Comments on: Guest Post: The “Independent Web”: The only place where YOU control your online presence

By: alt.bin

alt.bin — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:59:50 +0000

“Apparently it was John Battelle, co-founder of Wired Magazine and news website The Industry Standard, who coined the terms in his 21 October 2010″

The Indie Web manifesto has been around since 1997

http://www.uzine.net/article63.html

By: Elliot Silver

Elliot Silver — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:37:04 +0000

@ Devon

I offered 3 guest post opportunities in exchange for $500 donations to Ronald McDonald House (a non profit helping children with cancer and their families). As mentioned, GoDaddy donated $500:

http://www.elliotsblog.com/guest-post-for-charity-9488
http://www.elliotsblog.com/thank-you-for-helping-me-support-a-great-organization-0922

By: Devon

Devon — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:28:49 +0000

Elliot,

Out of curiosity, do you have specific “prerequisites” that you look for in a company in order to be a guest post on your blog? Since this is a plug for Godaddy, do you ever charge for guest posts or is the only financial requirement that they contribute to your cause? You’ve mentioned that GoDaddy is predominately the registrar that you use and I think it’s certainly fantastic that they made a large donation, however, I’m a little curious if you plan on offering the same opportunity to other registrars in the industry.

By: patti

patti — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:30:58 +0000

Ugh….typo….I meant: Don’t get me wrong in that last post….that’s what I get for typing at 2 in the morning…

By: patti

patti — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:28:23 +0000

P.S. Got get me wrong, I still like GoDaddy and love to register with them. Their customer support is unbelievably great.

By: patti

patti — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:52:53 +0000

Nice overview of the difference between the Dependent vs Independent Web as one starts out in the field. Also—a nice way of defending GoDaddy’s right to bombard their own advertising on their customer’s links when an unexpecting new client designs a simple Instapage from them. I bought a domain name, set up a free, simple Instapage—-and when sharing with friends my link to the Instapage on Twitter—there was so much GoDaddy advertising verbage that one could not tell where to click on the web address because of all the GoDaddy advertising embedded before and after my address link shown. It looked so spammy and so unprofessional. Neeldess to say, I am working on finding a host that knows better boundaries before building up any future site.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:02:52 +0000

Well written article with proceeds for a great cause. Nice combo!

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:32:48 +0000

This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately as well. I’m finally, this week, getting serious about building my own personal site/brand and relying less on having everything on f.b.
F.B. and twitter are great for connecting and getting traffic but you really just can’t beat having your own website or blog where you’re in complete control.

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:27:36 +0000

It must really suck to work for a large company and have to run everything by legal so you end up having to put “R” circle next to trademarks as in Facebook®, Twitter®, Google+® etc. which isn’t necessary. Or maybe the person who wrote this is young and inexperienced (actually that is more likely) and appears to be modeling after some other format they saw or read about on writing for a trade publication (or in this case blog).

By the way, wordpress is also a registered trademark:

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78826734

By: @Domains

@Domains — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:47:58 +0000

Godaddy Rocks!

By: AB

AB — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:27:07 +0000

Awesome post.

I often cringe when I see a nice commercial or add only to the see the URL they are using is Facebook.com/CompanyName

And as good as facebook has it right now, they are a competing start-up away from being the next Netscape or MySpace…so any company who is putting all their eggs in the facebook “basket” is taking a big risk

By: Web Wise Forum

Web Wise Forum — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:16:39 +0000

Great post!

If there was one thing I would have highlighted more it’s what you said at the start about the ‘water cooler’.

Basically you can argue all you like about control or any other aspect of web properties, but at the end of the day more people means more exposure. Isn’t that the purpose behind starting a website, blog, Facebook page, Twitter account or anything else on the Internet?

Totally agree that any SEO efforts should be complimented by Facebook and other social networks, not based on them.

I see an interesting debate starting here …