So finally the day is here - iMODO.com is officially live.

Who are we? Well, were a bit different than other domain monetization companies, being that the sites we build are full of content and user interaction - in fact just like real websites. And whilst this does encourage and result in visitors clicking the content in addition to the advertisements, we believe this will only serve to make your sites stickier for your visitors and provide them with a much better experience than just a simple page of ads. We have also plugged in some basic social networking tools and a forum to help each domain augment into sites with unique and compelling content.

“So wont the free clickable content erode my earnings….” we hear you say. Well, no we dont think it will, infact we know it to be quite the contrary. Aside from none of the content taking visitors away from your site, we’ve also tested the click through rate of advertisements to visitors and have found that domains get more pages indexed in the search engines, sites become viral and sticky and vistor numbers have organic growth. All of which results in more genuine clicks to your advertisements.

However, as much of a moving feast which iMODO still is, there are still a lot of changes, additions and amendments which we intend to make. It is still raw. It’s also still buggy and will take us some more toil in order to get it right.. The good news is, this is our beta phase and we have a lot of other funky stuff in development. In parallel to 1plus.net (our proof of concept platform), user help and guidance is invaluable to us and we welcome and support both ‘working groups’ and individual suggestions.

Some other points. Because this is very new and very different to that which has come before, our root ad providers rightly want to take this a step at a time. We fully support this view of course because if there’s one thing that has a potentially devastating effect on our long term growth are the old adages such as “click fraud” and “bad traffic”. Lets be clear about this right now, we will not tolerate suspicious traffic, period. Obviously we have reactive measures in place to combat this but web 2.0 is about being pro-active. If you meet some basic criteria that tell us that you’re unlikely to be a bad guy, then we will work with you and treat you as a partner, someone whos welcome to stay with us for the long haul.

Unfortunately, we wont be in a position to take everyone on board from day one. If you already have an active relationship with us through 1plus.net or are known at namepros.com (or other reputable forums) then please feel free to sign up and we’ll hook you up with a premium account straight away. The platform will be extended to others shortly so please do submit a registration anyway and we’ll get back to you real soon. When you do, please keep us in the loop with regard information about you and your domains and we’ll be in a better position to understand your requirements. Plus, if there ever is a question mark over your traffic and/or sites we can take a more objective and informed view if we have some additional background information.

We intend the future of iMODO to be one that is driven and directed in part by our users. We will be bringing on board staff, admins, moderators, consultants and contractors very shortly and we have various renumeration options planned. As much as I hate to use a seemingly overly used phrase we really do intend iMODO to be “for domainers and by domainers”. Our intention is to be focused, flexible, open and transparent.

So please, sign up and have a play. Your first stop will be to our Ajax driven domain manager which has some cool tools to help you manage your domains better and a quick settings column that allows you to edit your domains quickly and easily.

If you have any points, suggestions or comments, please do so in public at namepros.com or in private to us here at admin at 1plus.net or alternatively check out the links and FAQs in the right column.

All the best - The iMODO team