Today many domain vendors such as Godaddy, SEDO and SnapNames offer existing domains for sale at auction. Often you can purchase domains that have "traffic" at auction for a very reasonable price (often less than $100). Assuming you find a good match (url-wise) and content wise, check out the current site to insure the content is not offensive or so specialized that it is meaningless to what you attempting to create (highly specialized traffic in general is not translatable into traffic continuity if the content changes). In addition, check the Internet Archive (at http://www.archive.org/) to insure that the site hasn't changed completely recently so that you know what your buying.

Since these domains already have traffic and are established (not brand new domains), they can index faster with the search engines and get your message out faster!

For questions about this or other internet marketing issues, contact me at todd@realinternetsales.com

News Driven Searches

I wanted to explore a thought with you that not everyone always thinks about in marketing their business. Sure we all know that having our product or service show up under the search terms for the appropriate geographic area is key (like Columbia SC Realtor, for example). But, what we often don't consider is the incredible fluidity of searches---read that as "current event" driven. To prove this point, consider the #1 searches by Google for the last two days:

Jun 18, 2010 - change date Updated 38 minutes ago
1. jerry buss 2. bill russell 3. lakers parade 2010 4. ronnie lee gardner 5. lakers riot So heres the point, if you are in the book selling business as you can see, if your site is showing up under "LAKER WORDS"...the abundance of the traffic will be yours	6. alex mccord photos 7. dizzy feet foundation 8. la riots 9. kobe bryant wife 10. utah execution

Jun 17, 2010 - change date			iGoogle Gadget New! Site Feed
1. jerry buss 2. bill russell 3. alex mccord photos 4. dizzy feet foundation 5. lakers parade 2010	6. jim varney 7. scalabrine 8. blake clark 9. kardashian bieber hotel tape 10. prosopagnosia So keep in mind the news trend is your friend...bank on what you think will be HOT tomorrow... If you need help sales@realinternetsales.com Todd Hunnicutt Real Internet Sales THE SEO EXPERTS

Does your business own its search?

Todays marketing tips centers on the Search Engine and URLS. BP recently purchased many domain names, and consequently caught a great deal of heat on the popular media, having to do with "GULF," "OIL SPILL", etc... Regardless of what you think of BPs other corporate communications (or lack thereof) during this period, the buying of URLs that "tell your message" (or almost as important, keep your competitors or adversaries from telling theirs) works, plain and simple.

Take the time today. Explore your business terms that are important to your brand and market perceptions---do you control these? Do you control the search terms if people head to GOOGLE or Bing and do a search?

If you need help in doing this, we can help. Define and dominate your search terms!

Todd Hunnicutt

REAL INTERNET SALES

THE SEO EXPERTS