Comments on: Monetizing Domain Names of Former Websites Can Be a Challenge

By: Pozycjonowanie

Pozycjonowanie — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:24:13 +0000

Very good primer on the subject and should help many businesses better understand SEO. I will be recommending it.

By: Shycon Design

Shycon Design — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:57:40 +0000

Why not check archive.org and see if you can scrape out some indexed content? Put it back up there, mash-up the content… and try to suck off what is left of the brand.

*****Reply from DomainerPro*****

That’s not a bad idea.

By: John Cronin

John Cronin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:06:09 +0000

Hi There

Informative post – thanks!

Just getting to grips with domaining myself and not yet earned much from it.

I’ll subscribe to your blog feed.

Regards

John

By: Brian (Domain Parking Money)

Brian (Domain Parking Money) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:13:26 +0000

Hello Domainer Pro -

Brian here, new guy on the block but longtime seo. I have begun slowly getting into the domaining biz. Funny that you just posted this article, I have posted a similar article on my site with my experience.

This April I started picking up expired domains, I have probably spent about $2k in domains. However I am now earning about 5 to 6k a month from affiliate programs, adsense and some parking accounts.

Any expired domain that I pick up must:
have some history online
have some quality back links (quality over quantity)
be commerical in nature

Most sites will get developed with snazzy seo tools that allow more customization and more custom content. However these tools allow fast site construction and most importantly they get search traffic.

I always create the exact same topic site on my expired’s as well – that is important.

Check out the video response on youtube.com to this post, and my article on my site.

Take care, I enjoy your blog.
Brian

video here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t5IoedJZmuM

article here:
http://www.domainparkingmoney.net/internet-marketing-newbie-domaining-is-a-great-way-to-get-started/3/

By: Frank Michlick (DomainNameNews)

Frank Michlick (DomainNameNews) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:51:07 +0000

Good topic. It’s often hard to monetize previous website domains, especially if they are not highly targeted generics. And even if you know the topic of the previous site, it might still be hard to optimize the keywords.

One of the reason is that expired traffic on non-generics (i.e. what was a blog earlier) will have so many different topics that you would be better off if you were able to optimize the keywords based on the URL that is being accessed. As far as I know, no parking service allows you to do this at this point – as a matter of fact, a lot of them try to discourage you from parking “expired” domains with them.

/Frank

By: W.H.A.

W.H.A. — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:05:56 +0000

egorych, I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean is it worth the cost of buying the domain? Well, consider: I paid $80 for Battl.com. It will pay off its purchase price a few months from now. After that, I’ll be making $36 per year minus $7 annual reg fee, so $29 per year. That’s free, passive income. You might think $29 per year is insignificant, but I already have 50 of these types of earners, some making much more than Battl.com. My goal is to have 1,000 of these steady monthly earners by the end of next year, earning between $50K and $100K per year.

By: Adam Taylor

Adam Taylor — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:45:26 +0000

Cool article. I left a comment on sphinn.

By: egorych seo

egorych seo — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:04:08 +0000

Does the revenue like $3 per month cost buying a domain? I think it only reasonable to buy domains if you plan to build a service or other site there.