By Peter Askew | October 1, 2007 - 5:07 pm - Posted in General Thoughts
- No need to submit sites to DMOZ or pay to be included in Y! Directory - the domains we acquire are already listed there.
- Sandbox, schmandbox. This has no bearing on us as the domains we buy are already well indexed, old, and trusted.
- We don’t have to chase new link partnerships - our links are already there, and old to boot.
- Serp traffic trumps type-ins, plain and simple. Other domainer’s of the world haven’t realized this yet. As long as you stay nice and white-hat, visitors will continue to knock on your door.
- Outside of the domain acquisition cost, the business expenses are next to nothing. Annual domain renewal cost + hosting fees are it, basically.
- You can indulge your creative side. Play around with design logos, learn CSS, test web design layouts for optimal CTR. You wanna design a site with the background color of pink? Knock yourself out.
- It’s the ultimate treasure hunt that doesn’t end when you acquire the domain. You work to acquire the name, then you work to develop the property, then you strive to make it profitable. Incredibly challenging, and when it works, and the passive income begins to trickle in, it’ll make you smile like a cheshire cat
- For the most part - NO ONE’S DOING IT. Ie., typical ‘domainers’ will pass on domains we covet. I say, Let ‘em chase dictionary and two letter .com’s. I’ll be vacuuming up all the 10 year old, .edu backlinked domains. Thank you! …next…
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Amen to that! Although the time and energy costs area little higher, so are the rewards.
This is for the people who have the time to develop the domains they acquire.
It will be even better if the domains are brandable because you can sell them at a better price after you have increased it’s traffic.
SEOmaining is also cheaper than buying generics and should be more profitable in the long run. The only downside is the time involved to further push the existing traffic to the next level. The good side is that the domains are already aged and with backlinks..no need to wait for the SE spiders to crawl!
This is one of the best methods to launch your domaining portfolio and once you have the steady income, go for the generics!
Good luck, Al.
Very interesting, some real food for thought. So what tools do you use to find these old, back-linked, indexed, directory-listed domains? How does your process of searching for good domains differ from that of the typical domainer?
aaaaah, the $64K question..
no mystery here though.. alexa, compete, wayback machine, yahoo link colon tool, google link colon tool, etc., etc., etc.,
-peter
What sort of money are you paying for these sites?
sometimes, waaaaay too much..
-peter
I agree with this well written article. I’ve long believe that to be so, especially since google is the most used search engine. Many people also have google as their start up page in their web browser, and go that path instead of just typing the name in the url. I know I never, ever, once typed cars.com when I was looking for one. I just used google.
I’m still looking and learning. But as a poor domainer, I adopted a poor mans approach, which is all my domain names are original niche purchases, optimized mini-sites that fully rely on being at the top with someone searches for it on google.