Top 5 Resources Domain Owners Shouldn’t Live Without
- 5. Google Webmaster Tools
Arguably the most powerful search engine in existence is now giving some of that power back to the website owners. Google Webmaster Tools provides a means of verifying ownership of any domain or website. Once verified, a webmaster can upload a sitemap, declare their preferred domain prefix, analyze search statistics, crawl errors and browse various important data that Google has collected. Search engine optimization starts here.
- 4. DomainTools
As an excellent all around resource for domainers, this free service provides a host of tools for researching domain names. DomainTools is essentially one of the most advanced WHOIS search applications today. It features a powerful, fast, and easy to use interface allows you to delve deep into information on domain names, DNS, IPs, trade marks, domain auctions, name suggestions and more. I am especially fond of the bulk check feature, which is lightning fast and provides availability statistics on all popular TLDs for each name. You definitely want these power tools in your virtual toolbox.
- 3. Quality Content for your RSS Feed Reader
If you are not using an RSS feed reader, I assure you that you’re missing out on a wealth of easily accessible information. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a blossoming information technology tool that virtually every mainstream news portal and blog publishes. A feed reader such as Bloglines (my personal favorite) or Google Reader can keep you in the know with the latest news you want at your finger tips. Create some general category folders to organize your feeds before you get started with a reader, you will surely need them soon. Here is a brief list of feeds that I read daily and highly recommend: SevenMile, DomainTools, DailyBlogTips, Wired: Top Stories, NetBusinessBlog, DailyDomainer and of course the very hot DotSauce Domain Magazine.
- 2. Popular Discussion Forums
Web Developer and Design forums are in no short supply. These topic and reply based community sites have been around for quite awhile and are an extremely important resource for domain owners. Forums are all too often overlooked as a source of valuable information, research, networking and marketing. I encourage you to register and contribute to some high quality and popular discussion forums. You can find me perusing and occasionally contributing my 2¢ on these fine forums: NamePros, WebHostingTalk, DigitalPoint, EarnersForum, SitePoint.
- 1. MyBlogLog
If your website had a conscience and it wanted to join a social network to meet some new friends, that network would be MyBlogLog. This innovative service utilizes the concept of a social network to promote and manage blog communities. While the statistic features are not as advanced as some scripts, MyBlogLog provides you with valuable information that you really need: detailed referrer URLs and numbers, what specific pages are viewed and what external links are clicked. If you look in the sidebar to your right you can see my community widget which displays a block listing of recent readers. Once you sign up be sure to come back and join the DotSauce community!
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May 9th, 2007 at 2:22 am
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May 9th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Thanks for an excellent post. I use RSS and MyBlogLog religiously, but haven’t really explored the others much. If you wanted to have a look at my entry in Darren’s contest, it’s at:
http://www.rodtempleton.net/2007/05/07/my-top-5-required-feeds/
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August 10th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
That’s a good posts ,Thanks again
August 10th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
This is a very useful blog for domainers. Sitepoing and earnersforum are new for me.
August 19th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Don’t see this one “1. MyBlogLog” as Resource for Domain Owners.
It’s more for Developer / Blog owner.
August 20th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Okay, nice, I’ve been living without them for quite a while. lol. Haven’t had much success, let’s see if it helps.
November 5th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
massively agree with number 2!
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April 9th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I’d add http://archive.org to the list. If you’re planning on snapping up an expired domain, the wayback machine can tell you what that domain’s website hosted for content.