Making a Domain earn £1 a week

[retired_member12]

What was the Adword in question

I have a mini site which gets successful 2-3 clicks a day, at say $0.05 per click from Adsense. Nothing much, i know, but it pays for itself.
Two days ago, there was a click on that day and it got $1.80.
I'd like to know the best method to code the site so i can possibly find the keyword or Ad clicked.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
The site mearly points to a piece of free web space where no stats are available.

 

[ScottJ]

I have never used this so cant comment any further on it but it looks liek what your after.

It's completely free! FREE WEBSITE STATS
Entire profile of the latest 500 visitors.
Where your visitors go after they leave your website.
Google Adsense tracking exit clicks

http://addfreestats.com/

 

[rodash]

Concentrate on one or a few sites

I think Storebuilder's comments are spot on. You really are better concentrating on one or a few sites and building them up and generating traffic through them. The problem for large numbers of sites (from a developer's point of view) is that you don't have the time to develop them. You can quickly put some basic content up and a lot of one-pagers but that doesn't give you much in the long-term. Unless you have key generic names you need sites with thousands of pages of content to give you good traffic flow. And that usually takes one to three years to achieve.

http://www.kidsnames.com
http://www.scarletpimpernel.com

 

[BFTUK]

Unless you have key generic names you need sites with thousands of pages of content to give you good traffic flow.

No you need quality content. One page of superb content could be far better than 1000 pages of poor quality content.

 

[jwm]

Great thread everyone. As a newbie I have learned a lot reading throught this.

The scary bit is realising just how little I know and how much I have to learn. But every journey starts with the first step etc hopefully

 

[retired_member2]

Adding my thoughts too this

Some people buy domains that are totally rubbish anyway for example

speednetworker from a reccent post asking for an apprasial

This is a total waste of money full stop so if you have a large portfolio of such domains there not going to make money.

I usually have about 20 domains targeted around one word or similar, I am the catalogue king with as many catalogue and catalouge domain names as I could possibly grab

www.catalouge.co.uk for example (god I love free advertising)

So a typo and reasonably a pretty common one, especially if your name is Mark.

I have a big www.errection.co.uk (I should sell plugs) at the time I thought I had hit the mother load with a one word domain name but had the mickey taken out of me something chronic because I had miss spelt it.

I earnt £700 odd within six months from it from being a sneaky git and wanting too prove people wrong.

The moral of this story is too think ok if I buy enough domains too cover the market for something

So you buy say DVD and then you buy DCD and DBD to cater for typos so say you pay £15 for those 3 domains the chances are you will not have the time to write one page, upload to DVD write another page upload to DCD write another page and upload to DBD it takes time and time is money.

So you simply use <? include"boredofmywaffleyet" ?> on domain names so it gets the same content.

Only bad side is do search engines like this? Would you be better off writing a page for each domain that you own???????????

If you have 1,000 domain names then obviously you will be behind your computer all day and all night, speaking of which 01:30 am and I'm still working but if you dont put in the work then you dont make the money.

Personally I think it is better to sell the ideas rather than market them, theres always a fool who wants a domain no matter how bad that domain name is, so buying a domain name for a fiver, either developing it and getting some traffic and selling for a higher price than buying and not developing, but if you sell the idea and the domain then at least your making a profit without much of the work.

Buy small and target, its much harder buying big and thinking big having a directory of every online store in the UK is very hard work.

Having a domain targetting say diet pills and only diet pills is a lot easier and faster task to do and probaly will bring in a lot of profit as well.

I spent £10 on two domain names because of an article in the daily mail I put up one page added them to websites that are being search indexed and chances are I will make that £10 back within the year.

Chances are I will make double or more within the first year, so you need to look at thinking small which too a degree £1 a day is rather than wanting too be stinking rich as it only happens to the very lucky.

I turned down £2,000 for www.bingoaddict.co.uk (more free advertising) simply because I know that the domain can earn that in two years, or it can help in my chain of bingo websites if I only just purchased the domain for a fiver and got offered £2,000 without being developed then I would be lucky as hell.

Personally if you can buy a domain, sell it in a few hours or even a year for £50 without developing it then your still making a nice profit.

Like someone said earlier in the thread and as someone told me but I never listened and still dont, but buy one domain name, get that sorted and then move on.

A lot depends on how many inbound links you have going to that site, and how popular the search term is.

If only 50 people visit your website a month then your not going to make too much money, especially if 48 of those hits per month which most stat programs dont report are just search engines.

Someone would be better just setting up a website on a domain name that they wish to sell and have

For Sale

a few keywords and then exchange links with other people wanting to sell domain names so that it builds up a network of domains for sale, rather than using sedo and a few hit and hope hits.

Anyway will stop waffling as near enough 2am now and assault on precient 13 is on, an oldie but a classic.

Regards

Mark

 

[retired_member12]

Anyway will stop waffling as near enough 2am now and assault on precient 13 is on, an oldie but a classic.

Actually, it is THE 'B-Movie' classic of all time. I've been trying to get hold of a DVD of it for years, sadly without success!

 

[aquanuke]

Actually, it is THE 'B-Movie' classic of all time. I've been trying to get hold of a DVD of it for years, sadly without success!

Great film but dont watch the remake, pile of shite

 

[grantw]

Actually, it is THE 'B-Movie' classic of all time. I've been trying to get hold of a DVD of it for years, sadly without success!

Classic film, here you go doubletap :

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/553545/Assault_On_Precinct_13/Product.html



Grant

 

[retired_member2]

Thats nice I waffle on for 30 minutes and all what someone picks up on is a movie lol

While your shopping two more classic films now available

Escape from New York and Escape from LA

mmmm given myself an idea

 

[i4v.net]

time

this is a very interesting post.

I am having the same problem decision the others seem to be having..

1. GO for developing 1 site at time with loads of good content, build up sell it
2. go for the microsites, quicker but smaller return

because im building my own 'micro cms' for these micro sites its now getting out of control, its getting more and more complex becuse i want my microsite to have more features (like a real website ),

i'ved looked for a off-shelf CMS but they dont do what i want (overkill mostly) - so i built my own.

Now im thinking i might as well do a custom site from scratch for each 'microsite'...

will it ever end..

 

[seanc]

i4v - i use wordpress for my CMS needs, you can strip it right down.

you can do pretty much anything with WordPress these days, and my host
provides me with a "one click install" -- so wordpress takes seconds to install
(me if you require a discount code for hosting )

 

[BFTUK]

i4v - i use wordpress for my CMS needs, you can strip it right down.

you can do pretty much anything with WordPress these days, and my host
provides me with a "one click install" -- so wordpress takes seconds to install
(me if you require a discount code for hosting )

Wordpress is a good option, its internal link setup makes it good for SEO, i use it on a few smaller sites.

I prefer to use my own stripped down, optimised template for single page sites.

A custom CMS with single central control panel would be a very, very useful addition.

 

[seanc]

A custom CMS with single central control panel would be a very, very useful addition.

i guess you kind of mean like WHYPARK - 1 screen to edit 100 domains

something i wanted freelancing, but i couldnt really descibe what i wanted

 

[BFTUK]

i guess you kind of mean like WHYPARK - 1 screen to edit 100 domains

something i wanted freelancing, but i couldnt really descibe what i wanted

Yes kind of but with a few more features.

 

[tifosi]

try this... snews

http://www.solucija.com/home/snews/

 

[seanc]

Yes kind of but with a few more features.

you could almost do it with a .skel template (.skel is the "default installed website" on a server)

 

[SF]

Just came across this very impressive thread. very informative!

Cheers guys

 

[Jeewhizz]

Suppose I'd better post now I've read it all

A few points:

I don't think mini sites / scraper sites are the way to go - google is picking up on them. I have a good friend who has about 130+ mini sites, and over the last year, his adsense income has dropped significantly (30%+) due to google dropping rankings etc.

Developing a site is the way forward in my experience. I have a few sites that I'm developing at the moment, and it's proving interesting. I have one site/blog that has been running a year and now gets about 4500 uniques a month. However, this is a very niche market, and the adsense isn't doing that well. Latest site has only been up a week, and has had about 50 uniques. Both sites are based upon wordpress which I've modified slightly.

In terms of duplicated content (dvd.co.uk dcd.co.uk etc) google will penalise you for multiple content across same domains. Your best bet is to 301 redirect the typos to the real domain.

My problem with developing a site is getting the design side sorted - that's nt my strong point. However, I do benefit from having a pretty good PHP knowledge, and as such, can knock up quite complex-integrated sites quite quickly...

Jee

 

[paul]

My problem with developing a site is getting the design side sorted...

My tip for this is, (well this is what I do) create a folder in your bookmarks/favorites called something like 'design ideas' or whatever you want to call it, then every time you come across a site you like the look of, save it to that folder.

Whenever you're building a new site, look through your design folder and pick the bits you like from several sites to make your own design.