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cutbacks on domains and hosting
For the past 3 years or so i’ve always planned on organizing my hosting accounts and domain registrations better. As things stand, i have 4 different hosting packages with 3 separate hosting companies. I also have 68 domain names registered across 5 different registrars. Chaos.
Way back last August i said i’d discovered a ‘jackpot network‘ and almost instinctively went out and bought 19 domain names. The keywords within those domains have a combined search volume of over 2.5m per month (30m per year) meaning if i could rank no.1 in google for all of the keywords, i get a lot of traffic 
photo credit: The Cake Engineer
I’m now beginning to test the waters with one site – the biggest niche. These particular keywords have a search volume of over 450,000 searches per month according to google’s keyword tool. Now technically that means those terms appear 450,000 times across google’s entire adsense network, which includes websites and custom google searches as well as google.com, so 450,000 people don’t actually type in these words in to google (i’m open to correction on that – if anyone has a better understanding of how google’s keyword tool operates, please let me know!).
The screenshot below is just one of the keywords i have. I own this as a ‘keyword.com’ domain name and i’m sure many of you will be wondering how the hell i managed to do it 
if i told you, i really would have to kill you
Also look at the advertiser competition for the keyword – extremely high which also shows you just how popular and sought after this keyword is.
To put this in some sort of context, here’s the results for ‘gordon brown’ – british prime minister;
And here’s the same stats on our very own Irish prime minister, Brian Cowen;
And how about a product like ‘nissan primera’;
Now you know why i called this a jackpot network – i own the equivilent of gordonbrown.com or nissanprimera.com which theoretically means i can rank no.1 for the term ‘gordon brown’ or ‘nissan primera’ and get a slice of that massive search volume. Take one of those domains, one of those examples, and multiply it by 19 and you begin to see the scale of my whole ‘jackpot’ operation
But even if just 25% of people type in these terms, that’s over 100,000 searches in google (20% of 450k). If i can rank no.1 in google, a good 30% will click on the first link = 30,000 visits.
Now that sounds easy, it’s not. There’s a number of ‘if’s’ in that equation.
First of all, i have to rank no.1 for competitive keywords. Remarkably, and this is the exciting part, this might not be a problem. I set up a default wordpress blog on a test site last august and that site (with no content or SEO work) is ranking no.16 in google for it’s keywords. I don’t have traffic stats as i didn’t install any at the time. But that looks extremely promising. I’ve literally done nothing with the site and it’s ranking extremely highly. Just wait ’til i actually start applying my SEO knowledge
Secondly, google’s keyword stats are not totally accurate. They they look good, but they’re complicated… They don’t represent the total number of searches a term gets in google’s search engine. They include impressions on other websites which raises an important question for me – how much of a slice of that 450,000 search volume does the google search engine itself get?
If it’s more than 50%, i’ve stumbled upon a goldmine. If it’s less, i’ll still get traffic and still have a niche and set of domains worth quite a lot in the right hands, but probably not my hands.
However, if this test site works out and the early stats match up with google’s keyword stats, the race is on to develop all 19 of these sites and expand even further. The door is then opened for potentially hundreds of new domain names and sites, which could all use the same technique and tactics to exploit a very large niche.
Although this network is 8 or 9 months old, i hadn’t forgotten about it, i’d just been busy with other stuff. To develop ANY of the 19 sites will take time and in order to gather accurate stats, i need to rank no.1 in google for a pretty competitive term which isn’t easy. There’s no easy way to no.1 spot in google. Unique content combined with clean code and plenty of baclinks is the only way to go without breaking any rules.
I’d be a fool to reveal this niche now or any of the tactics i’ll be using but if it all fails and goes nowhere you lot will be the first to know and there’ll be plenty of lessons learned about google, SEO and domain names.
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
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 
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.
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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
