Status Quo
Ok, so here is the situation:
tobman.com: PageRank 0, about 10 visitors/day
django.at: PageRank 3, about 20 visitors/day
videopodcast.tv: PageRank 0, about 4 visitors/day
advertbreak.com: PageRank 0, about 4 visitors/day
So, that’s obviously not much… But a good place to start anyway! The first thing to do is figure out what content each site will host. If you want to try this yourself you probably have the advantage of being able to choose your domain name freely. I’m not that lucky, so I will try to make the best of what I’ve got:
tobman.com
My oldest & bestest domainname. As there really doesn’t seem to exist much information with regards to “Tobman” I have decided to use this as the blog to document this whole project. Blogs can become very popular you know, so this per se is not a bad idea (we’ll see how it turns out).
django.at
django used to be a website for Viennese students (with party pics etc.). It never really had more than 200 members (most friends), but hey - it could have been Facebook back then… well, could have. Anyway there is this new Phyton web framework popular these days. It’s called… django, which is a nice coincidence. I saw that the main webpage of the django framework has a PageRank of 8! Excellent -> django.at will host some info about the django framework
videopodcast.tv
Great domain name! I have worked with Axel on a project on this a couple of years ago. It never really passed the business plan stage, but still I somehow never really felt like cancelling the domain name. It just sounds too good and I thought maybe one day somebody is going to buy it. That still could happen, just the domain itself would be more worth with more traffic. There is this very similiar domainname called videopodcasts.tv (note the s) and it has a respectable page rank of 5. It basically is just a directory of videopodcasts that exist out there. I think that could be done better… so videopodcast.tv is going to be the central source for VideoPodcasts on the net!
advertbreak.com
Last but not least… adbreak. I used this domain together with Mike for a prototype demonstration. This project never really got past the prototype stage, but I forgot to cancel the domain name and just got the new bill a couple of days ago. But I’m glad this happened, because this just brought this whole idea of the project WebMoney up. I see two alternatives for this website. Either it could be a place where info is shared what to do during those oh so boring advert breaks OR (the totally opposite) a website where totally funny advert clips can be shared. Or maybe a combination of those two? I haven’t decided yet…
Ok, that’s the status quo so far. I’m not really firm on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and all this type of things yet but will try to gather as much info as possible over the next couple of months. In parallel I need to (obviously) create content for the three websites mentioned above. It is somehow going to be easier with toman.com, as I just have to write this blog!