Comments on: David Borden’s New Site NiceDiggs.com

By: Rentals.com Raise Rates, No Guarantees, Charges for Signs

Rentals.com Raise Rates, No Guarantees, Charges for Signs — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:04:06 +0000

[...] wonder what David Borden would think of what is happening to his old company? David Borden is the one that set the pricing [...]

By: Matt Teichmann

Matt Teichmann — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:11:00 +0000

Nicediggs is off to a good start. IMHO, Redfin.com is the market leader in content and user experience. We will see who develops the best, most innovative features over the long term…to be continued.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:08:05 +0000

I have not seen them in search yet…..I will keep my eyes peeled for it to.

By: Dave Dugdale

Dave Dugdale — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:45:32 +0000

Is nice digs starting to rank?

By: Robbie

Robbie — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:43:06 +0000

Dave,
Nicediggs has alot of new listings. the site sems to be doing very well.

Doing a good job over at nicediggs!

Robbie

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:28:44 +0000

JC,

I agree with that CSI has made some mistakes lately.

Perhaps you know something I don’t. Please share the competing sites with us.

NiceDiggs.com does not appear to be a competing site (at least not yet).

I am sure the previous owners must have signed a non-compete for many years.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:59:04 +0000

I cannot understand the thinking behind CSI. Why do they continue to allow former owners of newly acquired companies to start a competing company. This is the case with RentClicks and HomeRentalAds, whose owners currently run other online rental sites.

RentClicks was a huge website, so why kill it and replace it with Rentals.com which couldn’t compete with even HomeRentalAds. It is apparent that between RentClicks and RentalHouses, the much large site was retired because its owners had parted ways with the company.

It would have made more sense to combine Rentals, RentalHouses, and etc. and market them against RentClicks which has the most traffic and users.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:54:34 +0000

Dave Borden,

What are your thoughts on CSI paying for links?

I think this is a poor long term strategy. If I paid millions of dollars for RentClicks, RentalHouses and HomeRentalAds, I would have my whitest hat on when doing SEO on my sites. CSI could lose all that wonderful traffic by putting on a black hat and paying for links and those purchased sites would be worth zero.

I know you think Jamie and Robert are good leaders, but with this latest move I would have to disagree with you.

I totally understand if you would not like to comment on this issue. Give me a call tomorrow if you like.

By: Frank Drebin

Frank Drebin — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:34:55 +0000

I have always believed that banner ads and Google ads drive away more visitors than the amount of money they bring in.

For whatever small amount of revenue they generate, the take away much more in terms of the perceived legitimacy of a site.

Visitors come to a rental listing site to look at a particular type of ad Ã¢â‚¬â€œ rental listings Ã¢â‚¬â€œ why cheapen the experience and tire your viewers sooner by adding negligible content that you can’t control?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:09:39 +0000

Dave,

Can you tell me in private what Jonathan is up to these days - I would love to study any new site he might be working on.

From what you are saying it sounds like Jamie and Robert are pretty much driving the ship - thanks for sharing that with us.