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climbing mount google

Earlier this week, i discovered the internet equivalent of a goldmine.

As we all know goldmines are priceless… but they don’t mine themselves… it takes time, effort and patience. The problem i’m faced with now is something most people struggle with - i have to rank no.1 in google 19 times across 19 niches in order to cement this larger niche over (I have 19 different domains).

Yes, i have the keyword.com’s, but i face tough opposition from some of the biggest sites out there - amazon, ebay, apple, expansys to name a few. It’s a massive task and will put my SEO skills to the test.

The domains themselves are worth a small fortune, but the real value is ranking front page on google for all of their terms - that’s ultimately what anyone buying the domains would have to do anyway to really see massive returns.

I’ve already set up 19 different sites, all using wordpress. I’ve decluttered them all and installed my favorite plugins. I’ll now have to find some SEO friendly themes, customize them all, then try to add content.

I’ll try to build up content on one of the sites first and do a sort of trial run… not many people have the luxury of ‘testing’ content on a keyword domain in which the keywords have in excess of 400k searches/month, but luckily for me, i’ve about 19 of these niches so if one site gets blacklisted or performs poorly, it’s not game over.

Although these niches aren’t massively competitive - (generally 3-10m results for each keyword in google), they are dominated by big sites like i’ve mentioned above so it’s not going to be easy… it’s not simply a case of ‘any content will do’ - each and every word i write will have to be written and re-written until i’m happy that it reads well for both humans and search engines. This blog for example is well SEO’d but usually i don’t write for search engine traffic…. i never look back over a post and try to optimize it for google because quite simply, it’s too time consuming.

Running over the figures, assuming 2 million searches / month in total across these different niches, let’s say 10% of those click on link no.1 (hopefully my site) - that’s 200,000 visits overall. Let’s assume a 2% click rate on ads at $0.10/ad (based on 200k page impressions). That equals $400/month. Lets say 1% of those 200,000 visitors buy something through an affiliate link at a modest $1 per sale my cut… equal to $2000/month.

All very modest figures and realistically, that combined $2400/month total could be increased 10 fold. So now you can see why i’m determined to nail down no.1 spots in google and hang on to these domains. It’s a niche with massive potential, but it pretty much all hinges on google rankings and organic traffic.

Running 19 sites with up to date, unique content is obviously impossible. Building them one by one is my best bet. I’ll probably never reveal any of these domains or sites, which may leave you wondering why i’m blogging about them… it’s because i’ve NEVER come across a niche as big as this online before, with a whole host of highly-searched-for keyword domain names unregistered.

As i’ve said before, the keywords in my domains, combined, get over 2 million searches per month in google.

Just as an example and to help explain what i’m talking about, the term ‘mens shoes‘ gets about 2.5 million searches in google per month and lets say i have ‘mensshoes.com‘ registered. That’s how big all of my niches and domains combined are.

My job is to get ‘menshoes.com‘ ranking no.1 - if i can do that, i’m sorted

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new free ebook almost complete

It started out as me stumbling upon a way to buy decent domains…. it then taught me smarter ways to buy them and finally it led me to a whole new way of discovering and building niche sites.

I’m talking about my new found ‘secret‘ information. I say ’secret’, but the reality is it’s not…. any of you guys can find all of this info with a bit of work. What you won’t find though is all the info packaged up neatly with a red bow on top saying ‘open me’.

I could easily sell the ebook and replicate my past earnings success with ebooks, but this time i’m trying to boost my RSS subscriber count on this blog and really kick start this blog (only RSS subscribers will get this ebook).

I’m almost finished this ebook. It’ll be about 10 pages in length, plenty of screenshots and high quality info on discovering niches and how to let ideas come to you rather than the other way around. I’ll also be disclosing where and how i’ve been buying domains worth thousands of $$$$ for peanuts.

I’ll be sending it out live next week. Anyone viewing posts in an RSS reader will see a link to download it. I’ll also try and set up an email newsletter type thing where you can get a copy directly by email too.

If you’re one of these people who ‘can’t’ come up with ideas for a site or ‘don’t know how’ to discover niche’s - this ebook is hands down the most valuable piece of information you will ever read.

These past few weeks i’ve been busy gathering a huge collection of domains myself and now i’m going to develop and flip them one by one… holding on to the ones i feel have major potential. Believe it or not, i now have 75 domains in total

jackpot continued…

Not satisfied with my massive haul of domains yesterday, i’ve just snapped up 4 more in the same niche. One of which is currently my most valued domain according to estibot.

Check this out

No matter how sceptical you are about these sort of robotic estimates, you cannot deny i’ve hit the nail on the head with these domains… the proof is in the ‘PPC Ads#’ - that means 62 ads are currently on display in google for these terms.

The 4 domains i picked up today are valued at a combined whopping $32,220. Together, their keyword terms get about 450,000 searches in google per month.

This brings my new niche tally of domains to 19. All of these are .com’s, containing keywords. IF i can get all of them to the top of google for their respective keywords, they have the potential to bring in 5 figures / month easily between ad revenue and affiliate offers.

The double whammy of being no.1 in google would also mean the domain names would sell for their full value + more as they are keyword.com’s - some with 450,000 searches/month in google.

Anyway, back to maths… ironic how i failed maths yet i’m good with numbers

my domain secrets exposed

For the past couple of weeks i’ve been been buying several domain names BELOW my normal registration fee of about $6.

Not only are these domain names cheap, but some of them have an estimated value of $1k+ with estibot. I’ve been teasing you guys with these stats without revealing any details but that’s gonna change. Just to tease you guys further, check out this domain valuation - a domain i’m just after getting my hands on for just over $6.

Not enough to get your attention? How about this valuation on a domain i picked up for just over $9;

So screw my last post of $5610 worth of domains, i now have $13,510 worth of domains having spent less than $100 on them ($91.93 to be exact).

However, as ‘Girish’ has kindly pointed out in a comment, estibot is not bang on with it’s valuations. I’ve said in an earlier post, i generally take 1/20th of estibots valuation as my own valuation just to keep me grounded…

Even if we go by my 1/20th rule, it still means the domains are worth a combined $675 - more than 7 times what i paid for them.

For brandable domains, it won’t get it right…. for cracked domains or domains with an extension other than .com, it probably won’t get it right either. BUT for generic keyword domains, it is pretty accurate.

A few examples….

• looks.com sold for $86k 2 years ago, estibot values it at $110k.
• webhelp.com sold for $30k last month, estibot values it at $17k.
• typo.com sold for $25k last month, estibot values it at $15k.
• language.org sold for $12k 2 months ago, estibot values it at $11k.

Equally, there are plenty of times estibot gets it wrong, but when it comes to dictionary words or two dictionary words together, it’s not as far out as you may think and the sales in recent years prove it.

Estibot, unlike the others, won’t bullshit you and tell you you’re domain is worth $10million. If it’s not worth anything - it’ll tell you. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself on your own domains to take you back down to earth

Of course for the smaller domains valued at a few hundred, it becomes much more serious when you only get like $20 for a domain you thought was worth $300. It’s a massive difference to you… when you’re dealing with domains worth $10k+, getting $6k or even $3k doesn’t seem so bad, even though it’s a bigger drop…

At the end of the day, when you buy or sell anything, the price you buy or sell something for will be the price you and the buyer/seller deem the product to be worth. Much like selling a house, these sort of robots and even human appraisals are simply ‘guides’ - just because they say ‘x’ is worth $10k, doesn’t mean you’ll get it. You *could* get more… you could also (more likely) get less.

Only an idiot would register domains based solely on estibot valuations. Although i place a lot of trust in estibot, don’t be fooled - i don’t just use estibot to value domains… i’ll do my homework in google, see if there’s competition, try to find out if the domain has any history etc… if i don’t like a domain or don’t think i could do anything with it, i won’t register it, even if estibot values it at a couple of hundred.

The stakes are relatively low though for me, so i don’t spend hours and hours analyzing a domain and getting expert advice etc… at the end of the day, the max i’ve paid for a domain so far has been about $16 - it’s not going to bankrupt me

Anyway, i’ll be revealing all my tactics over the next couple of weeks (probably the week after this week as i’ve too much to do with my maths exam on thursday). I’ll produce a series of blog posts (about 3) to RSS subscribers only as i don’t want this to become too popular, too quickly, otherwise there’s too much competition, too many people use/try out the methods and it spoils the sense of bargain hunting for everyone.

It’s also a completely lose / lose situation for me if i blog about this openly as i’m simply adding extra competition for myself when it comes to getting these domains… At least if i keep it RSS only, it’ll help me boost my readership plus give something back to my loyal readers

$5610 worth of domains for $76.15

A couple of weeks ago i said i’d grabbed $1940 worth of domains for $32.50.

Today, i’m now sitting on $5610 worth of domains which have cost me a grand total of $76.15. I’ve no doubt i could sell all of these domains for more than what i paid for them - no doubt at all.

My most valued domain comes in at $1,200 and i paid $9.95 for it - just today. I’ve another valued at $1,100 which has over 230 million results in google for it’s keywords.

So although i’ve not been busy the past week or so selling sites or making money, i’ve still been keeping an eye on things.

As i’ve said before, there’s no way i can sell all of these domains for their estimated value - which now stands at $5610, but some of the domains are fairly attractive and combined with a unique design and some unique content, will sell for quite a bit

I now have 12 undeveloped domains which i’ve bought in the past couple of weeks, so they’ll keep me busy for the next month or more. Once i get this maths exam out of the way, it’ll be full throttle again at flipping sites. I have my eye on a new ‘netbook’ (ultra-portable laptop), plus i’m toying with the idea of launching a huge competition / giveaway type thing in combination with my potential skydive.

Exciting times ahead but this damn maths exam is holding me back for now