Making a Domain earn £1 a week

[melat0nin]

People don't seem to be making much use of the Free Links database on AcornDomains... is there any reason for this?

 

[melat0nin]

I've always found that sites that are simply put up and left alone are more likely to disappear than ones that show a gradual expansion, in terms of both content and links. Suppose it's all down to what Google terms 'trust': a site that's thrown up quickly and then not touched looks more suspicious than one that has care and attention paid to it, and therefore fares less well.

Problem with mini sites is that if you have many it's difficult to look after all of them unless you have a gang of tame SEO monkeys...

Mike.

How can Google tell if a site has been done with care? Obviously it can tell if it has changed, but I'm not sure that care as such is a factor, except perhaps clean code and standards compliance (which is easy to achieve if you know what you're doing and/or use a compliant template from e.g. www.oswd.org).

There are folk in this very thread who have reported leaving a site untouched for months and still getting a return. I sincerely hope this is how it works for me!

 

[ratboy]

Time for a bit of feedback to my cocked up £1 a day project. Basically I was being too cocky with it such as using duplicate content and pages with no real content on. Google banned many sites from it's adsense feed and also from the rankings. All in all a waste of my time, shame as they were doing quite well too. I have learned from that, perhaps the hard way and am now concentrating on more quality and less quantity.

A nice bit of kit i've come across is BANS (affiliate link) which I have used to build some little sites such as Used Porsche and Used Vans. These use the BANS setup. Buy the license and use as many times as you like which is great. The ones above took a few hours, quite enjoyable as I'm into cars. Ones like David Cassidy took 10 minutes. They are great as you can spend more time writing content than building - which is the name of the game, also you don't have to have the eBay feed - however this is earning me £2-10 a day from 30 sites. Plus the adsense revenue of course.

So I have learned not rush things, like courting a nice girl. Take your time and the rest will run it's course. If you want to know what I did wrong ask away below and i'll try and explain.

 

[Brassneck]

Time for a bit of feedback to my cocked up £1 a day project. Basically I was being too cocky with it such as using duplicate content and pages with no real content on. Google banned many sites from it's adsense feed and also from the rankings. All in all a waste of my time, shame as they were doing quite well too. I have learned from that, perhaps the hard way and am now concentrating on more quality and less quantity.

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I've now got a few hundred sites rolled out. How did you find out Google banned you - do they notify you or do you just noticed there were no ads on the sites?

I've got too many names now for the adsense reporting so don't know how much each is earning me now, although up to about £15 per day across 300.

Stephen.

 

[bb99]

I've got too many names now for the adsense reporting so don't know how much each is earning me now, although up to about £15 per day across 300.

300 is a lot of mini-sites - good work! Out of interest, and broadly speaking, do you have any idea what these same were earning parked?

Having build about 8 mini sites (I got bored!) I've found that one is earning about £30 per month on Adsense (compared with around 50p per month parked). The other 7 are not earning much, but it's slightly more than when parked.

 

[Brassneck]

So far only done this for sites which didn't already have traffic hence quite low earnings. Essentially they didnt earn anything previously with adsense as they weren't indexed.

Stephen.

 

[bb99]

So far only done this for sites which didn't already have traffic hence quite low earnings. Essentially they didnt earn anything previously with adsense as they weren't indexed.

Fair enough - £15 per day that you didn't have before, can't argue with that

 

[melat0nin]

I've got too many names now for the adsense reporting so don't know how much each is earning me now, although up to about £15 per day across 300.

Are you happy with earning £15 a day for 300 sites? What sort of niches have you selected? Did you do any SEO on the sites, and what is the quality of the content like? I'm sure with a bit of work you could turn that number of sites into greater revenue! Do you have a hub site/directory linking to all the sites?

 

[Brassneck]

Are you happy with earning £15 a day for 300 sites? What sort of niches have you selected? Did you do any SEO on the sites, and what is the quality of the content like? I'm sure with a bit of work you could turn that number of sites into greater revenue! Do you have a hub site/directory linking to all the sites?

No not particularly happy, although many were rolled out with minimum of effort. We haven't really done anything yet to promote them although will be soon. First steps were really just to get something up and indexed in the search engines.

They range from sites like www.managed-hosting.co.uk (larger minisites) to a mini mini format to publicise the domains for sale
http://www.antioxidantvitamins.co.uk/

We are going to be trying some other designs and approaches and will report back soon.

Stephen.

 

[retired_member3]

The place i'm going wrong is like ratoboy says, churning out sites too quickly.
My sites are ok but I keep doing a site, then going onto another one and end up doing no seo or link building which is no use if your domain has no type-in value.
I'm now going to stop regging new domains for a while and go back over my sites and start link building and tweaking. About 30 more to go though!

 

[melat0nin]

The place i'm going wrong is like ratoboy says, churning out sites too quickly.
My sites are ok but I keep doing a site, then going onto another one and end up doing no seo or link building which is no use if your domain has no type-in value.
I'm now going to stop regging new domains for a while and go back over my sites and start link building and tweaking. About 30 more to go though!

I too have noticed the benefit of concentrating on certain sites. On forums and blogs etc, I've been linking only to the minisites I'm most enthusiastic about while not really giving any real attention to my smaller ones.

What are you strategies for building links in? I've only really been linking on forums (like below) and blog posts. I've also linked from my personal PR2 site to each of them, not sure what real benefit that has though. I've got some interlinking between sites which are in the same vague sector. That's about it though.

I'm not really interested in spending all my time doing link building (it's boring!) -- I'd rather be building more sites and writing content. But I know the importance of it.. any thoughts on what the most efficient link-building strategies are?

 

[retired_member3]

If for example you have a site on mp3s you can google "MP3 add url" my preferred option though is to use yahoo site explorer. enter the url of the competition and see which sites are linking to them. Also al ot of blogs have decent pr now so see if you can stick a link on them. Try to make your post relevant though if you want it to remain.
Also have a blog of your own.

Another thing is have a profile on the social networks. You can stick your sites in your profile and also post links into relevant groups.

Stick social bookmarks on your sites too so people can bookmark your site in spurl etc... Although they will only do that if your site is any good.

 

[melat0nin]

If for example you have a site on mp3s you can google "MP3 add url" my preferred option though is to use yahoo site explorer. enter the url of the competition and see which sites are linking to them. Also al ot of blogs have decent pr now so see if you can stick a link on them. Try to make your post relevant though if you want it to remain.
Also have a blog of your own.

Another thing is have a profile on the social networks. You can stick your sites in your profile and also post links into relevant groups.

Stick social bookmarks on your sites too so people can bookmark your site in spurl etc... Although they will only do that if your site is any good.

Good ideas, I've found a couple of good free directories from using your suggestion so I'll continue with that I think.

I've just launched my 9th minisite, MyDentalImplants.net.

My brother works for a great UK host which is currently doing .nets for £1 for one year, with 10mb webspace and 1gig/month bandwidth included, a really quick host too. If I can wangle an affiliate scheme I'll start adding links to my sites!

Managing to snap up domains this cheaply is a good way to get into this business, because the outlay is very small and even the lowest performing domains should pay for themselves (£1) in a year's time.

EDIT

About getting backlinks, I saw Ashley's suggestion about submitting an ad to Gumtree to get indexed in 24 hours (Get your site indexed in 24 hours) and I tried it with two sites, Ceramic Straighteners and Dental Implants.

I added Straighteners to the Edinburgh gumtree, and Implants to London.. I've noticed that the actual ad page on Edinburgh's gumtree has a PR of 0, while the actual ad page on London's gumtree is PR6. This would appear to mean that you can get a free PR6 link with virtually no effort by carefully choosing which gumtree to post to.

For example: Post 20113203

and

Posting 20104236

 

[kennyboy]

Thanks for the Gumtree tip. Just created a new site (fly2us) to test a couple of ways of earning revenue. I'll see how it goe's. :???:

 

[melat0nin]

Thanks for the Gumtree tip. Just created a new site (fly2us) to test a couple of ways of earning revenue. I'll see how it goe's. :???:

Not only did it work for me (I was indexed within 24 hours), but it had an unexpected effect -- because I posted on the London Gumtree where traffic is much higher than most of the UK, I got lots of hits that day, and ended up smashing my Adsense record by almost 400%. It was a total one-off, but still very cool!

I'm wondering how big the Gumtree moderation staff is. There are plenty of large cities in the UK, and with some strategic posting (spamming? :twisted on different cities' pages, traffic could be increased and inbound links could be created.

What do you guys think of this strategy?

 

[kennyboy]

I'm just waiting to see if adsence removes its adds because my site also contains affiliate links. i heared a whisper that they don't like aff links.

 

[retired_member16]

I'm just waiting to see if adsence removes its adds because my site also contains affiliate links. i heared a whisper that they don't like aff links.

Ignore what you have heard, that information is incorrect.

 

[kennyboy]

Ignore what you have heard, that information is incorrect.

Thanks for that, I was worried. I had read a post on here about hiding affiliate links from goog.

 

[melat0nin]

What do you guys think of automated minisite scripts, such as this one over on Digital Point?

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=519576&highlight=minisite

 

[melat0nin]

300 is a lot of mini-sites - good work! Out of interest, and broadly speaking, do you have any idea what these same were earning parked?

Having build about 8 mini sites (I got bored!) I've found that one is earning about £30 per month on Adsense (compared with around 50p per month parked). The other 7 are not earning much, but it's slightly more than when parked.

Which site did you manage to get up to earning £1 a day? That is my target for all my sites (9 of them) but I would really like to make one manage that then move onto another. How did you achieve this?