Wordze: Because The Internet Must Have Run Out Of Domain Names Other Than Variations Of Mine
I notice that G-Man’s domain has expired. No worries though. He doesn’t really need that one anymore, because he’s got mine! (ETA: softplus points out that this actually redirects through a Wordze affiliate, so I was right below when I said it may be someone else who grabbed it.)
Actually, I don’t know for sure it was G-Man who grabbed it. Or that whoever registered it even knows about this site. Maybe someone just thought vannessafoxnude.com was an awesome domain name — this person was just jogging one day and the domain came from the sky like divine inspiration. “I know!”, thought that inspired voice inside this person’s head. “Vanessa Fox. Nude. Only with two Ns! Perfect!” And then the logical thing to do with a domain name like is redirect it to Wordze. Clearly.
I probably wouldn’t have noticed, as I tend to spell my own name correctly when I type it into a browser bar, so many thanks to The Mad Hat for pointing it out. The domain was registered about a month ago and hopefully someone from Wordze will come by and let me know if it’s mostly giving them traffic from those who don’t know how to spell my name or from searchers looking for porn because I mostly get the latter, so maybe we could trade.
ETA: As noted above, John (softplus) spotted that the domain redirects through wordzee.com and indeed it does. It 302s to wordzee.com, then to a tiny URL that 302s to wordze.com. Clever. No idea who owns wordzee.com. Probably Dave. (Just kidding, Dave!)
nice use of the nofollow.
I was a bit confused. My first though was that Zillow bought Wordze but that didn’t make much sense.
Very cheeky. There’s a blog post to be written about sneaky domain campers obtaining misspelled domains of popular bloggers. I see that somebody owns http://scoblizer.com/, http://engadgit.com/ and http://boingbing.com/. I guess it’s only natural.
Kinda sucks for Geoffrey, hope he isn’t tied up with medical problems :-(. There are tools out there that check domain names based on “popularity” (using things like Alexa, etc) and generate misspellings based on them (which is illegal for trademarks, obviously). In this case it looks like someone is just having fun :).
The redirect goes through wordzee.com, which probably is on of those trademark-typos (but also a wordze affiliate). The server hosting wordzee.com has such wonderful sites as adultsgonewild.com, frostythesnowmandvd.com (sorry, no Buffy), goodgirlsgoneunemployed.com and (looks new) opnesocial.com. You can follow up through the Amazon ID (usually linked elsewhere) if you wanted to know who it was - at any rate, it’s probably not the G-Man :).
goodgirlsgoneunemployed. Awesome. That’s gotta be riveting stuff.
Vanessa …. May think about losing the first link. It’s now pointing to a malware site that tries to load software if you’re looking at it in Explorer. Whoever it is, looks like they’re now trying to capitalize on your link!
Sure, you’re looking at windsurfers and I’m freeezing my petunias off.
Where did I make the wrong turn ????
Thanks Charlie! I’m using Firefox so I missed that.
It is really nice out today. It’s just the beginning of sunset and the entire sky is red and reflecting on the water.
Ugh …. The sun is already down. It’s 42 degrees (and falling) and it’s time to go South !
I talked to Geoffrey(G-Man) last month and he was getting a lot better, but was stuck in a bed because he was out of it for so long that he could not sit up or walk. Been shooting him a ICQ message now and then, but he has not been online or responded in almost a month. Hoping all is well.
Its always interesting as affiliates do some of the most oddball stuff with marketing services, hoping for a shortcut to wealth I guess.
Best,
Levi
Wordze.com
Thanks for stopping by Levi. I had no idea that was going on with Geoffrey. I hope all is well with him also.
(I guess since the redirect is coming from an affiliate, you sadly can’t answer the question of how well it’s doing. I’m so curious.)
Your right I cant share how much he has done to date with that, but lets just say I don’t think he is going to make millionaire status going about it that away!
Our best affiliates are the ones that take the time to explain why and how to use the service. The ones that do that are the ones making a couple grand a month.
For the percentile of customers that dont use it, normally dont fully understand why you really need a paid tool. Once someone shows them a step by step guide on how to use the service and make money their readers convert like crazy, and then multiply from word of mouth from their success of using them methods.
Most require a blog with a good readership. However not all of us have a platform to do that. That said, thinking out of the box on where to get traffic to help spread your message can always be the key.
Some methods I have recommends to affiliates is to setup a post on a forum giving away a free SEO email or something related to keyword research. In the email over a 2 week or 30 days cycle you explain to people the basics of SEO and keyword research then show them how to use Wordze to make it all happen within sub-niches.
The affiliates that take the time to develop some marketing method in a format like above end up really well off as they not only get commission from the signups, but after they are done they have a good size email list they can grow and sell other product. In that it becomes continues income for them and in years they have a large platform to send their message and their reader base grows.