Domain Names

With all the good type-in names taken, domain parking has lost its luster. Domain Development is the next big opportunity for domain name investors like yourself.

Here’s a quick ‘to do’ list for you to get started, and if you think this information is useful, I highly recommend you take a look at my step by step illustrated domain development guidebooks. They walk you through the process of rapidly launching content rich, SEO optimized, search engine friendly, feature rich, web sites, image galleries, discussion forums, and social networks.

Good business-people know that time is money, and I can guarantee you that if you are interested in boosting your domain income through domain development, you will be able to launch professional looking fully featured ‘premium’ web sites much faster and more efficiently if you follow my guidebooks, versus if you start from scratch and try to do it yourself. Your time is valuable, and $50, the price of my guidebooks, is a small price to pay if it saves you hours of research and trial and error.

I wrote the Beyond Domaining guidebooks because I wish I had had something like them when I entered the domain name industry and was getting my butt kicked not knowing what I was doing. If you buy my guidebooks you will be able to launch better sites, much quicker, and you can focus on higher value projects much sooner. My guidebooks can be found at Beyond Domaining.

Below is a quick high level primer on getting started with domain development. My guidebooks carefully walk you through the steps of launching feature rich, web sites, image galleries, discussion forums, and social networks.

1) Set up a hosting account at your favorite registrar. We recommend jRegister.com. They offer reliable professional web sites and domain names and free open source software installations at a very low cost. jRegister.com allows you host multiple database driven web sites on your single hosting account. The Beyond Domaining guidebooks walk you through the step by step process of setting up your hosting account.

2) Install a Content Management System (CMS). Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla are your best bets. WordPress is the best for newbies. The designs and functionality are professional and the installation and management is the easiest. There are many advantages to Drupal and Joomla, but for newbies / non-developers / non-programmers those advantages are probably out of your reach. The Beyond Domaining guidebooks shows you exactly how to install your CMS and gives you tips and tricks to ‘optimize’ the installation. The Beyond Domaining guidebooks give you a ‘running start’.

3) Once you get the ‘framework’ of your site up and running, you’ll have to customize it and configure it. There are all kinds of tips and tricks that can make your site look, and more importantly, function, like a professional web site. This includes integration with things like: Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, Auto Search Engine Submission, SEO Optimization, XML Sitemaps, Cache-ed Pages, Photo Galleries, etc, etc. This is where the Beyond Domaining guidebooks really excel. They show you all the ‘tweaks’ and tips and tricks in a very easy to follow step by step illustrated fashion.

Without the Beyond Domaining guidebooks, this will take a good amount of time for a newbie, probably a few months of research and trial and error until you actually ‘get it’ ‘for real’. And once you learn how to do these things, you can actually make a lot of money on AdSense. That money grows over time as your sites gain inbound links and greater trust from search engines. Most of my developed names that used to make a few dollars per year on parking services like Parked.com, Domain Sponsor, and Fabulous, now make a few dollars per day as developed sites. More importantly, because of the unique SEO strategies I lay out in my guidebooks, my revenues are now growing with inbound links, free content, and user generated data, whereas before, on parking pages, they were declining.

4) Once the framework of your site is up and running you need to fill it with content. This might include you handwriting articles. But the better strategy is to gather free articles from various sources on the web. There are a lot of other sources out there for free articles. You just need to know where to find them and how best to work with them. The Beyond Domaining guidebooks show you the best ones and how to actually use those sources. Another way to do this is to hire these articles out to freelancers at places like Craigslist. Its also important to develop different pages of content for the most popular keywords related to your site. You should use a keyword tool like Google’s AdWords Keyword tool:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Type in your keywords and then write / acquire articles targeted at the most popular keywords. The SEO results will come from unique content.

5) Once you’re finished filling your site with content, you can start marketing it through link building and article marketing campaigns strategies. Our Rapid Web Site guidebook details these strategies.

6) Be patient. Domain Development is not a quick fix. It typically takes 1 – 3 months before your site gets fully ‘picked up’ by the search engines. Sometimes it can take up to a year – read this Case Study on Income Results from Developing a Hand Registered Domain Name. But once these sites are up and running, they’re basically like little soldiers that bring back a lot more ‘plunder’ to their master than those pathetic domain parking pages did.

If you found this post useful, please remember, good business-people know that time is money, and I can guarantee you that if you are interested in boosting your domain income through domain development, you will be able to launch professional looking fully featured ‘premium’ web sites much faster and more efficiently if you follow my guidebooks, versus if you start from scratch and try to do it yourself. The Beyond Domaining guidebooks are the books I wish I had read when I got started developing my domain names. I would have been able to go from parked revenue to developed domains revenue much more quickly. The series of guidebooks can be found at Beyond Domaining.

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