I found this great audio that I want to share with everyone. It is about how domains are like online real estate.
It is really great and a must for anyone who is starting out with a website, a blog, or affiliate program.
Listen here
Monday, April 2, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Here is a good parked site..
I started working on the topsilversites.com, but realized that it is going to take more than just a few hours of work to get something good up and going. I expect to have a good start that I can post by the end of next week.
In the meantime I was looking at my parked domain stats and found a good one to share. I bought tanning-lotions-wholesale.com even though the traffic statistics didn't look all that good. I got it uncontested on the domain aftermarket for $60 and immediately parked it with Sedo. It has been parked for 4 months now and have made a total of $7.54. Now, I know that isn't much, but the interested thing is how the amount has changed.
In the first month the domain made $0.06. I was actually kicking myself for buying it after such a disappointing month. The second month it went to $3.62, this looked a little better. Then in the third month the revenue dropped to $1.93! However, there are still 10 more days in this month and the domain is already up to $2.30. I think we will get up to $3.00 for sure.
Comparing to what I make on my websites that take hours to build and a lot of brain power to create, I prefer to purchase an expired domain and then just let the parking houses do all of the tough work.
Learn how to find domains in the domain aftermarket.
In the meantime I was looking at my parked domain stats and found a good one to share. I bought tanning-lotions-wholesale.com even though the traffic statistics didn't look all that good. I got it uncontested on the domain aftermarket for $60 and immediately parked it with Sedo. It has been parked for 4 months now and have made a total of $7.54. Now, I know that isn't much, but the interested thing is how the amount has changed.
In the first month the domain made $0.06. I was actually kicking myself for buying it after such a disappointing month. The second month it went to $3.62, this looked a little better. Then in the third month the revenue dropped to $1.93! However, there are still 10 more days in this month and the domain is already up to $2.30. I think we will get up to $3.00 for sure.
Comparing to what I make on my websites that take hours to build and a lot of brain power to create, I prefer to purchase an expired domain and then just let the parking houses do all of the tough work.
Learn how to find domains in the domain aftermarket.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
303 Visitors to an $8.20 Domain
Here is my next project. I don’t know where the traffic is coming from for www.topsilversites.com, but it has been parked since December and is still getting a good number of visitors every month.
However, the site has made a whopping $0.06 parked.
This is going to be my next project. Get TopSilverSites.com up and running and monetize the traffic that it receives. For the 3.5 months that it was parked it received 303 visitors. That is pretty good and could be about $150 worth of traffic (if clicks are costing $0.50 for silver related keywords). It should be doing better…
AdSense here we come!
However, the site has made a whopping $0.06 parked.
This is going to be my next project. Get TopSilverSites.com up and running and monetize the traffic that it receives. For the 3.5 months that it was parked it received 303 visitors. That is pretty good and could be about $150 worth of traffic (if clicks are costing $0.50 for silver related keywords). It should be doing better…
AdSense here we come!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
$538.50 Worth of Traffic for Under $200
Another Domain that I bought on the domain aftermarket is gsresources.com. I spent a little bit more than the minimum $60 after-market private auction price, but less than $200.
Little did I know that the site was built around the Suzuki GS series motorcycle. I went ahead and parked it in December. The first month the site did $16.25, the second $9.97 and now in the third month the site did $11.65.
What is amazing is the amount of traffic that the site receives! In the 2 and a half months that the site was parked, it received 1795 page visits! Now if I was buying traffic at $0.10 per click (very cheap and probably not very well targeted) it would have cost me $179!!! That is more than I paid for the site.
I dug a little deeper… I searched for Suzuki motorcycle on Google AdWords. I don’t have the exact price, but the advertiser competition bar is completely green meaning that there are a lot of people using that keyword and the price is probably higher than 10 cents.
If the keyword price is $0.30, a very normal price, then the value of traffic I have received on the site in 2 and a half months is $538.50!
Already with the revenue I have been making from parking I should get back my investment, plus some this year. It looks like an ROI of 114% as long as the parking revenue stays up. So far February was better than January. If you take a look at the site it well targeted with Suzuki related ads. I am curious to see how March goes.
If this continues, next year I will have an ROI of 2029% because I will only have to pay $8.99 to keep the domain.
Learn how I found this profitable domain.
Little did I know that the site was built around the Suzuki GS series motorcycle. I went ahead and parked it in December. The first month the site did $16.25, the second $9.97 and now in the third month the site did $11.65.
What is amazing is the amount of traffic that the site receives! In the 2 and a half months that the site was parked, it received 1795 page visits! Now if I was buying traffic at $0.10 per click (very cheap and probably not very well targeted) it would have cost me $179!!! That is more than I paid for the site.
I dug a little deeper… I searched for Suzuki motorcycle on Google AdWords. I don’t have the exact price, but the advertiser competition bar is completely green meaning that there are a lot of people using that keyword and the price is probably higher than 10 cents.
If the keyword price is $0.30, a very normal price, then the value of traffic I have received on the site in 2 and a half months is $538.50!
Already with the revenue I have been making from parking I should get back my investment, plus some this year. It looks like an ROI of 114% as long as the parking revenue stays up. So far February was better than January. If you take a look at the site it well targeted with Suzuki related ads. I am curious to see how March goes.
If this continues, next year I will have an ROI of 2029% because I will only have to pay $8.99 to keep the domain.
Learn how I found this profitable domain.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
What About my Parked Domains?--ask-the-lawyer.com
I wanted to go through the type of parking statistics that I have gotten from my domains. I started buying domains through private auction after taking a month training course through Domain Profiteer. I also had access to information about domains such as how many links they have from other sites, the page ranking they have been getting, whether they are listed with DMOZ (I have since tried to list some sites, but DMOZ seems to be out-of-order). So, I took all of the information and analyzed it, giving certain things like “write in traffic” a higher weight than others. Then I decided which domains to buy based on the score they received in the analysis I created.
My first domain was www.ask-the-lawyer.com that I bought in a private auction uncontested for $60. It scored 45% in my analysis. I parked it with Sedo on November 28th and in two days I made $0.52. In December I made $22.68. Then something happened and my profit dropped. My page views where cut in half, but my profits lowered dramatically. I made $0.62 in January and $0.39 so far in February.
Really, looking back at the stats for www.ask-the-lawyer.com, it doesn’t look like such a good domain. It only had page rank of 1 from Google and 77 links to it from other sites. It must have been receiving good search traffic that was lost when Google discovered that the domain was parked. The archived pages for http://www.ask-the-lawyer.com/ looks great and the name says exactly what the site did.
Overall the site has made $23.69 total, a 39.5% ROI. A high ROI like that not easy to find in Real Estate and I would consider this site a success. Because of the sudden unexplained loss of revenue the next question is whether or not to develop the site to increase search traffic and get revenues up through another means such as AdSense. Or should I let the site sit and wait? The domain still is getting good traffic every month for doing nothing; maybe it is time to resell it.
My first domain was www.ask-the-lawyer.com that I bought in a private auction uncontested for $60. It scored 45% in my analysis. I parked it with Sedo on November 28th and in two days I made $0.52. In December I made $22.68. Then something happened and my profit dropped. My page views where cut in half, but my profits lowered dramatically. I made $0.62 in January and $0.39 so far in February.
Really, looking back at the stats for www.ask-the-lawyer.com, it doesn’t look like such a good domain. It only had page rank of 1 from Google and 77 links to it from other sites. It must have been receiving good search traffic that was lost when Google discovered that the domain was parked. The archived pages for http://www.ask-the-lawyer.com/ looks great and the name says exactly what the site did.
Overall the site has made $23.69 total, a 39.5% ROI. A high ROI like that not easy to find in Real Estate and I would consider this site a success. Because of the sudden unexplained loss of revenue the next question is whether or not to develop the site to increase search traffic and get revenues up through another means such as AdSense. Or should I let the site sit and wait? The domain still is getting good traffic every month for doing nothing; maybe it is time to resell it.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Unbelievable 750% ROI on Flipped Domain
I have been using the skills I learned in Domain Profiteer to search out domain investments. I have purchased several domains which are currently parked at Sedo. Some are doing pretty good and others are lacking in their effectiveness. I want to go through some of these in more detail, but I have more important news….
I sold my first domain for a profit of $
I found the domain in the GoDaddy auctions and purchased it for $
Then I was contacted by a web developer. It turns out that I had purchased a domain that once belonged to someone else and the original owner wanted the domain back. He was willing to pay me for the trouble and based on the value of the domain we negotiated $
I don’t think 7
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Investing in Internet Real Estate
Internet real estate offers several advantages over traditional real estate. For starters, internet real estate has fewer barriers to entry. You don’t need to raise capitol, hire lawyers, or invest large sums of money. Instead you can buy a “piece of land” or a domain for around $10-$60. With such low barriers to entry anyone can become an internet real estate investor.
There are several ways to get started in internet real estate investing. Anyone can get started by creating a new domain name. This is like buying a piece of land in the middle of nowhere, site unseen. If you buy a domain that no one knows about, no one visits, and no one can find, then you have got yourself the equivalent of a piece of swampland in Louisiana.
The value of internet real estate is the amount of traffic that it receives. If you are looking for a place to set up a new Starbucks, you don’t want to build in the middle of nowhere. You want a location that is going to give you a lot of traffic, visibility and customers. It is the same with internet real estate.
Concentrate on domains that already have traffic from a preexisting link structure, or that have been listed with the major search engines. The more traffic a domain receives the more valuable your internet real estate. To find domains that are valuable a program like etrafficwiz.com is an excellent assistance. The program lists all of the important traffic statistics about a domain before it expires. You can then register to purchase the domain in a private auction before it goes on the market and possibly find yourself a high trafficked domain.
Once you have a piece of internet real estate, or a domain, you can turn your investment into a profit just like real estate.
Develop your domain. Take your new internet property and create a website. Since you already have traffic, you can set up shop and use your domain to market a product, redirect to an affiliate program, or by creating a page and using AdSense for revenue. Then you have to option of going ahead and getting more traffic to your domain, or letting the current traffic support it.
Rent your domain. Park houses like sedo.com will host your domain for you, place keyword targeted ads, and when someone clicks on an ad you get paid. It is like renting an apartment but a lot less work.
Resell your domain. Many domains can be purchased at a discount at a private auction. You can purchase a domain and then resell it at a public auction for a quick profit. Or, if you find a great domain name, you can hold it and let it increase in value.
These days the real estate market is looking scarier and scarier. However, investing in internet real estate is relatively new. The supply of good internet real estate is increasingly contracting while the demand, and prices, for high quality domains continually go up.
There are several ways to get started in internet real estate investing. Anyone can get started by creating a new domain name. This is like buying a piece of land in the middle of nowhere, site unseen. If you buy a domain that no one knows about, no one visits, and no one can find, then you have got yourself the equivalent of a piece of swampland in Louisiana.
The value of internet real estate is the amount of traffic that it receives. If you are looking for a place to set up a new Starbucks, you don’t want to build in the middle of nowhere. You want a location that is going to give you a lot of traffic, visibility and customers. It is the same with internet real estate.
Concentrate on domains that already have traffic from a preexisting link structure, or that have been listed with the major search engines. The more traffic a domain receives the more valuable your internet real estate. To find domains that are valuable a program like etrafficwiz.com is an excellent assistance. The program lists all of the important traffic statistics about a domain before it expires. You can then register to purchase the domain in a private auction before it goes on the market and possibly find yourself a high trafficked domain.
Once you have a piece of internet real estate, or a domain, you can turn your investment into a profit just like real estate.
Develop your domain. Take your new internet property and create a website. Since you already have traffic, you can set up shop and use your domain to market a product, redirect to an affiliate program, or by creating a page and using AdSense for revenue. Then you have to option of going ahead and getting more traffic to your domain, or letting the current traffic support it.
Rent your domain. Park houses like sedo.com will host your domain for you, place keyword targeted ads, and when someone clicks on an ad you get paid. It is like renting an apartment but a lot less work.
Resell your domain. Many domains can be purchased at a discount at a private auction. You can purchase a domain and then resell it at a public auction for a quick profit. Or, if you find a great domain name, you can hold it and let it increase in value.
These days the real estate market is looking scarier and scarier. However, investing in internet real estate is relatively new. The supply of good internet real estate is increasingly contracting while the demand, and prices, for high quality domains continually go up.
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