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> The big change since the original days of the dotcom boom is that most people no longer find websites for the first time by typing "http://www.$FOO.com" http:
by doctorpangloss 12y ago
> The big change since the original days of the dotcom boom is that most people no longer find websites for the first time by typing "http://www.$FOO.com" http://www.$FOO.com" in the address bar of their browser.
You would be utterly shocked to learn that direct navigation advertising, domain rotation and other related businesses are thriving, with multi-hundred million dollar revenues.
It's not about "most" people, it's just, "financially viable people."
- PaulHoule 12y agoWhat I see is that direct navigation is slowly going the way of the boiled frog. As for people on the bottom of the economic totem pole, many of them breathe their internet through a straw on some mobile "framily" plan and are often incredulous that there's this thing called WiFi you can use with a tablet. Thus they are getting forced to use modern browsers and the same thing will happen when a virus finally melts down their Windows XP machine for the last time. I think it's more material the effect that this has on "seomaining". For a long time it was really good to have $FOO.something if you want to rank for $FOO. This would not give you good SEO by itself, but if you do everything else right, it's a big help. With so many domains out there, this signal will be weakened.