Is It Possible to Make Full Time Income With Mini Sites?

[fated82]

Hi all,

I am considering turning all my parked domains domains in to mini sites. Do you think there is any chance I can make a full time income doing that? (Buying profitable domains -> generate traffic -> sell it).

What are your thoughts?

 

[SpareDomains]

for me my goal is to just have each name make at least .60 each month so there are no holding costs until the name sells, I have quite a few that have front page google listings and that make well over .60 a month, possible yes but it depends on the domains as my good keyword .com product domains seem to do the best when looking all across the board at shopping, adsense, cj, linkshare etc... earnings.

 

[fated82]

Yes, i have shifted my research on product based domains. They have a higher click thru rate and can sell faster.

 

[dbtbandit67]

Is It Possible to Make Full Time Income With Mini Sites?

Yes. I personally know people that make a full income off Google Adsense as well as buying and selling domain names. But it's not easy. The learning process for me was several years, now all I have to do is work my butt off (which will still take a couple of years).

My advice is to start threads and ask questions like there's no tomorrow. This section of Namepros could use a jolt of life to it =)

 

[tech4]

No its not. As you heard, they make at top .60 cents per month per domain name.
How many do you have? 1,000 ? You will have to develop and host all 1,000 which would *make you $1,000 a month, if they have traffic. Natural traffic that is. Like

You will need at least 1000 unique visitors per month per domain to get a click. The click through rate is about 1 in 1,000.

Sure you can do better. Like 1 click per 300 visitors. But at that rate, you will need alot of hosting power etc.,

Don't waste your time building onto some names which does not have "traffic".

You wonder why alot of people are buying traffic names for high amount? because they can build sites, sell domains base on the traffic, organic. Don't waste your time and money building.

If you have traffic names, just park them.
Don't waste your money trying to make a living from adsense, in reality for every 1,000 visitors you might get 1 click. So in order to get $100 you need 100,000 visitors unique. Not even namepros get 60,000 unique per month. (at times maybe, but not now)

 

[SpareDomains]

No its not. As you heard, they make at top .60 cents per month per domain name.

the .60 I threw out was how much they need to make to pay their own way, not sure where your getting "at top they make .60 a month" as I have single clicks from adsense today at .57 and $2.16 and I have 66 developed and increasing weekly and almost all are profitable and ranking better than any parked page will ever rank on the front page of google, by developing of any sort you get better search rankings then a parked page and those rankings not only drive targeted traffic but also end user offers.

You will need at least 1000 unique visitors per month per domain to get a click. The click through rate is about 1 in 1,000.

maybe if you build on a crappy domain and send spam traffic and forum traffic but I build on keyword domains that get natural traffic flow and the click rate is much higher than 1 in 1,000, today that .57 click came from a site that only saw 7 visitors so far, my clicks usually fall in the .18 to $2 plus per click range, it's all about the quality of the domain and the quality of the traffic as good domains with natural traffic flow convert like mad when teamed with proper affiliate programs, building on bad domains probably not worth it as all your traffic will need to be generated where building on domains with natural flow equals profit.

 

[fated82]

I am now meddling with DevHub to build my site (and get some adsense, product click $$)....The interface looks good and it's easy for me to build a site in 30 mins and spend the rest of my time driving traffic.

I think ultimately you still have to figure out what your biz model is..Mine is certainly not to build the largest blog or the blog with the largest traffic...decent traffic is good enough to sell it off for a profit.

Yes, I am now in three forums asking alot of noob questions, this is how you get started no?

 

[tech4]

You get started with Good Domain names that have "traffic".
Keywords in any extension will get traffic. "Keywords" like, stock, money, love, (but those are gone)

For development part, you will need likely articles, more and more to keep up with search engine ranking or to entice audience. A parking page, ie. 5 page thing static will die off within a month.

Don't waste time and money on development, just develop 1 thing, that you like. 1 thing and keep it up. If your purpose is to make money online, I can tell you the early birds got the worms. You're too late, yes there are still niche out there that no one touches. But you will have to find them and its not likely you can make a living from adsense.

Don't waste time and money on it.

 

[dbtbandit67]

Yes, I am now in three forums asking alot of noob questions, this is how you get started no?

Yes. Keep it up

Check out Noomle while you're at it

 

[barefoottech]

hi all,

i am considering turning all my parked domains domains in to mini sites. Do you think there is any chance i can make a full time income doing that? (buying profitable domains -> generate traffic -> sell it).

What are your thoughts?

yes, If
1/ Minisites are done properly, please no 5 minute crap sites with too many or a mishmash of ads. It takes a few minutes to at least match ads to sites

2/ Domains are good names (Dressing up via a minisite a crappy name only gives you a dressed up crappy name.

3/ Realise that a minisite can be an added value to a name enhancing its sale price.

4/ promote via keywords, links, seo the site. Do not expect instant success with newly regged or low traffic sites.

I base these assertions on my limited experience after 6years of doing over a 1000 minisites (Not WP, Html, whypark, noomle, xsitepro et al), but all done by myself using Mambo then Joomla! .

No its not. As you heard, they make at top .60 cents per month per domain name.
How many do you have? 1,000 ? You will have to develop and host all 1,000 which would *make you $1,000 a month, if they have traffic. Natural traffic that is. Like

You will need at least 1000 unique visitors per month per domain to get a click. The click through rate is about 1 in 1,000.

Sure you can do better. Like 1 click per 300 visitors. But at that rate, you will need alot of hosting power etc.,

Don't waste your time building onto some names which does not have "traffic".

You wonder why a lot of people are buying traffic names for high amount? because they can build sites, sell domains base on the traffic, organic. Don't waste your time and money building.

If you have traffic names, just park them.
Don't waste your money trying to make a living from adsense, in reality for every 1,000 visitors you might get 1 click. So in order to get $100 you need 100,000 visitors unique. Not even namepros get 60,000 unique per month. (at times maybe, but not now)

BS
I have and get regularly 2$ clicks or greater from minisites. Some return a clickrate as high as 1 click per 5 visitors.
Indeed this month earnings from 1 of the minisites in my sig .

??.com
page impressions 358
Clicks 36
Page CTR 10.06%
Page eCPM [?] A$61.19
Estimated earnings A$21.91


total for month for approx 200 minisites (mainly hyphenated .infos and keyword .au names)
219,000 visitors
4,112 clicks
A$1,135.33 income

Maybe ,tech4, you need to get rid of those crappy minisites and domains that only give you 60c every 1000 visitors.

 

[enlytend]

You will need at least 1000 unique visitors per month per domain to get a click. The click through rate is about 1 in 1,000.

Sure you can do better. Like 1 click per 300 visitors. But at that rate, you will need alot of hosting power etc.,

Nonsense. And what does "hosting power" have to do with click through rate (a visitor behavior)?

I agree pretty much with DJuqa except:

2/ Domains are good names (Dressing up via a minisite a crappy name only gives you a dressed up crappy name.

Depends on how crappy we're talking - lots of viable, income-producing sites on what we, as domainers, would call "crappy names". BUT, a good keyword domain is a big help. If that's not what you're using, you'll lose out on that benefit.

 

[Datalife]

It....is....possible........... but whether sustainable in the long run is the question. You will need a ton of minisites, for sure.

I'm not so sure about the CTR part. My CTR is never more than 3-4%. My old sites see a decline in CTR over the years (For Adsense)...this is clear to see.

It's a lot of work to find these domains and to build sites and then to get traffic to them. Very time consuming, and be prepared to spend lots of money to acquire decent domains.

You won't get rich from this, but it is *possible* to earn an income. Forget about being a millionaire.

 

[fated82]

Oh my...Djuqa, how do you manage 1000 sites?

 

[gingeman]

Focus. Do not spread yourself across many little crappy sites.

1. Find a niche that interests you.
2. Get a good domain. Generic with traffic is great. If it can relate to products or an industry even better. Try to look for something with a commercial value or attachment.

Spend a month or two developing that name with quality content, links and ads which are matched to your audience. Install analytics and see what your visitors are looking for, and create content to match.

When you have done this with some success, then look for elements you may be able to replicate across a larger number of names.

Unless you already have a ton of names and want to add a little value to them, you would definitely be better getting one good name and giving it your full attention.

Good Luck.

 

[barefoottech]

Oh my...Djuqa, how do you manage 1000 sites?

I currently manage 400 sites total , but have built over 1000 sites during the last 6yrs.
And Yes you can make income
We are only talking adsense at present
There is also aff. and Paid link income potential for minisites.

 

[tech4]

So what's the secret to such high click through rates?
I see your domain names (Djuga) are just regular names.

I don' see how its possible to even get that much clicks, i visited the site, its sure is colorful.

 

[exsedo]

It depends on the timescale.
I have a crappy site which has a 37.5% CTR over the last week.
Of course, when I check again after a month the CTR will probably be lower.
I have sites which may only get one visit in a day, but that visitor may produce 3 clicks which is a 300% CTR.
Overall, a long term CTR of 5% is not unusual, and that is an average of 5 clicks per 100 visitors.

 

[tech4]

exsedo are those parking pages you are talking about? or a mini built?

How do you place the ad? any specific colors ?
Or is it just luck! ?

 

[exsedo]

exsedo are those parking pages you are talking about? or a mini built?

How do you place the ad? any specific colors ?
Or is it just luck! ?

Hi,
they are Whypark mini-sites. They have a Yahoo Ad feed or with certain memberships you can use Adsense. Just dial in your domain names and their wizzi builds a basic website which you can customize. The Ads are generated from your keywords.

 

[fated82]

Currently I am happy with DevHub, but something tells me that I should not depend on DevHub as a platform to build my mini sites...do you guys recommend me buying Xsite Pro instead?