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Very neat idea. Maybe you can convince some of the registrars to make this a choice instead of the standard domain parking pages.
On it. Have a couple requests about to registrars as well as to Rackspace for hosting. We redirected 6X the number of unique visitors today through unused domains than Facebook generated at launched.
Just wondering; could this negatively affect your SEO rating?
Theoretically it absolutely could, in reality, it's hard to say but I wouldn't be overly enthused about people pointing random domains at any site I owned.
In short, Not to trash the people behind it, it is really well intentioned and I love the concept but reality may pose problems that end up doing more harm than good.
Like antibiotic resistance bacteria, if you continue to flood the internet with begging, people will become completely immune to those types of requests (no matter what the cause or how worthy they might be).
Sounds true and I would have expected the same with Television / movie commercials, that people will stop buying those brands. But most of the people go to supermarkets and buy the product that are familiar. This could happen here also. Creating a familiarity. So even if a person is initially irritated, after a month when he / she goes to make a donation, it would be to a charity that is familiar than a completely un…
But buying SEO juice with unused domains the same way spammers do is probably a better idea - then a google search is going to turn up the correct sites.
Like antibiotic resistance bacteria, if you continue to flood the internet with begging, people will become completely immune to those types of requests (no matter what the cause or how worthy they might be).
Is there research to confirm this?
It could be that people's willingness to respond to "internet begging" doesn't tend to zero but rather a nonzero constant as they encounter more of it. In that case you'd be better off with more websites that do it.
Like antibiotic resistance bacteria, if you continue to flood the internet with begging, people will become completely immune to those types of requests (no matter what the cause or how worthy they might be).
It's a neat idea, but I'd be interested to see at what rate these redirected visitors actually do anything on the sites they land on. I know that if I click a link and find something unrelated to what I was looking for, I general close the tab pretty immediately.
Neat concept but I can't help but wonder whether selling the domain and donating the profits to an actual charity wouldn't be a better use of the "funds". Or just not renewing the domain and donating that $10 to the charity of your choice in perpetuity...
Just wondering; could this negatively affect your SEO rating?
I have been in the really high level SEO space for a long time and the second I saw this it made me very uncomfortable for that reason. Theoretically it absolutely could, in reality, it's hard to say but I wouldn't be overly enthused about people pointing random domains at any site I owned. In short, Not to trash the people behind it, it is really well intentioned and I love the concept but reality may pose problems…
A cause would only seeing referring traffic when it's promoted as the top cause of the day. Links onsite at Domains4Good from cause submissions would also ultimately add to SEO value. Social referring traffic through Domains4Good promotions across all channels, not just redirect, will add value as well.
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On it. Have a couple requests about to registrars as well as to Rackspace for hosting. We redirected 6X the number of unique visitors today through unused domains than Facebook generated at launched.
fyi dreamhost offer free hosting for non-profits