I just literally stumbled across a new blog aggregation service called Gurus.com which is covering the domain industry along with blogs of some other industries. The site is using the Slogan; “one site, all the gurus”
Of course most of you are familiar with Domaining.com and NameBee.com which have been serving the domain community quite well as blog aggregators.
Gurus.com is categorizing domain blogs as: “Web Development and Domains Gurus”
The only blogs currently covered by Gurus.com in that category are: TheDomains.com, ElliotsBlog.com, DNJournal.com, DomainNameNews.com, TheFragerFactor.com and the Conceptualist.com.
I don’t know about any of the other guys, but no one from Gurus.com contacted me to ask if they could include our posts in their service and no one contacted me to tell me they were doing so. However seeing who owns it I’m willing to forgive him (read below).
Gurus.com which says it is in Beta does not currently contain any advertising.
Other Industries currently being covered by Gurus.com are:
“Financial Gurus”
“Internet Marketing Gurus”
“Pro Blogging Gurus”
“Productivity Gurus”
Now back to whom owns the domain Gurus.com?
None other than Ammar Kubba of Thought Convergence and Trafficz fame.
However this is a personal project of Mr. Kubba.
Reached for comment Mr. Kubba said about the site:
“”I envision a site that eventually aggregates blogs / information sites from experts across all fields, i.e., financial gurus, domain gurus, plumbing gurus, etc., along with a social component that allows people to comment and contribute their experiences, knowledge and opinions”
Sounds like a great plan.
I know domaining.com tried a few weeks ago to add in some non-domain blogs into its feed but got some push back since many mainstream blogs publish can publish 10 posts a day or more.
Gurus.com is laid out in sections (changed by a drop down menu) so if you just want to see just the domain blogs or just the financial blogs you can, thereby allowing all of these to co-exist without overwhelming each other.
I wish Ammar the best of luck in this new project.
Now to the really important part.
I assume the honor of being named a “Guru”, like the Nobel Prize, comes with a large cash award and a nice trophy.
Ammar you have my address.
Wasn’t that Sai’s old site that he tried to promote on Rick’s board?
btw, Great site Mr. Kubba!
I’ll take the blame for that one Mike, as Gurus.com was originally my project, that has now been passed to Ammar to take to the next level 🙂 I thought I’d emailed everyone, but perhaps it never got through. Anyway, I hope you don’t mind being one of the Gurus! 🙂
Hi Owen,
No, it was always mine. I think Sai uses WebsiteGuru.com.
The website theme and the great domain name are an excellent match. The organizational structure is also very smart so people can zero in on one field at a time or follow them all. Easy to use, intuitive interface. Hope it is a big hit for Ammar.
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is a five-years space-blogger a “space guru”? 🙂
(ghostNASA.com)
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@ Chris
Nice name! How’d you end up buying it? 🙂
HE HE HE
Congrats to Chris and Ammar… Nice deal 🙂
cool site, useful, and great name for it… good luck with it Ammar
When one of the major ppc executive is putting his effort into development, I better take notice of the trend.
I’ve been checking out gurus.com for the last year now..
Mike, your check is in the mail (along with your trophy)… 😉
Thank you all for your kind words and good wishes. I have some big ideas for gurus.com, but it’s going to take time to see those aspirations transformed into reality. My brother (and a team that he’s putting together) will be developing and managing gurus.com, as well as several other projects. I will continue to focus my time and energy on Thought Convergence and growing our core businesses, TrafficZ, DomainTools and Aftermarket.com.
In the mean time, if anybody has any comments, questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me directly… I’d love to hear from you.
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now I send a mail to them to propose ME as “space guru”… 🙂
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Aaaaargh! … the guru-guys HAVEN’T an email address!
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Nice site, a great way to bring more marketing gurus/businesses into contact with domain holders.
Thanks… bookmarked 🙂
Here’s hoping all of the Gurus are taking a look at this.
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This is a Great Symbol to be a part of.
Regards, Jerry.
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There has been a pretty clear line drawn across the Internet Marketing industry lately. This line divides the ethical marketers from the snakes. You know the scammers with all the hypey “auto pilot one click instant traffic riches” The industry has had it and many marketers have been very vocal about this recently. It appears that the scammers have simply pushed the envelop too far.
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Marketers and consumers from every niche have been speaking out more and more against the snakes and scammers. The top industry forums are full of threads about these crappy products an the snakes that make them. Bloggers have gone crazy putting these guys on blast and Facebook has been buzzing for months about it. There are hundreds of Youtube videos where marketers and consumers of digital info products and software are speaking their minds. I guess the final straw has broken the camels back.
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That being said, there is also a “Premier” membership available for $17 per month. The premier members have some additional features inside the members area, they get a multi-site license which enables them to use the seal on as many sites as they own. Also, they get access to a “Seal Generator”, this is a software that lets you create seals in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Premier members also get to load a banner and link for their site which rotates in the website and can potentially bring consumers back to their offer. Over all this is a pretty good value for only $17 when you consider the prices that those “other” seal companies out there charge.
One of the things that you’ll like the most about IMTrustWorthy is the social aspect and the ability to meet other GOOD guys. The website has a “JV WALL” this is basically a comunication page where you can comment on the threads and connect with other marketers. There is also an internal messaging system. It’s no Facebook, (then again who needs another Facebook) but it is well suited to help marketers create joint venture partnerships and affiliations with other IMTrustWorthy members.
I think it’s about time that we band together and separate ourselves from the snakes and the scammers. All in all this website is a WIN for the good guys. Sure, there will be scammers that try to brandish the IMTrustWorthy seal, but the other members will quickly make that known in the comments and their rating will drop. IMTrustWorthy doesn’t actually rate the marketers, the members do. If you ask me, thats a pretty fair shake and only the scammers need to be afraid. I suggest you create a free account and check it out for yourself.
You should get:
IMTrustWorthy
Thanks, Jerry.
What happened to gurus.com? it is parked again.
seems like it would have been successful similar to the site affbuzz.com that aggregates affiliate marketing blogs. Also, all of those bloggers on affbuzz are thankful to get on the page as it generated a tremendous amount of traffic to their blogs for free. why would you not want free traffic and act as if you should have granted them permission? You publish an RSS feed then act surprised people are using it?