I’ve met quite a few people over at the YoungGoGetter forums and indeed they’ve turned out to be really good online mates of mine. One such recent newcomer to the forums was Mubashar or Mubs as he likes to be called. I started talking to him on MSN and he told me about his Every5Weeks project where he aims to develop and launch 10 websites, one every 5 weeks.
Therefore, when he ordered up a Sponsored Review for DomainLogBook, a site that is part of the Every5Weeks project, I was a little hesitant to see whether it was going to be a quick “Made for Adsense” site looking to earn some quick ebucks.
I was pleasantly surprised.
Here’s a quick quote from Mubs’ About page:
Okay I own a lot of domains. Most of them have websites running on them, and I was having trouble keeping track of all of all them.
Domain Log Book is the place for you to track all your domains, simply add them to your log book, and see their Google page rank, and Alexa traffic rank on one page.
A very simple quote, and this simplicity is a paramount theme throughout the site. The design as you can see above has an attractive logo, and a nice “earth-feeling” colour scheme. The top navigation is a little hard to make out - but I love the integration of the Adsense ad unit, which is a little deceptive as it appears in the traditional navigation area.
Furthermore, customer login and signup appear on the homepage, so whilst this reduces pageviews and earnings potential for Mubs, it’s really convenient for us users who don’t want to wait for yet another page to load. Anyway, I signed up for an account to see what I would be getting as a customer to the site and to see how well I could track my domains:
I only entered a few of my domains, but instantaneously, its easy to see when my domains are going to expire, what their rankings are (in terms of Pagerank and Alexa) and when the stats have been updated. This in itself, makes it an awesome tool for those domainers who have got hundreds and thousands of URL’s which need looking after and tending to. A simple “order” function, also ranks your domains with best first if you want to see your high flyers.
A tiny criticism of this page would be that I don’t know what the “Compete Rank” is. A simple explanation above the results would be a quick solution to this. Also a suggestion of mine would be to have a direct link to the Alexa page, ie. making the numbers a hyperlink to the specific traffic graphs page. This would allow for greater detail and better stat checking.
Finally an awesome little add-on is the existence of a “Domains RSS Feed”. Simply put, you can check on your domains through your web-based feedreader once activated, this gives you a little more room and makes the information come to you.
To conclude, DomainLogBook is an excellent site, and although small and simple, it provides all the services you need and is perfect for the active domainer. So go on - there’s already 581 users tracking 2800 odd domains! Get signed up and please give feedback to Mubs directly, or in the comments section here.
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16 responses so far ↓
1 Paul // Jun 4, 2007 at 6:08 pm
That does look rather useful - I could have done with something like that when I used to own lots of domains, but I’ve let them all expire now. I considered writing something to track them all but as I didn’t have time to write content for the domains I also didn’t have time to write a tool to manage them all.
2 Mubashar Iqbal // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Thanks for the very thorough review, and some very kind words.
I’ve noted your suggestions and will include them in the next site update.
3 Eric // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Mubs makes some kickass apps - definitely someone to watch!
4 adnan // Jun 4, 2007 at 8:27 pm
@ Paul - yeah checkout other sites from Mubs, he’s got a whole network on awesome resources that are pretty much useful for all webmasters. Haha, how many did you have at peak?
@ Mubs - no problem for the review, I really enjoyed doing this one, and creating myself an account was nice and easy, so kudos for you for creating it. Can’t wait to see the revisions.
And @ Eric - thanks for dropping by buddy - yeah I’ve looked at most of his sites, the latest one is pretty awesome too, MeinOne.
5 Paul // Jun 4, 2007 at 9:08 pm
I’ve no idea how many domains I had at peak - probably over 60 (I would have had over 100 if someone hadn’t taken my money and done a runner after selling some to me). Not knowing was part of the problem, hence why I was thinking of writing something to track my domains for me.
6 Josh Buckley // Jun 4, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Looks awesome, i’ll give this thing a go. However, the godaddy control panel is good enough for me at the moment
7 Dave Starr --- ROI Guy // Jun 5, 2007 at 1:51 am
Nice job. Those who moan and complain about paid reviews ought to think twice becuase this is a win-win as I have also found many paid reviews on other blogs to be.
This is one of those ideas that dozens of us have had, but we “never got around to”. It’s simple, intuitive and certainly needed. A near A-list blogger I am subscribed to had his registration expire just acouple weeks ago … Microsoft let and important MSN/Hotmail URL expire less than two months ago … it happens to everyone.
Would this site/service have been discovered without the paid review process? I’m sure it would have, eventually but when … seems to me the process works well … a few bucks to Adnan for taking the time to eview and post seems well worth the time save din getting the word out … thanks to Mubs for providing a darn useful service.
8 Stephen Welton // Jun 5, 2007 at 4:10 am
Awesome deal here. I have been using excel and doing things manually. I have no real experience with coding or web design worthy of anything to date. This tool will help me to keep on top of things. I have over 150 domain names.
9 Saurabh Bhide // Jun 5, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Handy Tool, especially for web developers like me who need to manage domains of some clients too.
10 shawn // Jun 7, 2007 at 2:58 am
Wow, what a great idea! Thanks for doing a review on such a helpful site for us all.
11 adnan // Jun 8, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Thanks for the great feedback guys. I know Mubs really appreciates it, and it makes doing the paid review so much easier. Who says that sponsored reviews have to be controversial?!?! Please pass all feedback onto Mubs as I’m sure he’d love to hear from you guys for further development/suggestions.
Again, I love my Blogtrepreneur community - you guys rock. Sorry for the late comment, exams have taken it out of me ;(
12 Wallace // Jun 11, 2007 at 1:39 am
there is one more great webmaster tool that you may interesting by the same designer,
http://www.urlinvestigator.com/
13 terra // Jun 12, 2007 at 1:16 am
This looks fantastic! I’ve always wanted something like this… it is very much needed!
14 adnan // Jun 13, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Hey Wallace. Yep Mubs also owns URLInvestigator, its part of a huge network of sites that he owns, and it does a very good job as well.
@ terra - yeah its a great tool, I’m using it, so get yourself an account!
15 Armand Rousso // Jun 15, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Domain Log Book is a quite good tool I will use now. I manage to many domaine names in different activities and this new tool would definetly help. All the best Armand Rousso
16 carlafiory // Jun 25, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Armand Rousso great to see you here, yes it’s a good tool : domain log book… See you soon in the Business
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