lance.com vs bids.com

[valuehosted]

I am considering setting up some freelance sites - most people are aware of that a *lance.com site is a freelance site (scriptlance, elance etc) - but *lance.com is starting to run out of good combinations.

Would *bids.com work just as well do you think? going on the concept that it is the content that matters and bids is related to freeLANCE anyways...?

Any thoughts on this matter?

--Tone

 

[jeter4982]

definitely not as good, but it would probably work in most situations

 

[valuehosted]

Would you say a semi-decent name combination using lance.com is better than a dead on or atleast 8 out of 10 quality bids.com combination?

--Tone

 

[jeter4982]

i would say it depends on the specific words, but i would probably go with the *lance.com . if you want, pm me the names, and i will tell you which one i think is better

 

[dgridley]

I'd look for a *lance combo if at all possible, even if it was not a .com. In my way of thinking, the domain name is only 10% of the battle.. you can take even a mediocre name and make it #1.

I am considering setting up some freelance sites - most people are aware of that a *lance.com site is a freelance site (scriptlance, elance etc) - but *lance.com is starting to run out of good combinations.

Would *bids.com work just as well do you think? going on the concept that it is the content that matters and bids is related to freeLANCE anyways...?

Any thoughts on this matter?

--Tone

 

[jeter4982]

pm sent

 

[IAmAllanShore]

I'd look for a *lance combo if at all possible, even if it was not a .com. In my way of thinking, the domain name is only 10% of the battle.. you can take even a mediocre name and make it #1.

You mean like google?

Who would have thought it would be number 1 instead of something like search.com or find.com or any of those.

Content is king.

-Allan

 

[valuehosted]

Thanks guys - I appreciate your input..

I decided to go with bids.. who knows - maybe I'll start a trend..

copywriting/translating
authorlance.com vs copywritebids.com

seo/marketing
marketinglance.com vs seolance.com

I decided to go with bids.com - we'll see how things go.. I like to keep things similar..

as in..

www.adminreviews.com
www.perlreviews.com
www.phpreviews.com

www.hardwareranking.com
www.softwareranking.com

I also picked up pdaranking.com and cellphoneranking.com for my ranking sites...

My programmer is finishing the final touches on the ranking script - it will be sweet...

Thanks again guys,

--Tone

 

[nicholas]

Many factors go into a successful site. The name is an important one, but only one among many. Some of the most successful sites (Amazon.com and eBay to name but two) don't even have their subject matter's words ("books" or "auctions" that is) in their names.

That said, while *lance names have gotten traction, if you're able to pick good *bid words, that should do you just fine too.

 

[valuehosted]

but to be all fair in that kind of thinking....

I cannot think of too many of us frequenting namepros that have the cash behind them that amazon, ebay or google has...

I'm sure that kind of paid a little bit into it as well..

--Tone

 

[valuehosted]

but with that said.. I appreciate your thoughts...

I got seobids.com for marketing and seo freelancers as well as copywritebids.com for copywriting experts.

These are obviously very specialized freelance sites vs the run of the mill kind that caters to just about anything or anyone.

I also have www.adminlance.com (its about a year old ) - its sat up and waiting for me to promote it.. now I wish I just had some of that funding of ebay and Amazon...

--Tone

 

[nicholas]

but to be all fair in that kind of thinking....

I cannot think of too many of us frequenting namepros that have the cash behind them that amazon, ebay or google has...

True, though that was beside the point being made actually which is that while a good name is naturally important, you'll be fine whether a *lance or *bid or something else is chosen because there's more to the success of a business than the immediate and direct noun of what it does being used in its name, and so at this point with some of the good prefixes to those names taken, you'll still do well regardless of the selection between the two.

Edit: SEObids.com has a lot of potential if developed. Imagine a marketplace type of site that was for SEO professionals and customers instead of programmers (as in the case of eLance and Guru.com), and you're really on to something.

 

[valuehosted]

exactly - thats what I want to do - specialized lance sites.

I think adminlance.com would have taken off had I promoted it.

Unfortunately I am more of an idea guy than an implementer (think too busy... with a slight combination of coughlazycough).

adminLance will be for server owners looking for a server admin to do server setups, server securing, script installs etc.

other things that I have set up and should be working on is phpreviews.com and perlreviews.com; I mean, how many script directories out there are there? tons... how many php and perl (commercial scripts) review sites are there out there? basically... none.

And the few reviews you see are just for the affiliate link... I have had this working in my head for almost a year now, keep pushing up the launch date.

Contacted a lot of perl/php programmers and had a tremendous interest... The reviews will be more like a game review or hardware review site. I am having a custom cms created for it to handle reviews better than the over-the-counter cms' out there.

My latest project (beside the lance sites) will actually be the one that launches first... Custom cms is about 3-5 days away from being finished and it is way sweet.

I don't know if you have seen gamerankings.com - it's a site that does not really do their own reviews but allow you to find a game you are looking for and get a list of reviews for that game, it does avg. ratios, it allows members to vote on quality of reviews.

Let's say you are looking for reviews on Half Life 2 (only the best game ever made) - it will be on the front page but if it wasn't you could search for it, it would give you the avg. ratio of the game, give you a bunch of links to reviews of the game on other sites, you can easily see if the reviews are any good on a scale of 1-5; so if the review sucks you won't bother reading it but you could read another review instead. or if the game you were looking at had a poor rating you would not even bother reading about it in the first place for instance; if 10 sites gives the game an avg. of 55%; that would be a good indication (HL2 currently is rating 96.3% (http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/914642.asp)).

Similarly I am going to the same concept, listing reviews and news about hardware and software (www.hardwareranking.com), cellphones/cellular and pda's (mobileranking.com was unfortunately already taken).

but enough about that - I think you are right, done right, SEObids.com could be a big thing.

Thanks,

--Tone