on getting this reindexed in the search engines - until then, yes you will not see any results in google. However it is gaining exposure in yahoo. It went from nowhere to high on the second page of Yahoo. As the links get older, it should continue to climb.
We operate with complete transparency. If you want to know traffic you simply have to ask.
If you truly read our case study on marketcritic.com - you would learn that the focus of that post was actually how we were able to take a domain that had previous backlinks and saved them by developing. You are absolutely right - #1 for market critic is not a critical move - but we are there and the site is flourishing. Had we parked the domain, the backlinks would have died off and all efforts would be lost.
The internet is a big place. We buy and sell names. Some of the names had previous developments on them sure. Looking over the case studies though, it looks like 80% or so of them had no previous development, or if they did - there was a long period of parking in between our developments.
As for repossessions.com, we made a typo - shame on us and it will be fixed. Itâs only been live for 3 months, not 6. I do however appreciate you pointing out that our service does work though.
Daytraders.com was sold - Jay has yet to take possession.
To this day, we have yet to have a customer have any troubles with adsense. We have alot of them out there. We play by the rules and do not even think twice about this. I do not know a single domain we have developed that has been penalized. Once again you are making unfounded claims. As far as a foot print, yes we have a link to aeiou.com on our hosted mini sites. This will not change. As part of our service we offer free hosting for our clients in return for a simple link back to our site. As long as the sites are not in contempt, this will never be a problem. If you do not agree, then do you think that Wordpress is a bad guy as well even if their default theme is one of the most widely used designs on the internet? Sure one wipe can knock us out - but we do not give Google a reason to wipe us.
Mike, we operate a business that is growing daily. It is hard to do this by burning bridges. We offer a product, for a price and stand behind it. I do not believe in going out and slamming other businesses to try to make ours look better. In fact, aeiou.com works with our competitors. We could go back and forth for days - and I am sure you will still feel the same way, however I felt your post was truly uncalled for and there needed to be a little light shed on this.
Let's not get into a battle, you said your piece, we said ours. As far as I am concerned you can go about your business and we will do the same.
Regards,
Rick Latona
http://www.ricklatona.com
You state that mini site development "doesn't work, doesn't have a chance" and yet you yourself are trying to sell mini sites. We have been developing our own inventory for years now and have had great success with it. Since we had the process down - we brought it public to offer our services to other domainers. We are our biggest clients and KNOW that the process works. Allow me to talk about your points.
At aeiou.com we never promise the world. In fact we turn down more than half of the domain submissions due to the fact we feel that they would not make great candidates. If we were so prone to sales, why would we do this? I believe in providing a quality service to our clients and that is exactly what we do.
As far as pricing goes - we have no plans on changing. Yes there are plenty of competitors out there that offer services at a fraction of our price - but that does not mean the product or service is the same. The other majors donât do the time intensive expensive link building.
You can ask any of our clients - we tell them straight up - our websites are not meant to be works of art. They are meant to be effective at gaining additional search engine traffic and monetizing it. All content is written in house by our team of writers and if you find anything that is 100% ripped it is due to it being a fact. We do not use recycled content - and will never. Upon completion of each of our developments, our clients receive a full link building report detailing each link building effort we performed. You stand on your soapbox, but obviously you have not worked with us to know this process. We have quality control systems in place and check our writers for their honesty daily.
Our 1 year ROI goal, is just that - a goal. We screen each domain to make sure they fit the bill and do our best to protect our clients investments. It does not take domains with type in traffic to meet this goal. In fact some of our best performers have been names with ZERO type in traffic.
Our goal is to target the main keyword in the domain name. Nothing more, nothing less. Our optimization shows this as you pointed out.
In the case of unemployed.com, it was banned when it came to us. We have been working on getting this reindexed in the search engines - until then, yes you will not see any results in google. However it is gaining exposure in yahoo. It went from nowhere to high on the second page of Yahoo. As the links get older, it should continue to climb.
We operate with complete transparency. If you want to know traffic you simply have to ask.
If you truly read our case study on marketcritic.com - you would learn that the focus of that post was actually how we were able to take a domain that had previous backlinks and saved them by developing. You are absolutely right - #1 for market critic is not a critical move - but we are there and the site is flourishing. Had we parked the domain, the backlinks would have died off and all efforts would be lost.
The internet is a big place. We buy and sell names. Some of the names had previous developments on them sure. Looking over the case studies though, it looks like 80% or so of them had no previous development, or if they did - there was a long period of parking in between our developments.
As for repossessions.com, we made a typo - shame on us and it will be fixed. Itâs only been live for 3 months, not 6. I do however appreciate you pointing out that our service does work though.
Daytraders.com was sold - Jay has yet to take possession.
To this day, we have yet to have a customer have any troubles with adsense. We have alot of them out there. We play by the rules and do not even think twice about this. I do not know a single domain we have developed that has been penalized. Once again you are making unfounded claims. As far as a foot print, yes we have a link to aeiou.com on our hosted mini sites. This will not change. As part of our service we offer free hosting for our clients in return for a simple link back to our site. As long as the sites are not in contempt, this will never be a problem. If you do not agree, then do you think that Wordpress is a bad guy as well even if their default theme is one of the most widely used designs on the internet? Sure one wipe can knock us out - but we do not give Google a reason to wipe us.
Mike, we operate a business that is growing daily. It is hard to do this by burning bridges. We offer a product, for a price and stand behind it. I do not believe in going out and slamming other businesses to try to make ours look better. In fact, aeiou.com works with our competitors. We could go back and forth for days - and I am sure you will still feel the same way, however I felt your post was truly uncalled for and there needed to be a little light shed on this.
Let's not get into a battle, you said your piece, we said ours. As far as I am concerned you can go about your business and we will do the same.
Regards,
Rick Latona
http://www.ricklatona.com