This one is hilarious. I know a bunch of domainers that are holding out for the “BIG” offer.

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If you have an idea for a comic strip please post in comments or submit via contact form. The comic strip can be anything related to the online world. If your idea is used you will be awarded with a $10 GoDaddy or Amazon gift card, your choice.

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I am not a news reporter and really do not enjoy writing articles about domaining news on a daily basis. What I have decided to do is record a video every Saturday of the week’s headlines.

One thing I did forget to talk about was the return of Bido.com. Bido has been down for almost six months while making some upgrades and changes to their previous system. The concept behind Bido is simple, one premium domain name with no reserve auctioned daily between 1pm and 2pm est. First auction back will be Thursday February 19th. I believe on Monday the 16th they will be announcing the upcoming domain names for auction.

On the video I mentioned a few websites I like to visit for domain news. Here is that list again just in case you didn’t write them down.
DNJournal.com
Domaining.com
DNW.com aka DomainNameWire.com

Have a great weekend and make sure to come back tomorrow for a new comic strip.

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Recycled content is when a site owner takes content from another location, usually rewords it and posts to their site as if it was their own. This practice is most used for mini-sites and blogs.

Is this practice ok?
Within reason, yes.

Mini-Sites
I have several mini-sites that I have definitely done this with. A perfect example would be a poker site of mine.  The site provides information on how to play games like Texas Holdem and Omaha. Using my site as the example, there are only so many ways I can write an informational piece on Texas Holdem and make it understandable.

Blog
I am sure I have used this for news, again, how many ways can you report the same story. I cannot say that I have used this for my blog articles. I may get an idea or believe something to be useful to my readers by visiting other blogs. In those situations, I will normally test out what I have read and create a new article based on my experiences.

I have two words for those that recycle content, public domain. Public domain is a term for intellectual properties not owned by anyone. The full definition is way to long, visit Wikipedia for the full version. From what I was recently told anything written before 1923 is considered public domain. You can actually take an entire book written before 1923 and resell, reword, retitle or anything else you want and call it your own. Before using this technique please do your own research, I visited a site called copylaw.com.

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The number one challenge for any blogger is their ability to write quality articles on a consistent basis. Sure it’s easy enough to throw some words up and call that a blog post but that provides zero value and will more than likely cost you readers.

I myself have found it a struggle to make the time to blog. Not that I don’t enjoy writing or have the information to pass along but more so because of time. My old method of blog writing was to wake up, usually around 11am and think of a topic to write about for that days post. I would find myself  halfway through an article and realize I’m not giving myself enough time to write or research everything needed. The last thing I want to do is put out a garbage post. I would delete what I had so far and tell myself I will write later tonight and post it for the next day. That just does not work, at least for me.

My new plan…
Some days I feel better than others and to be honest I’m not in a mood to write every day. I have come to realize the days I’m feeling in a funk, it is better not to write. What I have decided to do from this point forward is to write several posts when I’m feeling great. This actually does a couple things, it assures top quality articles are being produced and will also save me time throughout the week. Instead of writing an hour a day I may spend four hours in a single day and write posts for the entire week. This may or may not work for everyone. My blog is more personal, it’s about my experiences trying to make money online, blogging and domaining. For others your blog may revolve around reporting the news, something I rarely do nowadays. I have no urge to report the news on a daily basis. For those of you that do though you have to report daily. When a new story breaks you have to get it online before the other guys do. Instead for myself what I have thought about doing is posting a recap of that weeks news. More than likely I’ll do it in a video blog and capture all of the headlines from the week.

In closing, if you are in the mood to write then just keep writing. Don’t limit yourself to writing one article, write multiple articles and save some for a rainy day.

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I have decided to move the comic strip from Wednesday to Sunday to be like the newspapers.

This strip came from one of my readers, Shawn Cox. He will be rewarded with a $10 gift card for either GoDaddy or Amazon, his choice. The idea behind this strip was the announcement of Google now offering domain parking.

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If you have an idea for a comic strip please post in comments. The comic strip can be anything related to the online world. I am no longer limiting the strip to only domaining. If your idea is used you will be awarded with a $10 GoDaddy or Amazon gift card, your choice.

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