Thanks to a great tip I received, I’ve been trawling through Godaddy’s marketplace to buy/sell domain names. There are some really amazing bargains that can be had over at TDNAM (The Domain Name After Market, a Godaddy company). I guess all those “Internet Prospectors” who registered a billion domain names hoping to make a killing, are trying to unload all those domains after figuring out that people aren’t going to be paying huge dollars after all. Sure there are a few people crazy enough to want $50,000 forbandaids.us, but I’ve found that many prices are quite reasonable.

In fact, I snagged creditrepairinfo.org (for my Credit Repair information site) for only $5! It’s a 2+ year old site (good for Google rankings) and has the primo keyword “credit repair” in the domain name. In fact, buying it for $5 is cheaper than if I had registered the name myself (assuming it was available).

If you’re looking to get a good domain name, especially if you’re trying to SEO it, TDNAM is the first place you should look at.

If you’re a blogger, BlogRush.com is a very cool new way to get word out about your blog!

What happens is you put a widget on your blog. And each time someone visits your blog, you get a credit for one of your posts to be displayed on the widget on someone else’s related site. That means you get your posts out to people who are on similar websites (and already interested in same topics).

This may very well be the first cooperative viral blog syndication system. This is a short video about how it works:

If you’ve got a blog, you should get on Blog Rush now!

LABORDAY or INTERFACE

(INTERFACE is $0.03 cheaper and allows for up to 4-year registrations, so would be the better choice).

As of September 24th, INTERFACE no longer works. Use LABORDAY until the October coupon come comes out!

I received a good SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tip from Daniel (who runs pimp Myspace). Google’s rankings considers <domain> and www.<domain> as two separate entities. So it’s important to put a re-direction on one, so that all links, traffic and searchbots are consolidated to one URL. This is the code he shared with me for redirection <domain> to www.<domain>:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

NEWSWORTHY is the Namecheap coupon for August. Enjoy