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Shocking Truth About Domain Parking — And What To Do About It.

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Author: Lord Brar

28 Feb

Shocking Truth About Domain Parking.

Last Updated – April 13, 2008.

Parking Pages are just about everywhere — after all, they are easy money. But is it really a good idea to use them?

How it all Started.

Parking Pages first started a way to make sure that the traffic to the domains was not wasted and you could make some money from the traffic by showing them advertisements. It was meant to be a quick-fix to make money from the traffic on the domain.

Even though parking pages started as a quick-fix but they have slowly turned into a big industry in itself — there are billions of dollars being made every year from parking pages. As a matter of fact, a lot ofdomainers make their money just from parking pages.

The Problem With Parking Pages.

There are a few issues with Parking Pages that one needs to consider when one decides to use them.

1. No Search Traffic. Search Engines are looking for sites which provide real content to their visitors — after all, it makes business sense for search engines to provide the best experience to their users. It is next to impossible to rank regular parking pages in search engines.

Every Single Day, Google serves hundreds of millions of queries — by not having your domain ranking for your target-keywords, you are missing a big piece of action.

2. No Repeat Traffic. Parking Pages attract mostly type-in traffic. To be fair, you can indeed expect some people to visit your parking page again and again by typing in your URL, but most would never visit your page again.

Even worse is the fact that you can’t setup things like newsletters and member-registration, which will allow you to stay in touch with people who opt-in and attract regular visitors to your site.

3. Little Customization. When you are using parking pages, you have little control over the looks and layout of your parking pages. Not only that, you do not have freedom to add any other features to your site.

Why Parking Pages are Good.

I am not trying to say that Parking Pages are that bad. A lot of people make a decent amount of money with parking pages — including us on some of our domains. The best part about Domain Parking is that it is easy — all you need to do is to change the name-servers and you are done.

There are some excellent parking companies like Fabulous.com which go the extra mile to help you squeeze the most profit from your parking page.

But, don’t forget that by using parking pages on your domains…

You Are Leaving Money On the Table.

You Can Get Lots More Traffic. By having your site listed in search engines and having other sites to link to you, you increase your traffic — and hence revenue — exponentially. By using a parking page you are missing out on a huge amount of traffic that you could get by having a real site.

Multiple Revenue Streams. When you are using a parking page, your only source of revenue is pay-per-click advertisements. Essentially, if your visitors do not click on your advertisements, you do not make any money.

However, with a custom site, you make money not just from PPC advertisements but also from affiliate programs, cpa programs, ecommerce, sponsored reviews, subscription revenue and sales of text-links. As a matter of fact, I have some sites which make hundreds of dollars every single month from just the sales of text links and virtually zilch from Pay-Per-Click Advertisements.

Better Revenue Optimization. You don’t have any control over the optimization of revenue from your parking pages except setting-up the right keywords. With your own site, you have complete control over the revenue optimization and control of the placement of various elements that will make you money.

Capture Contact Information. One sure-shot way to attract repeat visitors to your sites is to capture their contact — either via newsletter sign-up or via a registration system. We use Aweber to capture contact on our sites and the response rates are totally amazing.

Needless to say, it is not possible to do this on parking pages.

Build Relationships, Sell More. When you are using Parking Pages, you have absolutely no contact with your advertisers. As a matter of fact, you have absolutely no idea about who is advertising on your domain. When you are directly selling advertisements on your own site, you get a change to build a relationship with the advertiser.

What this means is that you get a change to get to know the advertiser and upsell and cross-sell them. Which means much higher revenue and a potential for repeat business.

I could go on even more about why it is a better idea to develop your domain rather than throw a parking page but I hope that you get the idea.

Get Your Facts Right

Whenever I talk about this issue with most domainers, they reply that it takes a lot of effort to develop a domain name. That is just NOT TRUE until you are building the next Yahoo or Google.

I myself have developed hundreds of my own domains with simple strategies that you can copy too.

The Strategy

I am going to reveal the strategies that we use at our company to maximize the revenues from our domain in various posts on this blog during this week. Stay Tuned!

Follow-Up Post – How I Really Make Money From Domain Names.

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just try to visit them and study as much as you can for your future..

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How to Choose a Host Without Getting Ripped-Off — 6 Practical “Rules of Thumb” to Remember.

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Author: Lord Brar

17 Apr

Web Hosting

One of the most critical components component of your success on the internet is your web-host. If your web-host keeps giving you troubles, you will not be able to concentrate on developing, promoting and monetizing your websites. Also, if your website is down, you will not be able to show any ads and that would translate into zero revenue for you.

Sure — you can go with the top-of-shelf hosts which provide 100% uptime but they cost an arm and leg. Since our objective is to keep our costs minimum, we are going to use cheap shared-hosts. However, a LOT of these cheap hosts often resort of tactics — which I call “Dirty Games” — to squeeze every bit of profit from their customers.

Read this post to find out how most of these hosts try to rip-off their customers and “Rules of Thumb’ for identifying and avoiding such hosts. And yes, I will have host recommendations from my personal experience with some companies. Let’s get down to business, shall we?

The Dirty Games

With the advent of cut-throat competition in the hosting market, a lot of hosts have taken to making false and misleading statements to lure those new to the industry and then use “dirty-tacts” to squeeze every bit of profit out of them. Here are Five Worst Dirty-Tactics.

#1 – Long Lock-In Periods – See those ultra-cheap $3 or $4 a month prices? Most of the times they are valid only if you prepay for a year or two. What this means is that you are going to be stuck with this host for next year or two.

Yes, what this means is that it doesn’t matter how bad the quality of service after the 30 days trial period, you are neither getting a refund nor you have an exit strategy. And let me tell you from my own personal experience, even the poster-boys of the industry go bad.

A few years ago I used to have a website hosted with Site5. At that time they used to be a rock-solid host and everyone used to swear by their quality of service. And then within a few months the quality of service turned into one of the worst in the industry.

Perhaps they were victims of their own success and grew much faster than they could manage. They are still in business but I don’t hear much about them these days. However, the point is not that. The point is that people who had prepaid them for two years had to stick with them and suffer through the bad quality of service.

Some hosts use tactics like introducing setup fees to motivate people to pay for longer period. If a host has a setup fee — avoid them. Back in 1998-99, setting up an account used to be a manual thing. However, today, when most of the stuff is automated, charging a setup fees is just a scheme to get you to pay for a longer contract.

#2 – Unreasonable Restrictions – A lot of these hosts put unreasonable restrictions on their users. These may include a restriction on number of domains, daily bandwidth limit, maximum file size limit, database size limit, not being able to use certain popular scripts etc.

One very popular host doesn’t allow its customers to use FTP Software but rather forces them to use an online interface — what a pain in ass if you have to upload hundreds of files — like when you are installing wordpress.

The very same host also has a file size limit of a few kb and a database size of just 10 MB — even though they are giving their customers hundreds of GBs of diskspace and thousands of GBs of bandwidth. Try filling up those spaces in a few lifetimes if you can.

Another host claims to give 3000 GB of bandwidth a month — however they have a daily cap of 10 GB. This means that no matter what, you cannot use more than 300 GB a month of bandwidth.

And there are so many other hosts which do these type of things.

Now mind you, we want to host all of our domains on just one account — using addon domains facility which I will explain it at later in post. If you end up with a host with such crazy restrictions, you are basically in big trouble.

#3 – Super-Sneaky Contracts – Let’s not even get started on the fine-print they have in their contacts. Basically what it usually says is that if you site starts to get popular, we will kick you out unless you upgrade to our more-expensive plan.

Want to know another super-sneaky clause most of these cheapo hosts have? Even though you are given a 30 day money-back period, but, if you ask for the money back, you have to pay setup costs which are usually about $30. Pretty high considering annual fees of most of these hosts is like 80 or 90 bucks!

#4 – Low Quality Infrastructure. One of the reasons why these hosts are able to offer services at such low prices and still be in business is because they do ruthless cost-cutting.

Usually this cost cutting involves using low-quality server infrastructure and using low-quality networks. This usually translates in low-reliability and quality of services being delivered.

Another department which suffers is customer-service. Since highly skilled technical staff costs money, so they are out of question. These hosts usually outsource their support to third-world countries and hire bare-minimum skilled staff. Result – lower quality of support for their customers.

#5 – Hidden Costs – What most people don’t realize when they are paying for the super-cheap hosting package is even though that they are getting a package with “more than you can ever use” bandwidth and space, the power-features missing.

God forbid, if your site ever becomes famous — which it will if you keep following my strategies — you are in for a shock!

I have seen some hosts charging $15 per GB of bandwidth over usage (yeah right!), $10 a month for SSL Certificate (needed for eCommerce) and $8 a month for ever add-on domain.

Now you have to remember that for these hosts, it is simply a numbers game. If you get dissatisfied and move on, it would hardly make a dent to their figure of hundreds of thousands of customers.

However, for you, it will mean a lot of wasted time, effort and money. Let’s see how to find the right host.

The “Rules of Thumb”

Am I saying that all cheap hosts are bad and should be avoided? Absolutely Not. I have used them for a long time before moving to VPSes. However, I do have a big problem with those super-cheap hosts who will go any extent to lure new customers and keep them locked in — by hook or my crook.

Here are some things you should remember when choosing a web-host. They will save you a lot of hassles and headaches in long run.

Rule#1 – No Lock-In. I would strongly recommend against paying anything more than a month in advance and, if you have to, a maximum of three months.

Sure, you may pay a bit higher price by paying monthly than you’d if you pay yearly. However, think of it as your “host-reliability” insurance — in case their services start to deteriorate, you will have an option of moving to another host.

Rule #2 – Know the Restrictions. It is an excellent idea to clear-up any special restrictions that the web host may have before you sign-up with them. Nasty surprises are particularly bad if they affect you monetarily.

And when you ask them about this, be specific in your questions. Ask them the database size limit, file-size limit, if they have any cap-on daily bandwidth usage and any particular script they disallow.

Do remember that nearly every host disallows extremely server intensive scripts like chat-scripts on shared infrastructure. You should be concerned only if they disallow popular scripts like vBulletin, PhotoPost and other which you may use.

Rule #3 – Know Thy Contract. Read the terms of service and acceptable use policy carefully before you sign-up with the webhost. Don’t just skim through it considering it to be regular stuff — more than often it is not and it directly affects you.

Rule #4 – Clarify Prices. Make sure that you always clarify the pricing of various add-ons before you hit the sign-up button. Here also you have to be specific unless you love getting vague responses.

Ask them if they will charge a setup fee if you terminate within first 15 days, cost of excess bandwidth and space, cost of upgrading an account and if there are any additional administration and support charges you should be aware of.

Rule #5 – Contact Support. Always contact the webhost’s support department via eMail and, if they provide it, by phone. Try to assess how professional and supportive they are when you ask questions I recommend above.

Rule #6 – Take my Recommendation. I have recommended a host below who I had happily used for over two-years! I am sure you will be glad that you took my suggestion.

The Host I Recommend

I Recommend HostGator – Click this link and then use the coupon Jury to get the first month for just 1 cent.

I had used over 8 hosts before I settled for HostGator and used them happily for over two years before I had to move on to PowerVPS due to increased requirements. Even today I hear rave reviews about them just so frequently even though they have become one of the largest hosts out there.

The package I recommend is the Baby Plan at $9.95 a month plan. Now if you host 20 sites on this account, it turns out to be less than 50 cents a month! Click this link and then use the coupon Jury to get the first month for just 1 cent.

Even though they offer insanely high space and bandwidth, they don’t have the crazy restrictions like which I have mentioned above. And furthermore, they are a company with pockets deep enough to back these claimed quotes in case some customers ever reach the levels.

They also offer unlimited add-on domains and on-click install for all popular software. What this means is that you can have as many domains as you want on your account.

And with a click of a button, you can install software like WordPress, Joomla, PhpBB and Coppermine among others on your site. Yes, this means that you can setup a site without having any technical skills.

To Signup with HostGator, follow this link and then use the coupon Jury, you will get your first month for just 1 cent. http://www.awltovhc.com/image-2829075-10410811

Remember — a good host means that you will be able to concentrate on developing, promoting and monetizing your websites. And yes, I know from my personal experience that HostGator is one of them.

How to (Really) Make Money with Domain Names

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When I started writing this, my first sentence was “The time for making easy money with domain names has passed.” It didn’t take me long to realize, though, that there never really has been any easy money in domains.

  • Think it was easy to invest $70 each for domains back in the mid-90s when no one could really be sure at all that the Internet was going to be as life-changing as it has proven to be?
  • Think it was easy to figure out the drop system so you could snatch up expiring domains before anyone else?
  • Think it was easy to work like a dog and max out your credit cards once domain names were a proven commodity?

I don’t think anyone who’s gotten rich off domain names would tell you that it was ever easy. The landscape has changed immensely, but what makes it hard now is just different than what made it hard 10+ years ago.

I can tell you what I know now beyond a shadow of a doubt, though: if you want a low-risk, high-return way to make money with domains today, forget buying and holding. Buy a handful a good generic domains and start right now developing them.

Forget Buying and Holding

Rick Schwartz BiddingI love Rick Schwartz’s model: find top-tier generics at a good price and hold them for a few years until someone wants to pay you big bucks for them. That’s how you make several hundred thousand dollars at a time.

Unless you have significant wad of cash lying around, though, you’re relegated to trying to turn $260 into $8,000. Success stories like that are great, but ask yourself:

  1. For every successful domain investment that you make, how many failures would you have?
  2. How many deals like this would you have to do to keep food on the table and clothes on your kids?
  3. Think you could keep it up consistently?
  4. When you’re done buying and selling, what sort of equity would you have to show for it?

To me, domain buying and selling is like day-trading: yeah, you hear about some stellar returns, but the risks are just as high (or higher). For every Frank Schilling or Kevin Ham, there are tons more people who lost their shirts (and more) trying to do the same thing.

The Big, Safe Money is in Development

If you want to make big, safe money with domains today — without laying out big money like Rick — here’s what you want to do:

  1. Find some good generic domain names that:
    1. You can get for a good price.
    2. Are in topic areas that you’re passionate about
  2. Focus your efforts on building those out and driving more and more defensible traffic to them.

Your only risk is the money you use to buy the domains –which you totally control — and the time you spend building them out. That’s it. What you end up with in return, though, are very valuable assets that any number of people will be interested in — not just other domain speculators.

That’s because most domain buyers today “are not sellers and even more do not develop.” Because of that, developing a good domain means that not only will it still be interesting to a domainer somewhere down the road, it will also be interesting to a much wider range of people who are looking for established businesses and have no interest in playing the domain market.

Anytime you can take an asset from one market and turn it into one with much wider appeal, the value increases by default: more buyers = more demand = higher price.

When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It

Like I said, I still really like Rick’s model, and I agree with Andy that Warren Buffet would recommend investing in premium generics. It’s just that I don’t know many people who have Buffet-type money.

So if you find yourself wanting to get into the domain business without cashing out your 401(k), just take the other path. It’s a low-risk, high-payoff strategy that has worked out great not only for me, but for many others as well.

How to Make money with Domain Names?

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Do you know that there are many internet users who directly type-in the domain names on their web browsers. It could be a domain names of an existing websites or blogs or a domain names of websites under construction or totally non-existing, unregistered domain names.

Making Money With Domain Parking

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising sites, including Google, grab the opportunity of making money with parked domain names or domain names of websites or blogs under construction. They place PPC ads on these domain names to capture the type-in web traffic. If these domain names are accessed by the internet users, they display and advertising links. Every click to these PPC ad links makes money to the PPC sites and to the owner of the domain name. See these examples by typing these Domain names in your web browser: work-at-home-faqs.com or make-money-quick-ways.com.

Google offers an Adsense program for parked domain pages. Google uses its technology to analyze and understand the meaning of the domain names. So, AdSense for parked domain names delivers targeted advertisements to help the users find what they’re searching for. See more of Google’s FAQs on Adsense program for Domain Parking.

However, Google’s Adsense for parked domain pages is offered to domain name registrars and large domain name holders only. But don’t worry, there are popular domain parking sites that will help you make money with parked domain names for holders of few domain names. They partnered with PPC sites to place PPC ads on their parked domain names. Some of popular domain parking sites are Sedo, Parked.com and TrafficClub. They offer revenue share on PPC ads to holders of few domain names. GoDaddy is also offering this Domain Parking scheme in its Cash Parking program (under “Domains” Drop-down menu), but with monthly fee.

Making Money by Trading Domain Names

Trading Domain names is a very good home business to make money online. Domain names are treated as trading product and real estate property that you can buy and sell. You buy domain names at lower price and sell at a very high price in the future. You may buy a domain name by registering it with Domain name registrar for a minimum of one year. You must have seen at Sedo the prices of domain names offered for sale and sold. And fortunately, Netfirms offer a very good promo on domain name registration with Whois Privacy that hides the real owner’s confidential information from public view. You may also try other big Domain registrars like GoDaddy.

Choosing The Right Domain Names

Choosing Domain name is the challenging part of making money with Domain names. Here are the tips on choosing the right Domain names that make money:

1. Choose and register keyword with “.com” top-level domain. Most of the internet users type-in the name of website or the keyword with “.com” at web browsers.

2. Avoid using dash in Domain name. Normally, internet users do not use dash in the keyword name of the websites or blogs. If you are building your own website or blog in the future, you may choose Domain name with dash as search engines give some points to the keywords in Domain name.

3. Use Search keyword tool like Google Keyword Tool. This will show you the no. and the average of searches in a month, for the keyword and synonyms of your chosen the domain name.

4. Choose one to two keyword Domain names like Website.com and TopWebsite.com. You may use more than two keywords if the name is really popular or potentially have a high demand in future.

5. Search and register Domain names with popular keywords. Below are the ways of finding or choosing popular main keywords for domain names. Always look out for the keywords that are popular in the world, in other countries, in your country and in your local area, both in English and other languages:

  1. Name of popular websites or blogs, hosted in free hosting sites like Blogger (blog-name.blospot.com), WordPress (blog-name.wordpress.com), Bravenet (site-name.bravenet.com) and Tripod (site-name.tripod.com).
  2. Names of popular websites or blogs with different registered domain name. You may find popular blogs and websites at Technorati.com, Digg.com and other top blog and website directories and networks.
  3. Names of popular places like big cities, provinces, tourist destinations, restaurants, disco houses and other top locations.
  4. Names of rich and famous people like celebrities, businessmen, bloggers, webmasters, politicians, professors, students, reporters, news casters, broadcasters, scientists, inventors, government officials, association officers, club officers and activists.
  5. Names of famous companies including their brands and products, offline and online.
  6. Names of famous structures like buildings and towers.
  7. Names or titles of famous events to be held likes shows, exhibitions, car racing, and tournaments.
  8. Titles of famous books and magazines including gazettes, newsletters, school papers, comics and other reading materials.
  9. Names of famous animals and plants including insects, flowers, vegetables, trees and fruits.
  10. Popular games and sports like football, soccker, rugby, baseball, basketball, tennis, volleyball, billiards, boxing, and cricket.
  11. Top keywords like top, popular, famous, top1, top10, top7, top100, hot and other superlative words like most, best, highest, greates, and
    biggest.
  12. Feminine words like girls, female, lady, gals, sexy and beautiful.
  13. Common misspelling of popular websites and keywords. For example, google.com is typed as gogol.com or gogle.com while yahoo.com as yahu.com. Here is a very helpful Keyword Typo Generator Tool that generates suggested likely human misspellings and typos.
  14. All popular names, things and words including slang and hybrid words.

6. Take note of the famous or popular things, words and events you’ve encountered, discovered or heard.

Benefits of Making Money with Domain Names

  1. You make money while you are building your own website or blog.
  2. If you have an idle domain name, you make money without additional cost.
  3. With Domain parking, you make money without doing anything even while you’re sleeping.
  4. You get quotations from interested buyers without spending a dime.
  5. You may earn thousands of dollars as profit in selling your domain names.

Disadvantages of Making Money with Domain Names

  1. You need to invest some amount of money for buying or registering Domain names.
  2. If your Domain name is not sold within a year, you have to pay for its renewal for another year.
  3. You need time and effort to research for a profitable domain name.
  4. You may lose some amount in you’ve not chosen a profitable Domain name.

Domain auction link

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here is the place where you can take a sneak peek to our future money

www.tdnam.com ( godaddy auction )
www.sedo.com

And have much more again just search it at google..

Google is the best for searching hehehe… ( maybe only my private thought )

Domains Availability

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Best checking domains availability

www.domainsbot.com

private advise:
open it 24 hours and when some word fall to you head .. check it here…. and ready to dream about it… maybe your word will be sold at $xxx.xxx hehehehe….

keep trying.. :P

What Is Domain Parking?

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Domain Parking is a simple way to earn money from your domains’ natural traffic. If you have registered domain names, but they are not currently being used, then domain parking is a great way to put those domains to work, earning you revenue. You can make money without even lifting a finger! The idle domain is used to display relevant advertisements -every time a consumer clicks on one of the advertisements, you earn money.

To view an example of a domain parked with Sedo please visit
www.freefonetones.com

Make Money and Traffic Through Domain Typos

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Publicizing and making money from your site in the Internet market is a tough job for bloggers and webmasters these days. You need to have a lot of skills and need to do a lot of traffic building in order rank your site/blog higher in the webosphere.

Make Money with Domain Typos

Today I am going to teach you how to make money and traffic by making use of the top alexa domains. You need to use an online tool which will help you figure out free available domains which are typos of other high traffic domain names and which will alsp help you make money as well as traffic. The tool is called the Typo Generator and here are some of its cool features.

The Typo Generator Tool

The Typo Generator Tool is available online at a number of websites. Some of which are gien here:

and here is an application version of Domain Typo Generator

Features of Typo Generator

  • Generate misspells of high traffic domain names
  • Generate Domains Names with new Phonetic Key Technology
  • Choose from a list of available Keys to generate domains
  • Get the maximum possible typos for a particular domain

Using The Typo Generator Tool

Now that you are aware of the Domain typo generator you must be thinking how its going to make you money or traffic. Here is how:

  1. Select any high traffic domain e.g. johnchow.com
  2. Use the functions in typo generator tool to generate typos e.g. I used the ‘Reverse Letters’ function and got the following domains
    ojhnchow.com
    jhonchow.com
    jonhchow.com
    johcnhow.com
    johnhcow.com
    johncohw.com
    johnchwo.com
    Except jonhchow.com and johncohw.com all the typos are available for registration according to the Instant Domain Name checker.
  3. Register the domain typos you think are the most efficient.

Now comes the part of making money or traffic through these domain typos. Let me discuss them indivisually.

Make Money with Domain Parking

Now that you have some great typo domain names with you lets get started and make some money using domain parking. For all those of you who don’t know about Domain Parking:

Domain Parking is simple way to earn money from your domains’ natural traffic and depends upon type-in traffic.

The domain name will usually resolve to a page containing relevant advertising listings and links. These links will be targeted to the predicted interests of the visitor and may change dynamically based on the results that visitors click on. Usually the domain owner is paid based on how many links have been visited (e.g. pay per click) and on how beneficial those visits have been. The keywords for any given domain name provide clues as to the intent of the visitor before arriving.

Here are some of the domain parking services to get started with:

Make Traffic with Domain Typos

In case where you want to make traffic out of your typo domains just set a 301 Permanent URL redirect to the site where you want all traffic to be redirected.

This is good in the sense if you want to make traffic for your blog and in turn make money out of it. This is also good in terms where you want to make use a dormant domain.

Here are different methods to redirect your traffic:

  1. PHP Redirect
    <?
    Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
    Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );
    ?>
  2. ColdFusion Redirect
    <.cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved permanently">
    <.cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.new-url.com">
  3. ASP .NET Redirect
    <script runat="server">
    private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
    Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
    Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.new-url.com");
    }
    </script>
  4. ASP Redirect
    <%@ Language=VBScript %>
    <%
    Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently";
    Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.new-url.com/");
    %>
  5. Javascript Redirect
    <%
    response.setStatus(301);
    response.setHeader( "Location", "http://www.new-url.com/" );
    response.setHeader( "Connection", "close" );
    %>
  6. htaccess Redirect
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I hope the article was Interesting and beneficial for all those who want to make money online. Please Digg This if the article was informative for you.

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How I “Really” Make Money From Domain Names

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This is My True Story

There was a time when I was extremely frustrated with my domaining business. I was seeing people sell domains for hundreds of thousands of dollars and yet I had so many domains which no one was willing to pay even registration fee for, let aside thousands. What was worse was that I was not making much money in parking either.

Whenever I saw the domain-sales charts I would cringe. What was I doing wrong? Was there a fault in my investment strategy? I had to do something about it or simply get out of domaining business. It was a do-or-die situation for me.

There is another thing — I hate failing.

So, I sat-back to take a rational look at my investment strategy and find out what was wrong with it. And very soon I did.

What Was Wrong With My Strategy

Simple – My domains were neither “premium” nor had butt-loads of traffic. Most of the domains in my portfolio were — and still are — keyword rich and brandable and had excellent development potential.

Most domainers look for easy money and investments where they don’t have to put too much effort — and development is not one of them.

My major problem was that I was selling wrong thing to wrong people.

But there were two other BIG problems — 1) Premium and Traffic Domains cost lot more than I could spend and 2) I had a lot of money invested in portfolio of keyword-rich domains.

Very soon I was about to discover something that would change my fortunes.

Finding the Solution

When I analyzed the domains which I had sold till now, I discovered that the keyword domains which had some sort of content on them were super-easy to sell. Not only this, whenever the domain had traffic and revenue, it was able to fetch much-higher prices, which meant more profit for me.

There was this dating discussion forum I had started. I had spent $160 for a vBulletin License, $120 for 1000 paid posts by forum-posters and a few hours on building links. Within a two and half months, the site was getting a few hundred visitors a day and made some revenue from adsense and a few affiliate programs.

I put it up for sale at an auction site and sold it for $1500 in a few hours. That was a profit of roughly $1200 on a site which took less than 10 minutes a day to run.

Sometime ago I had purchased a database of 1000 riddles for $20 and paid a coder $50 to code a simple script to read from this database and display on the site. I put it up on a riddles related domain of mine, posted links to it at some social networking sites and spent about 10 bucks for a 100 directory submission.

I ended up selling this particular site for $750 after five months. My investment was $80 and time spent uploading the database and script on my site.

Another was a small-business marketing related site where I had posted 27 blog posts which I had paid freelance writers $10 per post for. My cost was $270 and a few hours of link-building and sold it for $1300.

More interesting was this web-design related blog which I had purchased from someone for $700. I spent a few hours and wrote a kick-ass article which I was able to get on the front page of digg. Then I posted some re-printable and PLR articles and paid another 120 bucks to freelance writers to write 12 articles for it.

The site started getting loads of traffic and started making $200 – $300 from affiliate revenue, $70 or so in Adsense revenue and $150 from text-link sales every single month. After 5 Months, I sold it for $4250. I not only made a huge profit by selling it but also kept all the money it made from affiliate programs, adsense and text-link sales. My Net Profit from this site was roughly $5700.

All this was more than enough to prove to me that there was a potential to make money — and a LOT of it — by doing something that others were not doing. And the fact that I had keyword-rich and brandable domains was a huge advantage for me. All I had to do was to rinse and repeat.

Step by Step Method

Find a Niche. The very first thing that you need to do is to find a niche you will be developing the site in. You need to make sure that the niche has certain demand — which means that you will get some traffic — and you have a way that you can make money from it. You also need to know the methods that you can use to identify these profitable niches.

Register a Domain. Once you have your niche, you need to register the domain name which you will run the site on. The domain should be brandable and keyword rich to help with SEO. You need to know how to come-up with domain names, research expired domains and even purchase from the after-market.

Create a Site. The very first thing you need to do is to setup the site on your web-host. Be sure to read my article – How to Choose a Host Without Getting Ripped-Off — 6 Practical “Rules of Thumb” to Remember.

If you want to create a content site then you need a content management system like WordPress or Joomla. You could also setup a Photo Gallery or a Discussion Forum.

You could also hire a freelancer to code a script for you but you can usually find an out-of-box open-source script to do the job.

Publish Content. Once you have the site up, it is time to start posting the content. Remember, it is the content which attracts people to your site and gets you the rank in search engines. You can create the content yourself or hire freelancers to create it for you. You also have an option of using content with reprint rights. Getting great content is much easier than you think.

Revenue Streams. You don’t want to waste your traffic by not commercializing it. Put up affiliate links, CPA links, contextual advertisements, text links and products for sale on your site. Contrary to the popular belief, you don’t need thousands of visitors to make money. What you need is “quality traffic”.

For example, I have a site which got 8 visitors last week and made me $147 in affiliate revenue. I also have another site in more popular niche which gets a few thousand visitors a day and makes only a few bucks. I usually commercialize my site before I even start promoting it at all. After you have a pagerank, you can also start selling text-links on the site.

Promote the Site. When your site is up and running and has some content that people can use, you need to get the word out about your website. You can promote on the Internet by doing Search Engine Optimization and Link Building, Social Marketing, Paid Advertising, Viral Marketing, Internet Public Relations and what I like to call Twisted Marketing.

SEO is the cheapest and easiest way to get traffic to your site and keyword domains are a big help. If you have Link Building Tool by EasyLinkBuilding.com, it will be very easy for you to get quality back-links which are absolutely a must to rank high and get traffic from search engines.

Being on Digg’s homepage can easily get you 20,000 – 30,000 unique visitors in a day. Getting a top-blog to link to you is another very effective strategy. When LifeHacker.com linked to one of my sites, I got like 17,000 Uniques in a day and made a nice change.

Let it Ferment. While the results of paid and viral marketing are instantly visible but search engine optimization takes some time to show results. For most of my sites, I just optimize the site, build some links to it and forget about it. If the niche is not super-competitive, search engines start sending a fair bit of traffic.

Sell the Site. Once you have a site which has some good content and, hopefully, gets some traffic and makes some revenue, you may want to sell the site. Some of the options that you have if you want to sell your site are domain forums, auction sites, domain brokers or through private sales.

The Devil is in Details

As an entrepreneur, you have to remember that your profits are your revenues minus the cost.

Profit = Revenue – Cost

Your objective is to maximize your profits and to do that you need to increase your revenues and reduce your cost. The challenge is how you can reduce the cost of creating the site, creating content and promoting the site while maximizing the revenues, traffic and cost you can sell it for.