Developing Domains With No Traffic...What To Do.

[Nattydomain]

Ok, well for 2009 im slowly stepping away from parking that produced pennies and devloping sites instead. In doing so I still want them to produce somehow so im adding affiliate links, adsense etc etc.

The real question is when your domain is parked its pretty much a no no to promote that parked domain. Now that im devloped myself should I be investing in this to try and in return only sell the domain name?

Case in point: Lets say I have XXXX.com domain and I got it either by hand reg or through a drop. It had no website prior so assume no traffic will come to it, however its still a nice name for what ever reason.

I build a site around the keyword in the domain and put up adsense, links, articels etc. Now my main goal is to sell the domain name since im using a web program to develop the site and cant transfer files.

Do I promote it by paying money for advertising (adwords, banners on websites etc) or doing social bookmarks, what should I be doing and will it be worth it now that its developed that it will trickle in some traffic....

What do you do with your new domains that have no traffic? Spend money to increase it OR just let it sit and pray

Love to hear your ideas

 

[Soofi]

Natty, very good question.. This is normally what I do to promote my new websites..

I'd first of all start by submitting my web link to all the major search engines, remember I will do that once by an automated submission provided by my hosting provider (by most hosting providers) and then manually by visiting those search engines. This helps your site getting indexed asap..

Second, I will try and swap links with websites built on or around similar niche, or if you have enough money lying around, you can always buy few links from such sites.

Third, I will try and take this opportunity of promoting my new sites through Adsense/facebook ads using their coupons which can be found on most of the forums by paying fractional amount. (not very effective unless you know what you are doing)

Last, but never the least.. Should host good content on my new sites. Gets you maximum exposure and endless time of visitors.

 

[copper]

www.DONT.net, all good points.
I would add...
Use wordpress based site since Google index them real fast.
Ping few popular sites when you post new articles.
Rewrite shorter version of your site contents and submit it to article directories.
Viral Marketing - Buy cheap PLR ebooks that relate to your site, insert your URL
into it and give it away for free.

 

[Nattydomain]

Thanx for the tips so far guys....Has anybody done these steps in order to sell the domain as well? Or doing it to earn extra income

 

[alien51]

Bottomline: You want TRAFFIC on your website. It is every domainer's basic goal, to supplement the element of domain name speculation.

In order to get traffic, you need to do LINK BUILDING. It's like setting up trap doors all over the internet, so that anyone who steps on it will slide all the way to your website, and your counter will then go 'ka-ching': 1 visitor.

Most people concentrate on LINK BUILDING, because it is much easier to do than writing up great, passionate 'content' that people would genuinely be interested about. You can do the math: If there are a billion people out there online right now, you don't need to worry that a visitor will never come back to your advertisement-peppered website. A guy can simply slap-paste some content lifted from Wikipedia for all the innocent link-clickers to see. Chances are, you probably could have sold the domain before all the new visitors to your site run out.

The more difficult option is to write content that you are really passionate about. The downside to this is that it will most likely consume so much of your time and effort doing it on just a couple of domains. Some parking companies are trying to come-up with software robots that do 'special effects' of spewing what appears to be 'passionate', regularly updated content. A casual internet surfer would have little clue that the content came from a machine. Parking companies are trying to invent these automated content cyborgs, so that you will not choose to leave them to create mini-sites of your own.

 

[Nattydomain]

I hear you alien on link building. I used to do it back in the days of 96 with a site I still have. back then you just ask someone "hey wanna trade links? they say ok and done"

Now I feel that method is a bit outdated as now it seems you must go through hoops to even get to the webmaster. Also how "easy" is it get a site to link to you when it seems the mini site is nothing but just that...a mini site

 

[Kenny]

Some parking companies are trying to come-up with software robots that do 'special effects' of spewing what appears to be 'passionate', regularly updated content. A casual internet surfer would have little clue that the content came from a machine. Parking companies are trying to invent these automated content cyborgs, so that you will not choose to leave them to create mini-sites of your own.

This sounds very interesting.

Could you please expand on this a bit? Which parking companies, and do you have an example of this content.

Thanks,
Cy

 

[Soofi]

Some parking companies are trying to come-up with software robots that do 'special effects' of spewing what appears to be 'passionate', regularly updated content. A casual internet surfer would have little clue that the content came from a machine. Parking companies are trying to invent these automated content cyborgs, so that you will not choose to leave them to create mini-sites of your own.

more info please.. repd+

 

[shockie]

I hear you alien on link building. I used to do it back in the days of 96 with a site I still have. back then you just ask someone "hey wanna trade links? they say ok and done"

Now I feel that method is a bit outdated as now it seems you must go through hoops to even get to the webmaster. Also how "easy" is it get a site to link to you when it seems the mini site is nothing but just that...a mini site

those were the good old days... with the flood of people getting on the internet, you really need to provide quality content if you want to get, keep, and build upon traffic. i'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but search engines can bring a decent amount of traffic as well. again, high quality content helps with that too.

as for paying for promotion, don't bother until your site would make someone actually stay.

 

[Soofi]

i'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but search engines can bring a decent amount of traffic as well. again, high quality content helps with that too.

I think you missed my post :lol:

 

[shockie]

I think you missed my post :lol:

although not getting indexed won't get you any search traffic at all, getting indexed alone usually doesn't bring in tons of traffic.

 

[Soofi]

although not getting indexed won't get you any search traffic at all, getting indexed alone usually doesn't bring in tons of traffic.

making your self searchable will definitely help I reckon :lol:

 

[mhdoc]

It's amazing how hard people will work to avoid writing their own content. On the other hand, I think the "write about what you are passionate about" mantra is a bit overdone and makes the idea of writing your own material intimidating.

I have lots of interests. In fact, most subjects are interesting enough to make for a fun couple of hours researching them. That should give you plenty of material for a 5-10 page mini site on some long tail subject.

When your competition is parked pages it really doesn't take a lot of "passion" to build a better site.

For long tail keyword domains you don't need much link power to rank.

 

[Pound]

I outsource the design, content and link building/article submission, meaning I can make AEIOU-style websites, with more content, for 1/3 of the price. This means I spend ~15 minutes doing the site, meaning I can spend my time doing other activities that bring in more revenue.

 

[Nattydomain]

Seems this post is going toward the direction of content writing and whats good or not BUT what about the traffic....some suggest that if you have good content they will come to you....Explain by just having content are they going to find you? There has got to be other avenues you ned to bring that "never had before" traffic

 

[gazzip]

I outsource the design, content and link building/article submission, meaning I can make AEIOU-style websites, with more content, for 1/3 of the price. This means I spend ~15 minutes doing the site, meaning I can spend my time doing other activities that bring in more revenue.

Who do you use ? can you post any examples or a link to their portfolio ?

Thanks :tu:


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[Pound]

Who do you use ? can you post any examples or a link to their portfolio ?

Thanks :tu:


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PM Sent!

 

[shockie]

Seems this post is going toward the direction of content writing and whats good or not BUT what about the traffic....some suggest that if you have good content they will come to you....Explain by just having content are they going to find you? There has got to be other avenues you ned to bring that "never had before" traffic

true, so the first step is to get good content. then move onto the usual social bookmarking, link building, and seo. forum postings and advertising on blogs might also help depending on the nature of your website(s).

 

[Soofi]

your content will definitely hold your visitors back or make them come back for more..