Posted by sean on
August 18, 2008
Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Some of you guys may remember ‘overture’ search results which showed you how many times people searched for ‘entertermhere’ each month in yahoo’s search engine. Well, they died a few months ago [sadtrombone]
As a rule of thumb, we’d take the value overture gave us and times it by 5 to estimate how many searches it got in google (that’s if you were lucky enough to catch the god damn site at a time when it was online).
Like spiderman coming to rescue someone as they’re just about to hit the pavement at 200mph, google have swooped in and saved us.
Enter Google adword’s research tool. Just like overture only better because, well, it’s Google.
Type in your search term and if you’re lucky, you’ll get a shitload of searches, zero advertiser competition and bam - you’ve just got yourself a niche.
As if that wasn’t enough, google have given us related keywords and statistics on them too. If we want, we can even get some nice trend graphs and see what time of year our search terms are most popular.
In the wrong hands (or should i say right hands), this tool is a lethal weapon. It’s basically full VIP access to google stats - what people are searching for and how many of them are searching for it.
Bookmark it, delicious it, hell get it tatooed on your arm if you have to - just don’t forget about this invaluable tool.
Official yesnoblog.com verdict:
Posted by sean on
August 18, 2008
GoDaddy
If there’s one thing i don’t like, it’s high prices. Yeah ok, i know there’s more expensive places than GoDaddy (don’t worry, i’ll hunt the down and verbally machete them too at a later date), but GoDaddy are probably the biggest domain name registrar out there.
It now costs $9.99* for me to register a .com with GoDaddy. *Plus 20c ICANN fee - but SSHHHH, we’re not supposed to see that until billing time because it has the cool little star beside it.
Screw that - why pay more? GoDaddy’s site is a mess of fiddly little drop down menus and masses of text. Why the hell should i pay $10.19 to let them host my .com domains when i can do it for $5.99 with name.com (with free whois protection) and have less clutter and the exact same features?
As if that wasn’t enough, we also had the whole .me shenanigans in which goDaddy accepted cash from multiple people for the SAME domains - resulting in a huge cock up, refunds, people losing domains and an angry mob of webmasters who all thought they’d hit the jackpot.
Official yesnoblog.com verdict:
