Building a website is just the first step. Search engine optimization (SEO) will get your site listed in Google and other search engines. That's a good start, but marketing and promotion will bring in even more traffic.
If you own domains that you are not using you can park them and earn money. These parked domains can even earn more than fully developed domains. Sounds simple, right? It can be, but it may be hard to know how to start. I spend a lot of time helping people earn money from domain parking at parkquick.com. This site will be more free-form. I'll add stuff here that's too brief or too ephemeral to add to ParkQuick.
I'm coming at this from a different angle. I'm a domainer first. I'm learning the rest of it. I'll share a lot of what I learn - but who shares everything?
- Leonard Holmes
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We thought we’d make it easy for you to become an Expert Domainer, without having to try much. Here’s a mini guide on what you need to keep in mind so that others view you as a person of great importance, when in fact you have no background with domains, no history of sales, no development portfolio and no real place in the industry other than the pathetic domain portfolio that you’ve amassed. 1. Get a blog. Call it “FirstNameBlog.com” or if that’s already taken go after “FirstNameLastNameBlog.com” 2. Install Wordpress and get a $27 skin for it. 3. Start blogging about your day: what you did with yourself, or your girlfriend or about something you read in another blog. 4. Blog about something your friend wrote in another blog and link to it. Ask your friend to blog about what you did and to link to yours. Infinite loop. 5. Tweet and blog about your blog. Don’t forget to thank people for retweeting your thanks and blog about it. Then tweet about it again. Tell your friends to tweet about your tweets and blog about them as well. 6. Mention the latest GoDaddy coupons and where you can get web hosting for under $5. Anything cheap or free is a great subject on your way to become a celebrity “Expert Domainer”.
I don’t know about you, but a future without URLs and without the infinite organicity of the web frightens me. It’s not that I know what we’ll lose by removing this artifact of one of the most generative periods in history — and that’s exactly the point! The URL and the ability for anyone to mint a new one and then propagate it is what makes the web so resilient, so empowering, and so interesting! That I don’t need to ask anyone permission to create a new website or webpage is a kind of ideological freedom that few generations in history have known!
Twitter Flip-Flops On Advertising
Twitter has opened the door for advertisers to target its millions of users for the first time, as it desperately looks to find a way of making money from the “micro-blogging” phenomenon. The move marks a softening of attitude at the website, which has 45 million users, has overtaken MySpace in the UK but has yet to find a business model to bring in consistent revenues.
