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Fly.com sold for US$1.8 million

Stupid Domain Things written by Doug Scott

Travelzoo Purchases Fly.com Domain Name for $1.8 Million

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Travelzoo (Nasdaq: TZOO), a global Internet media company, today announced that it has purchased the Internet domain name fly.com for $1,760,000 in cash. Travelzoo intends to use this domain name for a new information Web site to be launched in February.

“We are delighted to acquire fly.com for our new offering,” said Brian Clark, senior vice president and general manager, search products, Travelzoo. “The name is a perfect match for Travelzoo’s renowned approach: simple, fun, and world class. Where others see doom and gloom we see opportunities to serve travelers and advertisers with innovative approaches to finding the best values in travel.”

The domain name purchase was brokered by Sedo.com, LLC.

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A sad day

other written by Doug Scott

Martin Schaedel 23 has passed away

Most people here will never have heard of him, but go back 8 years and that small seo community all knew him. He was the extremely bright, opinionated kid who turned up at the small gatherings that existed in those days. Me and Martin always had digs at each other and disagreed lots, probably because I was envious of his pure genius and knowledge on everything.

All the best to his family on what must be a horrible day.

Doug

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Made For Adsense site makes $10 million per year

Fun, Google, SEO written by Doug Scott

www.plentyoffish.com

I remember talking to Marcus about 2 years ago and the beats just keeps on rolling.

The complete story is here

Doug

Ps Talking of fish look at our fish related site aquarium-fish-tank. I couldn’t resist that one

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Are Zanox playing with Scumware???

Affiliate Money Grabbers written by Doug Scott

zanox – http://www.zanox.com – the global market leader in performance-based multichannel commerce, has added a series of social networking sites to its UK affiliate network. Webfetti, Zwinky and Smiley Central are all toolbar-based services which allow consumers to enhance their online presence and communication.

Zwinky – http://www.zwinky.com – is a customisable social avatar that helps people create and express their online brand or persona. Zwinky gives users a fun, free and easy way to show off personal style and mood, and express themselves visually on multiple social networking sites and blogs. Users also create an online personal profile, access their network of contacts and communicate from anywhere on the Web where their character is displayed update automatically.

Webfetti – http://www.webfetti.com – is a free, web-based application that allows users to easily customise their social networking profile pages and blogs on sites such as MySpace. Users can improve the look of their profile pages with different layouts, smileys, glitter letters, glitter graphics and video.

Smiley Central – http://www.smileycentral.com – is a free Smileys website launched in June 2003 which revolutionised the industry when it introduced flash-based “super” smileys. With more than 10,000 to choose from, smileys from Smiley Central work with instant messaging applications, email programs, blogs and mobile devices.

Source:

http://www.searchbyheadlines.com/posted_news/106116.html

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car rentals.co.uk car hire affiliate scheme launched

ASAP Ventures, What we are doing written by Doug Scott

Car hire affiliate scheme from car rentals.co.uk

Can I make a public thank you to everyone involved. This is the first comparator we believe that is offering a cpe type deal to affiliates. Think about it….we have 40 suppliers feeding their sales data into our system which we then feed back to webgains, not a simple task….well done.

So if you have a travel site and want to add an ancillary product that converts much better than anything alse then hopefully we have it.

Doug

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Make money better than the bank and feel good

other written by Doug Scott

www.kiva.org

Mention it again:)

Doug

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An awesome day

Fun, Politics written by Doug Scott

The American public at the end of today will have a moved on leaps and bounds, they have elected:

a black bloke

a bloke with a muslim name

a bloke who spent his first years living in Indonesia

a bloke from no money

a bloke with a funny face

Watch it live here

Wow a truely awesome day

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Want some content

outsourcing written by Doug Scott

http://www.purecontent.com/

Is a mate who we use for some of ours, so here is a lovely plug for him.

Good luck Dave and you owe me a beer:)

Doug

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How to create a controversey and get some business

Affiliate Money Grabbers written by Doug Scott

Find a subject that is controversial but related to your industry, like voucher codes and www.promotions.co.uk. Find the forums where this topic is being discussed like www.affiliates4u.com. Decide what your stance is to be, mine is always the same I am the purist as it matches with my character and so my posts are always genuinely what I think.

Ok  so go and create some genuinely real threads that are useful or join in on other threads like these:

Thread 1

Thread 2

Thread 3

Then actively join in the threads, don’t hold punches, say what you really believe ( so few people ever do) and you will be gauranteed to get a conversation going. You will get lots of wishy washy people comment, but also some people who have oposing views. This is great as you now have a dialogue going without you being involved.

Make sure to have in your signature what you are offering and then wait. Firstly you will get people reading the thread contacting you, but also if the thread is genuinely useful ( remember this is the key thing you must do) then other forums blogs will link to it, you get more people contacting you. Google will then love this and the pages will rank for a lot of related terms like:

voucher code issues

Then you get more people contacting you….job done

Welcome to fun, but remember you need to make what you say genuinely useful or insightful.

Doug

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Link Bait You Wish You Had Thought Of

Fun written by Doug Scott

Mine for starters:

Queensland Tourist Board, Australia

How can I call them stupid after that?

Any more?

Doug with his 20% new look voucher code :)

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