It seems like either Mike Mann has given up on on BankAds or on .co

Just because .com is the ultimate TLD and priced as a premium, does not say that it has the right to be ranked at #1, a .co domain with the same keyword can quiet easily be ranked above it.

The Christmas stats were released, saying that sales online are going up at an amazing rate as more and more stores close in the high street, due to high costs.

it also said that the best selling sites, which took the most business, were the ones that were… user friendly, easy to use and were attractive to look at and had products that were well laid out, making them appealing to buy.

So you spend 30% of your budget in making sure your website is amazing in all aspects, add affilaite marketing to it and just for saying sake you have 1,000 affiliates and each one just sells one product per week, thats 1,000 extra sales coming in per week, plus 1,000 websites now having links to your wesbsite…

RED

I hope Mike didn’t spend more than $300 on that site. Looks very basic, very rushed. No reinventing of the wheel there.
Interested to see how they perfom for SEO over the next 12 – 18 months though, however I see no value in a site that does not provide an innovative service for such a competitive niche.

A Page 1 would be a great triumph, but would require thousands of quality backlinks and a great deal more development to acquire repeat traffic.

Hate to break it to you guys, but I’m ranking several .CO sites on Page 1 Yahoo and Bing, and all are moving fast in Google to near page 1 (2 already are there).
This took over a year, and cost me $0.
With Google it’s all about quality inbound links and Page Rank.
The fact that you post what you have displays you have 0 knowledge of SEO or the Internet. Perhaps you should read a little?
Also, I’m launching a worlds first service with a .CO. The website is being developed as we speak and is costing me around 5K (I do most of the SEO and marketing myself, self taught).
It’s ranking already Page 1 in Google, Yahoo and Bing and that took 6 months with medium competition on several keyword phrases.
Bottom line, don’t post with tones of certainty when you’re an amateur. You’ll just lose credibility and look dumb.

Interesting post I saw today.

There are a number of domain investors who have similar types of sites… some more successful and others not so much. I think there are a whole lot of people in this biz who don’t post on blogs or forums, but quietly do their thing.

That MO doesn’t characterize most domainers, tho.

I’d like to think DogWalker.com is pretty good domainer development (earning over $25k/year on its own).

In a sense, the entire term “domain development” is an absurdity and pulls back the curtain on how domainers view domains.

The rest of the world views domains as a piece of a puzzle. Domainers view domains as the entire picture.

If domains really are building lots, most ‘domainer development’ is the equivalent of a FEMA trailer, trying to pass itself off as a 5 Star Hotel.

.Co

will be the de facto

for global web sites

Also, the term “Domain Development” is a little ridiculous in my opinion. All of these new (and old) “domain development” companies are either domain parking with fancier templates and alternate monetization methods, or they are content management systems just like any other.

What is the difference between “domain development” and sites like hubpages, tumblr, etc?

They are just web-based content management systems. Why do they get special treatment just because they are marketed at domainers but really don’t offer anything innovative or new?

Something you should keep in mind.

1. The Bankads rev share is WELL ABOVE a 70/30 split.

2. Surehits doesn’t take on sites that are just starting out. So
unless you have a well established site with traffic they’re not
going to pay any attention to you.

3. If someone does get into Surehits, I can confidently say that
they’ll still earn less because of the rev share split we offer and
that BankAds has a great deal with SureHits. So your 100%
will still be less than “X” percent that BankAds offers. We also
have additional revenue streams. We don’t solely rely on
SureHits either.

4. The financial part aside, what is someone’s time
worth? I am sure that you would earn less trying to do it on
your own, but even if you could earn a small percentage more
what’s not having to deal with regulatory issues, development
and the general headaches of running a business worth to you?

5. I’ve designed this solution and the core service so
it is basically impossible to punch holes into our model. We’re
also making a lot of advances in other areas that will lift rev for
our clients.

But I appreciate and welcome your feedback and for giving me the opportunity to inform Elliot’s readers of some of the additional points about BankAds.

@ NewCars.TV I’ll reach out to you via email today.

Thanks

The .CO domain isn’t that recognised. This project will either follow the same route, or maybe finally be the brand that gets .CO a profile.

I’m home.

kidding aside in all seriousness,

.Co kicks ass

I have seen .Co ranking higher in virtually all cases than .com
primarily because the .Co has better quality sites being developed on them.

All sites launched within BankAds are following all of the standard rules and following best SEO practices. I don’t want to get into specifics regarding our process for competitive reasons, but we are very thoughtful about everything we do.

Feel free to drop me an email and we can set up a call if you like. I’m here to answer any questions.

One of the things that I can publicly disclose, is that the team @ BankAds WILL NOT try to find shortcuts to accomplish our goals and the goals of our clients. We have a long time horizon for our company.

We would rather get it right and take a little longer to do it, than get it wrong really quickly.