tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294256183373179915.post5580064026234420715..comments2008-12-15T11:01:06.090-08:00Alan Macomberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968816445566112884noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294256183373179915.post-52431252438145955942008-12-15T11:01:00.000-08:002008-12-15T11:01:00.000-08:00Hi I am going to give WhyPark a shot with some TLD's in European languages. I think the WhyPark concept is excellent.<BR/>Like to see your blog updated far more oftenpeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03513230360401576371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294256183373179915.post-30840290341725736262008-06-20T19:48:00.000-07:002008-06-20T19:48:00.000-07:00Follow-up: Alan,<BR/>Thanks for the reply. I agree that WhyPark has huge potential for growth.<BR/><BR/>WhyPark could become a Demand Media (http://www.demandmedia.com/default.asp) "for the rest of us." Demand Media is a web property development company that leverages their technology investments across their (advertising revenue-generating) content sites. WhyPark might someday democratize this business model by providing all domain owners with simple solutions for creating discussion boards (such as L2's Telepresence Forum) and other web site enhancements.<BR/><BR/>I wish you the best of luck in recouping your WhyPark investment many times over.<BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/><BR/>JoshAlan Macomberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968816445566112884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294256183373179915.post-8963782558671813672008-06-20T19:45:00.000-07:002008-06-20T19:45:00.000-07:00Q:Alan,<BR/>Thank you for your blog and Namepros posts about WhyPark. I own about 150 domains, mainly technology-related and names of UN World Heritage Sites.<BR/><BR/>I signed up for a trial (single domain) WhyPark account a while back. However, I lost interest when Adsense stopped appearing even though my content was unique.<BR/><BR/>Your posts renewed my interest in WhyPark, and I recently set up a new domain (and Adbrite ads) with my trial account. If this test works reasonably well I'll probably purchase a 100-domain account. I hope it does, because WhyPark could be a great solution for recouping renewal fees until I have time to develop more comprehensive websites.<BR/><BR/>I'm writing to you because I think that WhyPark as a solution for low cost hosting of original text content is under-appreciated and under-developed. I'd like to be able to write content without duplication on each page. Also, I found it difficult to format pages with a mix of WhyPark feed articles and original content.<BR/><BR/>My daughter has been asking me to allow her to open a lemonade stand to make money. With better support for original content, I could give her some WhyPark domains to develop. WhyPark could be a great way to introduce her to both technical and entrepreneurial skills.<BR/><BR/>I wish you the best of success with WhyPark. I hope to become a satisfied customer.<BR/><BR/>Josh<BR/><BR/>A: Hi Joshua:<BR/><BR/>Here are some ideas that are better than a lemonade stand for your daughter.<BR/><BR/>One thought:<BR/><BR/>If you want to use original content and no stock articles, then the workaround would be to put in a single gibberish word for the keywords, which will bring up no results. Then, only the unique content will remain. In all honesty, at that point, your basically making a blog, but it's easier to manage a lot of domains from one place and get them setup.<BR/><BR/>Another Thought:<BR/><BR/>My question I asked at WhyPark: Can he set-up a cname alias for artcles. and point to the WhyPark service. So say his domain is smartplumber.com, the WhyPark articles would be published on articles.smartplumber.com and then he could do a blog with smartplumber.com on a free service like blogger or wordpress with reciprocating links between the blog and the articles? Or he could do it as vice versa, set a cname alias for blog. and publish the WhyPark articles on smartplumber.com and the blog on blog.smartplumber.com.<BR/><BR/>Answer from WhyPark: He'd have to manage his own DNS to set that up, but yes that would work. From a link building standpoint, it's actually better to keep everything on one domain with subdomains, rather than spreading out a lot of links across a lot of domains. So, that would work like you have it above.<BR/><BR/>I use blogger for my two blogs, whyparkinsider.com and corkynation.com. If you go the cname alias route, they have instructions on what to do for each big registrar. <BR/><BR/>I really think the combo of articles with a blog is a cool idea. When I get some time, I'll try it with WhyParkInsider.com to show another way to use WhyPark. Thanks for the question - it made another light bulb go off.<BR/><BR/>I'd suggest you get a block of 100 whypark spots for $99. If your daughter gets into it, can you imagine how awesome that would be for a summer project. Lift-off software engineer here she comes! <BR/><BR/>AlanAlan Macomberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968816445566112884noreply@blogger.com