badbadmonkey
msg:4398678 | 3:41 pm on Dec 16, 2011 (gmt 0) |
In other news grass is green and the sky is blue?
I don't get it. Of course domains, just like any brand, develop reputations and accordingly influence repeat visits.
No different to investigating reader's expectations of what they might find when picking up a copy of the Daily Mail vs the Independent.
Once a domain has earned a reputation for providing a certain category or quality of article, may we not expect searchers to gravitate back to it - or not - in the future?
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ergophobe
msg:4398733 | 5:12 pm on Dec 16, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Well, it was not that long that only tech weenies actually knew what domains were.
And to this day, I know someone who likes Yahoo. How does she get there? She goes to Google (her default home page in her browser) and types "Yahoo" and then clicks on the link.
So yes, the grass is green. The interesting question is whether or not it's greener than five years ago. That we do not seem to know :-)
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Web_speed
msg:4398834 | 10:28 pm on Dec 16, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| And to this day, I know someone who likes Yahoo. How does she get there? She goes to Google (her default home page in her browser) and types "Yahoo" and then clicks on the link. |
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3 out of every 4 people i know (family, friends, clients) have their homepage set up exactly the same, plus the spybar installed and running. And when i ask "do you know how did it get there?"... i get "i wouldn't have a clue" in 99.9% of cases.
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rollinj
msg:4399117 | 4:05 am on Dec 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Hrmmm, I don't know about that.
I would think that the musings of harryballsonya.info and stanford.edu are equally trustworthy sources - but to each his own.
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ember
msg:4399120 | 4:14 am on Dec 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
This is news?
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rollinj
msg:4399131 | 6:38 am on Dec 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
No, this is the reason I dropped out of school.
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man in poland
msg:4399170 | 1:30 pm on Dec 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Stanford Students Suffer Attack of the Bleedin' Obvious
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Mike_Feury
msg:4399204 | 7:27 pm on Dec 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Does this imply we should put our domain as first item in all page titles?
"ABC.com Grass painting for gardeners - all colors"
Theory being a variant of the old advertising practice--put yourself in front of the viewer enough times and you'll eventually 'acquire' credibility / brand / familiarity.
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anand84
msg:4399301 | 8:24 am on Dec 19, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Time to move my ecommerce and news sections to to ebay.mysite.com and yahoo.mysite.com respectively.
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jmccormac
msg:4399440 | 4:54 pm on Dec 19, 2011 (gmt 0) |
And these bozos were paid for this work?
Regards...jmcc
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Marketing Guy
msg:4399446 | 5:08 pm on Dec 19, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Maybe it's less about bias towards known domains and more about less trust in the random results returned by search engines. Trust a search engine study to shift the limelight onto webmasters, eh? ;)
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Planet13
msg:4400804 | 8:15 am on Dec 23, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| Time to move my ecommerce and news sections to to ebay.mysite.com and yahoo.mysite.com respectively. |
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Actually, I have seen something similar to this popping up in the SERPs lately. Not ebay and yahoo, but I searched for a particular forum (now defunct) and many of the top results had used subdomains to, in effect, trick the user into thinking it was the same domain.
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