In an earlier post I mentioned that I had made a bit of extra money selling off a number of websites Domaining By Accident, one of them being a site promoting a Franking Machine Offer that pays £50 (at the time of that post about $100).
After I sold the original site I bought another (even better) domain and put exactly the same content up on. This time I promoted http://freefrankingmachine.com with Adwords. As it is such a good payout for CPA there is a lot of competition, but I have never bid top dollar.
This week I had my first sale, which cost me just £3.79. That was from 26 clicks. It has taken three months, so now that I know it converts I can increase my CPC and try and bring in more traffic.
I am certainly happy with the profit margin and there is room for more spend on clicks.
This offer I found on tradedoubler.co.uk which has a lot of good (well known brand) offers.
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Happy New Year Everyone!
I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year Holiday. I have been off work for a total of 11 days, have travelled over 1000 miles in total, visited so many friends and family members and even had a minor car crash in between!
I had intended to dedicate a couple of days to developing my new membership site which will be my first venture into the Publisher world, but on the way back from my local Mall, some idiot rear-ended me. It took almost a full day to sort out a hire car, insurance and garage etc and in the end I didn’t get anything done.
In the run up to Christmas I had made some good consistent sales with Clickbank which was great, but from Boxing Day to 2nd January I had no sales, everyone was partying or on vacation, certainly not buying electronic products online!
So onto my goals for 2009.
1) Consistency from Clickbank Sales – at least $1500/month after refunds
2) Complete and launch new Membership Site on Clickbank
3) Revive my Everloss and Efficient Planet campaigns
4) Continue to diversify with CB products I promote to avoid fluctuations
5) Sell off some of my sites that I do not have time or passion for
6) Try to make a regular additional income flipping sites building on success in 2008
7) More regular posting on this blog with more tips and tricks
Build a number of subscriber lists to promote future products to
9) Continue to be an active member of Nichechoppers Forum
10) Do all of this while keeping my well paid day job and hopefully getting a promotion!
Anyone else set some Affiliate Marketing Goals for 2009? Post them in the comments.
James
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Not sure if this is a well known technique or not for searching for good available domain names, but I have just started using Google’s Adwords Tool in conjunction with godaddy’s bulk domain tool.
If you are looking for a keyword rich domain in a particular niche you can simply search for the keywords on the Adwords Tool, this will give you lots of variations and tell you how many times they were searched for. You can download the list of results into a .txt file.
You then copy the list of keywords from the .txt file and paste into the godaddy bulk domain tool. Don’t worry about spaces as godaddy bunches up the words.
You can select which TLD (top level domain) you want to search for i.e. .com .net .org or .co.uk etc (you can select more than one but I would search for .com, then .net then .org etc but it depends what you want the domain for.)
Godaddy will then tell you which keyword domains are available. I was surprised how many keyword rich domains were still available in quite a competitive niche. One .com was available that had over 50,000 monthly searches.
I have found that sites with good keywords domains, particularly .com domains naturally rank well and with a bit of good SEO and backlinks can get very high in the Search Engine Results.
If anyone has any questions about this, please drop me a comment.
James
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Buying and selling domains and websites for that matter can be very profitable, but I never bought any of my domains with the intention of selling them on again. I always bought domains with the intention of developing a site and monetizing it.
I have bought my fair share of rubbish, mostly when I’ve had a few drinks and it seemed like a good idea at the time! For example I was up late watching a series on TV called SKINS, which promised to be the next big thing for the British Youth. It was on C4 in the UK and I got very excited when I saw that c4skins.net and c4skins.co.uk were available. I did NO research and got carried away. Once I owned them, I started to check out what already existed on the internet in terms of fan sites, forums etc. I found that C4 was way ahead of the game with a fantastic site set up complete with great graphics, forums and information. There was no way I could compete with this so I shelved the idea, I actually turned one into my first affiliate page advertising the richjerk etc.
The lesson I learned from this was to do my research before jumping in with both feet.
The next lesson, and the real point of this post, is that I have found having keywords in the domain does so much more for SEO than any number of links or even content (this is my experience). This week I sold two of my sites, both with good keyword domains, as I have never had the time or inclination to promote and build links for them. I made approx $500 from the two sites which I think is great considering they cost me about $20 to buy!
site one – www.postalfrankingmachine.com was specifically bought to promote an offer which paid $100 per sign up. I had one of these during the year I owned the site.
site two – www.debtandloans.co.uk was bought originally to promote loan and mortgage offers, but never made any money so I added Adsense and made about $150 in a year.
So in total an investment of $20 plus approximately 5 hours of my time in total plus hosting for a year $30 (I can host a unlimited number of sites so this is an approximate share of one years hosting).
Profit = $750 – $50 = $700 or 1400%
SO even if your sites are not that successful, consider selling them on to someone with more traffic or just ability to promote and you can still make a good return.
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