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by petehols
Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:29 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Moral dilemma, Your thoughts please
Replies: 16
Views: 6031

Hi David There is nothing wrong with offering it for sale as long as you dont offer it to the company that has the similar name. The reason I asked if the domain was related to your site is there is nothing stopping you creating a website on it and putting information on the site and using it as an ...
by petehols
Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:56 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Moral dilemma, Your thoughts please
Replies: 16
Views: 6031

Hi David Didn't mean to scare you. Technically it is not legally wrong what you have done so far there is no legal issue with yet. It will only become an issue if you use those domain names to try and get traffic from their name or you try to sell the domain name to them. If they ask to buy the doma...
by petehols
Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:56 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: new site, don't want to lose good rankings of old one
Replies: 17
Views: 6703

Hi 301 permanent re-direct is what you are looking for. When you are re-directing the old pages to the new ones make sure you re-direct to as near the same page as possible. e.g if the old one is www.oldsite.com/information.html try to link to a similar page on new site like www.oldsite.com/informat...
by petehols
Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:50 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Moral dilemma, Your thoughts please
Replies: 16
Views: 6031

Hi David It might be worthless to you. If the company that currently owns the domain name similar to the ones you registered all they would have to do is prove that you registered it either to cause them harm or to gain traffic from their domain name. If they can prove this then a letter to the regi...
by petehols
Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:29 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Anyone given this lot a go?
Replies: 8
Views: 3132

Hi Travelpixel Really have to disagree with you on this the the hyphen will not make it stronger than the word running together. When the domain names first started there was no domain names with hyphens they were always all one word, then when the internet started to take off and more and more peop...
by petehols
Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:55 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Does anyone here do link exchanges?
Replies: 7
Views: 3458

Hi Marcus I can't give direct quotes as the forum that I am on is a private forum and this is coming directly from google that 3 way linking is frowned upon and they are working on a new algo to detect these sort of links. Obviously they will not be able to get all of them but to chance getting bann...
by petehols
Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:32 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Does anyone here do link exchanges?
Replies: 7
Views: 3458

Hi Marcus I would personally advise against the triangualr linking strategy Google is catchig onto this sort of link building and is frowning on it drastically as they see it as a way of cheating the system. The best way is to get one way inbound links from high quality sites. Just my 2 cents worth ...
by petehols
Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:27 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Why has my website disappeared off of Google etc
Replies: 15
Views: 5709

Hi Michelle Google uses different datacenters to feed different areas of the world the only way to check if you are consistently appearing on everyones screens is to check all the datacentres. You can check a lot of the datacenters using this tool. A lot of SEOs use this www.mcdar.net/dance/index.ph...
by petehols
Wed May 17, 2006 3:47 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Free advertising
Replies: 16
Views: 6656

Hi Travelpixel All you would have to do to manipulate the alexa rankings would be to install the toolbar and keep visiting your site all day everyday. Everytime that alexa sees your site being visited it improves the ratings of your website. It is an easy way to manipulate your alexa ratings. That i...
by petehols
Wed May 17, 2006 11:32 am
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Free advertising
Replies: 16
Views: 6656

Hi Bunglebot As most serious webmasters will tell you alexa is of very little importance at all. It only registers users that have the alsxa toolbar installed. If any webmaster wanted to they could easily manipulate the rankings on alexa. Secondly the google pr is of little or no importance either. ...
by petehols
Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:51 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Interesting Site...Opinions??
Replies: 26
Views: 8887

Hi Alan Thank you a bit of non paranoid normal discussion. All I was doing was asking peoples opinions nothing more. I have always been honest and upfront on this board and I don't see why one person should change this. In the future I am not going to post any websites n this board whether I think i...
by petehols
Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:16 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Interesting Site...Opinions??
Replies: 26
Views: 8887

uote: So obviously I emailed my customers to let them know about this offer that is probably why you will see some villas on their site that is on mine aswell. Not "some" villas but them all. The 2 Bulgarian villas just happen to be on your other site http://www.holidaystobulgaria.co m/(s...
by petehols
Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:47 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Interesting Site...Opinions??
Replies: 26
Views: 8887

Hi Oskar Thanks for the information. Firstly when I registered on the site because I am a company they had a deal on for my customers to advertise 1 listing free of charge. So obviously I emailed my customers to let them know about this offer that is probably why you will see some villas on their si...
by petehols
Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:51 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Interesting Site...Opinions??
Replies: 26
Views: 8887

Hi Oskar I will hold my hands up to that. I was banned from another forum for promoting my site. That was a while back and I have learnt my lesson when it comes to that. I was over eager in trying to get people to my site. I don't hide that fact and have learnt from it. I have been participating in ...
by petehols
Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:09 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Interesting Site...Opinions??
Replies: 26
Views: 8887

Hi Oskar

I have no idea what you are talking about. I do not own this site. I have my own site that I am currently dealing with which this forum knows about. I just thought this was an interesting idea for a rental site.

Pete