As outlined in my last post, I have been registering some new domain names and I have parked them for free at
SEDO.com which is automaticly placing targeted Pay Per Click (PPC) ads on them until I can develope the websites at later dates with unique keyword-focused content pages. To turn them into hands-free revenue-generating powerhouses I follow this
beautifully simple step-by-step sytem. It's the best all-in-one solution in the world for almost anyone to turn their unique knowledge into income with a website (see specific site examples below - it's amazing how profitable some hobbies can be). The above system works like a charm every time and
you don't need any technical experience with web design, publishing, HTML, graphics, ect.
Can you type on your keyboard? Obviously you can....so
YOU CAN DO THIS TOO and in your spare time (see inspiring ongoing case studies below)!
In the mean time though, to reserve my list of domain ideas, all I pay is $5.99 per year to
1and1 in order to keep each newly created domain registered in my name. 1and1 is one of the leading web hosts and has the best url seach function if you'd like to see if your domain name idea is still available. If you have a domain name idea that is short and sweet, witty, a newly emmerged generic term, focused around a popular or even not so popular keyword, or even your name, ...trust me, you better grab it now before someone else does;^) They're going fast!
By the way, you can skip the Sedo / 1and1 route if you want to start building your own website and content right away because the all-in-one system above includes everything you will ever need - from domain registration, site hosting, site building, extensive integrated traffic building tools, site marketing, and much much more. All I pay is less than $1/day for EVERYTHING...EVER! I can build a million pages and it will never cost extra. That's powerful stuff!
Imagine a few thousand pages of keyword-focused content. If you only earned .10 cents a page per day (could be much more depending on related keywords, overall quality and uniqueness of content, and thus how much daily traffic) from just Google Adsense PPC ads, you'd be making ~$73,000 a year. Then you can add links to a
high quality Affiliate program (or two, or three, or ten) for products related to your niche. Then your income might be double or better! And also, the more traffic and cash flow from your site, the greater the intrinsic value of the entire site will be. Like a piece of ocean front property, a professional, popular, and profitable website can be sold for top dollar if you so chose some day (take a look for what some have sold for recently at Sedo via the link above). That's why this concept goes WAY beyond finding the best part time job for college students. Cyber realestate is a relatively easy way that anyone (especially you savvy students out there) can building a substantial longterm (job-replacing) income and a solid financially independant future. Think about it. Then think about what knowledge you have that others might be interested to know and are searching the internet for at this very second.
In a nutshell, you can build an ever growing cashflow AND sellable equity in a valuable assett, all a the same time, yet at your own pace. I've said it once and I'll say it again,
"DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME FLIPPING BURGERS STUDENTS!"Content is king as they say in the web world and the income you can make from what you know will likely far exceed any income from a single page of PPC ads from SEDO.com. Even the big fish in the domain world like the legendary and ellusive
Kevin Ham are started to build out their generic domain empires with high value content rather than just pay per click ads or affiliate links.
According to an article on page 68 of the June 2007 issue of Business2.0, titled "The Man Who Owns The Internet" - Ham is believed to own a portfolio of ~300,000 domain names generating tens of millions of dollars per year in revenue from direct type-in traffic (a.k.a "Direct Navigation Traffic"). He has been quoted as saying, "It's time to build out the virtual realestate" ... "There's so much more value in these names than pay-per-click." The tricks of his trade, namely parking, "domain tasting", and "typo-squatting", are loosing their charm as the major search engines like Yahoo and Google find ways to combat those practices. According to the Business2.0 article, some examples of names Ham owns and which he is now likely thinking of in terms of building them into content portals rather than just PPC income generators are:
Religion.com, FruitGiftBaskets.com (he bought it for $26,250), HotelDeals.com (paid $171,250), WeddingCatering.com (bought for $10,000), Greeting.com (paid $350,000), ChristianRock.com (spent $31,000), and WeddingShoes.com (paid $8 yet it brings in >$9000/year in income from PPC). Ham also owns God.com and Satan.com (yes, he IS devoutly religious, lol.)
Ham is a true Tycoon in the domain world and is now working his master plan to become an Internet Titan. As he said in the above article, "If you control all the domains, then you control the Internet."
Other big dogs in the domain world are:
- Scott Day - who started with WaterMelons.com, bought for $3000 in 1997 and now owns one of the most valuable portfolios of domains in the world.
- Craig Lovik who owns 200,000 domain names including typos like Pheonix.com and Peircings.com.
- Garry Chernoff who started with Net-Income.com in 1995.
- and the well-known Yun Ye who was among the first automators of domain purchasing and who sold his portfilio of 100,000 domain names to Marchex for $164 million in 2004.
I wonder what some of these domain go-getters would be be willing to pay me for some of my below urls? Their automated software probably already "tasted" and rejected them if the truth were know. That's ok, because like Ham, I am looking way beyond PPC and see the value in keyword-focused content.
So with regards to a lasting longterm business online, it's all about the visitor's experience, site "stickyness", return traffic, web2.0 social webs, user-generated content,
long-tail marketing, infinite niches, and last but not least the exponentially larger income that can be generated over the longterm with great content, relative to that from parking and a one-time click from the etherial directly typed in traffic. The above all-in-one system is built around those concepts and has broken it all down into a science taking advantage of how people find information on the Internet using keyword searchers at the major search engines.
Speaking of which. I am "movin' on up" and building my own domain empire, but I'm far far away from "that deluxe apartment in the sky", LOL. Relatively speaking, I'm still on the ground floor.....err....actually I'm not even in the basement, but I have since added yet more new domain niche urls to my portfolio. They are listed below.
Using the free
WordTracker Keyword Research Tool I was able to find quite a few keyword-based urls around the "eco friendly" seed word which were attracting some searches at the engines, yet which were not yet registered as urls (these types of urls are pretty hard to find nowadays). Incidentally, if you'd like to
give the amazing all-in-one system a try (I am using it with great success myself and highly recommend it) fyi, there is already a powerful integrated best of breed Keyword Research tool called Brainstormer incorporated into it. Wordtracher is built into it also. It will not only help you find a niche you are knowledgeable about, but it also compiles the keywords people are searching for related to your niche idea. It will also help you to build your content pages, find related affiliate or PPC programs, come up with a good domain name, ect. Actually Brainstormer does much much more than that and there are other powerful one-of-a-kind modules bundled in, there's just too much to list here. Follow the above link for an overview (AND the exact details too) of all the tools included and the simple step-by-step 10-day process you'll follow to put it all together.
So why am I even bothering to go the parking route?
Well, as mentioned before, Free Parking allows me to lock in good domain names before the "Domainers" have a chance to snatch them up, and the PPC ads allow me to even make a little income while I'm sitting on them (I get paid each time a visitor clicks on the ads). The below domains have already attracted a surprising amount of traffic and income just in the last month alone. I can only imagine how much traffic and income they could generate once I have a few hundred pages of good keyword-focused content on each.
It's not hard to make a very nice 5 to 6 figure annual income with only one or two good websites. Here's some
amazing ongoing case studies of people doing just that.
The most lucrative "direct traffic" urls on the internet consist of generic keywords like computers.com, mp3.com, software.com, digitalcamera.com, download.com, ect,ect. These domain names garner tons of traffic by people simply typing the url directly into their web browser's address bar. This traffic is known as "direct type-in traffic" and produces millions of dollars from PPC ads and Affiliate commisions for their owners. Many of them have been resold for tens of millions of dollars too.
The below domain names I've registered are but crumbs of the juicy domain pies that others were wise enough to gobble up early on. Never-the-less, the crumbs can be just as tasty.
Domainers snapped up most of the really good generic domains in the nineties but there are always new emmerging topics which an astute Domainer can quickly dominate. An example is the whole emmerging Nanotechnology field. Most of the good "Nano" domains have already been taken now too. You have to be quick if you find a url jewel suddenly washed up on the shore of the vast world wide web ocean.
Being a scientist myself with a focus on Analytical Chemistry, I often scan my trade journals and science-related publications with an eye to any emmerging technologies for which domains may not exist, but with keywords that will surely see growing search demand (and possible type-in traffic) in the future. But you have to be quick and nimble, there are many looking for domain treasures.
Yes indeed, in the domain game it especially holds true that the early bird gets the worm. An example is
Fiber-to-the-Premise.com, which I registered after Verizon began spending billions to finally roll out the much anticipated ultra-broadband fiberoptic-based service known as "Fiber-to-the-Home" (a.k.a. Fiber-to-the-Premises, FTTH, FTTP, FTTC, FTTX). This fiberoptic-based service will be replacing copper-based connections to homes and buildings under Verizon's and others' footprints. Verizon has now branded their FTTP service under the name "FIOS". Thousands of other worldwide service providers are or will be rolling out their own Fiber-the-the-Premises service in the future too.
Fiber-to-the-Premise.com has been my most successful "parked" domain so far. In a few years this technology will be a household concept similar to how Cable and DSL broadband are today. Eventually all "last-mile" connections will be fiber-based. So FTTP is an emmerging global trend, and that url increases in value as each day goes by and with each new rollout of the new technology. Once developed with actual keyword-focused content that little piece of "cyber realestate" will really appreciate in value.
The below urls may have been registered at one time or another, but the owner might have quite paying their annual registration fees and let them expire (I pay ~$6/year/url to 1and1 to keep them registered in my name). Or, sometimes the domainers use a loophole to preliminarily register a domain to preview it and see how much PPC revenue it will generate once parked for free. If it doesn't pan out after they test it, they can relinquish it without paying the annual hosting fees. At any rate, I own them now and their intrinsic value once developed makes them attractive to me for more than just any potential direct type-in traffic - for I have a
secret weapon they don't!
Once I'm able to start developing the urls with content it is very simple to build traffic and then monetize that traffic. Monetization is actually the easiest part, but I can't decide which is the most fun part - watching the traffic build from a trickle to a torrent, or watching the traffic convert to income in my various accounts at Google, Amazon.com, and other PPC/Affiliate partners. Though
I must say it is fun getting those ever-growing fat checks in the mail every month!Each url will produce steady streams of longterm hands-free income. That's why this is the best part time job for college students (catch that?.."hands-free"). As I say in the intoduction at the top of this blog,
this is the perfect business for college students because when you are smart, interesting, passionate, tech savvy, ambitious, success oriented, fun-loving, self-motivated....and connected, you possess all the attributles that will assure that you too can thrive with your own ever growing infopreneurial empire.
You can party, study, AND be an on-campus entrepreneur - all it takes is how ever much spare time you want to commit (it's all up to you) and a little motivation. McDonald's doesn't want you to know the information shared here, they'd rather you take the old cliche, demeaning, and minimally compensated route of "burger flipping".
Why not get paid over and over for your knowledge?! The more keywords and unique helpful information, the more internet searchers will be sent to the url from the free internet search engines like MSN, GOOGLE, YHOO, and ASK (it's what their survival depends on). The more free internet traffic, the more inbound links. The more inbound links, the higher the Page Rank Google will award, and thus the higher a particular page will rank in the search results for a particular keyword. And then yet more visitors....and so on and so forth. Traffic builds and keeps on building.
In addition to a steady income as visitors click targeted GOOGLE Adsense PPC ads, or follow affiliate links and make purchases at Amazon.com, Wal-mart.com, EBAY, ect - there is also the increase in intrinsic value of the website itself. The value of a site is usually directly proportional to the daily traffic it attracts because traffic is easily converted into cash flow via PPC, Affiliate sales, direct on-site product sales, ect. So even if a website domain isn't a generic keyword which attracts lots of direct type-in traffic, the keyword-focused content in its pages makes up for it a thousand times over by attracting torrents of free traffic from the search engines.
The better the content the more traffic and income a site can generate. Here's a
few hundred examples of rich keyword-focused content sites that are ranked in the top 1% of all 57 Million websites on the internet today. Notice the wide scope of topics -
from barbecue recipes to radio-controlled cars....from penny-pinching Grandmas to college students on vacation in Anguilla. The site concept keywords and all their related cousins that can be turned into high earning websites is virtually limitless. Best of all, many of those sites were created by people who had
no prior web experience or technical know-how (just like you and I), yet many of them attract thousands of visitors per day and generate substantial profits for their owners. The beauty of it all is that most of the above sites are being built around the owners' passions, hobbies, or unique know-how or experience - so building them is a real labor or love in addition to a real and liberating income-generating online business.
It's not work when you love what you're doing!So what are your passions or hobbies students? What knowledge do you have that millions of people are searching the internet for right this second? What "cyber realestate" can you create and develope into your own enduring
infopreneurial empire that will last way beyond college and assure you will never be a part of the rat race?
Get started today students...it's all much easier to do than you think!Here's MY newest domain "realestate":CompaniesGoingGreen.com - will discus the eco friendly products from companies going green at the vanguard of the sustainable manufacturing movement.EcoFriendlyAdvice.com - simple eco friendly advice for those interested in eco friendly living.EcoFriendlySchools.com - eco friendly schools walk the walk and talk the talk so their students and the planet benefit.EcoFriendlyArchitect.com - an eco friendly architect for sustainable eco friendly homes and buildings.EcoFriendlyArchitects.com - eco friendly architects specializing in eco friendly houses and green homes.EcoFriendlyHomeDecor.com - eco friendly home decor and the sustainable asthetics of going green.EcoFriendlyEarthlings.com - eco friendly Earthlings is what the Earth needs now.EcoFriendlyRemodeling.com - is eco friendly remodeling possible? YOU BET!EcoFriendlyFamilies.com - Focus on eco friendly families and you focus on a green future.EcoFriendlyTechnology.com - eco friendly technology holds the key to a sustainable future on Earth.EcologyTips.com - Ecology tips for the environmentally conscious Earthling.EcoFriendlyFabric.com - eco friendly fabric for eco friendly fashions and home decor.EcoFriendlyLightBulbs.com - eco friendly light bulbs - "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."EcoFriendlySchool.com - an eco friendly school for little green Earthlings.EcologicalTips.com - ecological tips for a sustainable future.EcoFriendlyHomeDesign.com - eco friendly home design for low environmental impact.EcoFriendlyNewHomeDesign.com - eco friendly new home design is the key to sustainable living and building.EcoFriendlyTechnologies.com - eco friendly technologies holds the key to unleashing the environmentalist in us all. EcoFriendlyInsulation.com - eco friendly insulation is a key component of eco friendly homes.GoGreenYoungMan.com - a modern-day environmental Manifest Destiny for us all.