Making a Domain earn £1 a week

[retired_member2]

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.

Raining on your friends parade but if he does have to rely on google adsense for earnings then bit silly really.

Websites go up and down all the time, one minute you can be up top, next minute you can be nowhere, then the month after that you can be back up top again.

Inbound links are the way too go and not from websites that you own also website design.

I used to change my design reasonably all the time and I'm still doing so now after 3 years and I'm still bloody buying domain names that I have no use for but lol

I always target one market for domain names and your friend should know that there are seasonal trends in any marketing especially online.

Summer people go on holiday or want to shop down the high street so sales drop and at the moment we are having a very warm spring which pushes people outdoors.

Winter is the best time for sales and click thrus as too cold to go out and less of a rush too shop online.

Adsense also depends on what search terms are used and how much the advertisers are paying per click thru, this is also determined by seasons.

If you look at supermarkets they always bring their summer stuff out in spring or their easter eggs near enough just after xmas.

Just trends wouldnt worry about adsense.

 

[Jeewhizz]

adsense is only a small proportion of his total income - he makes a generous 5 figure package from his online ventures

 

[BFTUK]

I don't think anyone here is talking about creating scaper sites, unique content is essential.

I threw up a simple single page site on Friday, indexed on Saturday and $3.50 on Sunday. It could of course be a one-off.

Also we're not talking about making bucket loads, the title of the thread is how to make a domain earn £1 a week.

So how do you achieve this with minimal effort?

 

[grantw]

Thanks for this thread chaps, I was thinking about moving away from parking and this spurred me on to actually put some effort in. I've been setting up quite a few basic adsense sites, no unique content to speak of, they don't even look that nice but here is a sample of a few domains, comparing the parking income from march to the adsense income from April:

domain1 = $12.73 / $46.04
domain2 = $9.96 / $28.63
domain3 = $6.26 / $9.98 (half month)
domain4 = $2.62 / $6.75

I'm well happy with these sorts of figures and I now have the bonus that my sites are beginning to appear in google.

Cheers, Grant

 

[ScottJ]

Ineed scraper sites are a waste of time nowadays, there are also better suited engines like MSN for mini sites so making £1 per week per domain from a site with good content was the remit which is still very achievable in my opinion/experiments so far.

 

[yesterday]

I'm seeing similar, though not quite as impressive increases with one or two I've changed too.

bye bye parking ?

yesterday

 

[grantw]

I'm seeing similar, though not quite as impressive increases with one or two I've changed too.

bye bye parking ?

yesterday

It's certainly opened my eyes to how much money I've potentially lost by taking the easy option and parking nearly everything!

Grant

 

[Jeewhizz]

It's certainly opened my eyes to how much money I've potentially lost by taking the easy option and parking nearly everything!

Grant

Agreed!

 

[paul]

I'm currently developing a large number of my domains after a little experiment showed how profitable it can be compared to parking.

As an example, I have one domain which in the previous 6 months before I developed it made $1.96

I now have a small site on it and it brings in £500 a month.

The key to this is picking the domains that are exact matches to keyword phases that are searched for.

Within days you will be number one in MSN. Yahoo & Google will be close behind after maybe a few months and a few links from other sites.

 

[yesterday]

oops!

yesterday

 

[grantw]

I'm currently developing a large number of my domains after a little experiment showed how profitable it can be compared to parking.

As an example, I have one domain which in the previous 6 months before I developed it made $1.96

I now have a small site on it and it brings in £500 a month.

The key to this is picking the domains that are exact matches to keyword phases that are searched for.

Within days you will be number one in MSN and Yahoo & Google will close behind.

Congrats on this Paul, that's a monster increase in revenue!!!

Grant

 

[Pred]

very inspirational thread guys. thanks
have & am developing sites this year. it is the way to go, without doubt.
gonna concentrate on a couple of .co.uk's in particular later in year.
not the minisite angle but interesting original sites, banking on traffic that way.
the useful tool idea was a good tip to get bookmarked
keep this thread up!
i will post back myself hopefully with some useful info

 

[retired_member12]

I submitted a site to Google a few weeks ago, but am now informed that it cannot index the site (4 pages) correctly. It is the usual problem i suppose when using framed web forwarding, in that no matter what page you are on, the address bar always only ever says,
'http://www.xxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.co.uk'
Is there a way to make the forwarded pages appear as such:
'http://www.xxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.co.uk/index.htm'
'http://www.xxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.co.uk/whatsits.htm'
'http://www.xxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.co.uk/thingys.htm' .... etc, or is the only answer to resort to hosting? On low income sites, surely it isn't worth the expenditure to host them?

 

[ScottJ]

With a hosting reseller account you pay a fixed monthly fee for unlimited websites. You can get cheap reseller hosting, I have had an a/c since 2000 so hosting has never been a cost issue when creating sites for me.

 

[i4v.net]

dude - you just gave the game away - that info was worth £,£££ :mrgreen:

The key to this is picking the domains that are exact matches to keyword phases that are searched for.

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[BFTUK]

With a hosting reseller account you pay a fixed monthly fee for unlimited websites. You can get cheap reseller hosting, I have had an a/c since 2000 so hosting has never been a cost issue when creating sites for me.

Or if on a really budget you could use a single hosting account and add on domains.

Hostgator do a great hosting account for $9.95 a month..... (PS. affiliate link on my site here if you do decide to buy! ) www.quickwhois.co.uk

Whilst keyword domains do help (alot!), long tail searches are the key to the game........

 

[BFTUK]

I've made a followup post on this at: http://www.quickwhois.co.uk/blog/how-to-make-a-website-earn-1-a-week.html

It discusses some early observations from a couple of my recent mini-site projects.

 

[Brassneck]

I've made a followup post on this at: http://www.quickwhois.co.uk/blog/how-to-make-a-website-earn-1-a-week.html

It discusses some early observations from a couple of my recent mini-site projects.

Nice summary - I clicked through to Digg to submit your article.

Stephen.

 

[tifosi]

I submitted a site to Google a few weeks ago, but am now informed that it cannot index the site (4 pages) correctly. It is the usual problem i suppose when using framed web forwarding, in that no matter what page you are on, the address bar always only ever says,
'http://www.xxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.co.uk'
Is there a way to make the forwarded pages appear as such:
'http://www.xxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.co.uk/index.htm'
'http://www.xxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.co.uk/whatsits.htm'
'http://www.xxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.co.uk/thingys.htm' .... etc, or is the only answer to resort to hosting? On low income sites, surely it isn't worth the expenditure to host them?

I don't think the hosting is the issue it's using frames. Simple answer DON'T. Indexers have got better, but still wont index framesets & dynamic urls as well as clean urls and modern template & semantic based sites.

Develop a template thats got a clean left sidebar and generate the required number of pages, then fill with different content and add a css/ul based menu on it.

There's no excuse really for frame & tables based sites.

S

 

[ScottJ]

Great article, nicely put together.