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Don Vito Corleone and Friends
by Steve Cook
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My favorite movie of all time, one that I conservatively estimate I have seen over 100 times, is the 1972 Paramount classic, The Godfather, starring Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, Capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) and patriarch of a powerful New York crime family.
In the spring of 2007 I was doing routine domain name searches when, on a whim, I decided to look up vitocorleone.com. Imagine my surprise when I found it to be available!
What do the names below have in common?
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Vito Corleone |
Fred G. Sanford |
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Besides the fact that they are all fictional characters from TV and film, each one is also a domain name I own.
In my never-endinq SEO (search engine optimization) quest to have my Austin Texas web design firm show up prominently on search engines, I've taken to experimenting with different methods of accomplishing that feat. I also like the idea of owning domain names of fictional characters.
Now the chances that someone searching for Fred G. Sanford will just happen to be in the market for a website are probably nil, but I'll take just about any traffic I can get, plus each domain name is for sale. The jury is still way out on the SEO benefits - I'll report back if I see any significant trends.
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To bid on www.vitocorleone.com please email Sal Tessio at tessio@vitocorleone.com.
Steve Cook owns Austex Websites, a web design firm in Austin, Texas. Steve has over 25 years of marketing and sales management experience and his background includes marketing and selling web design, website development services, database solutions, software training, and web-based software applications.
As a sales and marketing director, Steve has been responsible for corporate web presence, online lead generation, SEO and PPC campaigns.
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