Buying Domains vs. Blog traffic for revenues
Ok first thing…you only get so far getting people to click on your web pages. The real money is in mastering some basic SEO (or, Search EngineOptimization) skills.
Other than opt-in email lists, SEO is the best kind of traffic to have. This is when someone searches for something and your site appears on the first page of the search engine. For highly searched terms, you are talking thousands of hits a day from motivated searchers. However, you need a relevant site to make any money, or even to be included in the search engine results. A page full of links ain’t gonna cut it.
Search engine spiders base relevancy (among other factors), on the amount and relevancy of text on the page. Googlebot cannot “read” a picture. Googlebot cannot “read” a flash animation. So pictures and flash hold little weight.
What you need to do is research the info on SEO and build or make changes to your site accordingly. This is for people who stick with this and want to make the real money. When I say real money, I mean AT LEAST a few hundred bucks a day. The more knowledge you have, the more you’re gonna make.
You have a choice. Work hard or work smart. Working smart doesn’t mean less work, it means a greater payoff now and in the long run for the work involved.
Ok, suppose you own the domain someexamplepics.com and want 10k as the selling price. In the sites present form, with just static ads and links, it’s HIGHLY UNLIKELY anyone is going to pay that. If I wanted it and he did’nt sell it to me for a hundred bucks I would just make some-example-pic-downloads or hot-funny-pics or any other variation.
Now, let’s say you put a blog or some RSS feeds on it. You optimized it for SEO. It gets a page rank of 3 or 4. You get it indexed in Google on the first page for the search term hot pics. Well, you have something of real value to a potential buyer.
The site now gets a few thousand search engine hits a day. This translates to a few thousand a month in affiliate income. There’s a lot he could do with that site now. He could sell the site, sell backlinks from the site, use it to get other sites he started indexed, etc.
This doesn’t happen overnight. Once you have the knowledge, you can do it fairly quickly. However, there is a learning curve. Everybody is not going to stick with it and that’s what seperates the players from the mildly curious or those lookin for a way to make some “easy money”.
It takes a lot of hard work and research to make “real money” and it won’t be as easy as gettin a bunch of people to click links. That traffic will not last. However, if you learn a little SEO and build and buy accordingly, then you can make some real money.
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