ISULONG SEOPH

It’s no secret that good .com domains are gone and had become prohibitively expensive. But it’s no secret also that most of these most sought-after .com domains are parked. This is where other domain extension takes advantage of the situation.

I was recently taking a foray on registering domains. Since I it’s too hard to find a good .coms I tried .infos per advice from a super affiliate I’m reading recently. I registered a bunch of .infos and put real content on them rather than domain parking. These sites were updated regularly once a week, mostly on weekends.

Lately the tracking script shows that there’s activity on the sites. And one of them is outranking a .com, getting real traffic. BTW, my domains are generic domains which mostly have a .com counterpart. So there. My adventures in domains so far yielded positive results and provided good experience so far.

Did you ever come across as comment that you know is promoting a product but for unexplained reasons you go ahead and approved it? I just did. The comment is well crafted that it made me question my definition of a comment spam.

The idea of effective link building by commenting hit me. I don’t know why others still use bots to leave meaningless and irrelevant comments on blog posts when they could do so by doing it manually. It’s time consuming, yes. But it’s way more effective than bots. Akismet and other bayesian filters has done a good job detecting and stopping automated commenting. On my blogs, akismet has effectively stopped spams except for a very few which I guess was due to newer spam parameters akismet still have no record of.

But looking for relevant posts in technorati and writing a good line or two of comment will probably get it approved.

I run a couple of niche blogs. They’re MFA‘s. Most of the time I use articles from article directories like EzineArticles or Go Articles as content fillers when I hit a blank wall for topics. The contents from these article directories (with link backs, of course) has yielded positive results so far. I was thinking it’s better to have something fresh to publish than nothing at all.

But, up to this day, the duplicate content penalty that search engines warns about is still not clear to me. Blaming myself partly for not reading popular webmaster’s forum like Digital Point or WebmasterWorld as I’m not a big fan of forums.

So, is it just a myth or there are really penalties for having duplicate content? From my previous project maintaining pretty popular co-op blogging site (Alexa 4K), my boss was very worried his bloggers was copying content from everywhere I had to code a parser to check for duplicate contents.

If duplicate content are being punished, are popular article directories spared from duplicate content penalties? I tried searching for a couple niche topics and I found the top directories having the same content from the same author dominating the SERPs.