I humble myself and ask the big question!

[Day Dreamer]

I have a basic question and would really like some guidance. I have a domain portfolio of about 900 domain names. Many I have had since the early 90's.

Most are legal related such as www.seattletrialattorney.com or Mortgage related such as Oklahomamortgages.com, and no on and so forth. I've got a few one worded names such as payables.com also.

I've had my portfolio appraised many times over the years but the last time was in March of 2003 and it came in at 1.8 million.

Because I am an old .com guy, alot of people ask for my advice on dev and selling domain names. Yesterday however a friend of mine showed me a check for $72,000 from Google all on adsense on about 1900 names. That was for three months.

My question is, what is the best way to make money with these names? Should I go with a firm and let them take a percentage? Or should I build pages for each name? If I do each page, how do I adsense?

Seems like an easy question for most of you, but in this area of domaining I am totally a noob.

Phil

 

[SpareDomains]

so since the 90's you have just redirected them to your main site?
you can make simple 1 page sites with adsense ads blended into them which would take some time if doing 900 of them, but if most of them are attorney or mortgage type names you might make a good chunk of change simply by parking them as those 2 keywords pay pretty well and it would be less work for you, really depends on how much work you wanna put into them.

 

[NameCharger]

PPC-Sites.com built this site for $20, wired it with AdSense pub ID:

getduiattorney,com


1plus.net has free signup and lets you plug in your AdSense ID and Revenue Pilot, here's a couple sites put together in less than 5 minutes:

java-tutorial-secrets,com
internetlawattorney,us



WhyPark.com costs $99 one-time shot up to 100 domains, plug in your AdSense ID. Easily configured, can verify site to submit to Google Webmaster, has nice sitemap generator, but the templates are crude:

seosoar,com
shophomes,org
buy-ip,com
markettrends,us


I'm not keeping all eggs in one basket and I'd eventually like to get into other revenue generating programs besides AdSense (I have a Commission Junction account to use for ebay sales and a great niche site but just haven't the time to develop it)

 

[Mark]

I'd avoid the "Adsense sites in a box" junk IMO

 

[groundctrl]

another thing: remember to DIVERSIFY. you probably already know this, but just in case-- don't trust any one company with a huge amount of your income. it's crazy risky.

 

[Varon]

I would say, try WhyPark. Ofcourse, you would have to pay something like 900 bucks for your 900 domains. But you can have solid article content put into your domains within minutes and your adsense codes active in no time (provided you already have an adsense account). Since your sites are already mature and get traffic, this could be a superb way to get more revenue with adsense. In fact, with your keywords on mortgage etc, you could be making big dollars via adsense.

I have been using WhyPark since Feb 07 and am actually rather pleased with their performance. If you need more information, I have a review site on whypark accessible via my signature. That should give you more ideas of how WP can optimize your domains.

Good luck Phil

 

[NameCharger]

I'd avoid the "Adsense sites in a box" junk IMO

What do you recommend?

 

[Name Trader]

Phil,

I would initially park them all. This can be done in less than a day. This gives you time to then develop each domain one at a time with adsense, if you wish. Most parking companies would jump at so many quality names. I would recommend DomainSponsor, Fabulous, or Parked. DS go on about their auto-optimization, so they are unlikely to help you set them up optimally. Fabulous will optimize them all manually for you, as I'm sure Parked will do too.

 

[harkster]

First off nice personal site.
I am far from a real expert but if you have a portfolio of the kind names you imply I would suggest you take your time and develop your properties with good original content and designs.

While developing park them to begin generating some revenue and this may also help you decide which to develop first. Remember above all that original content is king. The income from parking should hopefully pay your development costs.

IMHO it is important to blend your Adsense with the content. You should also consider affiliate relationships.

Others have given you Adsense information so I won't repeat it.

If done properly you should never have to worry about $$$ again. Play your music and enjoy life.

A quote from an old studio potter:
According to Harding Black - Harding Black 11/14/90
"I am one of the lucky ones. When I get up in the morning I can hardly wait to get to work."

 

[Mark]

What do you recommend?

If you don't have the time or Know how - Hire someone to do it for you .... Using the same content as 100's or 1000's of other people won't get you very far. If you must use this type material - Be sure to add something unique to it by hand or even add some sort of RSS feeds that update on a regular basis. It needs to be a mixture of items not used over and over though.


Phil - In your case , I'm not really sure what I'd do .... I'd more than likely Park with one of the larger Companies for the meanwhile (Allow them to "fine tune" your settings if thats possible). And then build sites or Hire Developers too build sites as you go.

If the domains are all being forwarded and aren't all "Relative" to the main site they are going to - It just hurts that site IMO -

 

[SpareDomains]

1)sign up for domain sponsor
2)add all 900 domains
3)change nameservers on them all

let their auto optimization do it's work which may take a month or 2 depending on how much traffic they each get, more traffic quicker optimization.

pick 1-3 to develop, come back in a month or two and compare the earnings on those 1-3 developed sites against the parking income and see which is working better, if the developed sites are working better pick another 1-3 and develop those and repeat the process until you get them all done.

this is what I would do anyway as developing 900 in 1 shot would take forever or cost ya quite a bit and parking could make more with legal & mortgage domains so better to test slowly and go wherever the best money is, parking costs you nothing until you are sure the developed sites are paying better, if you get 10 or so sites developed and you see they are all doing better than parking then pay someone to do 50 or 100 at a time to get them all done quicker.

I mention domain sponsor because it would be the easiest for auto optimization and adding 900 domains to a parking company and trying to manually optimize them would be a job in itself. I do see good results from fabulous, parked, namedrive as well but unless they wanna optimize them for you 900 would be a long manual job.

 

[Presto]

I'd suggest parking them all initially with 1Plus (minisite rather than striaight parking - more scope) and developing those domains (a few monthly) with the most potential or highest adsense payouts based around your url keywords.

I've designed many many sites for people with financial domains like yours, who are taking advantage of the income potential.

I never plug what's in my sig but it is VERY applicable in your case. If you are serious about developing domains into niche sites (to target adsense and affiliate sales) and need a proven system with training, mentoring and all the tools to seriously work the search engines then it would be criminal no to give their sales page a read.

PM me if you would like a link to a video which explains the power of the software. The second intake of membership closes on Wednesday at noon Eastern.

HTH

 

[Varon]

I think I need to hire someone to do all of this for me.

I thought you had your own web design company.

 

[Name Trader]

Park them first, Phil. then take your sweet time

 

[Jasdon]

I would start by asking your pal with the $72k check - seems he's got a tried and trusted formula.

 

[verbster]

This is deja vu. Didn't you ask the same thing a year ago or so? You've got a ton of money, good names, marketing skills and a friend who just made $72k in three months. Can't you just ask your friend what to do? I mean, he's the poster child for adsense.

If that's out for some reason, get in touch with elite services that cater to big money domains, and they'll do the work for you. It won't take much to find them...

 

[Jasdon]

and hes also an as*hole so I dont want to ask him!

:lol:

That would fit with him wafting the check under your nose!

 

[melmunch]

Phil,
Looking into doing 20 at a time is not a bad idea, but make sure to park the rest right away, or else you are leaving money on the table.
Changing the name servers will not take all that long, and it is better to have them all parked with a mediocre company while you search for the best way to monetize.

In any case, my real recommendation is to park and do nothing for one month. You can then base your decision on the traffic they receive. Develop the highest traffic sites first and move on down the line.

 

[Varon]

We do high end flash design www.northwestonline.com. I am too lazy to do it myself and my guys get paid too much which is why I posted here but thanks for bringing this up your graciousness.

You are always welcome dear humble domain Lord.