The Power of Suggestion, Subliminal Marketing, and the dot com

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How do you react to the power of suggestion? If you are like the rest of us you fall to its innuendo and embraces.

Guess what the masters of subliminal marketing also fall as easy as the rest of us and here is a video to prove it!

I ran across this blog post today and I had to share it with you. Frank equates the dot com tide on the internet with subliminal marketing.

Why It’s Impossible to Fight the .COM Domain Tide

Unstoppable_tide Yes, I agree that there is a place for other extensions and that if you had the luck, savvy and foresight to register credit.tv or flower.info at registration price, you will do fine long term.. maybe even do outstandingly well. But this 6.5 minute video featured on Owen’s blog today (which I encourage every person interested in domain names to watch), perfectly illustrates why it is impossible to stop the dot com tide. Simply try to imagine how dot com plays into our lives as you digest the last 30 seconds.

How did the dot com play into your life as you look back at the last 30 seconds, 5 minutes, 3 hours…
Will you pay more attention to the subliminal marketing messages you are getting every hour?

late,
gary

This is a post from Gary Pool’s Search Engine Optimizician&trade blog.

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  1. Gary Pool S.E.O. » Blog Archive » Top 10 SEO Tips and Tricks | URL Selection Tip 4 on November 5th, 2007 4:14 pm

    [...] You will want a dot com ending if at all possible. Please check out my earlier blog post The Power of Suggestion, Subliminal Marketing, and the dot com. People are so used to using dot com for an URL it is a good idea to use one. Now you ask about dashes in the URL. Dashes are fine for the search engines but are not very user friendly. People are not used to typing dashes into URLs. So you can’t find the URL you want without dashes and with a dot com ending. There is a work around. It’s called the 301 redirect. [...]

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