Making a Domain earn £1 a week

I just checked one of the sites that i set up after i'd read this entire thread over a year ago...
Kayak trolleys (& carts) and it's averaging £17 a month I originally wanted to get it to do £1 a day - might put a bit more effort in one of these evenings...

 

Pretty good since the search volume in the UK is only 800, there is almost 9k allintitle competition (inc plural) and you don't make the affiliate sales very easy! (Add some "buy" buttons man! http://kayaktrolleys.co.uk/c-tug-trolleys/)

 

Stumbled across this long-running thread, and it is an interesting read.

OK, I'll bite. Making £1 a day isn't setting anybody's world alight. But... If one could get 3 pages each making £1 a day, that's £3 a day, that's £100 a month.

That's a nice target. And that's worth spending some of a Friday afternon on, no?

So, I found a few pages on one of my sites that are: quite useful; been there for ages; Google knows about them; ...and they have no ads on and are making nothing. (Well, they may be contributing to the site's general goodness, which is why they are there in the first place. But as 'make-me-money' pages they are doing nothing.)

Current stats are:
Page 1 73 impressions in the last month
Page 2 32 impressions
Page 3 39 impressions

I have tidied up their meta tags, fixed a broken link, added alt tags to the images, modified the long-tail of their urls to be more appropriate, ... And let's wait a wee while until that filters through the search engines.

Must find some niche-appropriate affiliate ads, or just see what adSense throws up. ...Next week. Because, I think an important principle is that one should not spend days and days on such an experiment. That defeats the point - if I want a full-time job that makes £100 a month, I'll go stack shelves in Tescos!

(I should point out I have some previous. I just checked in on a page I monitor once in a blue moon. And its happily sitting there kicking out £1000 a year.)

Anyway, that's enough for the day. It is Friday afternoon, and I'm already 2 beers down. Have a nice one.

 

Very interesting thread. Thing with me is i'm a domainer because i enjoy it and it's not work for me, it's just a hobby. For those domainers that don't have much interest/ a background in web development/SEO etc, i wonder if its possible to develop a decent earning site on site builders like moonfruit and wix.

 

It depends what you mean by decent earning. It would be lovely if one could use some cheap hosting like that, spend a few hours now and again, and have that make you £50,000 a year. That ain't gonna happen. Not without a lot more time, investment, and technical know-how. And you'll want something much more bespoke than moonfruit or wix.

But Viceroy's http://kayaktrolleys.co.uk/ example from a few posts back shows that '£1 a day' level of income is indeed possible on a simple platform. (I'm guessing WordPress.)

 

Well said mif, nope not expecting much, but '£1 a week/day' are good targets for the first rung on the ladder. Then with improved development skills, learning from mistakes and graft the benchmarks would increase.

 

Yes, that is the key. It is very easy to spend a month building something, then get disheartened when it makes pennies.

A real-world example, one page I have:
2007 £ 37.84
2008 £ 83.49
2009 £ 756.06
2010 £ 1,158.36
2011 £ 1,489.85
2012 £ 245.60
2013 £ 197.20
to Nov 2014 £ 950.00

Nice. But it was 2 years before I started to see any worthwhile return.