Domain Name Monetization and NameCheap Discount Coupon Code June 7, 2007
Posted by Andrew Wee in : Internet Marketing , trackbackMany Internet Marketers fail to realize that having multiple domain names can be fundamental to your success in marketing your own product or engaged in affiliate marketing. The good news is that with the availability of domain coupon codes and innovative web hosting, you can build a virtual empire easily, even if you’re just starting out.
Let’s look at this scenario:
You’re a new affiliate marketer starting out, and you want to generate some sales. What do you do?
Maybe you could start a free blog at blogger or wordpress.com. If you’re smart, you’ll register your own domain and get your own webhosting, so you’ll have more control over your web property.
But do you stop at just one blog or website?
Not if you want to have massive success in your affiliate campaign.
What’s to stop you from creating 5 or 10 blogs or websites promoting the same product?
It’s not only an opportunity to occupy multiple positions on the SERPs (search engine results pages), but you will edge out your competition if you push them off page 1 too.
Bear in mind, I’m not asking you to post 10 mirror image copies of the same website. That would be very foolish.
Instead if you can generate content easily, tightly focused around that specific niche, for example, weight loss, you’ll create a virtual fortress centered around the product.
The guys on the Wicked Fire affiliate forum have announced the June discount code for domain registrar NameCheap.com where I’ve been buying the bulk of my domains from.
Domains also come with free privacy protection (so your details aren’t easily available).
Here’s some advice regarding domain names:
.com domains aren’t always the most desirable.
If you are creating a content site, a .info or .org could be equally useful and in some cases be more effective.
If you provide content on a .info site and collect the visitors details, you could easily direct them towards your .com affiliate site later and close the sale. People also tend to place more trust on .info and .org sites because there is a perceived belief that these types of domains are less commercial than .com domains.
At the same time too, there are spam marketers who create .info sites filled with spam.
What you can do instead is create a genuine content site with 10-20 pages of content on a .info site and drive traffic to the affiliate sales page through an autoresponder sequence from aweber or getresponse.
You’d be surprised how much higher your conversions will be.
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I’ve registered a number of new domains just a short while ago and will be pointing them at my Bluehost webhosting account which now comes with hosting for unlimited domains.
It’s a shared hosting account, so I get live chat and prompt email support, compared to reseller hosting accounts which support multiple domains, but the tech support tends to be lower grade.
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Resources:
NameCheap domain registrar (coupon code: junebugz)
Bluehost: $6.95 per month webhosting, hosting unlimited domains
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I agree that other domain extension also works especially when most of the keywords .com might already been taken..
I also noticed that many new webmasters try to avoid domain names with hyphens but that would not affect SEO really. In addition, domain extension like .info can also achieve a high ranking in SERP.
Just to share, a good resource to generate available domain names is makewords.com.
TIPS: Another domain monetization method is to grab dropped domain names with PR and sell / develop it. However, we will have to be carefully of the fake PR stuff. You can visit odditysoftware.com to grab a list of dropped PR names =)
Thanks for the post, Andrew!
Hope it helps.
That’s excellent advice Andrew … domain names are great for info sites and affiliate promotions.
(I especially love the way you use your own domains to brand your favourite products … I don’t even remember the real name of “Secret Blogging Weapon” or “Secret Affiliate Weapon”).
At the same time, if someone reading this blog is broke and hasn’t made a cent online yet … they gotto remember to let go of the domains they’re not using. Greedily holding on to useless domains (that sounded oh-so-cool during registration) will add several hundred dollars to the annual IM bill.
Not so long ago, I did a little house-cleaning with my domain registrar … and I realized I had about 30 domains that I hadn’t used it over 2 years (change of plans, change of directions etc). And although a part of me wanted to hold on to them for potential, future use … I managed to come to my senses and let go.
Surprisingly, I now have the money to buy faster/more stable hosting for my next product launch.
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I have just begun buying up multiple domain names with the idea of turning them into affiliate sites. I am all for leverage in the search engines and I wouldn’t feel bad in the least for taking over the majority of the listings on the first page
Brian,
I bought tons of domains myself and probably haven’t used 80% of them (Pareto’s princple at work?)
I think the value is in developing them because domaining has never really appealed to me.
The worst thing is to flip a domain for $200, and some guy buys it and starts making $5,000 a month from it shortly after…
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