Within the Blogosphere

Domains cost anywhere from $1.99 to $30.00 per year (most domains, .com, .net ...) when bought from a domain name registry ... some domains though have privately (or through auctions) sold for much more than their owners have paid for them !? For the record I am just stating that sex.com was sold for $14Million. why is that ? because not all domains are created equal ... .com .net .org .biz and a few others are easier to remember and more "valuable" to have ... some vocabulary words are also easy to remember and are also "valuable" ...

I am not really an expert to talk about what is valuable and what is not, take a look at what sells and at what prices on domain name journal or find lots of more information on the namepros forums.

Here is my take on domain names and the business of buying and selling.

Lets say you wanted to the same: buy some great domains in the hopes of selling them for great price later.

The idea is simple. Buy a domain and put it for sale at one of the auctions (sedo.com, afternic, tdnam.com, moniker.com etc) and wait for someone to buy it .... well the idea is simple but the odds are not in our favor. Why ? For once most of the sort names have been bought, I believe all the dictionary words have been bought too and now its the turn of two or three word phrases to become extinct (for some strange reason, domains with numbers are not much sought after ?!?) ... second you have to think of the costs involved ... surely one .com domain costs around $8/year (that is how much I pay at least) but if you are planning to do it seriously one domain wont do. People buy portofolios of what they think are great domains (in the thousands) in the hopes of selling one or two to get even or make a profit ...

Well no matter how many domains you want to buy do some research before you buy. See the trends using the google trends, check the search frequency of some of the phrases or keywords you are concentrating on, you can use one of my tools search engine queries estimates which is based on the overture keyword database.

After you have in your posession some domains you have a few choices while waiting for them to be sold.

• You can post them on auctions and start advertising your willingness to sell the domains.
• You can park your domains and get "some" money if people hit on the ads while visiting your domain
• You can actually develop them into full fledged sites.
• Can rent your domains or partner with someone else that develops them, while you keep full ownership of the domain

Each one has its own advantages.

If you have a domain that everyone would be intrested in buying, the first option is probably enough; soon enough (with a not much advertisement) you can probably get a good deal.

Parking is not for all domains; if you domain does not get type-in traffic (type-in is the traffic are the people that think of a search query and instead type it with a .com or another extension at the end) then parking it won't be of any value. Most parking companies actually forbid you from linking to your domain while its parked.

Developing the domains is probably the choice of domains that are not so "hot". You can do it yourself or have someone do it as a partner. No matter how its done you should never give your domain registries passwords away to someone that you don't trust; learn how to assign DNS settings yourselves, its not that difficult.

Some closing thoughts:

• Most "good" sort/keyword rich .com .net etc have already been bought: focus on country top level domain names if it makes sense.
• Buy a name that even if you are stuck with, you have some idea on how to develop it into a website; As a matter of fact you can always develop your newly registered domain, a developed domain will most probably be bought for more than an underdeveloped one.

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TrafficJam.com is a service, powered my Blogrush.com, that lets you read thousands of blogs in a minute(as stated) under different categories.

Written below are the reasons why you should visit TrafficJam.com, bookmark it, and visit often...

- For marketers, this is the ultimate research tool. You can monitor blogs by niche and keep up with what type of posts are getting the most interest across the Web. This will make it incredibly easy for you to know what type of blog posts you should be making to get more traffic, interest, and popularity for your own blog.

- Now you'll never run out of ideas for new blog posts!

- This research data can help you identify untapped keywords and other opportunities.

- This site is essentially a LIVE HEADLINE TESTING MACHINE!!! (by topic)

- You can use ideas from the data to increase click-rates on AdWords ads and more.

- You can use TrafficJam.com to find great blog posts for your niche. You can share links to these posts with your readers and they'll appreciate it. (The nature of the blogosphere.)

- You can also discover some new blogs in your niche that you never knew existed. These can turn into potential joint venture partners, or simply just another site to occasionally share some traffic and links. You'll want to consider participating (properly, of course) on their blog comments to drive traffic to your blog.

- But either way, TrafficJam.com can save you TONS of your time and constantly 'show you' what your target market is most interested in at any given time.

- TrafficJam.com is powered by the BlogRush Network. It uses some unique technology to analyze millions of blog post title impressions, average click-rates, session times, and more to come up with it's live ‘ranking' system.

So go check out TrafficJam.com. Bookmark it and prepare to visit often to keep up with your niche. Initially we're only going to be updating the rankings about once per day - but that will soon move towards an hourly update.Want your posts to appear on TrafficJam.com? If you have the BlogRush widget installed on your blog it will happen automatically when any of your posts 'score' well with TJ's algorithm.

So check it out now TrafficJam.com

A domain name represents the website and easy to remember domain names are often going to get visited more often, then long domain names, especially those which consists of random letters and not words. That is why having a short domain name, preferably a domain name which reflects the topic of the site is a great idea and webmasters are willing to pay a lot for a high quality domain name.

To earn money from this phenomena you can be a contributor to pickydomains.com, which is a site that helps to find domain names for customers who are wiling to pay $50 for such a service. You can also offer your services on your website and forums so that there won't be any middle-man.

Would it be a good idea to publish your blog as a book?

The idea sounds tempting, probably especially for people that have really good quality content and were thinking about new channels to spread their writings. I never heard about a blogger actually doing it, but today I read that a blogger, namely Sasha Cagen, has released her blog in a book format, apparently in PDF format.
It sounds really impressive and I wish her even more success in the future. I think that the fact that she released her blog as a book might motivate other bloggers as well to consider doing so.

To those that are looking on how to make money online I would summarize my thoughts as follows:

• find a subject that you are passionate about or at least one that is not going to get your bored in a month from now
• think what you want to build and what is the demand for that
• learn how to build it or hire someone to do it for you
• Get a proper domain name
• Get some cheap hosting (for starters at least)
• build it
• promote it
• monetize it (put ads or affiliate links or your products on it)
• analyze the stats
• ask questions/read/learn improve it
• cycle back to promotion until you get it right

Once you are comfortable with this an updating and revising your site is a breeze then you can focus on building another site

All this is usually quite involved and it needs some time investment and some patience

The more you put into your projects the more they might give back to you. Maybe not from the first months or the first year but they will.

If you have found yourself in a position of loosing your faith about making money of the internet you can consider on a recent discussion on DP on how to make $100k in 5 years in this thread: Click Here

Copywriting is the one skill which all online business owners should learn. As an online marketer you communicate through words – if those words aren’t effectively conveying your message, then you’re in for a long and bumpy ride.

Here are a few copywriting tips to help you get started:

Know your Target Market – Good copywriters know exactly who they’re writing for before starting. They speak directly to ONE person and keep that same person in mind at all times. If you try to reach too many people with your copy you’ll end up missing your target altogether and not reaching anyone at all. Before starting, know exactly who you’re writing your copy for and stick to it.

Headlines that Intrigue – Use clear headlines throughout your copy to guide the reader. Your main headline should be in bold and large letters to grab the reader’s attention. It is often the headline which can either make or break your copy. Use a benefit-focused headline, which explains in powerful detail how you can help solve the customer’s problem. Then use sub-headlines throughout the copy to keep the reader intrigued so they will keep reading.

Don’t use Big Words – Online writing is different to the writing you did in English class. Throw out the text book and forget all those rules your teacher taught you. Online writing is casual and needs to convey emotion and a clear purpose. You need to speak to the person as though you’re sitting down with them and chatting over a coffee… stay away from big words and long adjectives or risk boring (and losing) your prospects!

Be Persuasive – If you love your product that’s great but it’s also a bit biased. Your customers want to hear from other unbiased people who have used your product. Include customer testimonials but not just any testimonial will do, the more information you can include the better. Try to include the person’s full name, city, state, website URL and if possible a picture of that person. The more information your testimonial includes the more persuasive and believable.

It’s not all about you! – In fact, it’s not about you at all. Effective copywriting is concerned with the needs of the customer. The writer doesn’t really matter...Of course, you may need to add a little personal information about yourself in order to gain trust and to explain why your customer should trust you, but even in this case it’s all about what you can do for them. Go through your copy, does it contain a lot of “I’s” then it’s time for a serious re-write. Go back and change most of those “I’s” to “You’s”. Your writing should always be about the customer.

Don’t forget the call – The call to action that is. You must guide your visitors and tell them what you expect them to do. If you want them to click over and purchase your weight loss product, say so, and say so in a clear way which promotes all the benefits of your products “Click here to learn how you can lose those last 10 pounds and keep it off for good” . Be precise in your wording and always include a clear call to action.

In this post I am not really going to answer which choice is better, but I just want to say that in some cases e-mail subscriptions might be a better choice. Let’s face it – most blogs focus on RSS feeds and RSS subscribers a lot deal more, then on e-mail subscriptions. This is probably due to the fact that RSS subscriptions are very convenient and are more and more popular.

So why would anyone not want to be an RSS subscriber, but rather prefer to subscribe by e-mail? The answer is that many internet users simply didn’t learn yet about RSS feeds and might not know how to subscribe to a feed or use RSS feed readers. This post is especially directed at blogs which deal with non-technical topics. I think it is important to remember that some people do not know everything when it comes to more technologically advanced stuff like RSS feeds and it is important to take that into account if one is in a niche that includes a lot of people non-technologically oriented.

There are many ways to monetize your blog and one of them is to implement a monetization widget. What is a monetization widget, one might ask? It is simply a piece of script which gets displayed on your site as a graphical widget. There are a few companies, which offer such kind of widgets:

What is attractive about them is that they act like a widget in a sense that they are easy to implement, especially if you have a blogging platform like WordPress which allows it. Some of them work like pay-per-click ads, text lick ads or even like affiliate links. They work in a different way, yet all of them provide with an opportunity to monetize your site.

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