Comments on: McAfee Tells People To Stop Clicking & Start Direct Nagivating: Will This Increase Type In Traffic

By: stewart

stewart — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:09:59 +0000

I think most people are just too lazy to ever take the time to do it the way Mc suggests.
The rest arent listening and of course after that? They are going to be victims.

By: GenericGene

GenericGene — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:26:46 +0000

Generics will dominate the net -

By: jblack

jblack — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:53:04 +0000

Makes sense except their very own McAfee corporate security program categorizes parked domains along with suspicious, phishing, virus sites, etc and blocks them depending on settings. The default and catch all settings though prevent parked pages from resolving and thus do not appear to the user who typed the generic name into the browser contrary to their newly stated recommendation. Obviously, that will and does decrease clicks originally intended by the user.

They need to better align their recommendation with their very own security software settings. Left and right hands clearly not talking to each other.

By: Famous Quotes in Domaining

Famous Quotes in Domaining — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:40:10 +0000

[...] domain name directly into the browser rather than clicking URLs in mails that might be forged" — McAfee __________________ ` "You are what you register." Reply With Quote [...]

By: domo sapiens

domo sapiens — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:38:10 +0000

As a rule of thumb people with crappie domains or domains with NO type-ins downplay parked domains/pages which provide an excelent service filling a surfer’s “need a moment in time” , Generic domains (Mainly product and services) enjoy excelent CTRs and depending on the sector excelent RPM’s as well , more so with time as parked pages get better both on relation of Geo-service and smarter optimizers…and this CAN’T be said about SE’ traffic which generally speaking have “accidental visitors” as the bulk of the traffic, the proof resides in the CTR and advertisers’ bids , such advertisers love the conversion of quality parked pages. (don’t forget advertisers can always opt-out parked pages)

In re: to type-in traffic… in my own experience I can honestly say it hasn’t decreased ( in a year to year basis) although I feel is reaching a “plateau” for most of my domains , however as some of the ” DotCom’ die hards” here well know : when people develop the .net or the c.c (country code) version of your domain beautiful things happen, traffic increases in direct relation to the other site’s popularity and the chance of selling the name also gets better (call it the “Traffic Hemorrage factor”)…

Lastly mini-crappie-one-page-sites pseudo-developers keep on counting BOT’s as real vistors…they are only fooling themselves.

By: sc

sc — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:33:26 +0000

Back to basics. Direct Nav started the Internet and will always be the way to go straight to what is real.
Search engines have become shopping guides and the SERPs are gerrymandered for that purpose.
just sayin…

By: MHB

MHB — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:39:31 +0000

http://www.trustedsource.org/blog/437/You-Name-ItSpammers-Have-Faked-It

By: FX

FX — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:25:26 +0000

Google with its tool bars and browser partnerships has spent millions trying to force users not to use the address bar. The current trend is gonna be hard to reverse especially cuz now address bars require few extra clicks to navigate vs few years ago.

mike, whats the link to this article ?

By: BusinessWebsites.com

BusinessWebsites.com — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:00:35 +0000

Hopefully it will.

On another note it’s a bit shocking that a so called leader in Internet Security does not have technology to fix the problem. It just seems a bit backwards, not to say I don’t like it.

By: Leonard Britt

Leonard Britt — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:28:56 +0000

I believe it is already happening but the trend is likely to continue that fewer and fewer people will type directly into their browser bar a generic term unless they already know it is an existing site. More often than not generic search term .COM domains are parked sites and people are becoming accustomed to the look and feel of a parked page – in general a turnoff. So they will migrate to searching in Google, Yahoo, Bing for whatever it is they want. Then what effect does that have on the price gap between .COM & .Net?