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Making a Domain earn £1 a week

Discussion in 'Mini Sites' started by Paullas, Mar 20, 2007.

  1. Jonny Boy

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    oooooooo! very good suggestion :) i will look into it, thank you :)
     
  2. Domain Forum

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  3. Jonny Boy

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    recently put up ipodapps.co.uk

    will give info here on how its doing here in time :)
     
  4. purg Ireland

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    Quick update....

    My minisite until today has zero SEO / Back link / etc. which started as a test. The site for some reason does not receiving traffic from Google buy gets all known SE hits via Yahoo.

    I picked a strange (banking) area but had the backend data available for the unique sticky content. Problem was until I started the domain didnt know if anyone was searching. Today am lucky to attract between 7 - 32 unique hits a day which finally makes over my $5 a week target (£0.50 a day).

    I would say the only thing keeping the site alive is the unique content and close keyword usage in domain name. The domain hlq is irrelevant so is the hosting server as its been hosted within the US / Canada and UK with no change.

    Site uses no header meta data which will change at some point. But have started to expanding with five similar domains to capitalise on rank by domain keyword. Each site will use same backend but has different site template.

    If half the domains hit my $5 target, I will start link building if anyone is interested pm. As for flooding a niche, is this the best way forward for a minisite?
     
  5. dashu1 United Kingdom

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    Does anyone have any clue about how adsense work out the payment per click?

    My best performing minisite varies wildly.

    Today its earned $7.20c from 20 clicks.

    Yesterday it earned 0.96c from 10 clicks.

    The day before it had done around $7 as well.

    Conversley, another site earned $6.80 yesterday from 8 clicks & only 0.25c from 2 clicks today.

    Surely the cost per click to the advertiser can't vary that much day by day?
     
  6. mally United Kingdom

    mally Well-Known Member

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    With google it's best to look at weekly oreven monthly state to get the average cpc rather than per day as it does vary massively
     
  7. purg Ireland

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    dashu,

    If you have ever used ADWords (where your clicks are coming from) you will see why you get the big jumps. While advertising a company I setup the pricing by location , time and day of week ranging from 0.01 upto 0.50 for the better targetted ads.

    You, as the publisher have no control over which ads are shown other than editing your page content keywords.

    Some of my minisites I really dont understand and can only guess people are shagging up. For example expiring.org.uk sometimes has a single click over $3 (morn ~0.10)
     
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  8. dashu1 United Kingdom

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    I do use adwords but I seem to get charged a similar price per click whenever an ad is clicked - maybe I haven't tinkered with the settings enough.

    Still, I find it odd that one day a site can make $7, the next day it struggles to make $1.

    Hey ho.
     
  9. miked United Kingdom

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    As far as I understand it, this is largely due to geographical location of the clicks on your ads. A click from a place where your search term is competitive will yield better returns; a click from a place where it isn't will yield worse.

    Mike.
     
  10. springer United Kingdom

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    Not sure if it has been mentioned here, but a good place to get content is to advertise on Craiglist - I understand the Philippines is a good place to start ;)
     
  11. Federer Portugal

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    Simple 1-pager wonders (or 1-page sites) that earn $xxx/month are a thing of the past now. The best minisites I know all have between 4 and 10 pages of unique content, nice images and are based on highly searched keyword domains (minisites.com have a few examples of these, as well as a few of the minisites in my sig.).
     
  12. miked United Kingdom

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    Agreed. Good original content is more important than ever, and it's difficult to get that with just one page.
     
  13. thebutler Canada

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    Sales

    I checked out your wireshelving website. Very nice. What you could add and other folks might be able to do is add some Ebay auctions to your website.
     
  14. buttontop

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    its still going.........

    this thread is a real interesting read. i am new to domains and to mini sites and some questions have been answered but some on the other had have been opened up to bigger ones. the main question is:

    if you have exact match keyword domain, produce original content, and insure all html and other coding side of the site is fully working will you get on the top 2 pages of Google for that keyword? (depending as long as it wasn’t a really hard keywords such as "credit card")

    how do you test the original content of your site? is it possible to do a mini Google test to see if some/any of the content is already been used before?

    its nice to miked still has 1st place for "industrial insurance" a long long time after he first put up the domain in his footer section. PS how do you do that btw? sorry I’m new
     
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    This thread is a real inspiration. I am going to ramp up my work shortly and really attack this, have approx 10-12 domains awaiting development, 2 that have just been indexed and one awaiting Googles indexing. No Adsense clicks as of yet, just going to keep adding content and writing unique articles.

    Would be interested to see how everyones getting on with their sites.
     
  17. golddiggerguy United Kingdom

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    Had 1 click from A/S £9.27 - Hmmm do i groom that and spend more time with that domain? I think so! :D
     
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    Nice click! What niche was that in mate?
     
  19. fletchbog United Kingdom

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    Got my first click yesterday! The grand sum of 4p!! :rolleyes:

    Oh well, onward and upward.
     
  20. anthony United Kingdom

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    Got a £1.24 adsense click yesterday, first one over £1 for about a month. Was beginning to think they'd introduced a cap along the way!
     
  21. I'd say it was pretty easy to make £1 a week aslong as you get it indexed and with a bit of content on it.