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A neat trick

by Anup Mahajan
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Here's a nice trick that I came across this morning.. Many of you might be aware of it but it was new for me.

Today I got an email from Mike Filsaime promoting Frank Kern's new Mass Control video

The URL in the mail was (ignore the spaces)

http:// www-masscontrol . com/

(That's Mike's affiliate link)

I was wondering how there's a "www-" instead of "www." in the URL

Then it struck me.. "www-" was part of the URL itself.

So the complete URL was (ignore the spaces)

www . www-masscontrol . com

I think it's a neat trick to register a domain like "www-productname.com" and send your subscribers to

http://www-productname.com

What is your opinion on this? It must be effective enough for Mike to use it.

Cheers,
Anup
#neat #trick
  • Profile picture of the author Jose Delgado
    It is a very smart move. I seen it too.

    it really is:

    www. www- masscontrol .com
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    • Profile picture of the author Tony Dean
      I remember a lady journalist giving seminars across the USA to corporate execs telling them about registering these 'type-in' domain names for their brands because others would do it for them - and of course - get the type-in traffic to their own site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Bestel
    Originally Posted by anup.mahajan View Post

    What is your opinion on this? It must be effective enough for Mike to use it.
    I guess so. The only downside is for when people don't notice the dash instead of the dot when they come to type it.

    Peter
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  • Profile picture of the author Dhira
    Very commonly used for PPC...
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  • Profile picture of the author sparrow
    problem with this

    if people don't notice the - you might be sending to the wrong place

    I very rarely type in the www anymore

    Ed
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    • Profile picture of the author see-you-at-the-top
      Sounds like the kind of thing that Google robots eventually get smart enough to catch. It does have a very 'spammy' thing about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Emailrevealer
    Hmmm this is very interesting and opens a lot of idesa.
    The only downside I can see is people typing it it and going to the wrong site. But how often could that happen?
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