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I am starting to hear more and more about epik/com , has anyone here jumped in and had a 'epik experience' ? and if so ....your thoughts please
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Working on something with them, will have a few sites go up mid-september. Also, they seem to be having their first annual seminar or show in Seattle in September, if anyone is in the region, I think that would be one to attend.
I'll show you on September 13th.
I put cardamom.info into their system in May. They generated the site. It has had two visits, 8 page views and earned $0.30 during that time.
I have not pointed any links to it or done anything to promote it.
My developed sites do better
this is a link to what service i thought they did for youThey said it was a premium name and set it up. All I have ever done is point the DNS where they told me. No charges and they are hosting. I don't know what you mean by "doing their blog".
Sorry to bump an oldish thread, but this is worth mentioning. You can go to almost any Epik site, and just add "/stats" to the end of the URL. That will show the total (before sharing) income for the past month for that site.
It's so transparent, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with it. On the other hand, I get to see how all the other sites are doing. The numbers are accurate, at least judging from my sites.
I went to a bunch of the sites last night and looked at their stats. Some good, some not so much - but without knowing how long the domain has been used by them, I figured I would assume they have not developed traffic for thos domains just yet.
Just looked at bra.net's stats, it is still available, and actually looked like decent stats.
In my opinion the greatest value is in their network - premium linking from related sites at no additional cost, this is especially interesting for tier 2 and below domains and in some niches more than others.
I've got 4 sites with them and planning to do more. Those domains earned nothing parked, now they're generating about $30 a month (my share).
I paid $1,000 to have those sites developed. $30/month equals a $360 return per year on that $1,000 investment (36%). That's better than my 401k has been doing lately, how about yours? Better yet, I have very little time invested in the process.
I realize that $360 a year is not a life changing amount of money but what if you have $5k, $10k, or even $50k sitting on the sidelines or in a flat line mutual fund? What's that money doing for you right now?
The link building is a big plus but don't discount the liquidity that Epik is bringing to the marketplace. There are a growing number of domainers using the Epik system and Epik is building a platform for these sites to be bought and traded. If they are successful in doing so than the $250 entrance fee per site becomes much less of an obstacle due to the liquidity and ability to cash out.
Could I have built my own sites and achieved similar or better results? Probably. Do I have time to do that? Hell no.