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The name of the game is Quality vs. Quantity.

Once we get that junk out of the domain portfolio we finally get down to the quality gems.

I have quickly noticed that this same principal needs to be applied to Twitter.

Make no mistake about it; Twitter is a powerful tool. It is an exceptional tool for making new contacts, learning, and news.

I have seen sites on the internet and people touting their method of success to get 15,000, 25,000, 40,000 followers on twitter. The process usually involves following someone and they reciprocate back by following you.

That is the quantity side of things.

To prove the point of how popular this tool is, late night TV host Jimmy Fallon had an audience member reveal his Twitter user name on air and the number of followers (7). Jimmy requested every one in the studio and TV audience follow this guy.

This kid went from 7 followers to almost 43,000 in less than 2 hours.

What about doing business on Twitter? What would it be like to follow 42,000 people? What if all the people you were following were posting on Twitter? Or even half or a quarter were to post? What if you had to scroll though 42,000, 21,000, 10,000, 5,000 or even 500 tweets to find an answer to a question you posed an hour ago.

If you want to use Twitter as a popularity ranking tool that is perfectly fine and perhaps enjoyable for many people.

Honestly, I have no intention of using twitter as a Mr. Popular barometer. I perceive my time on twitter as an opportunity to create and educate. That works both ways for me. I can either learn new creative skills and tips as I learn WordPress. Or I can offer my creative skills or knowledge of advertising. I want to be able to offer relevant content (quality) over simply tweeting every blessed thing I do (quantity). I am convinced that there is not a living soul out there in twitterverse that really cares about all the nuances of my day or a minute-by-minute play of what I am doing. This may come as a shock to many, but I really do not care about you standing at the gas pump filling up your car.

As a courtesy, I have responded to the notice of someone following me by following them back. Oh, brother…what some mistakes those have been. I hate to do it but I am going to have to unfollow (remove) myself from some of my own followers. To illustrate this point, I am on a couple other twitter accounts involving other interests and professions. Honestly, one girl posted 28 tweets in an hour. None were directed at anyone, none were of any import, and all were seemingly space filler. It was as if she enjoyed seeing her own words. And if that was not harmless enough, she DM’d me to ask a question. I honestly thought I was inside the mind of a bi-polar person and it was evident.

I do not want twitter to be like many of the forums that have lost the focus of what the forum was for. Nor do I want my Twitter account to end up being someone’s personal chat room. I want my Twitter time to be quality Twitter time. I want quality in who I follow for their content. It is not important if they follow me back. I want to seek out those that are leaders in their field, specialty, occupation, and opinions. That is what following is all about. I want read and post tweets that are enjoyable to read.

I appreciate every individual person or entity that follows me.

Honestly, there are not 42,000 people alive that I am interested in following.

And I am not going to follow 42,000 twits so I can brag about having 39,000 followers.

I read somewhere about these bragging rights and this was a popularity contest. The answer about having to deal with thousands of tweets on their page was to ignore them.

If I have to ignore my followers and those I follow, then I’ll just ignore Twitter.

Nicki.com

TDnam. 9 Days remain, currently at $903.00

Very popular women’s nickname.

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Currently $5,555.00

TDnam, 9 Days, 15 hours remain.

Definitely one of the better CVCV to some up recently.

Lord, Kope.com just listed on TDnam expiring auctions, 9 days left and already at $5,555.00.

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The one thing I lack is the finer details with the amount of journals and sites I peruse daily. In other words, I forget where I saw it, what magazine, what website, who said it etc.

That leads me to apologizing to whomever the writer was the recently posed and responded to the question, “why stats?”

I have to agree with this to the nth degree.

A while back I had cautioned many not to rely on stats alone.

It would have been foolish to think if Candy.com and Toys.com sales were determined by their “stats”.

Yet it seems many domainers are so anal about the stats that they literally want to set the course of their live sand budgets based solely on stats.

This is very risky if all you plan on doing is buying the domain and parking. Sure, you want to know the stats so you can see what revenue you can expect.

The issue here is most stats can be faked and manipulated to entice someone to base their sole discretion on the stats alone.

The only stats I  know of that can not be manipulated and faked is age and website history. I am sure I am forgetting some other key points that I focus in on. However, I want to keep your attention on everything else used to portray stats.

Think about it a minute. If you had one domain that you wanted to sell real bad and wanted to pump it up, this could easily be done simply by redirecting (forwarding) domains.

Within days we’ll see incredible traffic, link numbers, possibly a high CTR, mediocre PPC, Page ranking, Alexa back links and back links in general – all of these are manipulated values and prone to fakery.

Obviously there are many types of domainers and I am not sure where I fit in.

I wrote a post the other day entitled The Art of Domaining: Don’t Say a Word that I apply to my domain choices. Basically, my philosophy is does the name stand on its own? Sometimes stats can be a crutch. It is as if the name needs a supporting cast to be thrust in the limelight and given consideration. Stats are in fact the supporting case in domaining.

Naturally the names like Candy or Toys need no supporting casts. That is how I look at a domain. Explaining what it means or providing a definition is not terribly wrong because many times the name may be new technology or terminology (CarbonFootstep dot com) or the meaning of the word or term does not translate well into all languages (Gaadi dot mobi). These I would consider adding clarification. If someone else is familiar with these terms or words then there is immediate recognition. The names would not need any clarification or a supporting cast.

My view certainly is going to differ from the many other techniques folks use. But, come on…when you see a domain less than one year old with traffic of 20K a day, PR5, 30.9K Google and Yahoo backlinks, and Alexa back links at 16.5, isn’t that a little suspicious? Would you not then aske questions?

Okay, so those stats suddenly become important to prove to yourself or someone else that the stats may be fake. Get back to the basics. Think a minute. What drew you attention to the name to begin with? What was the first thing you thought of when you saw that one particular domain amongst all the others listed?

It was the word(s) itself. When you saw the domain name you were immediately interested and had to look into it. It was the word(s) that captured your attention. Now you want to know stats. Why? Because stats  suddenly become more import than the word(s) itself. It is almost as if you have to justify making a purchasing decision based on stats that are so easily manipulated.

How many times have you purchased a name to have those glorious stats drop of all the charts? How many times have you read about someone’s dissatisfaction (after the purchase) wanting to know happened to the traffic, PR rank, and backlinks?

If someone is so keen into stats then this tells me they want to do the same thing the current owner is doing – parking.

I want to know and rationalize to myself what can this word do in regards to building a site, is it marketable, is it brandable, and would someone want to visit the site. To me, I am the end user and every name I buy is a potential site. I do my best to focus in on words or phrases that make sense, are keyword rich, and have inherint interest to others.

I want to think that if I buy this name will I want to live with it. Essentially, living with it means, Hey buddy. You bought it. Now you are stuck with it. Do I want to be stuck with it or have it stick to me?

If I can answer yes and have a concept what a site would actually do and what a site would look like then there is a good chance I would buy it.

I am the end user. Hopefully someone else will see themselves as the end user based purely on the word(s) itself.

Not once have I ever sold a domain to an end user and has “stats” ever been brought up. Personally, I would much rather have an unsolicited email in my inbox from an inquire to buy a domain than receive an offer from Sedo. Chances are if the domain offer is from Sedo or any other listing/auction/parking service then it is another domainer making the offer.

Those unsolicited emails are sweet music to my ears.

And hopefully generate a sale or two in the long run.