How to Make Good Profit by Selling Your Domain Name Online

There are people actually buying domain names then developing a website for each of their domain name and reselling the domain name together with the website for a nice profit.

If you are involving in some kinds of online money making ventures or doing Internet marketing, you probably own a domain name with a website built on it. The website will be the tool that will keep helping you make money online. But, there will be time that you want to quit your e-business and sell the domain name to other. It would be nice if you can also make a great profit from selling you website and domain name.

To sell for a good price, you obviously need to increase the value of your domain and website. This article will give you some tips that will make your site appreciate in value.

Your Site Traffic
The amount of traffic your site get daily and monthly is one of the most important factors of increasing your site value. There are websites sold for more than $10,000 simply because the massive traffic those websites have gained. Thus, websites that built in with existing traffic often sell well.

Site Revenue
Buyers will be very interested to know how much your site is earning each month. If your site is generating consistent revenue with the existing traffic. The buyer will be happy to obtain your domain name and prepared to pay for the high selling price you set.

Site’s Rankings in Search Engines Result Pages
When it comes to search engine rankings, Google is the primary search engines that will make your site valuable. If your site rank pretty high for multiple high competitive keywords in Google, it could mean a large part of your existing traffic are coming from Google. Google traffic are very targeted and converting well into sales or income. So, people are excited to get websites that have high search engine rankings.

One-way Backlinks Links
The number of inbound links your site have gained will also impact the value as they are a way to determine your site's popularity and worth. The backlinks have to be relevant to your site and it is even better if those websites linking to you are in high PR.

Google PageRank
Google designed their own Pagerank system to roughly determine the quality of a website. Most websites in the index of Google got a pagerank score. The Pagerank score is from 1 to 10. 10 is the best score. The Pagerank (PR) doesn't actually determine the site's quality accurately, but the buyers are generally willing to pay more for high PR domain name.

Content
Unique, relevant and helpful content that published on your website will take into account in calculating the value of your website. The more unique and quality content you have, the better the selling price.

Developing a good website can be hard. But, with serious effort and more time invested, you can build a website that attracts traffic and brings in steady stream of income. When you have done that, you will have created a sellable domain name and website.

Read more...

How to Make Money Online by Selling Domain Names

Many webmasters have found that it is quite profitable to sell domain names. If a domain name has built in with a line of traffic, it will be much profitable. Some domain names have generated thousands of dollars to webmasters. A few good domain names have even went as high as a million or more dollars, making the webmaster an instant millionaire. You too can start selling domain names and profit from your domain names business. Here’s a few basic steps you can follow to begin:

Step 1 – Do keyword research
First, you will need to do some keyword research to find a keyword that is highly searched but not used very often by other websites. A good keyword analyzer tool can do this for you. Word Tracker and Keyword Analyzer are two of the good tools you can use to research keywords but there is a cost involved for using them. If you don’t want to pay for a keyword analyzer tool. You may use the free ones to conduct keyword research. But the free ones only tell you how many times the keyword has been searched for the last month, they don’t let you know how much competition there is with a potential keyword like the paid keyword tools did. I would suggest you use paid keyword tools because they provide in-depth detail on the keywords you are researching. If money is an issue, you may find a keyword analyzer that offers a free trial, like Word Tracker does. You can always upgrade to the paid version once you use it to profit from selling a domain name.

Step 2 – Get a domain name
Once you have chosen your keyword, you need to buy a domain name and a good web hosting package. You might think you don’t need hosting since you are just going to sell the domain, but in order to sell it for big money, you need to create a website for your domain name and do some web promotion work to build in consistent traffic for your domain. Traffic is what sells a domain name for the higher dollar amounts. To be profitable your domain name needs a good flow of traffic.

Anyway, try to find a hosting package that will include both a web hosting service and a domain name. Because you don’t need to worry about transferring anything later.

When choosing the domain name, make sure your keyword is included. If your keyword has been registered by other as domain name, try adding a series of numbers or other letters with your keyword. If you wanted the keyword for your domain name to be “dogs” but it has been taken, you could try getting “dogs101” or “A1dogs”. Alternatively, you may try looking for a relevant keyword that isn't taken as a domain name. Either way, keep finding until you get an easy-to-remember yet keyword-rich domain name that still has a .com extension.

Step 3 – Create a website
Now, you have your domain name and are ready to move on to the next step which is creating a website. It doesn’t have to be the biggest website ever built, as a matter of fact, it could be just 5 to 10 page site. Write several keyword rich articles and create a simple site using a program like Microsoft Word. Just be sure you save them as a .html file.

Go ahead and sign up for Adsense or add a few affiliates to the page so that it looks like a resourceful website for your visitors. Any sales made or AdSense revenue generated from your site will be an added bonus.

Step 4 - Drive traffic to your website and grow your backlinks
Once you have uploaded your website, focusing on traffic is next. You can start out with purchased visitors as long as they are coming from quality websites like Google search engine, content blogs and etc; and not a form of incentive traffic (like paid emails) or a bot. After getting paid traffic for a while, you should start building backlinks / inbound links for your site. There are many free places you can post your url to get backlinks pointing to your site like directories, forums, and online classified ads. You can also write a few good articles related to your website’s topic and post them on article directories to get free quality backlinks and traffic. Furthermore, social marketing can also be used to generate traffic and build links.

Keep growing inbound links until you have a regular flow of traffic to your site. If you can get sufficient visitors, you will get an Alexa rating. If the rating is pleasing, look for a domain name appraisal to see how much roughly you can sell your domain name. This will give you a good idea of how much you can expect to make from selling the domain name. If the numbers aren’t as high as you like, don’t worry there will still be someone willing to give you a higher dollar amount because of the traffic you have built up already.

Step 5 – Sell your domain name
When you are satisfied with your website and the amount of traffic it receives, it’s time to put it on the domain name market for sale. You may want to sell it with your website on it, although it is not necessary. Once you have sold your domain name, you will simply transfer it over to the buyer’s account. Most of the time it is free to push a domain name from one account to another as long as the both of you have accounts with the domain name registrar.

When you have seen a profit from selling domain names, you can reinvest your earnings into another domain name, and possibly try getting an expired domain name this time that already has a nice flow of traffic to save you some time. This can be done over and over to create a nice income from selling domain names.

Read more...

How to Choose a Busines Name and Domain Name

Before you launch your online business to make money on the Internet, you need to choose a business name and register a domain name for your business website. You can choose to name your online business first and then select a domain name that corresponds to your business name.

A quality and effective business name will be:

a) Marketable and can adapt to the different kinds of branding efforts easily.

b) Easy to remembered by your target prospects.

c) Representative of the image your online business is trying to describe.

d) Not infringing on the trademark and copyright of other businesses, companies or websites.

Once you have thinking out a business name and decided to use it for your online business, begin choosing a domain name for your business website. There are several basic considerations when selecting a domain name for your site:

1. The first thing need to think about is what domain name extension you like to use. Dot com(.com), dot net(.net) or you country code(.us, .ca and etc); which one you prefer in your domain name?

2. How long the length of your domain name you want it to be? Short domain names usually are easier to remember and good for offline advertising such as radio advertising, magazine advertising Vinyl/Magnet Car Advertising and so on; where people need to memorize your web address and type in to their web browsers to find your website. But, if your marketing plan is to get traffic solely through online advertising, then you don't have to use a short and easily remembered domain name for your business.

3. Are you going to choose a domain name exactly the same with your company name, or something closely relevant to your business name?

4. Do you need to use hyphens in the domain? If the domain you want to choose has already taken by other people, then you may need to use hyphens. For example: you planned to register a domain named onlinedatingtips.com, but someone has already bought this domain earlier. Your choices now are either use hyphens in your domain name like online-dating-tips.com or think about another domain name.

5. If numbers are essential to your domain name, would you include numbers to your domain or you prefer to have everything be spelled out? Adding a number like '2' or '4'to your domain will help visitors remember your domain name easier but putting a few numbers together can confuse them.

Once you’ve answered those questions about choosing a domain name, it is time to choose and register a domain name for your online business. Here are a few tools that can help you select a domain name:

1. Domain Name Registrars – Web hosting companies usually are domain name registrars also, which mean that you can register and buy a domain name from them. You can conduct a search on a Web hosting company site to see whether your domain name is available. Many registrars have a built-in tool that will suggest closely similar domain names, if your first choice isn’t available. You may think about taking their suggestion if the domain you want to register has been taken by someone earlier.

2. Domain Name Generators – Domain name generators are often free tools found online that can help when selecting a domain name by either adding random suffixes and prefixes to a primary keyword or by combining multiple keywords that you provide, all while searching for available domain names.

Read more...

Make Money Online by Buying and Selling Domain Names

There are many ways you can make money online, one way which you may not have considered, but where big money is possible, is by buying and selling domain names.

The idea is simple, you buy a domain name e.g. ZitBusters.com, you list it for sale, at the industry auction sites such as Sedo or Afternic (or possibly even eBay) someone offers you a vast amount of money for it and you sell it. Well, that’s the idea, the reality is somewhat more prosaic.

To sell the domain names you buy, you will probably need to actively market them i.e. find the e-mail addresses of people that you think may be interested in your name and fire off an e-mail. If you’re lucky or the name you have is an obviously excellent name then you will get an answer saying something along the lines of “How much do you want for your name?”, which is when negotiations begin.

So what is an ‘excellent domain name’. Generally, they are dot coms (dot coms are worth around ten times as much as dot nets) and they are generic e.g. shoes.com, beer.com, business.com.

How much are generic dot coms worth? Well, the highest sale so far in 2008 is Fund.com which sold for the tidy sum of $9.9 million, Invest.com came in at number 5 and sold for $1.015 million, NewlyWeds.com on the other hand was number 53 and sold for $130,000. Sales are reported every week over at DNJournal.com where you can also see a list of the highest selling names of the year.

You may have seen the iReport channel on CNN. Where did they get the name iReport from? They bought it from self-styled ‘Domain King’ Rick Schwartz for $750,000. Rick Schwartz is one of the most successful and well-known of the domainers in the domain name industry. Other big names to look for are Kevin Ham, who has a portfolio of domain names worth around $300 million, Frank Schilling, Sahar, Rick Latona, Yun Ye who sold his portfolio of domain names for $164 million and many more. All these guys have interesting tales of how they got to be where they are by simply buying domain names, hanging on to them for a while then selling them on for a profit.

So what sort of names should you buy? As mentioned above, generic names are the best but of course most of the dot coms are already gone. So if you want a good generic name you may have to buy it off the person who already owns it. Alternatively you can wade through long lists of names that are dropping (i.e. not being renewed) at places like TDNam and Snapnames. Or of course you can try and discover a gem that no-one else has registered (very difficult as all dictionary word dot coms were registered long ago).

A word of warning, some registrars are unscrupulous and if they see you have looked for a name but not registered it, they will then ‘reserve’ it for you, by which they really mean block it and sell it to you for an inflated price. Do a search on network solution front running. Godaddy are the biggest for registering domains and they seem to be OK, but if you do find a good name that isn’t registered you would be well-advised to register it quickly as there are very few secrets on the Internet. The price for registering a dot com is around $10, but do a search for ‘discount codes’ and you will probably find coupons that will give you a 20% discount. If you use the code 199TEST with Godaddy you should be able to register a domain name for 99 cents, but it only works once. Bear in mind also that there is a 5 day ‘grace period’ and if you change your mind registrars will often cancel your domain name and refund the fee if you ask nicely.

More words of warning, steer clear of trademarked names i.e. stuff like Google, Microsoft, Armani etc... you will only cause yourself a lot of trouble.

While waiting for your names to sell you can either develop the name into a blog or a site or you can ‘park’ them . Parking them is a simple way of creating a page with some ads. on which may or may not bring in some money while you wait to sell your domain. You need to sign up with a ‘parking’ company. The easiest one to sign up with is Namedrive. In an interesting development Google has decided to set up its own parking service. This after previously criticizing parking companies as offering no value and being of no use etc.... Now that Google has set up its own parked pages it appears that parking domain names is cool. Go figure. (From what I hear though, most domainers are not recommending Google’s parked service due to the many complications involved.)

For more information about the whole domain name business you can visit forums like NamePros. To see what sort of prices domain names have been selling for check out DNSalePrice.

This is only an introduction to domain name trading but it gives the basic ideas. There are people who have made millions from domains, and in my opinion successful domainers make lots of money but it does take a lot of work, particularly if you are just starting out.

Read more...

Make Money Online by Buying and Selling Domain Names

There are many ways you can make money online, one way which you may not have considered, but where big money is possible, is by buying and selling domain names.

The idea is simple, you buy a domain name e.g. ZitBusters.com, you list it for sale, at the industry auction sites such as Sedo or Afternic (or possibly even eBay) someone offers you a vast amount of money for it and you sell it. Well, that’s the idea, the reality is somewhat more prosaic.

To sell the domain names you buy, you will probably need to actively market them i.e. find the e-mail addresses of people that you think may be interested in your name and fire off an e-mail. If you’re lucky or the name you have is an obviously excellent name then you will get an answer saying something along the lines of “How much do you want for your name?”, which is when negotiations begin.

So what is an ‘excellent domain name’. Generally, they are dot coms (dot coms are worth around ten times as much as dot nets) and they are generic e.g. shoes.com, beer.com, business.com.

How much are generic dot coms worth? Well, the highest sale so far in 2008 is Fund.com which sold for the tidy sum of $9.9 million, Invest.com came in at number 5 and sold for $1.015 million, NewlyWeds.com on the other hand was number 53 and sold for $130,000. Sales are reported every week over at DNJournal.com where you can also see a list of the highest selling names of the year.

You may have seen the iReport channel on CNN. Where did they get the name iReport from? They bought it from self-styled ‘Domain King’ Rick Schwartz for $750,000. Rick Schwartz is one of the most successful and well-known of the domainers in the domain name industry. Other big names to look for are Kevin Ham, who has a portfolio of domain names worth around $300 million, Frank Schilling, Sahar, Rick Latona, Yun Ye who sold his portfolio of domain names for $164 million and many more. All these guys have interesting tales of how they got to be where they are by simply buying domain names, hanging on to them for a while then selling them on for a profit.

So what sort of names should you buy? As mentioned above, generic names are the best but of course most of the dot coms are already gone. So if you want a good generic name you may have to buy it off the person who already owns it. Alternatively you can wade through long lists of names that are dropping (i.e. not being renewed) at places like TDNam and Snapnames. Or of course you can try and discover a gem that no-one else has registered (very difficult as all dictionary word dot coms were registered long ago).

A word of warning, some registrars are unscrupulous and if they see you have looked for a name but not registered it, they will then ‘reserve’ it for you, by which they really mean block it and sell it to you for an inflated price. Do a search on network solution front running. Godaddy are the biggest for registering domains and they seem to be OK, but if you do find a good name that isn’t registered you would be well-advised to register it quickly as there are very few secrets on the Internet. The price for registering a dot com is around $10, but do a search for ‘discount codes’ and you will probably find coupons that will give you a 20% discount. If you use the code 199TEST with Godaddy you should be able to register a domain name for 99 cents, but it only works once. Bear in mind also that there is a 5 day ‘grace period’ and if you change your mind registrars will often cancel your domain name and refund the fee if you ask nicely.

More words of warning, steer clear of trademarked names i.e. stuff like Google, Microsoft, Armani etc... you will only cause yourself a lot of trouble.

While waiting for your names to sell you can either develop the name into a blog or a site or you can ‘park’ them . Parking them is a simple way of creating a page with some ads. on which may or may not bring in some money while you wait to sell your domain. You need to sign up with a ‘parking’ company. The easiest one to sign up with is Namedrive. In an interesting development Google has decided to set up its own parking service. This after previously criticizing parking companies as offering no value and being of no use etc.... Now that Google has set up its own parked pages it appears that parking domain names is cool. Go figure. (From what I hear though, most domainers are not recommending Google’s parked service due to the many complications involved.)

For more information about the whole domain name business you can visit forums like NamePros. To see what sort of prices domain names have been selling for check out DNSalePrice.

This is only an introduction to domain name trading but it gives the basic ideas. There are people who have made millions from domains, and in my opinion successful domainers make lots of money but it does take a lot of work, particularly if you are just starting out.

Read more...

Even Undeveloped Domains can Now Make Money with AdSense

Google made an announcement about AdSense for domains extension to all publishers on 11 December. This would means that all the AdSense publishers will be allowed to displayed AdSense ads on their undeveloped domains to generate extra AdSense revenue. Anyone that owns one or more domain names that left unused (have no website built in) can apply for this program.

Through AdSense for Domains, you will be able to park your domain with Google. The template for your parked domain will look simple but you can make some adjustments to the look such as changing the color of background, links, header and etc.

Google will present ads, links, and search results on your parked domain so that you can generate ad revenue. But Google said that they might be adding more useful information to parked domain pages in future to ensure positive user experience and the network quality.

The simplicity of the parked domain pages seems like is an advantage for generating high AdSense click-through rate. Visitors landed on parked domain pages almost have no to content read. All they see are ads, link and search result related to the information they are looking for, causing them more likely to click ads or links which will lead to more AdSense revenue to you.

AdSense for domains will be rolled in phases. It is now opening to all US AdSense publishers. In the future this product will expand to more countries.

Read more...

Make Good Profit by Selling Your Domain Name Online

There are people actually buying domain names then developing a website for each of their domain name and reselling the domain name together with the website for a nice profit.

If you are involving in some kinds of online money making ventures or doing Internet marketing, you probably own a domain name with a website built on it. The website will be the tool that will keep helping you make money online. But, there will be time that you want to quit your e-business and sell the domain name to other. It would be nice if you can also make a great profit from selling you website and domain name.

To sell for a good price, you obviously need to increase the value of your domain and website. This article will give you some tips that will make your site appreciate in value.

Your Site Traffic
The amount of traffic your site get daily and monthly is one of the most important factors of increasing your site value. There are websites sold for more than $10,000 simply because the massive traffic those websites have gained. Thus, websites that built in with existing traffic often sell well.

Site Revenue
Buyers will be very interested to know how much your site is earning each month. If your site is generating consistent revenue with the existing traffic. The buyer will be happy to obtain your domain name and prepared to pay for the high selling price you set.

Site’s Rankings in Search Engines Result Pages
When it comes to search engine rankings, Google is the primary search engines that will make your site valuable. If your site rank pretty high for multiple high competitive keywords in Google, it could mean a large part of your existing traffic are coming from Google. Google traffic are very targeted and converting well into sales or income. So, people are excited to get websites that have high search engine rankings.

One-way Backlinks Links
The number of inbound links your site have gained will also impact the value as they are a way to determine your site's popularity and worth. The backlinks have to be relevant to your site and it is even better if those websites linking to you are in high PR.

Google PageRank
Google designed their own Pagerank system to roughly determine the quality of a website. Most websites in the index of Google got a pagerank score. The Pagerank score is from 1 to 10. 10 is the best score. The Pagerank (PR) doesn't actually determine the site's quality accurately, but the buyers are generally willing to pay more for high PR domain name.

Content
Unique, relevant and helpful content that published on your website will take into account in calculating the value of your website. The more unique and quality content you have, the better the selling price.

Developing a good website can be hard. But, with serious effort and more time invested, you can build a website that attracts traffic and brings in steady stream of income. When you have done that, you will have created a sellable domain name and website.

Read more...

Make Money Online with Expired Domains

An expired domain is a domain that was registered previously but the owner did not re-register it. Once a domain name expires, it becomes available for anyone to register.

Expired domains have gained in popularity because of the traffic some of them may be having. A domain with an established source of traffic is considered a great bet. Savvy investors make a killing with expired domains.

There are a few ways one can make money buying and selling domain names for profit. It would help to understand how the whole process works.

Domain names are registered for a limited time, from one year to ten years. After this period of time, the domain name rights expire and the user has to renew the domain name. If this renewal is not done even after a period of time, the domain name is made available for anyone who wishes to buy it!

Each day thousands of such expired domain names are put on sale and some of them are well-established domains. These domain names may be ‘grabbed’ (the term used for buying expired domains) by anyone who is willing to buy them.

Buying expired domains
These domains can be bought for a few dollars and sold at high rates, especially if it is a domain that has built up targeted traffic over a few years. Looking for a good domain name with qualified traffic is the key to succeeding in the buying and selling process. Grabbing an expired domain name anywhere from $5 to $50 and selling it for $150 to $1000 is very much possible and in fact, there are great domains found and sold at much higher rates. Doing this on a regular basis with a few domains a week is a great way of making money with expired domains.

Reasons why people buy expired domains from you
There are several reasons people would be willing to pay high dollars to buy expired domain names. If the old owners missed renewing the registration for some reason, then the sky is the limit and they would be willing to pay a lot of money to get it back. Other business owners in the same field as the domain would be willing to pay for securing a good name with traffic.

What should one look for when buying expired domain names?

Factors to be taken into consideration when buying
If the expired domain name had a traffic of anything above 1500 during the previous month, then it is considered to be a good deal. Ensuring that the site is actually a consumer site selling something, is another important factor to be taken into consideration. If one can find a site with tens of thousands of visitors during the previous month, then the likeliness that the previous owners will be itching to get it back cannot be ruled out and this is gold for the person buying it.

Read more...

How to Make Money Online with Expired Domains

Automated grabbing system
There is another great way of keeping a tab on domains with a high volume of traffic that are due to expire. The automated grabbing system ensures that as soon as the domain becomes available, it is registered. One such service provider is www.snapname.com and they charge for the service only if the particular domain name becomes available. Such domain names can be sold for thousands of dollars.

Once a domain name is grabbed, the best way of finding a buyer is to register the domain on your name and then marketing the name and selling the domains to make a profit.

Setting a Price
This is a very important aspect of domain business. Too high a pitch will not get an immediate sale. For anyone looking to make an almost instant sale, a decent price range is important, keeping in mind the value of the domain name, the demand for that niche etc. A higher price can be fixed if one is willing to wait until a good offer comes their way but for some instant cash within a few hours, low is the way to go.

Selling expired domains
Selling the domain names on ebay is very easy because of the number of people looking to sell and buy them there and people just do not realize the amount of money that can be made in eBay. There are several other market places like Sitepoint and Digitalpoint where these domains can be sold for profit.

Other than selling, there are several other ways one can monetize on the expired domain names.

Buy Expired domain names for traffic
Buying expired domain names to get highly targeted traffic for cheap. This traffic can be driven to your website for just pennies a click and in turn increase sales due to the large traffic.

Mini websites with expired domain names
Buying expired keyword rich domains and building mini sites will show the website in top search engine rankings. These websites can be built using expired domain names to drive targeted traffic to them or to create a website and sell the domain name as a value addition. Domains with an attached website with good traffic are sold for higher dollars and are in great demand.

Expired domain names for affiliate products
Affiliate programs are a good way of running and profiting online without actually having a product of your own. Affiliate marketing entails redirecting traffic from the affiliate website to the website of the product owner and in turn earning a commission for any sales made. This is a great way of making money for newbies.

If affiliate marketing is the route taken, then expired domain names that target the market of the affiliate program should be bought.

There is a huge market out there for expired domain names, it only needs to be tapped. Some people may say that it has reached a saturation point, but that is nowhere near the truth. A lot of money can be made with expired domain names, if one only looks at the many ways of using them or even comes up with some new ways.

Read more...

How to Profit Online with Parked Domain Names

Making money online from parked domain names seems to be an unfamiliar concept to many people. The concept is simple:

• You register a domain name.

• Then park the domain name to a domain parking company.

• The domain parking company will create a parked page for your domain. name with sponsored ads, links and search box inside the parked page. Some domain parking services even will add relevant articles and content to the parked page.

• You earn ad revenue for the traffic generated by you to the parked domain. Some domain parked services will share ad revenue with you and some allow you to display your AdSense ads and keep 100% of the AdSense commission earn.

The cost for parking a domain usually less than $5 monthly. If you have domain names that left unused with existing traffic, you can start using them to make money by parking them to a domain parking company such as Parkedgold.com and Godaddy.com - Cash Parking.

Another way is to buy a expired domain name comes with existing traffic. One of the important factors you should pay close attention to when looking for a expired domain name is the link popularity of the expired domain. An expired domain name with many backlinks is very likely to have a targeted traffic built in. You can find expired domain name from Godaddy domain auction, there is a section in auction where you can bid for domain names that have expired recently.

Read more...