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Domain With Me: No Revenue but People Turning Up

December 12th, 2007

Long time blog readers will remember the domain experiment I started around a month ago.

So a quick update:

I originally had gone with Trafficz.com, which had templates but were hard to configure and came up with strange automatic suggestions (metal working for a real estate domain, and even after choosing the real estate template).

So at the suggestion of John, I changed over to Sedo, for a more simple domain parking page with ads.

In the last 14 days, 503 unique visitors have visited the 101 domains I registered. Or about, 36 people a day. 4 people clicked on an ad and generated a grand total of $0.26 in revenue. I need about $.50 a day to break even (so $7 in 14 days).

With that not working, I am going to create a custom app to manage the domains and lens into content from Homethinking and elsewhere and use the affiliate links and agreements we have there to monetize the domains.

The basic idea is twofold: If I develop meaningful pages for the domains, I should get the Google bump in the exact keyword phrase real estate. And then I can use each domain to link to Homethinking, which helps in our SEO efforts there.

Will let you know once I have the initial templates up and how they do.

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  1. Jason said, on December 12th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

    I’m trying the same thing. Parking just didn’t work for me with my collection of mediocre names. Now I can SEO and market my names to death. Here are a couple of my database-driven works-in-progress: baby.bz, localheadlines.us. Great Blog BTW!

  2. John DeMayo said, on December 27th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

    I’m just going through some of my domains and thought you might find this interesting. Period is the last 32 days.

    baltimorecityapartments.com 16 visits 9 clicks $0.58/click $325.57 RPM $5.21 Earnings
    federalhillrealestatate.com 32 visits 0 clicks 0 Earnings

    Pretty big difference when a domain is keyword optimized properly or not…I need to spend a little time looking at the “long tail” of my domains.

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