October17 Media

Are you a lawyer, dentist, accountant or engineer or other professional and looking to buy a domain name?
Before you register one, consider the .pro extension. Here’s why:

What are .pro domains?
The pro-domains are an exclusive domain that are available for pre-registration now. All licensed and credentialed professionals and professional entities are eligible to pre-register pro-domains. At this time, only members of the medical, legal, accounting and engineering professions, licensed in the United States, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom, are eligible to register a .Pro domain. Though, a .PRO domain is not restrictive; any business can register once the pre-registration period is over. If you have a business license, you are likely to be eligible to register a .pro domain.

Why buy a .pro domain?
Professionals spend years of schooling, training and preparation to pass exams and finally achieve a license to practice in their field of specialty. Along with maintaining their image and credibility through work experience, a professional must earn the trust of his/her client. This is easy to establish in person, but difficult to convey over the Internet. In the physical world, professionals and their clients can have private and confidential discussions, face to face or telephonically. To ensure trust online and conduct business with propriety, communications and transactions must remain private and secure. RegistryPro offers a way to solve this challenge with the new Top Level Domain (TLD) extension.

Need help implementing and learning how to use your new .pro domain? Give us a shout! We provide services that help you utilize the new domain to its fullest from forwarding, blogs, to developing new custom websites (our sister company Syntric Design does the most amazing web design!).

Why can .Pro domains can improve your search engine rankings?
Seach engines like Google rank your listing higher if a keyword from a search is in your domain name. So, a good idea is to get these names with .pro, when they are not available in .com.

It’s well known that placing keywords in a domain name can give your site a major boost on search engines. Smart marketing pros often buy keyword-phrase domain names and use them as doorway to boost traffic to their sites.

Been thinking about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) lately? We do a lot of that and if you need an expert to give you suggestions, we’re here to help!

How to buy a .pro domain?
We can help you to choose a domain and find out what SEO terms would be best to buy. From now until August 31st, 2008, you can reserve your .PRO domain. DomainPeople is one of the only companies offering this opportunity. Reserve the domain you want before it’s gone.

On September 8th, the Registry will officially open up the registration period and any professional around the world can register the domain you’ve been dying for. All .PRO domain names can be registered for only $49.95/year.

I just read in The Vancouver Sun this morning that one of the most radical shakeups of domain names in 40 years was approved for implementation yesterday at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers AGM in Paris (June 26th, 2008).

According to the Vancouver Sun, Internet regulators voted to allow the creation of thousands of new Web domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi. The overhaul is expected to radically change the way users navigate the Internet and has implications for business and consumers. (I’d say so!)

ICANN is working towards accepting the first applications for new domain suffix’s in the second quarter of 2009. The web’s 1.9 billion users would be able to buy an unlimited number of generic addresses based on common words, brands or company names, cities or proper names. ICANN is not “selling” new top level domain names. There will be a limited application period where any established entity from anywhere in the world can submit an application that will go through an evaluation process. Trademarks will not be automatically reserved. But there will be an objection-based mechanism for trademark owners where their arguments for protection will be considered.
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It’s possible, but you have to have an offer that is an easy sell.

I’m talking about web affiliate programs and what they can offer to the average business. There are many types of affiliate programs but the ones I’m writing about today are those that use blogs, social networking sites, and good old regular content to advertise your product or service.

Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those cheezy bulls**t sales pitches. Instead this is the kind of advertising where the people doing the advertising pick who they’re willing to advertise. Different, eh? (more…)

As one of Vancouver’s internet marketing wizards, we’ve decided to share with you just one of the many things we do to tweak pay-per-click campaigns in order to get results. Yes, we’ll share with you one of our tricks of the trade. We’re not in the habit of giving away our favourite tips and techniques but we figure a bit of insight might help explain why we get paid to professionally manage campaigns.

Okay, so here it is…

You see those Google ads on the right side of your search results page? The sponsored ones? Well, we buy those on behalf of our clients and part of managing online advertising is deciding what those ads say. (more…)

DATE: Thursday May 8th, 2008
LOCATION: Opus Bar
ADDRESS: 350 Davie Street, Yaletown
TIME: 5:00 to 8:00pm

Calling all Oenophiles!

Your devotion to wine can be matched only by your love of contributing to the local community. Join an esteemed group of Oenophiles at the Second Annual Wine Auction Benefiting Big Sisters.
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