More and more domain resellers are packing up and moving. Yes Moving, Moving away from the big domain sponsors like Sedo, Afternic, and DomainHop. Theyre moving to simple article driven Mini Sites and why not. Why split you earnings with a company that isnt doing any thing to help you. Think about it, You park your domain at lets say, Sedo. They automatically generate a parking page and thats it. They dont help you generate traffic actually its just the opposite they restrict the ways you can generate traffic. Plus you cant establish any kind of link trade. So if your domain doesnt receive any type in traffic or if your domain wasnt registered before and already had establish traffic flows your out of luck.
A parked domain with no way to generate traffic isnt going to generate much revenue. The only con of leaving your domain sponsor is the added cost of hosting. They added revenue from not having to split your earnings with your domain sponsor sould more then make up for the added cost. So if you have the money to pay for the hosting for a couple months give it a try. I started out with a couple of my best performing domains and went from there. Here is some tips to get you moving.
Hosting - The best kind of hosting for this type of venture is what they call Multi or Unlimited hosting. With these type of hosting plans you can host 2 to Unlimited domains on one hosting account. If you have a large domain portfolio and plan on buying more I would go with the Unlimited hosting. Unlimited hosting accounts are usually call reseller accounts dont be scared off by the name. If you sign up for a reseller you are not really required to sell hosting accounts. HostForWeb.com is perfect for hosting your Mini Sites
Picking The Right Sponsors - If you opt for a simple article driven Mini Site the best sponsors are Googles AdSense and Yahoos Publisher Network. Adsense is the bully on your block and YPN is the new kid at school. AdSense ads are on so many websites that savvy ad hating web suffers are starting to pick up on the ads but YPN is still new and fresh. I would recommend joining both but remeber you cant put both on the same page this will get you kick out of both programs.
Articles - Any body can go to some article site pick out some articles and put them on a page but unless you are wiz at SEO that will not do much good. The key to generating traffic and good sponsor revenue is custom written articles. If you can write your own articles youre set, but if your like most people you hate to write. Your in luck there are tons of people just waiting to write articles for you and write them cheap. Just go to your favorite search engine and type in Freelance Writers. What I have found to work the best is a custom article on the start page and 10 - 15 other articles per domain.
Ad Placement - I have tried out many different layouts and I still havent found the perfect one. The best advice that I can give you is a 250 x 250 ad near the top on the left side surrounded by your article and a 120 x 600 skyscraper on the right lower part of your article.
TOS - This is the most important. Do not violate the TOS of your sponsors. There is nothing worse then reaching your first payout and having your account closed.
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What is the worth of a steady stream of free search engine traffic to you If you are an internet marketer, search engine traffic is pure gold! Why is this so
Consider this:
When a person searches for the item or information that you are offering on your website using a search engine, that person is someone who is interested in whatever you are offering. He is a quality targeted prospect! Mutiply this scenario by hundred of times, and you have a horde of targeted prospects looking up your product or message on your website.
The question is how can you get the search engines to list or index your website and how can you move up the ranks and be at the top of the search engines
The first and most important step in your search engine traffic building process is your construction of your website - namely the use of the proper content. And this begins by the inclusion of highly optimised keywords.
Again, consider this situation by a process of intelligent reverse-engineering
Suppose you wish to build a website that revolves around the keyword email marketing. You can intelligently search for this keyword in say the Yahoo search engine and find the top ranking websites. Then analyze the top ranking websites by means of their keywords, keywords density, keyword placement - these are the onsite factors that we can find out from these sites which are our competitors for search engine traffic.
You can also analyse these top listed websites for their backlinks to see who are linking to them and which lend support to their high rankings. This is the main offsite factor that we should work on to intelligently uncover what makes our competitors tick and their websites ranked so highly.
Before you throw up your hands in frustration because all these sound so difficult and foreign to you, there are tools and softwares that help out on these important steps fairly quickly once you have mastered them.
Now suppose you know the onsite-factors and the main offsite-factor that drives these competitor sites to their high ranks, what you can do is just to do something more than them for your website to compete with them and to even outrank them! For example, you can uncover who are those who are linking to your competitor, and you can request links from the same entities linking to your competitor....and you move beyond those links with more links of your own!
You can uncover the keyword density of the Number 1 ranked website who is your competitor and adopt a similar keyword density, as an example. What you are doing is in fact optimising your websites so that they rank high and so that your website is not hidden somewhere in the bottom of the search engine rankings where no one ever gets to discover your site.
By this technique of onsite and offsite optimisation, you can dominate the search engines for your selected keywords, and get a horde of quality search engine traffic to your website daily!
Peter Lim is a Certified Financial Planner and Marketing Strategist. For more free and useful tips to develop a huge keyword list for building your web sites, visit his Niche Marketing And Keyword Finder site at