I'm giving up a money-making secret

[Seabass]

I debated telling the whole NP crowd this but I can't see how it would cut me out of any earnings and I wanted to help other NP's make a little more cash in these rough times. So here it is :

I started fooling around with eBay and using their direct linking method began to add generic domains to each corresponding page that matched up with the product. No website creation is necessary....just use the direct link method in EPN.

Well.....after tinkering around with it using different verticals most of which don't work....I found something that does. Animal domains.....especially one word animal domains.

Now don't ask me why, but they convert to $$$ better than domain parking does with any parking company I've ever used. It literally is putting over $x,xxx more per month to the bottom line over and above what I was making in domain parking. And....they rarely buy anything related to the domain's subject matter.

It's unreal. The success may be tied somehow to folks looking for a deal, but it seems to work best with animal domains and I just can't figure out why.

Regarding other types of domains I have found about one in ten to fifteen do better at eBay than they do parked.

Try it for a month and see. Good luck.

* Ever notice Sendori sends every third visitor to eBay. Why is that? :hehe:

 

[harkster]

Running sites is hard work. There is no way around it. I am at my computer a minimum of 12 hours a day, nearly every day. There are times where I work for 24 hours straight. I once worked for 2 and a half days straight (without the use of drugs or caffeine or anything else).

I see so much laziness on the forums I can't believe it. Everyone thinking they can make easy money online. It's pathetic.

Right on. I am working long hours 7 days/week updating designs, bringing up new sites, consulting with my content writer, shopping for and researching names, deciding which sites aren't performing and may need to go while keeping up with my daily forum/blog reading.

When I am not at the puter this stuff is in the back of my mind.

I am beginning to have some eBay success. Most of my successful sites have original content with Adsense and eBay is only a part of the whole (I admit to a few where eBay is the primary content). I use the eBay rss feeds (simplepie and another script) for display. Am starting to look at the API - big learning curve.

I was building mini-sites long before it was 'in'. Oh yes, I am supposed to be retired sitting on the porch watching the world go by.

 

[Traveler]

Oh yes, I am supposed to be retired sitting on the porch watching the world go by.

I feel funny asking this to a guy who should be sitting on his porch watching the world go by, but when you get the eBay api thing figured out send me a PM, I'm still scratching my head with that one.

 

[DubDubDubDot]

calm down, your remarks are uncalled for.

not everyone wants to get stuck writing content. and there's nothing wrong with coming up with ideas on how to earn money passively on your domains, either through parking or any other system that can be macro-managed.

it's not "pathetic" to come up with new ideas. when they dont workout just move on to the next one.

How may years have you been moving onto the next free money idea as the previous one failed? It is never going to come. No system exists to turn your undeveloped domains into an automated money machine while you frolic in the yard by day and sleep at night.

I've been running sites since 1998. There is no shortcut to developing. The closest thing is parking, but that is really just a stop gap measure unless you have a massive parking operation.

Learn HTML, CSS, basic Photoshop (heck, re-install the trial each month if you don't want to spend the money on it) and get a cheap $10 a month host. Then later on learn PHP & MySQL and you can do pretty much anything a large company can.

 

[bmugford]

Full development is not for everyone, there is nothing "lazy" about it. What is the point spending so many hours on development if that is not your business model?

Most people here are primarily domainers with many domain names. If you own hundreds of domain names development is not an option other than for a few websites.

Domainers are looking for simple easy ways to monetize pages without full development, there is nothing lazy about that. Parking and forwarding traffic are two options among many.

I see domainers all the time say they have developed a site, only to see a mini site that offers little more content than a parking page. I would rather just park a domain than have a half-assed web page.

Brad

How may years have you been moving onto the next free money idea as the previous one failed? It is never going to come. No system exists to turn your undeveloped domains into an automated money machine while you frolic in the yard by day and sleep at night.

I've been running sites since 1998. There is no shortcut to developing. The closest thing is parking, but that is really just a stop gap measure unless you have a massive parking operation.

Learn HTML, CSS, basic Photoshop (heck, re-install the trial each month if you don't want to spend the money on it) and get a cheap $10 a month host. Then later on learn PHP & MySQL and you can do pretty much anything a large company can.

 

[snoop]

Running sites is hard work. There is no way around it. I am at my computer a minimum of 12 hours a day, nearly every day. There are times where I work for 24 hours straight. I once worked for 2 and a half days straight (without the use of drugs or caffeine or anything else).

I see so much laziness on the forums I can't believe it. Everyone thinking they can make easy money online. It's pathetic.

Right on. I am working long hours 7 days/week updating designs, bringing up new sites, consulting with my content writer, shopping for and researching names, deciding which sites aren't performing and may need to go while keeping up with my daily forum/blog reading.

Maybe you both enjoy it but honestly not a lot of people want this lifestyle. There is nothing glorious or good about working long hours 7 days per week, some people find better options, yes "lazier" ones where they have time to do things other than work.

Most people here are primarily domainers with many domain names. If you own hundreds of domain names development is not an option other than for a few websites.

Domainers are looking for simple easy ways to monetize pages without full development, there is nothing lazy about that. Parking and forwarding traffic are two options among many.

I see domainers all the time say they have developed a site, only to see a mini site that offers little more content than a parking page. I would rather just park a domain than have a half-assed web page.

Brad

Agree on all these points. Development is a very different skill set to domaining and not something that is really viable beyond a couple of sites most of the site.

 

[seven]

How may years have you been moving onto the next free money idea as the previous one failed? It is never going to come. No system exists to turn your undeveloped domains into an automated money machine while you frolic in the yard by day and sleep at night.

That made me laugh.

This is what I think the best method to making money from domains:

1. Buy a quality generic keyword (whether fresh, dropped, or purchased from another.

2. Make sure this keyword gets 1000+ exact searches a month.

3. Put a blog on it complete with a top/left prevalent adsense ad. Put an image Google adsense to the right. (You'll want to use a good theme)

4. Write SEO optimized articles and make sure the onpage optimization is prestine.

5. Put Google analytics inside it.

6. Link to it from the article directory sites.

7. Social bookmark it.

8. Write reviews for relevant affiliate products on it.

9. Post affiliate banners to on/off topic sites on it.

10. Make sure to keep a contact address on the site for potential inquiries - either advertising or purchase.

11. Monitor adsense/affiliate money/advertising.

12. Monitor traffic. Make sure it is converting and change your template/ads best on converstion rates/dollars.

13. After this, you will have a great idea of how much your domain is worth and what you will sell it for.

14. Add a new blog every 2 weeks.

15. Move on to the next domain.

If you have a lot of domains, start off with the keywords that get the most searches and keep on trucking. With brandables or off-keyword combos (ie domainsushi.com), try doing the same (SEO will be harder).

The cost here is your time, your webhosting, and $7.50 for a domain.

Blog set up (adding domain to host, inserting WP on domain, initial content, setting correct title,permalink structure, and plugins) with article writing (4 decent sized articles), social bookmarking, and anything else should take about 4 hours.

After this, just post a few blogs every so often to let the Google pings know the blog is updated. The blogs can serve as your affiliate recommendations (make sure to use no-follow links).

Advertising money is gravy. PR - same.

If you can set up everything faster than this, you're running on high efficiency.

 

[rokoroko]

Hi Guys !

Do you think , it would work for me ,this BANS model, to monetize these domains:

DirtBike.in ,DirtBikes.in DirtBike.co.in ,DirtBikes.co.in ?

thanks for advise

rokoroko

 

[Cannie03]

Hi,

Yeah !what my friends told about the money making ideas are some how correct but we must have strong effort & right information regarding that.

 

[DNabc]

Seabass, thank you for the suggestion. I think we should all notice that he risked a bit on telling us what makes him money, without getting anything out of it.