Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Clickbank Pitch Pages, Who Would Buy?

I really don't understand who would buy anything from a Clickbank Pitch Page. People do apparently, but not people like me.

The only thing I bought from Clickbank is my subscription to DomainProfiteer, and only because a friend that I trust (and met in person, not online) recommended it to me. Otherwise I would not trust the information inside.

See like this product, The Domain Secrets Book
Or this one, Domain Dashboard and CPanel & Seo Manager

Unfortunately, I love DomainProfiteer and everything I have learned about domain investing and finding valuable domains. My subscription has been worth the money I invested and I am headed toward a break even point (I would be there already if I didn't go really high bidding on some domains). Just last month I made $50 passively with my parked domains and I did have one that I resold for a huge ROI (see entry).

I wonder if there are other excellent Clickbank products out there that are marketed poorly, or if I found one of the few diamonds in a bucket full of glass. I would like to market some of Clickbank's other products, but I can't seem to find one that is interesting to me, or worth the money to try it out.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Domain Parking Increasing in Revenue

In April I really didn't do anything in domain investing or blog posting. I've been busy working on a few joint ventures.

Yesterday, I took a look at my stats for the 40 odd domains that I have parked with Sedo.com and my profits went up 37.45%! Amazing! There really are 2-3 domains that are really pushing my income and making the most amount of money.

In February I made $22.29 total for my domains.
That went up to $36.73 in March.
In April (my month of doing nothing) I made $50.80!

That is more than $1 per domain and with each domain being about $9/year it isn't a bad investment.

Now it is just to multiply the domains I have to bring in even more money.

Is anyone selling used domains?

Monday, April 2, 2007

Audio Comparing Online Domains to Real Estate

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 $130!

I found the domain in the GoDaddy auctions and purchased it for $20 and then parked it at Sedo. It didn’t do as well on Sedo as I was hoping. GoDaddy estimated that I would receive about 70 visitors a month on the domain, but I was only getting about 30 visitors a month. And of those 30 visitors I only made a total of $0.38 from domain parking in one month. It was pretty sad and it didn’t look like I would get back my $20 investment any time soon.

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 $150. $150 minus the $20 leaves a $130 profit, 750% return on investment.

I don’t think 750% is bad for a 2 month minimal effort. Now I have some more money to search for other domains.

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.

Monday, January 15, 2007

Getting Started with Domain Investing

“The domain name is 21st century real estate,” says Warren Adelman, president of GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar. “The economy is being increasingly driven by the Internet sector.”


The smart investors with big money are now jumping into this market. Major investors like Ross Perot and Howard Schultz (Chairman of Starbucks Corp.) are investing millions of dollars in the domain market. You know these guys are not going to put millions of dollars into some fly-by-night idea.


How can the average investor get started in domain investing even when it looks like all of the “good names” have already been bought up?


The secret to investing is not buying up domain names hoping that someone is going to type your name into their browser winder. Instead, to make money with domain names, the secret is buying expired domain names.

Every day around 30,000 domains expire for one reason or another. A lot of the time the webmaster just doesn’t have the time anymore to update his website or he has just lost interest. Sometimes the webmaster has just forgotten to renew. Many of these webmasters have put considerable work into developing their websites and domains. They have created a large link structure with thousands of links, they have achieved Google page rank, they have listed with Yahoo or DMOZ, or they have invested into other forms of off-line marketing. The average investor is able to leverage the work already put into a domain to create large profits.


One place to find expiring domain names is etrafficwiz.com . Here you can find traffic indicating information about the domain (links, Alexa rank, etc) and register to purchase the domains in a private auction before they go into the public market. The program is easy enough that the average person is able to evaluate and purchase these expiring domains and turn them into cash!


There are several ways to make money from an expired domain that gets traffic:


1. Redirecting targeted, profitable traffic to other sites you own. If a domain name has traffic already, you can redirect it to one of the site you already own. Buying domains relevant to the topic and keywords of a previously made site is a quick, easy, and cheap way to increase your website traffic.


2. Use parking services for passive income. If you don’t have an existing website you can still make money from domain investing. The parking services host your site for free and display ads on your site. When a visitor clicks on an ad, you get paid. It is that simple. One top park house is Sedo.com.


3. Resell domains for fat profits. Just like in real estate you can buy a domain name under market value in a private auction and then sell for a profit in the open market. Find a great name like FunnyAds.com and you could be cashing in on a $100,000 paycheck.


4. Build a site to take advantage of the current traffic. Imagine how much easier it is to launch a website when you are already receiving traffic from an existing link structure or a domain that is already listed with the major search engines. You would be able to save a ton of time, money, and energy.


5. Redirect traffic to affiliate programs. Affiliate programs will supply you with links to existing websites. When someone makes a purchase you get paid. Just redirect the traffic the website is already receiving to an affiliate program and watch the cash roll in. Commission Junction (http://www.cj.com/) is one of the top affiliate programs and is free to join.


6. Hold onto domains while they increase in value. You can simply just hold onto your domain while you watch prices, demand and value rise and supply go down. Don’t forget to park your domain in a free park house to make money while you hold your domain


The fact is, domain names are becoming a limited resource. Domains are like virtual real estate, as the supply goes down, the value of the real estate goes up. Smart investors are buying domains that have great potential and are making a nice paycheck while waiting for the value to increase. Check out etrafficwiz.com for more information of how you can invest smartly in domain real estate.

Monday, January 8, 2007

Drive More Traffic To Your Site With Expired Domains

The key to successful internet marketing is getting traffic. If you want to succeed on the internet you need high quality traffic to your website. No matter if you are generating leads, selling a product, or producing revenue using Adsense, the more traffic you get (and the higher quality it is) the more money that you will be able to make.

There are many techniques to getting more traffic, many of which involve a lot of time and energy. However there is one source of low-cost, high-quality traffic that is often overlooked and under utilized—expired domains.

Everyday thousands of domains expire. Their owners often to do not renew because they have lost interest, don’t have the time to manage their site, or they simply forget that their domain will expire. Of course, 98% of these domains are completely worthless and receive little to no traffic. But around 2% receive an abundance of high quality traffic. These domains have been developed, have high quality links, have Google page rank, have Alexa page rank, and some have already been listed with Yahoo or with DMOZ. The most prized of all domains have write-in traffic, or Overture ranking. Each day Overture keeps track of people who type “www.a-domain-name.com” into the Yahoo search bar. This number is called the Overture ranking and is a true indicator of how much traffic that domain receives.

How can forward thinking entrepreneurs find high quality domains that will deliver more and better traffic?

Because of the high amount of expiring domains, finding high quality domains can be a little bit tricky. A good website is Domain Profiteer. This program combs the internet to find all of the expiring domains before they expire. Then you have the option to purchase them in a private auction before the domains are available to the public. Relevant information about the domain, such as the links the domain has from other websites, the amount of write-in traffic it receives, and its Google and Alexa page rank, is also included so that you can determine if a domain is valuable or not. With Domain Profiteer you can get insider access to which domains are expiring within the next few days and filter out the 98% that are not worth your money.

Another option is to take a look at domains that are already up for public auction. GoDaddy has a great auction house where the monthly traffic is already estimated. You can already see what kind of traffic you can expect to receive with this domain. Just beware, some savvy marketers might try to pad the traffic a domain receives before an auction to increase the selling price.

Purchasing expired domains to generate traffic is a top-notch investment. The #1 reason more people don’t take advantage of expired domains is because it is incredibly challenging to sort through the domains that expire to find the ones with value. With help from Domain Profiteer and GoDaddy, you can sort and find the valuable domains and leverage them to deliver more traffic. More traffic will ensure and increase your internet marketing success.