My first post to any forum of any sort, ever. Please bear with my considerable ignorance.
I feel like I’ve found the right place and I’m happy to be here. In the time I’ve spent reading entries to these forums (I hate to think of it as lurking), I’ve come to see that many of you have considerable knowledge which you seem willing to share. Believe me, some of my “101-style” questions may test that collective generosity. Hopefully not, but we’ll see.
In any event, Hello to all.
I am a photographer (weddings, primarily, but whatever...) out of Portland, Oregon. I stumbled down the rabbit hole into Domainia (or Doh-mania, as the case may be) when I decided to try my hand at some elementary seo on my wife's and my photography site. I'm middling-good with words--used to contribute to the "Los Angeles Times," and even "Rolling Stone," back in another Day--so coming up with a few appropriate keywords and blending them into some copy...how hard could it be?
Ho-ho, that's a different story...but then I got the Other Idea of converting a couple of keyword combinations into domains which I could point at the primary site and, oops...right through the looking-glass I went, into this part-stock/real estate-market, part-Vegas, part-old-West, part-psychedelic Wonderland which we all share. I thought I'd discovered a New Country--paradise for the likes of a word-junkie such as myself. I ran totally amok, and not just with wedding/photography-related names, either, oh no... I sucked up names with a demented zeal usually reserved for people who genuinely enjoy sticking their fingers into electrical outlets. By the time I was finished, I had reg’d an unwieldly number of names--many of which I ultimately had to let go, come re-reg time
--but had been completely seduced by the words themselves and had no real plan for putting most of them to work. Add to all that the fact that Real-Life forced me to put aside the whole experiment for about seven months and, well...here I am.
So, Hello, indeed. Like I said above, I'm glad to be here--hoping to get to know you folks, perhaps even get to know some as friends as well as colleagues. I hope also to be, one day, in a position to offer help to someone who feels as bewildered in this realm as I often do now.
Thanks in advance -- emjael07
I feel like I’ve found the right place and I’m happy to be here. In the time I’ve spent reading entries to these forums (I hate to think of it as lurking), I’ve come to see that many of you have considerable knowledge which you seem willing to share. Believe me, some of my “101-style” questions may test that collective generosity. Hopefully not, but we’ll see.
In any event, Hello to all.
I am a photographer (weddings, primarily, but whatever...) out of Portland, Oregon. I stumbled down the rabbit hole into Domainia (or Doh-mania, as the case may be) when I decided to try my hand at some elementary seo on my wife's and my photography site. I'm middling-good with words--used to contribute to the "Los Angeles Times," and even "Rolling Stone," back in another Day--so coming up with a few appropriate keywords and blending them into some copy...how hard could it be?
Ho-ho, that's a different story...but then I got the Other Idea of converting a couple of keyword combinations into domains which I could point at the primary site and, oops...right through the looking-glass I went, into this part-stock/real estate-market, part-Vegas, part-old-West, part-psychedelic Wonderland which we all share. I thought I'd discovered a New Country--paradise for the likes of a word-junkie such as myself. I ran totally amok, and not just with wedding/photography-related names, either, oh no... I sucked up names with a demented zeal usually reserved for people who genuinely enjoy sticking their fingers into electrical outlets. By the time I was finished, I had reg’d an unwieldly number of names--many of which I ultimately had to let go, come re-reg time
--but had been completely seduced by the words themselves and had no real plan for putting most of them to work. Add to all that the fact that Real-Life forced me to put aside the whole experiment for about seven months and, well...here I am.So, Hello, indeed. Like I said above, I'm glad to be here--hoping to get to know you folks, perhaps even get to know some as friends as well as colleagues. I hope also to be, one day, in a position to offer help to someone who feels as bewildered in this realm as I often do now.
Thanks in advance -- emjael07
