05-29-2006
The typo-domain industry is alive and well and slurping traffic from YouTube.com
Whoa: YouTube sucks up a millions dollars a month in bandwith. Are you ready for your 15 minutes of fame on YouTube?
The videoblog industry and SEO - Part 2 says:
Compared to websites similar in unique visitors / page views, Youtube (and others of the same kind) use huge amounts of bandwidth, surpassing many (if not all of the) other major platforms. It has been said that the hosting costs of Youtube have been estimated at a staggering 1 000 000$US / month with its 40 000 000 short videos servings / day, and they are not showing any sign of slowing down. And this doesn’t include the 25 people it employs and any of their marketing efforts. Hitwise reports that it has reached approximately ~43% of the videoblog audience, far ahead of MySpace (24,2%), Dailymotion, iFilm, Google Video, MSN Video and Metacafe.
So YouTube.com has LOTS of traffic, which starts the smarties wondering how they can leverage that traffic for themselves.
Sure enough, when I typed in youtude.com (sic). A typo, since I meant to get to YouTube.com, what did I find? Heh: a redirect to — http://video-clip.us/?rid=964492
This is a typo-domain: youtude.com has been snatched up to slurp traffic from YouTube.com. And although the title of the youtude.com page is “Video Clips Online”, it’s nothing of the sort — click on one of the titles and you’re taken to directories.
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