If you have a modest to large portfolio of domains, it may be a challenge figuring out which domains to develop first and which ones later on. Here are some basic principles to help you with the decision:

1) If you have your domains parked and have access to traffic info that includes type in and search engine referral data, develop the domains first those that receive most traffic. You want your developed domains to immediately start generating revenue so as to fund future projects and hopefully also make you extra money. If a domain receives search engine traffic, take note of the keywords that the traffic came through. Use those keywords in the SEO of your developed site. If a domain gets very minimal traffic at the parking service that is inconsistent, move to point #2. (more…)

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When you develop any domain into a website, you want to fully benefit from search engine placement. To this end, your selection of keywords that potential visitors are actually typing into the search engines to find services related to the topic of your website is incredibly important.

The Domain2Site website publishing platform allows you to publish domains into websites that produce results especially when you select relevant keywords.

To this end, it is important to do some research before you enter keywords into your Domainer Script domain listings. This research does not need to be extensive or time consuming. Google has launched a new beta keyword tool that will help you determine what keywords related to your domain will bring higher traffic. Check it out at https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer.

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Unless you have the killer type-in domain and are sitting pretty with daily quality type in traffic to the parked page, your domains are not reaching their full potential. The domain system was never designed for strict type-in navigation. The type-in phenomena kind of sneaked in unannounced and pleasantly surprised some early domain investors, which led to the rapid growth in parking companies started by the very domain investors.

The truth is that the vast majority of domains don’t make real money in parking. Even PPC revenue plummeted, perhaps due to when potential customers enter sites via parked pages, the conversion rate is not as high as when they enter via a website on the same topic. So while both parking PPC and site content PPC went down, site PPC stays well above parking. So domain owners turned to content sites made for PPC revenue. Now although they may enjoy better per click performance, unless the content is original then the sites still rely pretty much on type in traffic.

To maximize domain profit it is essential to maximize the domain potential. The domain system was designed for easy navigation of Web pages. Stands to reason then, and everyone agrees, that developing a domain into a website will increase value of and revenue from that domain. However, if you own 1000′s of names, the time and money needed to develop these is quite significant. Then just developing is not enough. To truly maximize your domain profits, it is important to employ SEM. What is SEM? SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing which includes different methods of increasing a website’s presence on the search engine results pages.

The domain publishing platform for the Domainer Script application is Domain2Site. This system offers the essential tools to quickly publish domains with fresh SEO-friendly content (plus other features) at very low start-up cost (around 0.70 cents per month.)  This allows domain publishers to direct more of their resources to SEM.

Search Engine Submission

One of the first steps is to submit your sites to the search engines. A simple search for submit to search engines or add url will yield many results.  Here are the big search engine submit pages:

Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/

Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

Bing: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

If your website does not appear in any of the search engines above, simply adding your url via the links above, can take quite some time (perhaps a month to a few months) before the search engines index your site.

To speed up the process is to get indexed via other sites that are already in the index. For this, directories are very valuable. The highest quality directories will bring fastest results, but they are most expensive. Here are a few examples:

Best of the Web – http://www.botw.org

Yahoo Directory – http://dir.yahoo.com

Another very good one is www.dmoz.org, it is free but difficult to get listed and may take a long time.

It is not recommended to submit to the above directories except your very best sites. If your site does not have sufficient quality content it may be rejected and your effort is lost.

For the majority of sites, you will want to use quality free directories and low cost directory submission services.

Going to any of the top domainer or web forums and searching for directory submission will yield many results. Some of these forums are forum.digitalpoint.com, dnforum.com, namepros.com, v7n.com. Be judicious in the service you use and refer to the posts from other users of the service.

Of course, the best and most cost effective way of getting links is doing a search for free web directory and doing it yourself. This is the most time consuming but you will have best quality control over the process.

Finally, you can also do article marketing by submitting articles to well known and ranked article services such as ezinearticles.com, articlesbase.com, and others. Learn more about article marketing on Google.

Remember, Domain2Site is the world’s most unique mass website publishing platform that will leave sufficient resources to build quality content and Search Engine Marketing, the key to maximizing real domain profits.

Labels: Domain Development, Domain Monetizing, Domain2Site

TCK Media, the company behind Domainer Script, is proud to announce the launch of Domain2Site 1.0, an add-on service to Domainer Script that allows domainers to mass develop their domains with only a few clicks. Professional templates provide a quick and smart looking base for published sites. Users are able to easily customize their websites with custom headers, logos, and pages. For the more HTML and CSS savvy, full editing functionality is available so users can edit the HTML code and style sheets for complete customization. Website edits can be made across all websites published with a particular template, these are groups of sites, as well as pages can be added for all sites across the network, which is useful for pages such as privacy statements, advertising info, etc. Templates can be copied and modified for particular niches, advertiser or affiliate code can be easily integrated, with Adsense as the default ppc integration. Advertisers can be edited on entire network or only niche groups. SEO is interleaved into the CMS functionality and all pages and content generated is automatically search engine optimized.

Domain2Site offers domainers huge benefits. For starters, a network of your best properties developed with search engine presence attracts direct advertiser interest. Developed domains with search engine presence also increase value of the domain to end users. Domains that are developed generate much higher income through ppc programs such as Google’s Adsense as well as affiliate marketing.  You can select any of your domains for large scale development without the need to change hosting.

Templates available at launch: Auto, Corporate, Residential, Technology, Transportation, Travel, Women

Technology Template

Corporate Template

Note that this is not parking. The domains are published with lightly populated but ready-to-browse SEO’d websites based on domain name entry in Domainer Script’s back-end admin office. To reach full potential of Domain2Site, users should take advantage of the CMS tools to add and create relevant original content.

Labels: Domain Development, Domain2Site

There is no question about it, for long term revenue domain development is the key. Development not only returns higher ppc revenue and performance but also allows domainers to move beyond relying solely on ppc advertisement providers. With developed sites, domainers have the power to negotiate and sell directly to advertisers, side-stepping the middle guy.

The major difficulty to overcome, however, is the time, effort, and money involved in developing domains into full sites. Just a handful of sites can run into thousands of dollars in developer and SEO expenses, and the return may not be seen for months while the sites organically propagate and grow in popularity. That is all past now. Read on. (more…)

Labels: Annoucements, Domain Development, Uncategorized

If you have been following us on Twitter then you have seen the post about a new rapid mini-site development add-on for Domainer Script 1.3. We are currently in beta testing stage and it is working beautifully. Here is a preview:

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Domain parking has its place. However, a domainer should not look to parking as the sole end and unique source of their revenue. Domain parking companies merely offer a replacement, or alternative, to the generic parked page that domain registrars normally put up until you set up hosting. Instead of the ppc revenue going all to the registrar, the parking service shares it with you.

What does this mean? Domain parking is only a means to an end. The end is a sale, ad revenue, or your own online business. All mean revenue, profit, and cash flow. Until you set up hosting and upload the index.html file, parking makes sense. If you can flip the domain quickly for significant profit, good for you. However, this isn’t always possible, even in traditional real estate, unless you invest in development. If you can’t sell quickly for real profit then you must look at all the options available. Domain parking is not the only option.

Labels: Domain Development, Domain Parking