As a result of a little experiment we’ve been conducting over the last month, we have added the following keyword domains and slated them for development through Merry Network:

christmasstocking.ws
saintnick.ws
tracksanta.ws
emailsanta.ws
santatracker.ws
wreath.ws
wisemen.ws
wassail.ws
frosty.ws
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tinsel.ws
mrsclaus.ws
grinch.ws
scrooge.ws
stockingstuffer.ws
waronchristmas.us
christmaswrap.net
blackfridaymania.com

Naturallywe have plenty of content already on the Christmas sites of the Merry Network that address each of these keywords. However, after having developed CandyCane.ws and having it gain page #1 status on Google within a week of it’s development we see great potential in improving overall traffic to established Merry Network sites through development of these keyword domains. CandyCane.ws is avery targeted site and though jugar omaha pokerstrip poker pc gamepoker paginas webpoker para pcamerican pokerpai gow poker internetdescarga de juego de pokercard gamblingpoker softwarepoker para jugar gratisbajar juego pokerpoquer online gratispoquer texas holdjugar a pokerfree poker downloaddescargar juego de pokersexy poker onlinepoker del juegohigh stakes pokerpoker flashjuego poker texas,juego de poker,juego de cartas pokerstreep poker on linepolli poquerpoker texas on linepoker omahajuegos de poker eroticostorneos pokerreglas de poquerparty pokerpoker game downloadjuegos de poker en españoljuego cartaspoker freejuego de poker para pcweb pokerjuego de poker onlinepoker roomganancia casinoganar casino onlinemaquina tragaperras pagina internetganar dinero verdadero onlineganancia casino portalespromocion casino online,promocion casino,promociones casino onlineapuesta dinero paginas internetjuegos interactivos portal webjugar video poker lineaplay baccara onlineкомпютри втора употребаjugar video poker webjugar al instante pagina internetcasino portales we’re in the heat of summer we are already noticing nice levels of organic traffic. In fact, we have not yet even had time to market the site and traffic is already strong for it. This indicates a good strategy for boosting our existing network of sites within the Christmas niche.

He was pissed at me from the get-go.

I had taken the time to show him a small portfolio of my work but before we really engaged in conversation he seemed suspicious of me. It wasn’t like I was asking for access to his server or anything like that. He simply needed a writer and I was responding. He needed an article for his job-search portal.

I have been writing for Internet audiences for well over a decade. I have expertise in a variety of professional areas, including career counseling, and have written hundreds if not thousands of articles that are indexed online. He could, I assured him, simply Google my name and find plenty of examples.

Yet he treated me with a disdain I found unsettling.

Writers often suffer from such behavior. Editors in general are the bane of a writer’s existence. But here on the Internet, it’s just brutal for writers overall. Just cruise any decent webmaster’s forum and you’ll see why: writers these days are offering to churn out content for less than half a penny a word. At those rates, you’d need to be a machine just to starve.

How can the written word become so devalued in a medium that is still, for all its whiz bang flash and technology, dependent upon good old fashioned text?

It’s simple, really.

Many webmasters are quite young. Most lack real world professional experience. Frankly most would write the work themselves and spare the expense at all if it weren’t for the time needed to generate it. So they go to the lowest bidder and in many cases that is just what they get — nonsensical compositions from non-native language speaking wordsmiths from some dark corner of the world where earning a nickle is more important than doing a job well.

Futhering weakening sites is a propensity to write articles for search engines rather than readers. I cringe when given assignments requiring X amounts of certain keywords. It destroys the art, stifles the creativity and offends the reader to deal with any piece so mechanically written.

Great content is just like great music or stunning graphics: if it cannot be valued by the end users then the presentation of it will fail, no matter how well a website works.

I have to laugh when I see webmasters profess to have “hundreds of ongoing writing projects” at pennies per word. And I have to cry when I see writers lower themselves to that level.

Writers do not deserve to be paid the same as programmers and coders. They deserve to be paid more.

Today we added mzti.com and fyxn.com -both pronounceable LLLL.coms to our portfolio and offer them for sale.

To support the existing network of Christmas sites operated by the Merry Network, the following domains have been added for new or existing projects:

mistletoe.ws
defendsanta.com

The newest LLLL.com domain added to our portfolio is pucx.com, pronounced “pucks”. This premium domain is being offered for sale in the mid-$XXX range through 2007.

Another pronounceable LLLL.com has been added to the DotPeddler portfolio — joxn.com.

An independent investor has purchased ChristmasClassifieds.com, a domain reclaimed and developed in 2006 by DotPeddler and the Merry Network. The site will remain linked in the Merry Network family for the 2006 season and hopefully beyond.

We’re pleased to announce the addition of a new pronounceable LLLL.com — dguv.com is now available for purchase.

Dotpeddler announces the acquisition of Christmasopolis.com and offers it for sale at $XXXX.

Dotpeddler is pleased to announce the acquisition of bizumi.com to the domain portfolio and offers it for sale at $XXX.