Changing domain names really isn't a good idea for SEO

If you have a domain name that you've been running for a year or two and suddenly feel the urge to change the name because it's cooler or for any other reason whatsoever then you should know it's not a good SEO move.

All links urls have a google page rank and alexa rating history. The more people explore and 'hit' those urls / pages is the more it's going to look better on your Page Rank and Alexa rating score. Meaning it's just going well for you since more and more people keep finding your page.

I'd like to talk about an example a website I follow every now and then. It's Ytkpro.com. Recently it's alexa rating has really declined to minimal levels. It should only be going up since they have a decent level of visitors on their forums.

I'll show the recent graph,

They got a new domain for their forums it seems and redirected old domain name, 'forum.ytkpro.com' to ytk.smfnew.com. This has made a huge decline in their normal hits for the real website 'ytkpro.com'. So it's going off the search engine charts as it seems while the other bogus domain name is gaining air.

It's like taking the life out of domain name. 99% of their traffic was linked to ytkpro.com through their forum.

Using two or more domain names isn't a bad idea. Proper way of using them is to redirect new domain names to the old and the parent domain name so that it stays up. Which is the point of SEO.

Have fun. :)

Today is my Birthday

Happy Birthday to me. :)

I love the fact that facebook reminds everybody you know of your birthday a few day earlier so there's no chance they'd forget about it. It's fun to not miss anyone when they wish you for your birthday. :P

What prompts you to watch a movie?

The movie trailer, theme and story. I wouldn't watch a movie just because everyone else likes it and/or is talking about it. I might read a review on that movie and would see for myself if it is worth watching for me.

Because frankly some movie topics are awfully boring and just are not worth looking into.

Having said that, what I might think is boring to me might be interesting for somebody else!

My response to a topic on mylot.com

Are dreams for real?

Dreams are just dreams.

Some people say that all dreams have meanings. Well, I say, even if they have a meaning then what good is that to us? Because we don't know how to interpret a dream and know what it means.

Besides it's not like something happening to us in real. Even if it was, it passes and we get back to the real world as we know it. It's not likethe dream would change what our lives are like at the moment.

If they do, then that's great!

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What would you do if you found money on the street?

I would step on the money first and look around to see if someone is looking. Then I'll pick it up.

That's the most reasonable thing to do. Because the personal who might have lost it would have been long gone. Asking anyone else around just wouldn't be of any use.

Having said that, me and my friend lost our carry bag once in Dubai on a bench. It had our money and passports. We remembered a little while later and went running back to the bench.

There were too men sitting there with the bag looking for the person who lost their bag. We showed them some proof that it in reality was out bag and thanked them.

But that was a bag, not plain old money. So there's a difference.

My response on mylot.com on a similar topic

I hate public transport

I know where you're coming from buddy. The whole waiting thing simply isn't my thing either. I've had to use public transports a lot so I know how it feels like. Sometimes you have to get to a place in a hurry and public transport just isn't the thing you'd need at that point.

It's best to have you own means on transport. But you have to make the best of what you have if there's not personal mode of transport.

At least you the public transport to get to places. What if there was no transport at all. What would you do then?

My response to that topic on mylot.com

Is paid2youtube a scam?

There are certainly some concerns about it from many people. No one has claimed to have gotten paid by the website yet. It's still a pretty new website so you can't really say if it is legit or not.

I suppose the best way to find out is to try for yourself and see if it comes up with the goods.

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