Domains Update

Just a quick update to say that we’ve added some more domains to our portfolio.

• cutlery drawer – for kitchen cutlery and gadgets
• black labrador – look out for Archie, our new dog
• podcast – covering the latest podcast releases
• rose wine – a site all about pink plonk!

If you have any partnership ideas for any other the above sites, please do get in touch.

Buying Websites

Along with our interest in buying domains, we’re interested in buying established websites. If you are selling a website that is preferably:

• at least a few months old
• does not rely on PPC traffic
• has available visitor stats
• has available revenue stats
• a .co.uk domain

..then do get in touch. On the other hand, we’re not interested in:

• 3 week old, made for Adsense sites
• anything to do with pills that make you thinner, bigger, happier, etc
• ebook sales
• gambling
• dating
• adult interest
• and such like

We would consider websites that generate income via the amazon associates programme but not astores. We are also interested in UK centric hyperlocal sites.

If you’re also interested in domain name and website dealing yourself then I can recommend that you also read:

• Scott Jones at Self Made Minds; Scott provides some really informative information about buying and selling domain names
• Richard Kershaw at Quality Nonsense; Richard provides his new mailing list called We Buy Websites and is also interested in hearing from people looking to sell websites.
• Elliot Silver in New York also discusses buying, selling and developing both niche and city geo domains.

Is Twitter Killing Affiliate Blogging

On the day that Bigmouthmedia launch their inaugural B.A.B.E. award (with a jolly decent £1,000 prize!) I’ve been thinking if twitter has taken over from blogging?

Now, whilst I detest myspace, don’t use facebook because of all those daft games it seems to have, I think twitter (my profile – feel free to follow me) is a really simple, effective marketing tool. I follow people who I think offer some useful tweets and search.twitter.com (via RSS feeds) is just great for finding content for my emerging hyperlocal sites.

There could be valid reasons why affiliates/seo’ers/domainers aren’t blogging so much:

 

• nothing much to say recently
• no point in repeating what many others are saying
• too busy working on other projects/revenue generation in this tougher economic climate
• apathy
• 140 character tweets force you to be concise ..and therefore it’s quicker

 

I follow a few affiliates, not all by any means as you can only read so much. Now I’ve not done any research at all but my gut feel is that affiliate blog posting is slowly playing second fiddle to tweeting.

It could just be the people that I like to read and more generally blogging is still going strong – what do you think?