Now, when are you guys gonna develop Location.net so I can get some of that direct nav traffic to Location.com. Ill buy you a CASE of 95 Dom LOL

Damn you NAILED the Desert Sun on target! That was the paper I talked to. I own about 10 Palmsprings and Las Vegas domains, along with a few other desert area cities, and i can’t get CRAP for promoting them even on radio stations (really, I tried!).

A newspaper syndicate is a client of my Successclick domain consulting services, and they control hundreds of geo positions in the US. Newspapers are by nature, old school. However, this company hired someone who incessantly showed them the value of their content and their reach, and their domains, as applied online. That person reached out to me, and we’ve been working together to make a change to show newspapers that the online market only makes them money, and at less cost than printed publications.

The Desert Sun, they don’t get it yet. They should be buying the domains that they are denying to be featured in their classified sections for “SALE”. Dave, you amaze me that you bit that biscuit about them right off the bat. Good job bro.

I’m curious to see how your strategy goes to hire a telemarketing staff to sell Geo ads. Seriously, please let me know.

Setting up a real estate website based on geo domains is a b*tch! It gets some traffic, but I would like to build it into a directory.

My logical solution, pardons to the Castellos, is to hire three people at minimum wage to call up everyone in the yellow pages to get them to pay for a $99 a year listing on your sweet geo prodserv directory domain. Of course, your crew would be working on cold calling other potential advertisers for your 50 other domain directories, but if you can pull in 200 advertisers per directory at $99 yearly, that’s about $20,000 a year. Multiply that by 50 similar sites, and that’s Frank Schilling jing (umm monthly i think).

The Castellos and Elliot have geo development down pretty well, and learning from their comments, mistakes and successes, is so valuable I can’t state that enough. What is sad is that most of the world isn’t reading this blog, to learn how to succeed in working from their home on their own business. On the other hand, do we need another 500,000 competitors in this biz? lol

I would never try to sell advertising for a name because of its search engine rankings (in fact, I could not think of a more scary or insecure situation). Neither our LagunaBeach.com, WestPalmBeach.com or PalmSprings.com are #1 on Google for a search of their respective cities (each rank in the Top 3), but guess who sells all the local advertising?

That’s because each of those names are recognized by the locals as intuitive brands and each receives a hefty dose of direct navigation traffic. Yes, any site should always have at least Top 5 search engine rankings for their most obvious search word/phrase, but search engine rankings for a brand site is more of icing on the cake.