A couple days ago I wrote about the brandable boutique wars heating up, Michael Rader posted on Namepros that Brand Root is going to be the aggressor and look to take market share, he also claimed that Brand Root ranks higher than BrandBucket and Namerific for almost all keywords that they target. As a side note one commenter in our post mentioned that he believes Brand Root is heading for a penalty from Google.
Brandroot are cleaning up in organic search – ranking for some really good terms and getting tonnes of free traffic.
But if you look at how they’ve achieved this you start to see a serious penalty waiting to happen. Use your backlink tool of choice – you’ll find plenty of spam and obviously paid links. Penalty is when not if IMO. Ride the wave until it happens though!
So now Brand Bucket is out with some news about upcoming features, growth rates and their affiliate program. Brand Bucket will be introducing a profile page which a seller can use as their own personal landing page to highlight all of their listed domains. The email from company founder Margot Bushnaq also stated that affiliates were joining by the hundreds.
Here is the email:
We are growing faster than ever before.
Sales are growing, inventory is increasing and affiliate partners are joining by the hundreds. We want you to grow with us. We are very excited to announce some exciting new tools to help you grow your sales with BrandBucket. Please read on!
Your own BrandBucket profile page.
We’re proud to introduce your own personal landing page featuring your domain names that you can promote, share and recommend. Every time your friends and social network connections share your page, you earn a credit towards future listing fees and more. So share away, and let the network effect save you some cash Become a partner and earn more cash.
BrandBucket is now on Commission Junction. We have accepted over 600 new partners into our affiliate program and the results are amazing. You too can join! By using your unique affiliate link to point customers to your portfolio, you can earn an additional 6% of the sale price when your names sell, and you can even earn commission on other domain name sales. All you have to do is just use your link and start blogging, Facebooking, Instagramming and tweeting. Yes It is that easy.
Leaner, faster and more shiny website.
We have been busy adding more features and making the website more responsive to more devices and potential customers. Transactions from mobile devices have doubled in the last three months. We created new segments for visitors to better search and find what they are looking for. We improved search and filtering tools to show more qualified related names.
Conversions from new website visitors have increased by 150% for organic traffic, 180% for Adwords and 300% for affiliates. We must be doing something right! 😉
From 40 to 400 new names per month.
Two years ago we were adding an average of 40 new names per month. Recently we have been hitting the 400 per month mark! We are not compromising on quality as we grow, and we did hit a bit of a slowdown with the on-boarding process. To deal with the growth we recruited additional brand editors and logo designers. Our submission process is getting faster and we are aiming to making it even faster and more transparent with more enhancements on the way. We are still listening and improving so please keep the feedback coming.
Last but not least, we are expanding!
To be announced soon, we are joining forces with some insanely great new partners in the brandable business names space. Stay tuned for upcoming press releases.
Happy selling!





So who’s better brand bucket or brand root ?
There are a lot of us out there with similar properties but the fued is fun to watch while us others creep up in the back. Here is a list of our favorites:
BrandKeywords.com
BrandLance.com
plentyofbrands.com
RajDomains.com
philanthropist.com
BrandBucket.com
BrandRoot.com
brandclub.com
amazingdomains.com
CompanyName.com
domainbranding.com
brandings.com
mediaplow.com
Namerific.com
catchydn.com
Oviah.com
branddo.com
excitemental.com
vibrand.com
brandit.com
nakednames.com
novanym.com
cheapdomains.com
sitenamesales.com
brandstarters.com