Aeiou.com

[princedomain]

I have decided to build mini sites out of my many domains.

My good friend is helping me on that (so far we have built 4 sites and many nearing completion) at cheap price.

The said mini sites are www.freecreditcare.com www.zuukle.com www.yonkersguide.com and www.discountinsurance.biz

I love the quality of work of my firend above not the cheap price. But one guy is strongly advising me to build my sites with Rick Latona's website developing firm aeiou.com

I checked aeiou.com and it is ok but I like genuine design and not worldpress, jamoola etc templates.

My questions are:

1. Do you think my sites above are ok?

2. Would you invest on original genuine web design mini sites?

3. Do you think I should build my future sites with aeiou.com?

Please be free to comment.It will help me and other readers.

 

[sgtppr]

my litmus test is what does their own website look like

aeiou.com looks like it was made by a 10th grader. i'd say find a better option

 

[Aggro]

my litmus test is what does their own website look like

aeiou.com looks like it was made by a 10th grader. i'd say find a better option

$250 per site ?!
From what i've seen from their examples, all it consists of is a templated 5 or 6 page MFA site

Some people here must be lazy, ignorant or have too much money...rather than doing a bit of legwork themselves

At $250 per site I'd rather be like them selling the picks & shovels than the site owner.

I guess this is what domainers mean by "development"...<sigh>

 

[henniemeijer]

perhaps some other domainers are too lazy to read that for $ 250 you do get more than just a mini-site.(marketing/linkbuilding)
If aeiou does get you enough traffic it could be worth it
Also it may depend how much your time is worth to you whether you want to invest a number of hours in building it yourself.

 

[DotUSDomains]

The problem i see is they are a big company,

for the $250 you pay how much is actually spent on marketing ?

They need

content writers
designers
profit

my guess would be less than $100 for marketing.

now can i get more for my $100 than they can ?

I'm pretty sure i can have a site like that build for less than $100 including content/domain and hosting.

best thing to do is try 1 of there websites.

if you have the money/patience.

 

[Michael]

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[henniemeijer]

So who does a similar job with a better price all in one hand?
If you have the marketing/domainpicking/building of the website done by separate people they can blame it on the others.
I gave aeiou a big list and had them pick 10 domains and do everything.Either they deliver what they promise or they do not.
Just how much time does it take to see whether they deliver that is the question.
Also how many people(money) do you go through before finding the people who can do the the whole job if you do not want to do it yourself.
I see enough people mention that others do not deliver as promised.
So you are paying for the name,which is not a guarantee, but gives you better odds.
I am trying other websitebuilders as well by the way.
Not saying that aeiou is a good or bad deal,but before you judge you must see whether they bring results and how that compares to what others deliver consistently.

 

[mhdoc]

It's clear from reading the posts in threads like this that there are many posters who can't/won't take the time to really think through the circumstances of others.

Some are good programmers who think that installing Wordpress is so trivial any moron could do it. They find it difficult to imagine someone would be unwilling or unable to do it.

Many others are on very tight budgets where every dollar counts but have or can make time to do things for themselves. They find it difficult to imagine there are people with no time for whom saving money is the least of their concerns.

So, there is no correct answer for many of these questions. The correct answer depends on the needs and circumstances of the requester.

The opportunity lies in defining what you do well and then selling your services to someone who finds that difficult. Then both parties are happy.

 

[princedomain]

The said mini sites are www.freecreditcare.com www.zuukle.com www.yonkersguide.com and www.discountinsurance.biz

Nobody is commenting on thses sites if they are good. Do you think I will still work with my friend, the site builder or you have one to refer to me.

 

[DotUSDomains]

To be honest your websites are pretty spammy,

Dont have much content.

The design is not all that well done,

And the adsense is not very well blended in to the design,

There are better options for you,

Simple template will do if you dont plan on having much content,

Try wordpress for adding lots of content.

But i would suggest you go in a differant direction.

 

[GF]

To add to what DotUSDomains said, you could also get in trouble from Google if you have little content and lots of ads.

My recommendation is to add at least 4 more pages of content.

 

[Pred]

aeiou is a complete waste of money, you can get something far superior done for a fraction of price on the forums or do yourself. a ripoff imho

 

[henniemeijer]

aeiou is a complete waste of money, you can get something far superior done for a fraction of price on the forums or do yourself. a ripoff imho

So who are the people who do it for a "fraction of this money" and have proven trackrecords for getting mini-sites decent traffic where they add enough value to your domains to cover expenses plus extra?
I see people who make good looking websites(but no traffic numbers.good looking and traffic are not the same) and other people claiming to know a lot about seo/linkbuilding.
Just wondered who are considered to the "go to"guys are on Namepros regarding minisites.
Started up business with two NP members myself,just like some opinions of people who'are very convinced" that aeiou is not worth the money they ask for it,though I have not seen any prove of that.

 

[Pred]

So who are the people who do it for a "fraction of this money" and have proven trackrecords for getting mini-sites decent traffic where they add enough value to your domains to cover expenses plus extra?
I see people who make good looking websites(but no traffic numbers.good looking and traffic are not the same) and other people claiming to know a lot about seo/linkbuilding.
Just wondered who are considered to the "go to"guys are on Namepros regarding minisites.
Started up business with two NP members myself,just like some opinions of people who'are very convinced" that aeiou is not worth the money they ask for it,though I have not seen any prove of that.

well from briefly looking over the site
the examples are poor.
you can go and buy a good themed wordpress which is all these are, but not great ones, get a multi licence for less than $250 and go and make them to your hearts content. so instead of 1 site you can have 100 or more. just put in the worlk yourself , its that easy.

also, there is no guarateed traffic, they do a bit of seo and submit to search engines, something we can all do for free ourselves. you should get some more traffic of course naturally.

better to do this imo.
take your best domains and properly develop, which i have been doing these past couple of years, your medium names do some wordpress ministes like this or get a good developer on here, of which there are many, go to the relevant sections of this forum and others and open your eyes, im not going to pm the names, there are many. do your homework

good way to go bankrupt is pay this sort of money for the standard of 'site' tbh the two that are there. i wouldnt like to see any meber s here paying thru the nose for what u get.

tip to all domainers actually go the development sections on this forum and open your eyes, and other forums. you may be surprised what u can get. also actually research templates, wordpresses, a bit of seo.
the days are gone where domainers can sit back on ppc and be lazy, if you know nothing about development etc start learning.
a child can do 'sites' like these anyway. seriously

 

[labrocca]

You would do better at Sitepoint.

Just like the people advising not to use your host as a registrar..I don't advise you use your SEO's for your designs.

The people that do everything do nothing well.

 

[d0main]

Do you know how they build backlinks?

 

[Michael]

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[Aggro]

perhaps some other domainers are too lazy to read that for $ 250 you do get more than just a mini-site.(marketing/linkbuilding)
If aeiou does get you enough traffic it could be worth it
Also it may depend how much your time is worth to you whether you want to invest a number of hours in building it yourself.

You make all their marketing spiel sound like it's rocket science whereas in reality it is no effort at all - not that you would know:

ie.
* Social Bookmarking
* Article Marketing
* Blog Commenting
* Forum Posting
* Directory Posting

As for your domains...ever heard the expression "you can't polish a turd"?

And while you might not agree with me - some of the other comments (from many doing it themselves) regarding what a waste of money can't be all wrong.
"Teach a man to fish..."

$250 per MFA site !!! LOL
I am sure there are people eg India, who could do a job 10x better for 10% of the price. Guaranteed.

ps well said Arnie

 

[duceman]

^^ It is rocket science if you don't know what you are doing.

A lot of people are lazy or scared to spend a few hours to learn something that they could use for the rest of their life. Once they start trying to build their knowledge on a subject they are surprised to learn how easy some things are.

Newbies spend $30-60 to get appraisals on worthless domains. Then they spend a little time in the business and realize how much money they've wasted.

I've used PPC-sites.com a few times simply because you can't beat $9.95 per site

my 2c

 

[Ross]

As for your domains...ever heard the expression "you can't polish a turd"?

They do not develop domains that they do not think has potential. So you have to have a semi-ok domain for them to develop it.

I do agree the price is to high. I would prolly use the service if i got a complete unique design and it was in the range of $50-$75. At that price i would still only use the service if i was busy working on a project and didnt feel like building a site myself.

Also as i said the designs are pretty weak and they claim they are unique but in all reality all they do is change the header and the colors. Honestly thats about 5 mins of work, mainly spent on the design of the header. I could have a fully unique design, optimized, unique articles, and have an SEO service for less than $50 right here on NamePros.com if you look around hard enough and piece it together.

Good service, horrid price!