I need help ! I own domains, quite a bit of them. 80 to be exact. I'm just thinking of the possible ways to monetize them. I was into domaining two years ago and got quite a bit of them. I was in the military for two years and with little internet access and little money, many of my domains has expired, and i'm now left with the last 80. I've got no savings, probably about 1 grand left. Besides parking my domains. What else do you all think I should do with my domains? I was thinking of developing sites for my domains. And placing Ads on them? What do you think? I was thinking of signing up with Ad Networks and Affiliates. Commission Junction Google Adsense Amazon Afiliates Would there be any other reliable Ad Networks or Affliates I should sign up with? Should I also sign up with Clickbank? Or get some dropshippers? But how reliable are dropshippers?
make a basic site about the niche your domains are based on, have a modest ammount of adsense etc, and there maybe a few CPA offers?
nope, they're not similar in niche. in fact all my domains varies from different niche. do you all think it would be a good idea if i show my domains here?
Yes its a good idea to show your domain here so that we can give you idea how to develop it. I would recommend you rent the domain to 3rd party to let them develop the domain.
IMHO - prioritize the domains, you may do a simple domain appraisal on Sedo for free and it would let you know a ball park for each domain. Also use forums to get the domains appraised so as to get a second opinion. Once you have the data for all 80 - remove the bottom 50% from your portfolio - either get rid of them for selling them off at reg price or whatever deal you may get, or create directories on all of them (directories get good traffic if made well - and good money if you can offer unique IP's - and start taking bulk submission service for 40 odd directories !) For the remaining 50%, - convert at least 50% of them to auto blog on the niche that the domain name is for - and use ads to generate revenue - at least enough to allow you to recover the reg fees and hosting costs. That would leave you with about 20 odd domains that need to be really developed with good original content and smart ad and seo mix to give you decent revenue as well as a platform to generate more traffic for your sites. Do remember that each site if hosted on unique IP - would do wonders for your search engine optimization, so instead of taking a unlimited hosting account, invest wisely in small packages with various hosts and watch your sites turn into a money making machine in 4-6 months! HTH G PS: We offer some of the services I have mentioned in the post - like auto blogging WP installation and hosting. Let me know via PM if you are interested in details.
nice thanks a lot pubdomainshost.com but then , how accurate are appraisals? and if i used a shared hosting, would results still be as good?
I'm also wondering " Do remember that each site if hosted on unique IP - would do wonders for your search engine optimization, so instead of taking a unlimited hosting account, invest wisely in small packages with various hosts and watch your " sites turn into a money making machine in 4-6 months! " Does each site have to be hosted on a unique IP ?
Hosting 50 sites on one server (i.e 1 IP address) would be considered as a link farm by Google. Most SEO experts recommend NOT TO USE link farms as the Google penalty could hurt your commercial interests badly. 50 IP's for 50 sites is good, however you may end up spending a lot for each site on account of hosting, so perhaps you could start with 2-5 sites on each IP and as you generate traffic and revenue, move 'em over to new homes if you retain them. On the accuracy of appraisals front - there is no thumb rule for that - thus not accurate at all, a meaningless name in english could be valuable asset in some other language - thus difficult to predict, hence the recommendation to get feedback from one or two sources before you decide what is good for you to hold and what is useless (until you know the real meaning ... or the value) HTH!
i dont think so no, put it this way i know people who are earning $4000+ a month with unlimited hosting.. they only way to find out is if you test it!!!