Working Online - Other Projects
Hi, I am aware that it has been a month since my last post, the reason is that I have not been working much on new domain acquisitions, nor domaining in general. I have been occupied with another project of mine, a brand new project in which I have invested most of my time while in front of the PC. Apart from the fact that I used one of the domains from my own domain portfolio for the new site, the project itself is not related to the domain business, more like related to the domain development business.
I have had a hard time lately keeping up with all my new domain acquisitions, where most of them is never developed due to lack of time from my part. I also, by far, prefer to spend my time finding new domains compared to the development process, it actually bores me a bit. This was actually the reason why I started thinking about my new project. I wanted to focus all my energy into one site so I did not have to do all that darn routine work every day, setting up Wordpress sites, installing plugins, ftp transferring, adding sites to domain marketplaces, creating content etc.
So I have debuted into the world of blogging, or more precisely managing a full time blog. I still do not have much time to write content myself which is the reason I buy most of it from professional writers and instead focus on finding article ideas (topics and keywords). My plans and hopes is that the site in time will gain Page Rank and thereby start ranking high in search engines for the low competition keywords I find.
I am excited to see how it all ventures and to find out if there is money to be made in the sphere of blogging. I will, however, never quit domaining, be sure of that. Right now my focus and energy is just channeled elsewhere.
Take care!
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2009-04-02
¿¿ Domain Parking — What brings the visitors to the parking sites ??
My question is related to Solid Namer’s posting in the sense that the blog he is working on must also wrestle with essentially the same question that I am asking.
Here is the specific example:
I purchased a domain at a very low price. It is a meaningless combination of five vowels. I parked that domain at NameDrive.com and in the first two weeks it got 159 views and 17 clicks, and earned $0.88 revenue.
I am surprised that the parking site for that meaningless domain name got any traffic at all, especially since the items advertised at that site are only related to each other in a very general way. Please help me to understand that:
¿¿ What chains of events led those 159 viewers to arrive at that parking site in just two weeks, a site where I personally would expect to see no traffic ever.??
Thank you.
Sincerely, Atufo
Hi Atufo!
Good question which I am afraid only Google can fully answer.
Of course it all depends on which type of traffic your domain was generating. It is very likely that the traffic is generated from old back links if the domain used to be an active site. In that case you can expect it to continue for several years. If the visitors have been pure search engine generated traffic I would say that you have been lucky that the SEs have found something they could use on the site. However, the traffic will most likely be short termed as parked pages are thin in nature.
In regards to blog post rankings I am personally experimenting with popular search terms with little competition in Google. It is easier to rank well and generate traffic with low competition long tail keywords.
Regards
Solid Namer
Hi Solid Namer.
Thanks for your ideas on what brings the visitors to my parked-domain site.
You also wrote:
In regards to blog post rankings I am personally experimenting with popular search terms with little competition in Google. It is easier to rank well and generate traffic with low competition long tail keywords.
So let me ask your opinion:
I, too, think niche-marketing is an excellent strategy. But since I am almost new to Internet advertising, I don’t yet know how to find those “low competition long tail keywords”. Is that term just a shorthand way of saying “post on topics that interest you” or is there actually a systematic way to find the low-competition long-tail keywords that have interest/traffic behind them?
Sincerely, Atufo
You could use Google adwords keyword tool to find keyphrases with low competition. Paste the keywords into Google search in quotation marks and see the amount of pages competing for the phrase.
You could also use paid keyword tools like wordtracker.com to find the hidden gems.
Solid Namer wrote on April 3rd, 2009 at 7:37 am
Paste the keywords into Google search in quotation marks and see the amount of pages competing for the phrase….
Atufo writes:
It is very encouraging to know that you measure the competition for a given keyphrase by looking at how
many pages Google reports for it, because that has been my understanding too.
But I do have some questiion about the idea of using a quoted search to find low competition keyphrases.
I am wondering whether using quotation marks in that way is really the best way to test whether a keyphrase
brings up only a few report items for a typical searching person to choose from.
The essential words are: “for a typical searching person”.
Only a small portion of people who use Google know about the benefits of using quotation marks.
And anyway, many seekers are doing a less-focused search and don’t insist on the exact phrase.
For those reasons (and sometimes from laziness) the typical searching person just types in a
keyphrase without quotes.
That makes it a lot harder for us to find a keyphrase that will allow a page to stand out, because many more pages
appear for an un-quoted keyphrase. Nevertheless, I think it makes sense to put more emphasis on the un-
quoted search, since that is what most people use.
Naturally, even after one finds a keyphrase that brings up a smaller number of pages, it is still necessary to
make ones own page rise to the top of the search list among those pages, and for that purpose there are so
many more variables to consider than just the keyphrase itself: domain name, URL, page title, how many
times the phrase appears, size and boldness of type the phrase appears in, surrounding text, variations of the phrase that appear, many aspects of links and backlinks, etc. etc.
Even wihin a low-competition long-tail region, quoted and unquoted keyphrases can bring different search
results for a page that is attempting to pull in traffic for that phrase: A page that is on top of the search report
for a quoted search phrase can be far down on the search report for an unquoted search phrase. We have
seen many examples of that. So in my opinion, the way to test the traffic-pulling power of a page that is
focused on a given keyphrase is with the un-quoted search on the keyphrase, because the results for an un
-quoted search can be very different, and the unquoted search is what most people use.
Naturally, the best keyphrases/pages are the ones that put a page at the top of the search report either way, quoted
or un-quoted. For example, consider the keyphrase: evolve spiritually. That phrase is definitely a low
competition long tail keyword, because a Google search brings up only 191,000 pages for the unquoted
keyphrase and 11,200 for the quoted keyphrase. Both searches bring up almost all the same URL’s in the
top 10 top spots.
In summary:
Therefore, to me, it makes more sense to make look for keyphrases that bring the desired results when searched without quotes, because
(a) un-quoted searches outnumber quoted searches many-to-one.
(b) therefore a keyphrase/page that is near the top in an un-quoted search bring more traffic than one in a
quoted search
(c) sometimes, an un-quoted keyphrase (used by meny) puts a page low down a search report, even though
a quoted phrase (used by few) puts the page at the top of the search report.
(d) such phrases do exist and it is possible to find them
But that is just my opinion, and no doubt there are other considerations I have not thought of that may change
my outlook.
How do you see it?
Sincerely, Atufo
I see what you mean, and I agree. The real competition of a given keyphrase is found by searching Google without quotes, simply because that is how most people use it. When using quotes in Google you do, however, get a fast overview of the competition. Often times the number of sites found using quotations reflects the number of sites when searched without. That is not always the case which is why you SHOULD try searching without quotes if you want to dig deep into a niche. Finding low competition keywords in bulk, however, is easier when using quotes since that only brings up the most relevant pages which you would normally have the hardest time outranking.
Solidnamer:
“Finding low competition keywords in bulk, however, is easier when using quotes.”
Thank you. I will try that.
Thanks as ever, Atufo
The new focus on blogging will be on this blog, or on a different one? I see no links to other blogs in your blog-roll.
Hi it is another blog, but I have done a lot of outsourcing on it to make it self running (which has been the plan from the beginning). I am focusing more on SolidNamer again now.
Thanks
Hello, Solidnamer,
I have been wondering how your full-time blog is doing. When may we see it, and how can we find it?
Also, did you go to the US, and what was it like?
Hi again Atufo good to hear from you.
I am not too happy about revealing my projects, sorry. But I did have a very good time in the states, thank you. Actually I have been there about 3 times since last we spoke. Recently I went to Montana to pan after gold
unfortunately we did not become rich 
Are you still domaining?
Personally I have become better at developing my names. So my focus is not entirely on the domain name niche anymore, but rather a combination of domaining and niche marketing.
I have now started a SEO company helping local businesses dominate big G.