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Moniker bought by Snapnames (Oversee)

SEOidiot — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:37:51 +0000

Moniker has been bought by the parent company of Snapnames

I hope that they improve as Moniker does suck right now…

Heres the full release

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Moniker bought by Snapnames (Oversee)

Google still winning in the battle for search

A Year in Adsense Stats – Some statistics from one batch

SEOidiot — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:29:28 +0000

I know its against Googles TOS but I couldn’t give a flying fish what they say. What I thought I would do is show you a snapshot from one batch of sites over a full year and discuss some of the ways in which I worked to get these results.

I often have debates with people over instant messenger where they tell me that you cant make money at Adsense any more and that Google ban too quick now. I hope this illustrates its still possible to operate if you are careful…

I have also become jaded by people telling me what’s possible to profit from and what isn’t now – this post has helped me focus on what I will be doing in the coming year

I track each batch that I do and track the following stats: -

Number of pages crawled

Number of pages indexed (3 Main Engines)

Number of days X % of the pages survive in Google from first full crawl to deindex (What I call ‘Burn Rate’)

Indexing methods used

Uniques

Page views

Clicks

Revenue

Where each click went (Remember that you should really only be selling your traffic to Googles Adsense program till you can determine what affiliate program to redirect out to – here’s my post in Affearners on the subject of how to move from Adsense to affiliate)

My normal way of working is to create a batch of sites in a niche and share indexing methods etc to get them indexed. I would normally wait until that batch gets de-indexed by a certain percentage then create a new batch with different templates etc in the same niche – Remember domains die keywords dont! For this example I decided to replace one site per month and run them independent of each other so my stats would span a year of normal data.

Just to note some things before the stats -

My burn rate was on average 41 days for this batch so I replaced one site per month until month 10 then stopped.

My CTR for this batch was 13.26% on average which is about 4-5% lower than my normal for MFA crap.

The sites where plain text with one adsense ad block and links disguised via css.

The content was crappy mfa spider food padded out with generics to get the keyword and topic balanced.

The niche was Tea’s used for Slimming (I went as vague as I could)

Also just to note – you wont be impressed with the earnings here, a little over $2150 in 12 months from 32 domains.

I decided that for the best illustration of long tail made for Adsense work I wouldn’t spam the sites beyond getting them indexed. So this example shows that I bought 32 domains at a cost of about $70 (24 at first and 1 per month) , shared hosting at around $100 for the year and my time (2 hours initial setup and 20 mins per month to add a new site in)

So with 4-5 hours total work and $170 I made a profit of around $1900 ish

Yup I know there should be a $ symbol not a £ on the earnings but MEH

OK heres the stats.

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A Year in Adsense Stats – Some statistics from one batch

Buying existing domains and real sales techniques

SEOidiot — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:31:24 +0000

Many of you will know that i have a background in professional sales for 15 years or so but its very rare that you come across traditional sales techniques used online. I made an enquiry with a company over a domain I would like to buy and they came back with the usual pointless high figure.

Then today I have had 3 phonecalls from their sales staff – proper telesales calls – open questions – closing techniques anything they could do to move me through the sales process or to try to close on related products.

None of us do that as we should in my opinion.

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Buying existing domains and real sales techniques

Registerfly Warning

SEOidiot — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:56:53 +0000

Well I have bitten my lip for a long time now but I cant go any further without issuing a warning to anyone using Registerfly. Now im sure that this is an isolated incident and I wont tell you the full story but all I will say is that even though I change my password on a regular basis their system emails me telling me different ip addresses access my account every few days…

Now perhaps this is just their system being crappy but I do have past experiences of my domains being hijacked by someone with access to my Regfly account, they admitted to me that they had issues during that problem…

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Registerfly Warning

OK lets get serious….

SEOidiot — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:11:01 +0000

Ok people, time to stop the prep and time to get back in the game…. im just about ready to climb back on the horse and get back to what I know best.

There will be a redesign of the blog soon and there will also be a fishing flood of other sites appearing sometime soon… im afraid some people wont like them but I DONT CARE !

Just CLICK CLICK CLICK is all i wanna hear!

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OK lets get serious….

Domain hijacking and fun fun fun

SEOidiot — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:30:23 +0000

Well one of my new forums has been down now for a few days, every time i set the nameservers to what they should be they get magically set back to something else which is allowing someone to serve this page to my members: -

Which is nice…. and the friendly guy whos doing this is also spamming via email to drive traffic to it….. having had a poke a round hes doing quite a nice job of it too….

Anyhoo depsite my registrar telling me its my issue and someone has my password and login (Changed 4 times now) we have it sorted and a new host to boot

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Domain hijacking and fun fun fun

Would my domains be worth anything ? LOL

SEOidiot — Wed, 24 May 2006 10:02:23 +0000

The latest sales figures for Domain sales are out over at DNJournal
I always enjoy getting these charts and I would recommend anyone else nips over and signs up for their newsletter too. Its amazing quite how much the market for domains has recovered since the bubble. When I see some of the domains that are being sold now just for typin traffic I want to cry, I let sooooo many good generic domains go back in the 90’s that would now be worth some money to me…. (I still have a few but not enough)

So now go look at all your domains, all those Adsense Farming scrapers you have and try to spot one thats worth even $10 (www.some-pointlessly-hyphened-viagra-poker-crappy-domain.info anyone???) lol

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Would my domains be worth anything ? LOL