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Today I completed my first interview with Rob Taylor for the new OzDomainer Domain Names Podcast. Rob is from the UK and runs a web development & domain name business at www.hey.co.uk

He is in Australia at the moment working on some projects with another domainer and friend of ours Ben Wilks and will be heading back to the UK in a few weeks time. Rob is the owner of www.music.co.uk and others such as www.lol.co.uk, www.webftp.co.uk

In this interview Rob shares his incite into the domain name industry particularly the .co.uk name space. For the links to the websites and tools we spoke about in the podcast please go to this link Domain Web Tools

I hope you enjoy this podcast and if you have anyone that you would like me to interview or a specific topic that you would like covered then please let me know.

In Episode 3 of the Oz Domainer Podcast I will be talking with Australian Domainer Michael Gilmour from Whizzbangsblog.com where we will be talking about his recent trip to T.R.A.F.F.I.C West in Las Vegas and the subject of Transparency that he spoke about at the conference.

 

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Today is the start of my new series of Domain Names Podcasts.

I will be interviewing a wide variety of people in the domain name industry and I hope the knowledge that is shared will give value to the listeners.

If you have anyone in particular that you would like me to interview please let me know in the comments section of this or any other of the podcast posts.

Thanks

Ed

 

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Well its hard to believe it but Google turned 9 Years old today. It was back in 1998 when Moscow-born Sergey Brin and American born Larry Page set out to change the world in particular the “search engine world”.

I can remember when Google started as it was only a few weeks or so after my daughter Sasha was born.

It seemed like a very basic interface at the time and one that has not changed much since then with the very clean lines and one search bar. The thing that I always liked about Google from the beginning was that I always seemed to find what I was looking for within the first three pages where the other search engines it was not uncommon to end up 10 pages deep before I had the desired results.

Google has been very good to me over the past 4 years ever since I started my AdWords Consulting business, AdWords Marketing. It has allowed me to make my living from consulting on the AdWords PPC system so thanks to Google for that!

Google has listed on the US Stock Exchange and has mad Multi-Billionaires from its two founders and many Multi-Millionaires from other stock holders and employees of Google.

My family and I were on a holiday to California at the end of 2005 and were also attending the Commission Junction University weekend in Santa Barbara. On our drive down from San Francisco to Santa Barbara we paid a visit to Google Headquarters in Silicon Valley which was great, the Google HQ is very impressive indeed.

So happy birthday to Google, I am sure there will be a large party at the Googleplex!

I have just finished reading a fantastic book on great e-businesses entitled -

50 Great e-Businesses and the Minds Behind Them by Emily Ross & Angus Holland who are both from Melbourne , Australia

It reviews the history behind some of very well known e-businesses like eBay, Google, PayPal and some of the not so huge or well known ones but still very successful.

The stories of these start-ups is so wide and varied it should give people some idea of what is possible for businesses on the internet.

This book is hot off the press and I am not sure that it is available outside of Australia at the time of this post being written. For more info please go to the the publishers site Random House Australia. It is well worth your time and effort IMHO!

See below for more details from the publisher.

Another book of business case studies - short, sharp and motivational - from the authors of the bestselling 100 GREAT BUSINESSES AND THE MINDS BEHIND THEM.

Description of book

Creating profitable businesses on the internet is no mean feat and, as anyone who has watched the rise of eBay or Amazon knows, the web has forever changed the way we do business. Now the bestselling authors of 100 GREAT BUSINESSES AND THE MINDS BEHIND THEM take a look at some of the smartest, most profitable internet businesses operating today, and reveal that whether big, small, local or on the other side of the planet, when it’s web business, it’s a small, fascinating world, with potentially limitless opportunities.

This collection of 50 case studies from around the world offers valuable inspiration, ideas and lessons on the principles of successful internet businesses - from travel (kayak.com) to sex (Danni Ashe), in cyberspace there is a new way to sell everything. The founders of sites like lastminute.com, netaporter.com and collegehumor.com provide lasting lessons on the art of building an e-business success rather than a dot.com bomb. It’s all about web innovation, timing and tapping into those billions of customers.

50 GREAT E-BUSINESSES AND THE MINDS BEHIND THEM delves into thriving sites in the areas of travel, gambling, sex, retail, blogging, medical testing, financial services, celebrities, astrology and other entertainment. And with fresh updates on Google, Dell, and CraigsList covering all of their innovations, where better to look for e-business advice than from the world’s best?

For those of you that have not heard of Monte Cahn from Moniker.com or Perry Marshall the Author of The Definitive Guide to Google AdWords, well…. you must have been hiding under a rock for the past few years

Monte Cahn is the owner of the Domain Name Registrar Moniker and has had great success with running theDomain Name Auctions at theTraffic events in the US.

Monte also has a fantastic web radio show on Webmaster Radio called Domain Masters. Monte interviews the top movers and shakers in the Internet Business World from Domainers to Company Owners.

One of Monte’s most recent interviews is with my good mate and fellow Google AdWords Addict Perry Marshall. Perry is one of if not the main reasons I started my AdWords Consulting business AdWords Marketing just on 4 years ago.

About 6 months ago I introduced Perry to Monte Cahn and told him of all the great things that Monte was doing in the Domain Name Industry. Perry contact Monte to do an interview with him which Perry sent out to his Renaissance Club Newsletter which IMHO is one of the best value marketing newsletters around, it even gets snail mailed to me and every second month has and interview CD like the one he did with Monte.

Well just last week Monte interviewed Perry Marshall on the subject of Google AdWords and how to use different Domain Names in the ad copy to test which name creates a better click through and conversion. This is something that I know as a AdWords Marketing Consultant, does not get done by many people at all. It is a very revealing interview and Perry gives away some great tips.

Here is the synopsis of the interview.

Monte speaks with Perry Marshall about to monetize the most revenue using Google AdWords. is an author, speaker and consultant in Chicago. He is known as The Wizard of Google AdWords and is one of the world s leading specialists on buying search engine traffic. Google advertisers who use his methods generate approximately half a billion clicks per month!

Here is the link for the interview which is also downloadable as an MP3, enjoy!