Smartname Shops Adds Value To Undeveloped Product Domain Names

As I mentioned in my Smartname Content Site review the other day I had also been testing the Ecommerce templates from Smartname.com as well. As most people know the majority of their domains bring little traffic if any (Smartname, in their webinar, shows a 90/10 split), and it is impossible to fully develop hundreds (or even dozens) of sites without a large amount of capital.

Even at 200 to 400 dollars per site it becomes almost impossible for most domainers to justify developing more than a few sites to even a minimal level. Affiliate stores and other rapid development solutions are great, but if you have 1000 product names can you really develop them all?

So, if you cannot afford to develop all of your names but want traffic to them so you can justify holding them what is the answer?

Well, I must say, so far I am really happy with the Smartname Shop sites, although I just started working with them recently so I cannot speak to revenue over a long period of time, I can say that the potential is really good based on the results I am seeing.

Why? Well the sites are ranking extremely well in the search engines, not bad for something that takes less than a few minutes per site to turn up.

Here are four examples:

BMX Freestyle Bikes

Low Cost Laptop

Maternity Pillow

Cotton Bed Sheet

Yahoo is sending a nice amount of traffic to 3 of the sites now and I expect the same soon for the fourth. I am also seeing terms in Google sending traffic as well for long tail terms and the exact match terms are moving up as well.

Did I mention long tail? That is the trick here, by developing the site you are able to gather traffic from related product terms.

Although the revenue split will not be the same from doing an affiliate relationship direct with someone it is also not reasonable to think you could mass deploy either.

Now, I will say that if a domain name already has traffic I would likely not do this, but if it is minimal or is a product related name that would do well as a shop these sites are well worth considering.

As I said in my previous post, this is NOT A PAID post, this is my opinion and I really like where this is headed. Between this and the content sites I think there is real value being added to domains that previous received little or no traffic. And with the ability to insert your own Google Adsense ads you can also take full revenue from that while sharing the revenue on the products. Not a bad deal.

Looking For Traffic? Smartname Content Sites Work

While at DomainFEST last month I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ted Olson from NameMedia/Smartname.com. Ted took me through the new content site solution that Smartname has put together for domain names that currently do not have large amounts of type-in traffic but may still be great names.

After taking a look I was extremely excited to try it out as I could see that it really took automatically created sites to the next level, with just a few minutes of work per site a domain name could be taken from nothing but a domain name to a full fledged website. But until I had the chance to really get in there I wanted to be careful giving to many kudos to the system.

As someone who has developed several news aggregation sites in the past I was not concerned about the duplicate content issue that some people worry about with these type of content sites, I knew that even if a site cannot be ranked for all the leading terms, overall the long tail traffic you can pick up can still add more value to the site than just sitting there with no traffic. Dynamic sites seem to be given a green light by search engines.

Smartname.com has taken dynamic site development to the next level, after trying out the system I can say without a doubt that you can really create a site that has been SEO'ed to some degree in minutes. There was only one minor nitpick issue I came up with and it will be fixed in the next release.

When you first login and then select the domain name to manage you will see a few different options for the type of site you want to create: standard parked page, content site, or Ecomm (to be reviewed later). The site type I wanted to test first was this content site, Ted had shown me that they could get ranked, I wanted to see if they could get ranked as easily as doing so on Wordpress.

After selecting content site you can then select a theme (there are hundreds of selections ranging from Army to Finance), a color scheme, and even choose a header image. After doing this you can also manually selected keywords to be used on the site, this is very important for targeting sponsored links, etc. There are also tabs for modifying the header and footer text and images, all and all a nice setup for a quick site deployment. This also makes it easy to add text for SEO reasons as well.

When you get to advanced settings you actually get the option to add your own Adsense or affiliate ads in, thats right, along with the shared revenue from the sponsored ads you can also insert your own ads that gives you 100 percent revenue from each click or purchase. You also have the option of enabling things like social media links, etc as well from this page. When you put all this together you really have a full featured content/news aggregation site with true value to the user.

There is also a SEO configuration tab that has many useful options in it (titles, meta descriptions, etc) but what I really found useful was the fact I could add in Google Analytics and Google Webmaster info so I can manage these sites just like any other site development I have.

So, verdict on management and usefulness of the platform so far, very positive. These sites turn your non-traffic domains into real websites and bring traffic (and in most cases revenue) along. They are SEO friendly and with a few changes coming up soon this gets even better.

But, how do they rank, do they really get ranked in the search engines and bring traffic?

Well let me show you an example, a few weeks back the very first site I did was Deployed.net, even though I did the least amount of tweaking on this site (no tweaking of sponsored keywords, etc) it still ranks first page (number 6) Google based on having real content, it is a full fledged website, it also ranks very high on Yahoo as well (number 4).  From working on news sites like these before I feel confident that the ranking will stay.

A couple more sites I turned up before leaving for DMG but have not had a chance to link build yet are: MedicalQuestions.us and GreenhouseEffect.us , both of these are newly turned up but look how great they look. Great job by the Smartname team. These are names that would receive very little of any type-in traffic but as real value added websites I have added value to the property as well as revenue.

I think part of the problem that many domainers will have is that they discount the value of doing this since they look at it as parking and they are afraid their sites will not rank, in this case many of these sites turn out better than professional sites I have seen done. These are real websites not parking pages.

If you are looking for a way to turn your non-traffic names into revenue producers with minor effort and ZERO cost I recommend taking a look at the Smartname.com solution.

And, as I have made clear in other posts, this is a NON PAID post, I tested the system and liked it. I am also testing their Ecomm platform and liking the rankings I am seeing so far, look for a review on it soon.

A few things in closing, this is phase one, they have phase two coming in the very near future that adds several new features  (add your own posts, etc). Also, Ted sent the following as well:

SmartName continues to lead the industry with high payouts and the largest breadth of innovative monetization solutions (Enhanced PPC, Instant Shops and Full Content) allowing portfolio owners the opportunity to make more money from more of their portfolio - all managed from one simple dashboard. Moreover, unlike a pure-play parking company, we can link your parked pages to the industry’s leading domain marketplace where professional domain sales representatives can help sell your domain names 7 days a week. Adding a SmartName For Sale link that links directly to our Expanded Promotion network (AfternicDLS/BuyDomains) has proven to increase sales velocity by 225%. Our goal is simply to make our clients the most amount of money based on their portfolio objectives.  In sum, SmartName provides domain owners monetization solutions that fit their unique financial objectives and domain portfolio. PS – if you missed our latest webinar: Discover the Top Domain Parking and Selling Strategies for 2010, view it



here @ https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/792040306

I highly recommend listening to the webinar to get a more indepth idea what I am talking about above.

If you have turned up any names on the content site system at Smartname.com shoot me a message, I would love to see them.

Smartname.com Domain Parking Strategies Webinar Thursday Feb 4th

For those that are not aware I thought I would do a quick post about a webinar that is coming up on Thursday the 4th of February.

Smartname is holding the webinar to show off their thoughts on domain parking and selling strategies for 2010 and after seeing a demo of their new content site solution I think it would be worth attending.

Although I am not quite ready to do the full review so far I have been impressed with the ease of use and the way the content sites are coming out, as many know if you do not have type-in traffic but want to generate revenue with your site it becomes all about getting traffic with content, their system looks good so far and I look forward to writing a full review in the near future.

In the mean time if you want to sign up for the webinar sign up here.

And to be clear, this is not a paid post, but  I think we as domainers have to think about new, effective ways to monetize. I know there are some other companies working on new systems as well but so far Smartname is one of the only ones that I have been able to test myself and like what I am seeing but will hold out full judgment until I test further.

An example of a site that has been minimally tweaked is Deployed.net , this took less than 3 minutes.

Thoughts On The AEIOU.com Minisite Business Closure

I usually shy away from any sort of reporting that has been hit by several others but in this case I wanted to at least say a bit since I have had some level of success with some of my AEIOU.com sites.

First off I think people are missing what happened, no one said Minsites do not work as a way to add some added value and traffic to a domain as compared to parking. What Rick Latona said was that there was no money in selling them for 200 dollars. Big difference, if you think about the cost of having someone manually create the site, do the link building, write all the content and then manage the customer there was not much margin left in it.

What Rick did say is that they are continuing to use the resources to create sites for their in-house needs. I am not sure what Rick is finding, but I personally have had some really nice deals done after someone made an offer through one of my sites.

For me minisites are the first step to real development and in many cases can be used to augment a larger development.That is how I use them today, they are not the prime business, they augment and enhance a larger project.

I personally would not put a lot of time into manually creating a site step by step, I always look for ways to automate the process which drives cost out. There are somethings in the minisite process that can be automated but there are still a couple steps that are not automated (quality link building, quality content). But if you have the content then finding an automated creation system is the key. That is the only way to make it cost effective.

I have recently did a couple just for fun, just to test a few things, but in reality the time involved will only be profitable if the domain would sell through the site. If you value your time then you have to factor that in and PPC revenue for most minisites will not make up for time spent. Although, if you are using the minisite as part of a larger plan then the PPC is not a factor and the value can be judged differently.

It is no secret that my main focus is full scale development but there is a need for a smaller scale development option, but as Rick Latona found, it is not worth it if he has to sell them at 200 and make slim margins. This is a niche industry so making it up on volume is not an option.

My biggest problem is finding the affiliate links and taking them out now.....

Kudos to Rick for standing up and telling people the truth. Smart move.

Dropped Domain to Minisite in The Same Day

With my focus lately on my geo developments I have not spent much time on domain drops or minisites. In the past week though I spent sometime going through drop lists and one of the names I acquired on SnapNames was DallasTexasMortgage.com which has a solid exact match result in the Google Adwords Keyword Tool with 8,100 local exact match searches and has a solid PPC value as well. For a financial or mortgage name I was pleased with those numbers.

After acquiring it yesterday I realized I had not put one site together in a few months, I thought it may be fun to spend a couple hours turning it up and building a few links. First thing I had to do was determine if I was going to use Wordpress or standard HTML. I chose to base it on one of the templates I had received from AEIOU.com in the past.

After choosing the theme it was time to make the modifications needed, I had someone throw together a quick header for me since I admittedly have no graphic skills and then I started making the proper changes to the site titles (per page), made the proper SEO changes to name of each file of the site, and then started to write the content. By no means is the site full of information, but for the time I was allowing myself I did not expect to have the be all end all of a mortgage resource site, that happens over time. My attitude is if you never start you can never finish.

After writing the content and making the proper title and meta tag changes it was time to load up the site which took less than just  a few seconds since it was a simple 5 page site. After that though a few links needed to be built to at least start the process, a few tweets, a couple stumbleupons, and a few posts on blogs that we have that get reasonable traffic and we were good to go there.

I expect Dallas Texas Mortgage to be a reasonably tough term to get ranked for but with the larger development plans we have for this name and some other links that we have at our disposal I hope to work this one up the Google search results over time. At the end of the day though this was done for fun and it should turn into profit as well, I was missing having my hands on the keyboard and turning up a site. From the time I started to the time I finished was less than 2 hours. Still some more link building to do but I am more pleased with this than I would of been with a purely parked site.

Domain Buy Offers From My Minisites

Although I do not speak about my AEIOU.com minisites as much here of late due to my focus on my full business development of Missouri.me and my other Geo domain names I do still keep tabs on them and do link building and other items related to the tender loving care of the sites. The majority of them are revenue generating and most lived up to the 10 month ROI that I was hoping for.

But, most importantly the thing that has been most surprising is the sales that have occurred from the For Sale link on the Minisite. I was always a bit skeptical about putting a For Sale link on a domain minisite since I was concerned about it pushing actual users away from the site even if the information on the site was useful. Luckily though that seems to not of been an issue since the CTR on most of the sites is quite solid (in some cases it exceeds 20 percent).

In the past 2 months I have had offers through the For Sale link on 3 different domains, 2 of them are closed deals and a 3rd we could not come to terms but if we had even at the offer that I received and turned down it would of been a profitable transaction. Also, before someone thinks that these are $500 deals after spending $200 on a minisite plus the domain cost that would not be the case. Both of the closed deals were mid $x,xxx, oh yeah and they were .NET domains.

The percentage of offers on these names compared to parked names or minisites without an obvious For Sale sign has been a bit surprising. I did not expect the largest profit to come from domain offers compared to Adsense revenue from these AEIOU.com sites.

This is one time I am very happy to of been proven wrong, I honestly expected the offers to dry up on these names after a site was developed on it. I like surprises:)

Ebay Affiliate Ads Instead of Google Adsense

I have not had the time to actually build many minisites lately do to a crazy schedule but tonight thought I would try something different than what I have done in the past. 

Although I have never focused much on affiliate ads and have always relied on Google Adsense and parking income I knew that to start increasing revenues I would have to get out of the Adsense addiction.  I have had accounts with Commission Junction and Linkshare for sometime but had been hearing some really good things (Thanks Bill!) about using PhpBay to integrate Ebay ads into your Wordpress blog in a very nice looking manner.

I actually started testing out the various functions of this nice script last night on ifones.com and plan on actually reducing the number of adsense ads I have and working to build more affiliate income. 

Tonight though I decided to focus on creating a more store like site, due to my wifes love of shoes I have managed to pick up several nice shoe related names based on her "inspiration", Stiletto Sandals is a term that gets searched several thousand times a month and is a very solid product focused term for a site such as this.

I also recently acquired Stiletto.net on a Godaddy auction and plan to implement something similar on it as well.

Before someone says, hey where is the content on StilettoSandals.com , the writer is already working on it and the site will have quite a few nice product focused articles on each of the types of Stilettos.

Now, I must say, this had to be one of the strangest research projects ever when it came to searching for various things for the writer to focus on and pics to include.  Some of the stuff on Flickr was pretty funny....

If you are looking to integrate Ebay into your wordpress site you may want to check out PHPBay.

100 Domains Moved to Whypark.com Today

Although I am a big fan of minisite development  and also use Parked.com and SedoPro for domain parking I have also had a Whypark.com account for a couple years but have never used it to its full potential. Well, today that stops.

Although people have voiced concerns about the potential for duplicate content and also unrelated content at times, the overall upside to using the Whypark.com base services outweigh those concerns from the experience I have had with some past names I used Whypark for.

Although I am still plan to continue development and outsourcing of  both minisites and fully developed websites I think the Whypark.com system is a nice middle ground.  After seeing parking revenues decline and my minisite revenues continue to climb it only makes sense to use the tools at hand (i.e. my lightly used Whypark.com account).

I plan on also taking advantage of their premium services such as content creation and syndication, they announced these services sometime back but I have yet to take advantage of them. When taking advantage of these services the Whypark.com system will no longer be a middle group but becomes no different than the unique content based sites that I have been focused on.

Over the next couple months I expect to report back on initial success with the domains I have moved, it will be nice to see direct comparisons between their parking stats and Whypark.com stats. 

I moved 100 names over today, all keyword rich, all but a few .COM, .NET and .ORG names. I have made no tweaks to the autogenerated sites that Whypark put into place and will be using the Whypark ad feed. 

Although I do not expect Whypark to be the ultimate answer for some of my domains, I do think domainers with keyword rich domains that have seen shrinking parking revenues could use the system to their advantage. I expect it to be the answer to my "needing more hours in a day" request I keep asking for:)

Interview with Web Developer and Domainer Tia Wood

 

With todays push on web development for domainers and the decrease in PPC revenues hitting the bottom line of most domainers, finding a web development partner that understands the mindset of domainers is more important than ever.  With that in mind I bring you an interview with Web Developer, Writer, AND Domainer Tia Wood.

 

Tia, you have an appealing array of interests, whether it be music, writing, or web development: your passion shines through. Can you tell me a bit about your passion for writing and music?

Art is a very powerful form of expression especially when the subject has no words that can justify its meaning. For instance: how does one describe love? Or envy? Or human suffering? Some things are best shown in some form. That's why I believe every individual has an interesting story we can all learn from best told via some type of art medium: writing, music, graphic design, photography, philosophy, etc.

This is a personal side of me many people do not know but stems back to childhood. Art is in my blood. I remember in 3^rd grade, I wrote a poem about the Gulf War and was made to read it in front of the entire school. I won little awards throughout my school years for my writing. I write for selfish reasons: to relax my mind and relieve stress. Other than that, I do not care to be famous by it.

Music is the other beast. I always have music playing somewhere: on my computer, in my car or singing out loud. Even my daughter cannot fall asleep without it. Me and her both sing. Even my extended family has some sort of musical ability in one form or another.

Photography and philosophy are my other hobbies. Photography is about capturing perspectives. The same as with philosophy.  

They must feel I'm rude at church because I draw in an art book while the preacher is talking instead of looking at him.  The point is: I do these things and I do them ALL THE TIME whether it is through writing, music, art, graphic design, etc.

How are you so sure that your reality is the correct perspective if you don't try to look through someone else's eyes? I guarantee you it is not and if you neglect this side of yourself you are missing out on the vast understanding that one gains ONLY by learning what others already MASTERED.  

 

Tell us a bit about the process of writing a novel, the focus and dedication that it takes is impressive.

Novel writing is an exhausting process that requires constant care. You have to be interested in writing, for one and interested in your subject. But all it requires is one page at a time. If you write three pages a day, you can work yourself to a novel over time. Write first, edit later. The same goes for those interested in eBook writing.  Or anything else you would like to accomplish. To build a house: lay one brick at a time. To build out your domain portfolio: concentrate on one concept at a time, one page at a time.

 

Not only do you have the ability to express yourself with words, you also have musical talent. What instruments do you play? Do you have a good karaoke story?

I play acoustic guitar. Several of my family members do as well. When I was a teenager, I would sit outside in the Florida night and sing songs I wrote that day. I never formally learned to play but I play by ear. Which reminds me: it's time to buy an electric guitar, lol! We haven't had guitars in the house for awhile and my daughter is old enough to learn. That should be fun.

The word "karaoke" is something close to heart. When my grandfather, Terri, was alive he would take me fishing at the Florida lakes when I was a kid. I suck at fishing but we had fun. On some nights, he would take me to karaoke.  He also played guitar and had an exceptional voice. He would sing songs such as "White Sport Coat" and "Teddy Bear". The first time I sang in front of a crowd was with him at age 11. I sang Boys II Men, "On Bended Knee" in a room packed full of adults. I was a nervous wreck! To this day, I still get terrible stage fright even though I have been told I'm not a bad singer.

 

So your creative side obviously leads to a talent for web design and vision of what a site can look like. How do you approach the start of a project?

In web development, I would say there is a good balance between functionality and graphic design required. However, if a site doesn't function properly, it's just a pretty photo album. What keeps me interested in web development even though it can get fairly technical is the creative approach to solving problems and developing solutions for a client.

Some people overlook the scope of work and vision required that goes into the backend of development. The initial approach is focused on what the individual is trying to achieve with their site whether it be for profit, promotion or data capture. Each project is a different challenge in its own unique way. No project is ever the same even if it's just a Wordpress installation.

 

So, tell us a bit about your domain investments, what extensions do you buy, what's your thought process on buying a domain?

I tend to focus mostly on .com. I purchase names based on long term goals and choose those I know I can attack with a business plan. It's too late to buy one word generic domains. Buying for development is how I make up for this handicap.

One of the great things about domaining is you can still choose what niche you want to focus on and succeed. Some may buy for SEO. Others may buy for revenue. It doesn't matter. But focus on something and do that something well.

 

Give us your thoughts on mini sites and mass development.

Mini sites and mass development have their audience but are for a specific type of domain and a specific type of domainer. You should never, ever develop a website you are trying to launch a business with in this method. There are better ways to serve your audience versus slapping together pages so it won't sit empty. For instance, an article I wrote titled "The New Under Construction Page" talks about this. If you want your website to do something other than serve a blank page while waiting for development: COLLECT DATA! Which is more valuable to you: a few dollars from a user you will never see again or a guaranteed contact who is interested in your website? Never sell yourself short for the almighty click through.

 

OK, you gotta give the story behind BulkDevelopment.com. Your focus is obviously on full development. What led to this fun little test?

I'm normally a private, quiet person. But lately I see individuals attempting to provide glorified MFA (made for adsense) sites and trying to claim this method is "web development". While technically it is: these types of websites have already been proven a failure when they were branded as MFA sites. I'm not referring to real solutions that attempt to provide alternatives to domain parking such as MiniSites.com, WhyPark.com and AEIOU.com. I'm speaking about individuals who promote these glorified MFA sites but yet cannot provide real examples of their success.

I realize this was partially my fault because I choose not to educate people for so long. It's my fault and the domain developers like me. BulkDevelopment.com was the silence breaker. Since then, I restructured my main blog at TiaWood.com to further educate domainers on the differences. The response has been fantastic. I want domainers to know the difference between mini sites, mass development and full scale development.

There are great consequences if you don't know what you are working with. What if you under develop a domain? You will miss out on how powerful the domain can perform. What if you over develop a name? You lose money and time. There is no "one size fits all" to development.

 

dnRehab.com and BulkDevelopment.com are both fun domainer spoofs, any other sites of your own that may be of interest to domainers?

In addition to those, DomainIdeaBox.com was created for my personal use but I wanted to share this tool with domainers.  The tool sorts keywords into "data sets" or categories and allows you to generate ideas based on keywords before or after the data keywords. I use this all the time, especially for Geo names. Search results are not saved as I highly value domainer privacy. It's a neat little tool that makes hand registrations easier.

 

Who do you admire in the domain industry and why?

Whew! Too many to name. There are a lot of domainers worth respecting for many different reasons. But Sahar Sarid and Frank Schilling always are at the top of my list of people I admire. How they both entered domaining is inspiring and shows their dedication as individuals.

 

My daughter took a particular liking to one of your client sites: LittleSantaClaus.com. How do your sites perform in search engines? Can you give some examples of results?

It's funny you say that because I actually had my eight year old daughter help me with that site.  She was my critic.

For LittleSantaClaus.com, we targeted particular keywords that were commonly searched: santa books, santa claus wallpaper, etc and have already been indexed for those terms. The site is appearing on the 1^st page under multiple targeted keywords. The development is not complete at the time of this interview. We plan to target the keyword "santa claus" by Christmas of this year.

By the way, those of you with kids should check out the site. It's about a book series called "The Little Santa Book Series: The Childhood Adventures of Santa Claus" written by Sergio R. Rodriguez.  The first book available is called "Little Santa and Snowboy" which is beautifully illustrated by Simon Scales. I'm personally excited about these books because it presents a different aspect about Santa Claus and the character designs are amazing.

 

 

You recently learned you had Hashimoto's Disease.  Can you tell us more about Hashimoto's and how it affects you?

Hashimoto's Disease is an autoimmune chronic illness that attacks the thyroid gland and causes thyroid disease. For six months, I knew I had thyroid disease but recently discovered the underlying cause: Hashimoto's Disease. So basically, one disease caused the other. I have had Hashimoto's all my life without knowing it. It attacked my thyroid over the years until it was no longer functional.

The thyroid gland controls many functions in your body: weight, metabolism, mentality, emotions, etc and produces hormones that control and throttle these functions. With thyroid disease, these hormones are either produced too much or too little (in my case too little) and affect a person in so many negative ways.

I am outspoken about having this illness because of my initial misdiagnosis. This illness causes symptoms very close to bipolar disease. Therefore, I initially went to a psychiatrist instead of a doctor. I was diagnosed and treated for a mental illness instead of a physical illness. I was put on lithium and suffered a month of hell from the wrong diagnosis. It is important for people with these symptoms to seek not only multiple tests but multiple opinions from different doctors.

More information about that story here: Tia's Story

Hashimoto's Disease information here: Hashimoto's Disease Info

 

What projects are you currently working on: personal or for clients?

One project is DrugReform.com that debates the topic of drug reform. This site has an interesting social presentation that allows people to present both sides of the opinion spectrum uncensored. We are focusing on social marketing. It will be interesting to see how this format shapes itself.

Another client project is popular.ME; the first in a series of the .me domain extension I'm developing for a client. This, too, has a social marketing aspect and I can't wait to launch it.

For my personal work, I have a couple sites next in queue: NameHoney.com and HashimotosDisease.us. I don't want to mention the development focus for NameHoney.com yet but it will benefit domainers. HashimotosDisease.us will be an awareness and support site for individuals suffering with Hashimoto's Disease.

 

What do you have planned for the future?

Ah, the future is bright and full of possibilities. Last year, I discovered the power of social marketing. Therefore, I have been focusing more and more on using this type of promotion in combination with development. The projects that solely use this method are almost complete and I'm very excited to explore this further. I have discovered new mediums that even domainers aren't fully aware of yet. I'm terribly excited about it but I plan to take my time to explore them fully. All I can say is: watch what happens next! There will be major contributions to the domain industry coming in the future.

 

Thanks to Tia for taking the time to give her views on Web Development and Domaining!

Minisite To Google First Page In Less Than Month

Its been about a month since launched the Mathbooks.net minisite. I thought it would be good to review the results of the launch of this keyword rich minisite.

First off this site was done a little different than others I have done in the past. I had originally planned to build the site myself but due to time constraints I chose to outsource to AEIOU.com. So, this site is a combination of keyword researched content written by a selected writer I use for many of my sites and SEO and site development done by AEIOU.com. I also did a bit of my own link building but the majority was done by AEIOU.com.

Rather than take you through all 15 keyword selections I chose to target we will show the results for the top two: Math Books and Mathbooks. These are the most generic terms that could be chosen other than the singular version of the words which normally means that they will also be the most competitive. Math Books was shown to have a search volume of 90,500 in the month of March per the Google Keyword Research Tool.

Before the minisite I was getting anywhere from 1 to 3 visits per day parked. This created revenue but I knew I could do better with a site if I could rank well for the terms selected.

Well, the results are in, currently if you search for the term Math books the site ranks between 4 and 6 (seems to move around a bit but always consistent) and Mathbooks is ranking in the 4th spot. That is in less than a month, first page for a generic keyword in less than a month is a very solid result and shows that the work and investment can pay off.

Traffic is more than 10 times the visits per day than parked and revenue has obviously increased along with that. I very soon will be implementing Ebay Affiliate Ads on the page as well which should allow for even further increased revenues.

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