Blogging Along

I registered PriceCrunch.net to develop a discount code and affiliation site, but have never got round to it.

Although it’s a .NET it is a catchy domain and a great one to own and develop as we intend to soon.

Along with Anti Virals, and many other commonly used phrases nowadays we have a few others like PricesCompared.co.uk which would make a FAB comparison site if fully branded and developed.

If would give Money Super Market a run for their money I bet ;o)

Big sites that compare lots of items and products are so much harder to get earning for you compared to a niche area such as a Wormeries site. I do know of a few people that have made the bigger sites work and are earning £xxxx’s a month from natural traffic and not paid for clicks.

I feel a head ache coming on so screen rest and brew me thinks!

I started out in buying domains at the beginning of 2007 with 123ABC co.uk from a drop, where someone had let it lapse and didn’t renew it.

Over the 2 years of buying domains, developing some and selling them on has had me thinking at stages

AM I MAD? Will it ever pay off?

In the early days when I was buying rubbish domains and not really doing much with them, yes, I did think OMG I’m addicted and am never going to get a return.

I turned to trying SEOing a few of them, which I had great results for Google rankings and Page Rank. So in  nearly 3 years I’ve chomped my way through at least a 1000+ domains. On the flip side have made many £xxxx’s too, and increasing more so now I sort of understand from Affiliation and selling domains.

To get a domain to earn,

1. It’s reg fee back
2. It’s hosting cost back

Is a good feeling, knowing what ever money comes in after that, is pure profit or at least in exchange for any extra time you spend on it on development. I now have 3 accounts with (cheap) Blue Host which allows me to have upto 300 domains, with a WordPress install on them.

Limitations are in place with them like I said your limited to a huge 100 Mysql Db’s but also your file count, as I found out the other day with an email from them…..

your file count is ideally 50’000 but MUST be below 200’000!

100 WordPress Installs = 80’000+ files with no plugin’s, no theme’s and no content/pages and so over the 50’000 straight away! But hey ho fair enough as I cut back what I can to keep below the 200’000.

Back on track with my plans….

Latest plans are all based around local mini sites like HullPrint.co.uk, I started in Hull as it’s my local city and am now moving to the other larger cities by population.

• Birmingham
• Leeds
• Glasgow
• Sheffield
• Bradford
• Liverpool
• Manchester
• Bristol
• Wakefield
• Cardiff
• Leicester
• Belfast
• Brighton

Out of the 200 Geo domains I have, if 50% of them perform ok and bring in at least £5 per day through Adsense and Affiliation

I’ll be a happy man!

I’ll keep you posted, but just a snap shot of todays earnings from just 4 of the GEO sites that are performing ok.

• Site 1 = £6.43
• Site 2 = £1.11
• Site 3 = £0.46
• Site 4 = £0.34

I had a nice suprise this morning because besides:

• VoIP Telecoms installations and support
• Website design and office IT Support
• Online Marketing and SEO

An email from SEDO asking for my input on an offer that had been made on one of my domains. You set a minimum price i.e. £350 (any offers below that are rejected automatically)  people place bids, and you respond with yes great or more please.

This runs the risk of missing the sale and so I accepted and transfered the domain, deal done and dusted. RESULT!

Although it was a .org.uk it was a very nice generic which is now becoming a must for the area your in. Toys R Us bought Toys.com

Back on track and the whole thing of getting an email totally out the blue. The prospect of getting £350 from a domain I bought 2 years ago for no more than £8 is such a good feeling and to think I have a good few more very similar too is warming.

Here’s a few .org.uk’s as examples:

• Anti-Bacterial
• Parkers
• Correct
• BlackDress
• Crowd
• HotTub

Here’s a few .co.uk’s as examples:

• Dehydrates
• PricesCompared
• Reading-Books
• Anti-Fungal
• ReduceCo2