Comments on: .ME domains great but not for affiliate marketing

By: Radovan

Radovan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:09:15 +0000

“it was some weird country or scam domain”

I agree, Montenegro is a scammers heaven. I already got scammed by a Montenegrians (but they was using .com domain). So be careful even .com’s are not safe.

By: Ian Fernando

Ian Fernando — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:28:08 +0000

I wrote something similar to the .me since .com is more part of our language – .me will be hard to compete with the vocabulary of .com – I mean no one even knows about .net still =P

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:45:06 +0000

Didn’t say I was Jonathan. But as an avid reader of Chad’s, I’m sure he’d want to know what his readers thought of his posts. I’m sure he wants more readers, not less.

By: Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:23:28 +0000

I hate people like this. Seriously…

It’s not like you’re paying the dude or anything. Shesh. The posts are good.

By: Andy - Mr MultiVar

Andy - Mr MultiVar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:44:25 +0000

I would only consider them for the benefits of potential organic SEO.

What I mean by this is that you may be able to register a domain name that is an exact match for your search term and it will hopefully rank well since the URL factors are a big part of SEO.

I think, as regards SE ranking, the domain extension is not a big factor? But for people and branding, .me is nowhere on the radar I think.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:56:22 +0000

I’m in total agreement with you on this, Chad. I spent about an hour or so looking up some potential .ME domains… a few good ones (that are still available today, actually). I ended up buying none of them. This is because I spoke with quite a few non-web-savvy friends of mine and they all thought .ME stood for “Mexico” and would be wary of clicking on any domain not ending in .COM (or possibly .NET or .ORG would be acceptable)… I fear this TLD will be going the way of .TV — kinda cool for some projects but not necessarily for affiliate marketing. I might still end up buying one or two, just to be on the safe side. =)

By: Allan Gardyne | AssociatePrograms.com

Allan Gardyne | AssociatePrograms.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:51:51 +0000

Cad, Yep, dot-com is king, but I would love to have got my hands on a quirky, memorable Marry.me, Date.me or Motivate.me.

I reckon they’d be perfect for branding an affiliate site.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:36:04 +0000

You’re very original Dr.NGO. Kudos to you. Be proud.

No what I’m saying is that Chad used to post about PPC strategies, choosing offers, research, etc. We haven’t seen posts like that in a while.

Chad is one of the best, imo, and I highly value his thoughts and this blog.