Free Content Idea

[InsanerDomainer]

Would this work? It seems too easy, so there's probably something important I haven't thought of.

I could advertise that I want a web developer or even just a blogger, to write for one of my domain names, giving them a variety to choose from. They would set everything up as far as hosting goes (I suppose I could give them some basic technical help them if needed). They could do whatever they want with the website. I would just point my domain name to their website. They would get to keep all the revenues from the site itself, so they would be incentivised to make it good and promote it.

The only catches would be that they would have to title the website with my domain name, and that I would reserve the right to sell the domain name any time.

There's got to be a ton of writers and developers out there who are just dying to build a reputation, so it might not be too hard to find one who will put up with the catches. I guess my main question is, could this significantly increase the value of the domain name?

 

[enlytend]

So what's in it for them? Why wouldn't they just use their own domain name and build their own site? Sounds all the work and a losing proposition for the developer/blogger.

 

[InsanerDomainer]

Temporary use of a high quality domain name for free.

 

[enlytend]

... and lose all their hard work when you sell the domain, which (depending on how quickly you sell) may just be starting to pay off ...

Rankings and accumulated links won't transfer if they switch the site over to a name of their own when you sell - on a new domain they'd be starting from scratch. Unless they 301 your domain to the new one for a period of time and notify all the linking sites. But that would pretty much defeat the purpose for you.

Unless it's an "a-list" domain with a lot of commercially-viable type-in traffic, there wouldn't be any incentive in it. People can (and do) build good websites on crappy domains and just fine with them.

 

[DubDubDubDot]

The following would have to apply to your domain if you want to pull this off.

A) The domain is super premium (like a $xxx,xxx domain) and you are willing to guarantee a minimum use time frame.
and/or
B) The domain receives a good amount of typein traffic.

If neither is true, you won't find a developer stupid enough to take you up on this offer.

 

[InsanerDomainer]

Well, maybe a developer isn't realistic. Could offer him a cut of the sale price though.

But I was thinking more like a "blogger" working part-time. I don't want anyone to break their back on this thing. Would a good, strictly topical blog with just one new article a day generate much traffic?

My best domain keyword gets about 100,000 exact searches/mo on Google. Most are in the 1000-10,000 range. But I currently have practically zero traffic due to poor pageranks, of course.