Making a Domain earn £1 a week

[yesterday]

This is a tremendous thread.

I have tried the one page minisite thing with a car seats domain and it worked for a while as it hit the top of msn, but a few days later it is nowhere. However it has earned a total of $23.50 in about 6 months so, whilst not a champagne moment, it has paid for its keep and can be put on the prize shelf, as it gets the occasional income.

I am also trying with a whole load of zero/low traffic domains to develop sites slowly, in bulk, using available content, but fed in every week or so as if the site is being built.

It has so far listed all the domains in the search engines, which is a start, although I don't think they rank particularly highly. It has increased traffic from 300 a day to 2500 a day on average (in 4 months) and increased revenue from about £0.80 to about £3.00 a day - but this is for the whole lot of them together, so is nowhere near break even.

There are a whole load of things to do to increase this, including much better site design, better ad placement, different ad feed (I am using Miva at the moment), better more unique content etc etc. And spending a whole load more time on it.

I'll let you know how it goes once it starts to break even.

I think Scott, your comment about putting a gadget on the site is spot on. People will bookmark it just so they can use that gadget occasionally.

Tommy, your full on sites are great.

I think with BFTUK and Murph and mibut's seo skills and rob's domains we can all make a good living

yesterday


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[ScottJ]

I would suggest that with your car seats domain the main problem could be it wouldn't actually have much unique content on it, having unique content is quite important and worth the extra legwork to get as it pays for itself longer and doesn't risk your website being seen as duplicate content.

 

[BFTUK]

Agreed.

Yesterday, its all very well having feeds into the site but you won't rank anywhere on google with duplicate content.

 

[Paullas]

I would suggest that with your car seats domain the main problem could be it wouldn't actually have much unique content on it, having unique content is quite important and worth the extra legwork to get as it pays for itself longer and doesn't risk your website being seen as duplicate content.

yes but where do you find unique content, what sites are best for this. I tend to use istock.com for my images as i know i will be safe using them but actually getting unique content is a pain to find at times.

 

[yesterday]

I put in time but still failed to make it unique

I just searched for snippets on google and whahey it's everywhere!!

Lesson 1.

Thanks chaps.

yesterday

website design forum

 

[ScottJ]

yes but where do you find unique content, what sites are best for this. I tend to use istock.com for my images as i know i will be safe using them but actually getting unique content is a pain to find at times.

Yes istock is good for images.

Well, this is how my train of thought has worked recently.....say I bought artofwar.co.uk from Deconstruction that would be a good domain for some sort of military tactic website, who would have already written about military tactics (or many other subjects) that would have it in electronic format but not available on the internet already......students! they have to research & write about such variety of things all the time....must contact students and buy essays cheap for beer money....or maybe google to see if such a site already sells them......


There are webmaster forums where you can pay someone to write an article for $8 on any subject you want but chances are that type of route will end up with a crappy article so one that has had a little thought put into it is preferable and easily worth $10-$20 IMO

 

[paul]

If you can't write your own content which is always best, one place you could get some unique content from is archive.org.

Look for an old site/domain (either one that is now parked or has dropped) and then use the old content that site used years ago, just check it's not still being used on another site

 

[BFTUK]

If you can't write your own content which is always best, one place you could get some unique content from is archive.org.

Look for an old site/domain (either one that is now parked or has dropped) and then use the old content that site used years ago, just check it's not still being used on another site

Good tip.....

I've had some success re-writing articles in the past.

Take a given subject find a couple of artilces and use them as a base, but substaincially change the structure and wording. Not ideal but workable....

 

[tifosi]

yes but where do you find unique content, what sites are best for this. I tend to use istock.com for my images as i know i will be safe using them but actually getting unique content is a pain to find at times.

There's loads of free article sites, where for the additional line of where you got it from (and you don't always need to do this if you do as above & use as a base. Same with aggregated magazine ads) you can get contextual articles on just about anything...

http://www.articlesbase.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.articlesbase.com/
http://www.articlesfactory.com/
http://www.articles-hub.com/
http://www.findarticles.com/
http://www.articlerich.com/

Add adsense, affiliate links, banners & minishops

mix well, cook for a while...

S

 

[deconstruction]

Yes istock is good for images.

Well, this is how my train of thought has worked recently.....say I bought artofwar.co.uk from Deconstruction that would be a good domain for some sort of military tactic website, who would have already written about military tactics (or many other subjects) that would have it in electronic format but not available on the internet already......students! they have to research & write about such variety of things all the time....must contact students and buy essays cheap for beer money....or maybe google to see if such a site already sells them......


There are webmaster forums where you can pay someone to write an article for $8 on any subject you want but chances are that type of route will end up with a crappy article so one that has had a little thought put into it is preferable and easily worth $10-$20 IMO

if the name dont sell i might try a quick develop on this name

i put up the site www.thedietshop.co.uk - did no work on it.. (content is unique because i spent 2 mins hacking it up).

did zero seo, just put a single link to the site from my footer on this forum. within a week it was getting traffic. took about 6 months to make the reg fee i think (maybe less) and make very little a month.

However i am sure with some effort (just a little) it could make more. I did this as a test, but have been too busy to carry it on.

also if you use elance.com / guru.com you can get people to write articles for web sites for about £3-£5 an article (if they are short) £6-£12 if need to be longer.

 

[ScottJ]

As BFTUK said unique content is a must, more than just having unique content the idea of student essays/dissertations works for a few reasons, its long tail search words your looking to get traffic for. You don't have the time/energy to SEO each domain or do more than put a link to it so the actual content QUALITY used is very important.

You don't need to worry about single keywords or difficult ranking keyterms, the idea is to pick up traffic from long tail phrases that are specific and your quality unique content can catch.

For example I paid someone to write articles for a site Home & Office Furniture the quality of the articles is crap and that reflects in the crap traffic to it, having some unique content alone wont get you much IMO.

I then (lived & learned) paid someone to write some articles about tattoos for Tattoo Info, now I asked a tattooist to write the content for this site, $10 per article ~ that site gets traffic mostly from google, its not a mini site but one made quickly with a script and paying for quality articles.



So I'd vote against article sites, cutting up content trying to make it unique and find a source for good quality content/articles, when you do you can throw up 10 mini sites in under an hour, 10 sites that should be able to much more than pay for themselves. That's my take on it if it helps anyone.

 

[tifosi]

Id pretty much agree. The article & your site are pretty informative, and it;s the stage I'm at with moving from parking to development for the top10% generic domains that would suit minisites.

I mentioned the article sites as an additiona resource. Still useful. Finding a suitable copyrighter isn't always easy. Giving them an idea of what the 'base' standard would be is good.

S

 

[ScottJ]

I think if you have type ins & traffic on your domians then a mini site would be a richer way to monetise that than parking domains, I dont know anything about domaining though or parking, I'm learning all the time as I experiment.

I'd love to have lots of domains with type in traffic though.

 

[Paullas]

I'd love to have lots of domains with type in traffic though.

Well you can experiment using some of mine

 

[yesterday]

Ok, I've bought some unique content from

http://www.constant-content.com/index.php from Mary M. Alward.

It cost me £20 which is a bit too much I know, but I bought all rights, I didn't offer less, and it is just an experiment at this stage.

I bought the domain - fresh reg - http://www.moisture.org.uk to put it on.

Now I've listed it here to get some engines to see it. And Bob! (=uncle).

Objective is to get back twice the £20 plus reg fee of £6 in first year.

yesterday

edit: BTW I don't expect it to be this easy!

 

[BFTUK]

Ok, I've bought some unique content from

http://www.constant-content.com/index.php from Mary M. Alward.

It cost me £20 which is a bit too much I know, but I bought all rights, I didn't offer less, and it is just an experiment at this stage.

I bought the domain - fresh reg - http://www.moisture.org.uk to put it on.

Now I've listed it here to get some engines to see it. And Bob! (=uncle).

Objective is to get back twice the £20 plus reg fee of £6 in first year.

yesterday

edit: BTW I don't expect it to be this easy!

Good luck.

Cough, Cough, Adsense at the bottom of the page.... Cough Cough!

 

[Sound]

IS there a limit as to how many times Google will let you place Adsence on one page?

 

[Paullas]

IS there a limit as to how many times Google will let you place Adsence on one page?

I think it is 3....

 

[BFTUK]

1 link unit and 3 banner units

Not sure about referral buttons....

 

[ScottJ]

Looks good Yesterday, ran the page through copyscape.com and googled the main text and its certainly unique, as you say a bit expensive but an experiment in moisture is one worth trying.