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Help Me Get a New Domain

by Paul on February 14th, 2005

I have a backlog or articles waiting to be published (like the details and reasoning behind selling the Vault), but there is a slight problem. When I bought the domain Big Money Tips it was an expired domain. I figured it would take Google some time to index it and possibly get it out of the sandbox. However, there is no Google activity to this site and that makes me less motivated to want to write for the site.

So I think it’s best to take my $8 loss and buy another domain and move the content over there. Something fresh that will get this site back on track with Google because what is the point of teaching people how to become successful with their websites if I can’t even get my own out of the venerable sandbox.

And for everyone’s information I emailed Google in November about getting this site index and they assured me that the site wasn’t blacklisted or in any sandbox. Go figure.

So any ideas for a new domain name?

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27 opinions for Help Me Get a New Domain

  • Benvolio
    Feb 14, 2005 at 7:01 pm

    Google are doing some very strange thing with some of my sites at the moment - like organic listings dropping from 5th position to over 200th… very strange.

    Just a couple of quick ideas (minus extension - not sure if they’re taken or not):

    blogmoneyonline
    marketyourblog (though I hate using ‘market’ as a verb)
    bloggingaffiliate

    Hope this helps - am looking forward to reading the backlog of articles!

    A bientot,
    Benvolio

  • Darren Rowse
    Feb 14, 2005 at 7:40 pm

    Google are weird with expired domains…

    a new domain might work best….

    blogmillionaire.com :-)

  • James Paden
    Feb 14, 2005 at 8:54 pm

    I’d give it a couple more months, see what happens. Google can be weird like that. It’s a cool name and once Google kicks in, you’ll still have the original links.

    I do like Darren’s idea though…anything with “millionaire” in it. Go for it all.

  • John Nunemaker
    Feb 15, 2005 at 12:02 am

    I agree. Google has been odd the last while. I can type in ‘John Nunemaker’ at msn and yahoo and my personal site is first but I disappeared off the face of the earth in google about two weeks ago.I don’t know. I like bigmoneytips alot and the millionaire idea is pretty good.

  • James Archer
    Feb 15, 2005 at 1:59 am

    Yeah, I’ve actually been having the same problem lately with Google. My personal site and my business site have both dropped off the radar. They’re still in the index, but deeply sandboxed. I was running #1 for my own name and my business name, and now I’m not even coming up in the first 1,000 (though, as John pointed out, I come up tops in all the other engines). Any idea what’s going on there?

    Anyway, back to domain names. Here are bunch of available dictionary domains you might look over:
    http://www.returnofdesign.com/spectacle/show.php?page=52

  • Thomas
    Feb 15, 2005 at 6:18 am

    How about something like:

    inventedmoney.com

    designercash

    just a couple that came to my head, although I might be out in left field on those names.

  • Bryan
    Feb 15, 2005 at 8:01 am

    maybe google is going through one of its “changed” like the “florida change” a while back.

    Its probably just doing its reorganization or something.

  • Scrivs
    Feb 15, 2005 at 8:17 am

    I think some of you are missing my point here. It’s not that I don’t perform in Google’s search rankings. Google doesn’t even visit the site at all. It never spiders it. Never indexes it. Nothing. Not one single time in the existence of this site. That has nothing to do with Google acting weird,crazy, psychotic or whatever. That is Google telling me this domain is blacklisted (no matter how much they deny it).

  • JC
    Feb 15, 2005 at 11:11 am

    wonder if bigbigmoney is taken… heh… I’m siiiinnngin in the rain… what a glorioous feelin’, to be *whack* happy again

  • amine
    Feb 15, 2005 at 11:44 am

    same thing happend to me, my domain was expired and google cached it last october, and i submitted, and emailed them, they said it will take couple days to get it indexed, it been couple weeks now.
    i think the best thing to do is submit it to dmoz & yahoo “and hope that google will get it from there”. Anyways good luck, try the new msn picked mine up in couple days after i submitted, and it crawls every single page.
    try squeezedmoney.com :)

  • Jason Marble
    Feb 15, 2005 at 4:00 pm

    Yea, google is a little bitch when it comes to names that have been expired. I guess it would make sense to just go ahead and ditch a good name for a name that will at least be indexed. But is there any possible way you could save your name and somehow trick google into spidering it? Do you really think the name has been blacklisted? Are you basically screwed from any chance of google spidering an expired domain?

    Anyways, I don’t think any of the names people have suggested so far are any good at all. But I’ll see if I can come up with something for ya.

  • Tim
    Feb 15, 2005 at 7:16 pm

    amine, he already has links to it so being listed in the dmoz or yahoo directories won’t do anything.

    I like the blogmillionaire.com domain idea, Darren.

  • conekt
    Feb 15, 2005 at 8:53 pm

    I also agree that you should hold onto what you’ve got here.

    1. You have a lot of high traffic sites linking to this project here. So when they do infact list you you will have a Pagerank advantage that may take a little time to build with a fresh domain.
    2. It’s a good keyword rich domain name.

    However I would register another domain (when you do come up with name) and point that here as well It is often adventageous to have multiple domain names for one space anyway because it increases your odds of getting a hit via keywords in your domain name. And Google will come around so this one will be good to go.

  • Joe Maddalone
    Feb 16, 2005 at 1:13 am

    What would be the primary keyphrase that you are tageting?

  • Joe Maddalone
    Feb 16, 2005 at 1:19 am

    P.S.
    I, apparently, do not believe in proofreading.

  • James Archer
    Feb 16, 2005 at 10:23 am

    Re conekt #13, the Page Rank’s not going to do much good if Google won’t even crawl the thing. You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, and know when to fold ‘em.

    Most of the domains people have mentioned here strike me as sounding a bit too scammy, though. They sound like they’d have those get-rich-quick stories with lots of testimonials and exclamation points.

    For the sake of securing mindshare, I’d recommend steering away from the generic and descriptive, and instead pick something surprising and memorable.

  • conekt
    Feb 16, 2005 at 1:32 pm

    re James #16,

    please read the rest of my post.

  • chrispian
    Feb 16, 2005 at 4:02 pm

    Is it wrong that I just registered all the domains mentioned here for myself? ;)

  • Ron
    Feb 16, 2005 at 7:10 pm

    I started a separate ââ¬Å“webmasterââ¬Â blog, so I could keep web development stuff off my personal blog.

    The content on my web development blog comes from my experiences trying to run profitable websites, so I named it http://www.launchscout.com

    The name has some meaning to me, because I scout the opportunities with in my topics of interest and launch sites.

    I suggest you pick a url that shows its meaning to you and your network.

  • Anthony Dever
    Feb 16, 2005 at 10:43 pm

    I was going to uber creative and suggest bigmoneyideas.com

    But it seems someone already thought of that one: http://www.whois.sc/bigmoneyideas.com

    Sorry I couldn’t be more help buddy.

  • David
    Feb 17, 2005 at 8:35 am

    I don’t know about domain names, but try to get a hold of a site+domain that is already indexed by google, and buy it. Make sure the site is more than 6 months old, preferably 1+ year. Then you wont have to stay in the sandbox for your competitive keyword pages. It will easily add up to pay for the extra fee of buying a site in the end.

    You write about stuff that google likes to put in the sandbox for a long time, so I would at least consider this before moving out.

  • Scrivs
    Feb 17, 2005 at 5:57 pm

    I found a good domain name and the move should be completed in not too long of a time. I started fresh since that seems to work best for me.

  • amine
    Feb 17, 2005 at 6:11 pm

    what is the domain name ??
    or is it a surprise ??

  • Scrivs
    Feb 17, 2005 at 8:28 pm

    No surprise, I will announce it once I get everything straightened out with it.

  • James
    Feb 19, 2005 at 7:08 pm

    How bout nothing cheesy.

    No bigbigmoney, no blogmillionaire, nothing that’s going to be giving the assumed idea of “If you visit this site, you’ll become filthy stinking rich”.

  • Scrivs
    Feb 21, 2005 at 11:00 pm

    Hope this domain is a good decision and doesn’t come across as being a get-rich quick domain.

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