Building Online Sucess
This post has been a while in the making, around March last year I bought my initials SJ.co.uk for high £x,xxx – at around the same time Nominet announced they were going to release previously held back short domain names like A.co.uk or AA.co.uk. Reading the announcement it was clear before going to the general public [...]
Read More »Little update on the last post I made about a few new buys as I had a couple of emails asking how they are panning out. The catch for £40 free-animations.co.uk did £486 in Oct. 75,000 visitors It’s fairly important to point out this wasn’t just catching an expired domain and parking it, I bought the old [...]
Read More »Found a company doing a novel new trick, well new to me anyway. They scanned my authority website for dead links Then put up some content relative to my dead outbound links on their own site Then email and ask if they can quote my site with link back to me (naturally I agree) When I confirm it’s ok they tell [...]
Read More »More a website post than a domain one, been busy looking at existing sites & traffic. Life Insurance Quotes continues to age and is now taking leads, this site is moving forward to the point it’s probably earning just into 4 figures a month, also picked up a couple of other insurance quotes names like travelinsurancequotes.co.uk as that [...]
Read More »Last year I travelled loads and did more conferences than I care to remember (I was out of the country for over 3 months in total). This year, I’ve been a lot more choosy about which which events I’ve attended based on the benefit (and enjoyment) I’d get from them. So far I’ve done both Think [...]
Read More »Starting to really have fun this year, doing tests, trials and punts and really enjoying dabbling in all sorts. Pretty much all the proceeds from the sale of tvs.co.uk have been re-invested in my businesses. Looking up travel names using the Google keyword tool for inspiration ‘turkey holidays’ stood out as a good name, this seems to be compounded by [...]
Read More »It’s been an interesting year so far for me, not overly eventful before last week, but nice growth income wise and some new sites and names purchased along the way. A geography site for $10k is another seasonal site that does poorly during the summer hols but good addition overall with healthy stats. My strategy hasn’t [...]
Read More »This is a write up by Martijn Bejik of the presentation I did at a4uExpo last year. It was originally posted on SearchEngineCowboys but has for various reasons has been lost so Martijn gave me permission to share it here. At the A4U Expo in the Amsterdam RAI there was a session by Al Carlton, a [...]
Read More »I’ve written before about using a custom plugin to automatically convert links to affiliate links when an appropriate scheme is available and it has certainly boosted my revenue over the years. So I was very interested to hear from Skimlinks who offer a product that does the job for you. Skimlinks uses Javascript to automatically redirect [...]
Read More »There are currently over 400 million active users on Facebook, which is somewhat insane. Last month Facebook became my 4th largest traffic source (admittedly it is ‘currently’ quite away behind the top 3). Before reading on I suggest becoming a fan here so you can see what I’m writing about. I’ve always been a huge fan [...]
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