Comments on: Hybrid Development: Increase the Value of Domains

By: Chris Nielsen

Chris Nielsen — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:47:19 +0000

The other option is to park your domain with a service that will allow you to work on getting links to the domain. This is what I do by publishing content mostly to blogs and some directories that don’t care that it’s just a parked domain.

This takes some time, but after a couple of weeks you start to get some traffic and if you have a good parking page, they do seem to get indexed and some even get some page rank!!!

By: Andy Sweet

Andy Sweet — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:01:31 +0000

Elliot, interesting post. I actually posted something on my blog earlier today that may be complementary to what you’ve written here.

I think there’s definitely a trade-off of developing vs. parking. With parking, you can get so of the most lucrative and easiest monetization. However, you give up alot of the potential of the domain just by relying solely upon direct navigation.

With development, you give up the easy monetization but unlock the potential of the domain for multiple traffic sources and if done right, ultimately will out-earn parking.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:22:57 +0000

this has been a popular topic in the blogosphere lately…

Small sites can do very well, especially if they are in not too competitive niches. If you try a small site – go for a long tail search term. You’ll never rank for mortgages or virginia mortgages without a lot of effort, but you might rank for “best rates virginia mortgages”. Turn that into $1 per click and you could quickly be making a nice little profit for little time.

By: Website Translator

Website Translator — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:58:28 +0000

Bill,

I’m somewhat of an amateur seo and I wouldn’t spend too much money on link submissions. I would go to Digital Point forums and order one of the cheap bulk submissions. 500-1000 directories for 8-30 dollars. Check their itrader feedback first.

Then I would submit to 1 or 2 strong directories like yahoo(expensive), best of the web, gimpsy, joe ant, ezilon, rubber stamped or alive.

Then submit each page of your site to social networking sites: use http://www.onlywire.com to mass submit to mulitple sites at once.

Then if you I strongly recommend submitting a few articles on your topic to 3 article directories: goarticles.com, buzzle.com and ezinearticles.com Read their guidelines but articles only have to be about 250 words and they allow 2-3 in content links.

If you do these things it will only cost you 100-200 dollars and you’ll have a solid start with you link building. You can obviously get more advanced but this is a solid start for this type of site.

The rest is on site. Title tags, H1 tags, keyword density. If you are using wordpress download all in one seo pack.

Best of luck.

By: Kelly Lieberman

Kelly Lieberman — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:24:53 +0000

I just started setting up domains with http://www.domainembarking.com. They have a very cool automated system where you plug in the key words, category and title and Shazam! you now have an 8 page deep site. They provide video, rss, ads, wiki content, games, surveys,and cafe press items all related to your domain!! It is really cool to see your domain on a mug!
You have the choice as to how much you get involved in the development of your site, by optimizing further. You can design your own game, add your own content within frames etc…
Big Addison (yes, that is his name!) not only is amazing to work with, he is also very funny! For only $5, he will set up the initial stuff for you so you can have a website in 24 hours or less. He also offers full web development, a great affiliate program etc..
Mention my name and he may share some some stories about his craziest client…
This has been a great deal for me as I have been wanting to get away from parked sites, but didn’t have the funds or knowledge (major understatement!) to go for it.
Regards, Kelly Lieberman