If you like the .US extension, now is the time to stock up. If you register 6 or more .US names, you can get them for as little as 2.99 a piece at Go Daddy. If you don't know what names to register, you can use my Geo Domain spreadsheet to generate a ton of Geo domain combinations and then plug them in to GoDaddy's bulk registration tool. Just click the link, copy and paste your keyword specific Geo domain names from the spreadsheet and check the box for the .US extension. Go Daddy does the rest.
Keywords you should definitely try out include Jobs (ChandlerJobs.us, FortWayneJobs.us and many others are available at the time of this post), Restaurants, RealEstate, Properties, etc.
This is a great time to pick up some .US domains. Domains I've registered so far today include WoodBoxes (90k searches a month), WoodenBox (250k searches) CarMagnet (90k searches) and several others.
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Quick registration post
I don't have time for a full breakdown but I grabbed some "fun" domains the other day that I thought I'd share. There's been some controversy over the future of the .tv extension... I find much of it to be silly. There's risk with any investment and domain names or different extensions are no different. With greater risk comes greater rewards. If you are willing to "risk" $19 bucks for a .tv domain name, you can head over to name.com as they've got a great deal going. So what cool .tv did I get?
Batting dot TV - This works for cricket or baseball, is great for trainers, tutorials and other videos. With well over a million searches a month in just the US, this has some nice possibilities. It goes hand in hand with:
Batting-Cages dot com - You know how I love those dashes! There were > 300,000 searches for batting cages last month. I'm thinking this will be mostly a local directory listing service with a few product reviews and such to go along with it. There are lots of end user possibilities for resale, but generally I don't resell dashes - I'm in it for the affiliate sales.
Speaking of networks of sites again - some search engines knock you for running multiple linked sites all on one server. One way to avoid this (and to avoid network outages) is to run on multiple hosting platforms. One really cheap monthly service I found recently is
JustHost. They are running a special where you get can %20 off with the coupon code JHSL20. Just remember that performance is also calculated into your search engine rankings so if you notice your site is slow to load, talk with your provider or look for a new host.
Batting dot TV - This works for cricket or baseball, is great for trainers, tutorials and other videos. With well over a million searches a month in just the US, this has some nice possibilities. It goes hand in hand with:
Batting-Cages dot com - You know how I love those dashes! There were > 300,000 searches for batting cages last month. I'm thinking this will be mostly a local directory listing service with a few product reviews and such to go along with it. There are lots of end user possibilities for resale, but generally I don't resell dashes - I'm in it for the affiliate sales.
Speaking of networks of sites again - some search engines knock you for running multiple linked sites all on one server. One way to avoid this (and to avoid network outages) is to run on multiple hosting platforms. One really cheap monthly service I found recently is
I'm in the franchise business
Here's a brief look at what I like to do when purchasing multiple domains. I'll give 3 example domains I registered that are focused on a common theme - franchise businesses. I'll also provide some advice about what to buy and what not to buy when it comes to buying domain networks. Future posts will go into further detail about monetization, automation and more.
The most important thing to look at when buying domain networks is that you must have a legitimate reason to buy each and every name. If your keyword is Plumbing and you end up with PlumbingTonight.net because it contained the keyword plumbing and was available for registration, you will live to regret the purchase. Each domain you purchase should have a purpose. If the searches aren't there, if the CPC isn't there, if there's no development potential, no end user potential, if the extension is just plain rancid, Don't Buy The Domain! So the same rules apply to buying a domain that will be of a network of sites as if you were buying just one domain that stands alone.
We want our domain network to have similar, but distinct content. What this will allow us to do is build relevant back links between our sites that search engines love. But more importantly, we can help drive users around our network of sites as well, but the only way you'll get them to click on a link on your JoeThePlumber.com website is to make sure that it directly relates to JoeThePlumber - such as: PlumbingSupplies.com or FixItYourself.com/Plumbing. If you include a link for video poker, you may get some clicks, but search engines will likely look at you funny and send their traffic someplace else.
There's one caveat though that you need to keep in mind - don't bite the hand that feeds you. What I mean is if you get paid, say, $5 for each time a user clicks on a Plumber's listing and instead, you direct your traffic to click FixItYourself.com where you only make $1 *if* the visitor clicks a link to a home repair superstore - you may want to think about not putting up the link after all. If you are just trying to build backlinks - you can often put the link in the least likely to be clicked place, and search engines will still consider it valid... just don't hide it or try any black hat stuff as you'll just get your whole network banned from the search engine itself.
I promised I'd talk about my domains - so here they are: FranchiseBusiness dot TV, How-to-franchise dot com, SportsBarFranchise dot com and BestFranchise dot info.
Isn't that a nice eclectic mix? You've got a .tv, a .info, a straight up dot com and a dot com with not one, but two! dashes. So how in the world did I pick these out? Well, I chose them based on having distinct qualities that made it possible to interrelate them and yet still have unique content and end users for each.
FranchiseBusiness dot TV will be a great site for multimedia content about what's going on the in the franchise business. It'll have tips, hot trends and tutorials on things like up selling and cross selling. The keyword phrase Franchise Business got 300k unique searches in the US last month with $5-6 CPC. The .me is the only other available extension and I don't think that makes much sense in this context... but if you want to see if it's available, type it in up on the domain search box at the top of the page! FranchiseBusiness dot TV can also easily link to...
BestFranchise dot info. You know I love .info domains, but this is a great one. 100k+ searches last month with nearly $5 CPC - this is a great "directory" style name that can cover listings of every type of franchise. This is the kind of name that you can really rev up the direct ad sales too as everyone wants to be the best.
How-to-Franchise dot com takes a different angle on the franchise business. It's going to talk about how to take an existing business and expand it into a franchise. This is lower volume, but there's still 20,000 plus searches a month for the phrase "How to Franchise" and the best part is, the CPC is nearly $11. I'm going to be focusing on franchise consultants as a major source of advertising for this sight as they will pay big money for each new lead.
Finally, we have the lonely little dotcom - SportsBarFranchise. What am I doing with this little 1k search per month, $3 CPC site? Well, not only does it have the ability to be linked in to the above sites in a number of ways, but I foresee this being flipped (for big money if I can get it some decent traffic) to an end user. Having very targeted sites also means you'll likely have much more targeted traffic, which advertisers love!
The last point here is to start small - that's 4 names when I could have registered 20 at least. Bide your time and choose wisely. Once you've gotten the best of the available reg fee names, look around to see what names might be for sale at Sedo or dropping from SnapNames. One or two here and there and you'll eventually hit the sweet spot. What that sweet spot is depends on the network, but I like to have around 10-15 sites when it's all said and done with at least two of those being directory style listings and a handful of smaller, more focused names. Having at least one .TV in the mix is also nice for video content, linking and embedding.
Domain networks allow you to attack a niche in multiple ways. That means it's best to know the niche, know the audience and have a plan for each site in the network. Just having lots of names that all have the same keyword isn't good enough. Focus and planning will allow you to capitalize on your site's traffic and page rank in ways individual/stand alone sites can't. I hope this guide has been helpful! If you've got a network you're proud off, show it off in the comments.
Building a Domain Network
The most important thing to look at when buying domain networks is that you must have a legitimate reason to buy each and every name. If your keyword is Plumbing and you end up with PlumbingTonight.net because it contained the keyword plumbing and was available for registration, you will live to regret the purchase. Each domain you purchase should have a purpose. If the searches aren't there, if the CPC isn't there, if there's no development potential, no end user potential, if the extension is just plain rancid, Don't Buy The Domain! So the same rules apply to buying a domain that will be of a network of sites as if you were buying just one domain that stands alone.
Diversity and Commonality
We want our domain network to have similar, but distinct content. What this will allow us to do is build relevant back links between our sites that search engines love. But more importantly, we can help drive users around our network of sites as well, but the only way you'll get them to click on a link on your JoeThePlumber.com website is to make sure that it directly relates to JoeThePlumber - such as: PlumbingSupplies.com or FixItYourself.com/Plumbing. If you include a link for video poker, you may get some clicks, but search engines will likely look at you funny and send their traffic someplace else.
There's one caveat though that you need to keep in mind - don't bite the hand that feeds you. What I mean is if you get paid, say, $5 for each time a user clicks on a Plumber's listing and instead, you direct your traffic to click FixItYourself.com where you only make $1 *if* the visitor clicks a link to a home repair superstore - you may want to think about not putting up the link after all. If you are just trying to build backlinks - you can often put the link in the least likely to be clicked place, and search engines will still consider it valid... just don't hide it or try any black hat stuff as you'll just get your whole network banned from the search engine itself.
Uniqueness Counts
I promised I'd talk about my domains - so here they are: FranchiseBusiness dot TV, How-to-franchise dot com, SportsBarFranchise dot com and BestFranchise dot info.
Isn't that a nice eclectic mix? You've got a .tv, a .info, a straight up dot com and a dot com with not one, but two! dashes. So how in the world did I pick these out? Well, I chose them based on having distinct qualities that made it possible to interrelate them and yet still have unique content and end users for each.
FranchiseBusiness dot TV will be a great site for multimedia content about what's going on the in the franchise business. It'll have tips, hot trends and tutorials on things like up selling and cross selling. The keyword phrase Franchise Business got 300k unique searches in the US last month with $5-6 CPC. The .me is the only other available extension and I don't think that makes much sense in this context... but if you want to see if it's available, type it in up on the domain search box at the top of the page! FranchiseBusiness dot TV can also easily link to...
BestFranchise dot info. You know I love .info domains, but this is a great one. 100k+ searches last month with nearly $5 CPC - this is a great "directory" style name that can cover listings of every type of franchise. This is the kind of name that you can really rev up the direct ad sales too as everyone wants to be the best.
How-to-Franchise dot com takes a different angle on the franchise business. It's going to talk about how to take an existing business and expand it into a franchise. This is lower volume, but there's still 20,000 plus searches a month for the phrase "How to Franchise" and the best part is, the CPC is nearly $11. I'm going to be focusing on franchise consultants as a major source of advertising for this sight as they will pay big money for each new lead.
Finally, we have the lonely little dotcom - SportsBarFranchise. What am I doing with this little 1k search per month, $3 CPC site? Well, not only does it have the ability to be linked in to the above sites in a number of ways, but I foresee this being flipped (for big money if I can get it some decent traffic) to an end user. Having very targeted sites also means you'll likely have much more targeted traffic, which advertisers love!
Start Small
The last point here is to start small - that's 4 names when I could have registered 20 at least. Bide your time and choose wisely. Once you've gotten the best of the available reg fee names, look around to see what names might be for sale at Sedo or dropping from SnapNames. One or two here and there and you'll eventually hit the sweet spot. What that sweet spot is depends on the network, but I like to have around 10-15 sites when it's all said and done with at least two of those being directory style listings and a handful of smaller, more focused names. Having at least one .TV in the mix is also nice for video content, linking and embedding.
Domain networks allow you to attack a niche in multiple ways. That means it's best to know the niche, know the audience and have a plan for each site in the network. Just having lots of names that all have the same keyword isn't good enough. Focus and planning will allow you to capitalize on your site's traffic and page rank in ways individual/stand alone sites can't. I hope this guide has been helpful! If you've got a network you're proud off, show it off in the comments.
This should have been about .info
I had a post all planned out for today that included some great new .info's I've picked up recently. It was going to go on and on about how I love .info for developing mini sites (and even larger wiki-style community driven sites). Then this morning I did a bit of digging around in Google Analytics and noticed some weird numbers on some of my sites I hadn't really done much with... so now we are going to talk about the value of development and exact match domains!
I had purchased this domain from a fellow domainer for not much more than a reg fee. He was testing the waters at dnforum and it was actually the first domain I bought through dnforum so I wanted to go small. I've also got a big "fantasy" fetish and our house - particularly our bookshelves - are full of fantasy works. Even my closet has it's fair share of fantasy attire so it seemed like something that fit my personal interests. Fantasy Tees gets several hundred exact match queries a month, so I figured it would be a nice small site to play with. What I try to look for though are terms that are not only exact match search terms themselves but that define a category of content. For example, we could easily have content related to fairies, World of Warcraft official t-shirts, D&D or popular fantasy movies and have highly relevant and highly ranked search content for each.
As soon as the name was transferred into my account, I setup a blogger site with the custom domain name. I know, not ideal, but I wanted something quick and dirty and the free hosting was just a bonus. I chose a theme, slapped on a Google Analytics script and promptly forgot about it for much of the last two months. It occasionally got a type in visitor, but really, the volume of hits never piqued my interest enough to spend time adding content. Until this morning. Turns out that the FantasyTees site had sneaked to the top 3 entries at Google and had become #1 at yahoo without me realizing it. And all of a sudden there was a nice slow trickle of search engine traffic. Sadly, the site was not ready for searchers. The meta description for example wasn't set and there wasn't even so much as a single post to get people to look around the site.
The reason why I listed it here was that without a single post, without a valid meta description to help woo search engine users to my site and without any kind of link building, I was able to rank very highly just by not having a parked page. Imagine what I could do with a little development of content?
This is a slightly risque site, but generally designed to be more PG-13 than R rated. It's just a site for pics of girls. It's also not a .com. I'll not divulge the extension but it is an exact match to a highly searched term (Girl Pics). I grabbed this site from a GoDaddy drop auction for the minimum bid, set it up in a similar way to FantasyTees with a couple exceptions:
1. I had a single post that linked to another one of my sites so that any traffic that happened across the site would have at least a chance to funnel some place where I had developed content and to help build back links to my other site.
2. I forwarded some traffic from another dropped domain that had traffic in anticipation of developing this great keyword site. Unfortunately that site's traffic was too good to just drop off at an undeveloped site so I eventually pointed that traffic elsewhere. What it did do though is throw me off so that I didn't notice in Google Analytics that there was actually a very large spike in search engine traffic to the site.
What had happened was that Google had at least occasionally thrown my silly little one post site up on the first page of results for searches on Girl Pics. It wasn't because of my great content or my amazing SEO skills. It was simply an exact match domain name that wasn't parked. And in some cases it got as many as 50 unique visitors in a single day, even with poor descriptive text in the search results and with absolutely no content to help drive it up the rankings and rank for other related terms. Seriously, I knew the power of a good domain but this was just silly!
I've grabbed some great .info's lately that I'm now obligated to develop! Sites like WaterPurifiers (the .com recently sold at namejet for over 15k), CollaborationTools (yes, to go along with Collaborative-Tools.com), and UnlimitedReseller which is a keyword phrase related to unlimited hosting and domain reselling, both of which have nice CPC averages as well as big affiliate pay outs. But now I'm out of time so I'll have to talk about development plans for these sites later. If you can grab an exact match, category killer name, and then actually put something... ANYTHING up... the Search engines will come to you!
Exhibit A: FantasyTees(dot)com
I had purchased this domain from a fellow domainer for not much more than a reg fee. He was testing the waters at dnforum and it was actually the first domain I bought through dnforum so I wanted to go small. I've also got a big "fantasy" fetish and our house - particularly our bookshelves - are full of fantasy works. Even my closet has it's fair share of fantasy attire so it seemed like something that fit my personal interests. Fantasy Tees gets several hundred exact match queries a month, so I figured it would be a nice small site to play with. What I try to look for though are terms that are not only exact match search terms themselves but that define a category of content. For example, we could easily have content related to fairies, World of Warcraft official t-shirts, D&D or popular fantasy movies and have highly relevant and highly ranked search content for each.
As soon as the name was transferred into my account, I setup a blogger site with the custom domain name. I know, not ideal, but I wanted something quick and dirty and the free hosting was just a bonus. I chose a theme, slapped on a Google Analytics script and promptly forgot about it for much of the last two months. It occasionally got a type in visitor, but really, the volume of hits never piqued my interest enough to spend time adding content. Until this morning. Turns out that the FantasyTees site had sneaked to the top 3 entries at Google and had become #1 at yahoo without me realizing it. And all of a sudden there was a nice slow trickle of search engine traffic. Sadly, the site was not ready for searchers. The meta description for example wasn't set and there wasn't even so much as a single post to get people to look around the site.
The reason why I listed it here was that without a single post, without a valid meta description to help woo search engine users to my site and without any kind of link building, I was able to rank very highly just by not having a parked page. Imagine what I could do with a little development of content?
Exhibit B: GirlPics
This is a slightly risque site, but generally designed to be more PG-13 than R rated. It's just a site for pics of girls. It's also not a .com. I'll not divulge the extension but it is an exact match to a highly searched term (Girl Pics). I grabbed this site from a GoDaddy drop auction for the minimum bid, set it up in a similar way to FantasyTees with a couple exceptions:
1. I had a single post that linked to another one of my sites so that any traffic that happened across the site would have at least a chance to funnel some place where I had developed content and to help build back links to my other site.
2. I forwarded some traffic from another dropped domain that had traffic in anticipation of developing this great keyword site. Unfortunately that site's traffic was too good to just drop off at an undeveloped site so I eventually pointed that traffic elsewhere. What it did do though is throw me off so that I didn't notice in Google Analytics that there was actually a very large spike in search engine traffic to the site.
What had happened was that Google had at least occasionally thrown my silly little one post site up on the first page of results for searches on Girl Pics. It wasn't because of my great content or my amazing SEO skills. It was simply an exact match domain name that wasn't parked. And in some cases it got as many as 50 unique visitors in a single day, even with poor descriptive text in the search results and with absolutely no content to help drive it up the rankings and rank for other related terms. Seriously, I knew the power of a good domain but this was just silly!
And now about .info
I've grabbed some great .info's lately that I'm now obligated to develop! Sites like WaterPurifiers (the .com recently sold at namejet for over 15k), CollaborationTools (yes, to go along with Collaborative-Tools.com), and UnlimitedReseller which is a keyword phrase related to unlimited hosting and domain reselling, both of which have nice CPC averages as well as big affiliate pay outs. But now I'm out of time so I'll have to talk about development plans for these sites later. If you can grab an exact match, category killer name, and then actually put something... ANYTHING up... the Search engines will come to you!
New Registrations
I'm going to start a series of blogs about new registrations I've made, my develop plans for them and my goals/objectives for each site. These aren't all of the names I'm working on and some projects may get dumped in favor of more fruitful pastures, but it gives an idea of what I do. If your process and/or experiences differ, please let me know! It also keeps me honest and reminds me of my own objectives. I registered two names today but I've only got time to talk about one tonight. I'll cover the other this weekend. So, without further ado -
This was in celebration (a day late) of Earth Day. Did you buy a green domain yesterday? I did some casual searching through different green ideas. Green Homes had some nice CPC (cost per click) rates, and even better numbers showed up in Green Home Plans. You can do some searching using Google's AdWords Tool to track down some niche topics and then do some searching against those niche terms to see what names are available to register. I really need to check out the tools at Domain SuperStar as they may speed up this process quite a bit. Anyway, Green Tips has a CPC of just about $1 which isn't too bad, and in just the US the keywords have almost 50k searches in March according to Google. Those aren't bad figures at all. Unfortunately there's a big old parked page at GreenTips(dot)com (available for sale at Sedo apparently, but not parked there). Well, it turns out that nearly all the other extensions were taken for GreenTips as well, except for .Me (which isn't bad here either, but I didn't reg it) and .Tv which I thought was a perfect extension for GreenTips.
I like evaluating these domains on the value of the .com and then taking a percentage of that based on the relevancy and popularity of the extension. This is not something automated tools do very well. So if you look at GreenTips(dot)com at Estibot you get a value of just $2500. I think that's low for those keyword stats and Estibot shows 0/10 ad competition which is not accurate. Sometimes you have to go with your gut (and corroborating statistics) and I'd say it's worth at least twice that. So if we say the .com is worth at least $5k, then how much is .TV worth? Well, .TV is a great extension for providing rich content and "tips" works well in that you we will be providing TV Commercial type snippets. dotTV is also moving up on sales charts with several 5 figure sales so far this year alone. In some ways it's almost caught up to .net. In this case I'd value it at a little less than %10 of the .com (%10 is a fairly common number for the .net compared to the .com), and so I valued it at around $3-400 without any development. Not a bad deal for just over $30 at Name.com. dotTV registrations are one of the more expensive ones out there which is why it's also easier to find these great names for just a reg fee... speculators and squatters can't afford $30-$40 registration fees for names they don't develop.
This site screams for "the more you know" type 30 second commercials. The best part is that I can probably get the advertisers for these green commercials to pay for spots on the site once we have some content. Everyone has an agenda! If they really are the "tree hugger with no money" type, then I can do some great link building and maybe even work out some content deals without having to build out a network of sites and tons of content myself. It's a win-win.
I still need to do a full mind map of different keywords I want to target and I need to start pulling together content. Let's say I'd like to have at least 15 articles and 3-5 video snippets developed exclusively for the site over the next 3 months. I'd also like to get a collection of public service announcements on the site as well... maybe a dozen or so. Once I have the mind map of keywords I'll have a better sense of search traffic and such but I can give rough numbers here at 3, 6 and 12 months
3 months - 500 visitors a month. $25 a month in revenue.
6 months - 1500 visitors a month. $75 a month in revenue.
12 months - 4000 visitors a month. $200 a month in revenue.
You may say those numbers are low, but I like shooting low and then beating my own expectations. That keeps me in a positive mental attitude!
Resale Target: Fully developed and at those target levels, the site would be worth no less than $6000 and if I exceed those traffic/revenue numbers even just a little, you could see this site selling for 5 figures quite easily.
Budget for 1 year: I should be able to ride entirely off my existing hosting solution, so I'll only cover development and content creation costs. Now's a good time to explain that I like to budget based on my own development as if it were contracted out at $30 an hour. That's not a bad number in case A. I get bogged down with work and have to outsource and B. It keeps my development costs honest as there is a cost to my time.
Development Resources for 1 year: 50 hours @ $30/hour = $1500
Content Creation for 1 year: $500 outsourced
Marketing/SEO/Link Building: 50 hours @ 30/hour = $1500
Total cost for 1 year comes out to $3500. I should be break even shortly there after based on my revenue projections. As you can see this is not a get rich quick scheme, but the returns could be plentiful. If I put that $3500 into a stock or CD, in 5 years I may have made $1000. If I put that $3500 towards domain development, in 5 years GreenTips.TV will likely net me well over $5000 in positive cash flow and be worth several times that in resale value. Which would you rather put your money on?
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GreenTips(dot)tv
This was in celebration (a day late) of Earth Day. Did you buy a green domain yesterday? I did some casual searching through different green ideas. Green Homes had some nice CPC (cost per click) rates, and even better numbers showed up in Green Home Plans. You can do some searching using Google's AdWords Tool to track down some niche topics and then do some searching against those niche terms to see what names are available to register. I really need to check out the tools at Domain SuperStar as they may speed up this process quite a bit. Anyway, Green Tips has a CPC of just about $1 which isn't too bad, and in just the US the keywords have almost 50k searches in March according to Google. Those aren't bad figures at all. Unfortunately there's a big old parked page at GreenTips(dot)com (available for sale at Sedo apparently, but not parked there). Well, it turns out that nearly all the other extensions were taken for GreenTips as well, except for .Me (which isn't bad here either, but I didn't reg it) and .Tv which I thought was a perfect extension for GreenTips.
Value Estimation
I like evaluating these domains on the value of the .com and then taking a percentage of that based on the relevancy and popularity of the extension. This is not something automated tools do very well. So if you look at GreenTips(dot)com at Estibot you get a value of just $2500. I think that's low for those keyword stats and Estibot shows 0/10 ad competition which is not accurate. Sometimes you have to go with your gut (and corroborating statistics) and I'd say it's worth at least twice that. So if we say the .com is worth at least $5k, then how much is .TV worth? Well, .TV is a great extension for providing rich content and "tips" works well in that you we will be providing TV Commercial type snippets. dotTV is also moving up on sales charts with several 5 figure sales so far this year alone. In some ways it's almost caught up to .net. In this case I'd value it at a little less than %10 of the .com (%10 is a fairly common number for the .net compared to the .com), and so I valued it at around $3-400 without any development. Not a bad deal for just over $30 at Name.com. dotTV registrations are one of the more expensive ones out there which is why it's also easier to find these great names for just a reg fee... speculators and squatters can't afford $30-$40 registration fees for names they don't develop.
Development Plan
This site screams for "the more you know" type 30 second commercials. The best part is that I can probably get the advertisers for these green commercials to pay for spots on the site once we have some content. Everyone has an agenda! If they really are the "tree hugger with no money" type, then I can do some great link building and maybe even work out some content deals without having to build out a network of sites and tons of content myself. It's a win-win.
Goals
I still need to do a full mind map of different keywords I want to target and I need to start pulling together content. Let's say I'd like to have at least 15 articles and 3-5 video snippets developed exclusively for the site over the next 3 months. I'd also like to get a collection of public service announcements on the site as well... maybe a dozen or so. Once I have the mind map of keywords I'll have a better sense of search traffic and such but I can give rough numbers here at 3, 6 and 12 months
3 months - 500 visitors a month. $25 a month in revenue.
6 months - 1500 visitors a month. $75 a month in revenue.
12 months - 4000 visitors a month. $200 a month in revenue.
You may say those numbers are low, but I like shooting low and then beating my own expectations. That keeps me in a positive mental attitude!
Resale Target: Fully developed and at those target levels, the site would be worth no less than $6000 and if I exceed those traffic/revenue numbers even just a little, you could see this site selling for 5 figures quite easily.
Budget for 1 year: I should be able to ride entirely off my existing hosting solution, so I'll only cover development and content creation costs. Now's a good time to explain that I like to budget based on my own development as if it were contracted out at $30 an hour. That's not a bad number in case A. I get bogged down with work and have to outsource and B. It keeps my development costs honest as there is a cost to my time.
Development Resources for 1 year: 50 hours @ $30/hour = $1500
Content Creation for 1 year: $500 outsourced
Marketing/SEO/Link Building: 50 hours @ 30/hour = $1500
Total cost for 1 year comes out to $3500. I should be break even shortly there after based on my revenue projections. As you can see this is not a get rich quick scheme, but the returns could be plentiful. If I put that $3500 into a stock or CD, in 5 years I may have made $1000. If I put that $3500 towards domain development, in 5 years GreenTips.TV will likely net me well over $5000 in positive cash flow and be worth several times that in resale value. Which would you rather put your money on?
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