Fresh Domains

If you have a lot of domain names just sitting there getting renewed every year, why not make some free cash from them.

Just set them up in Google AdSense and Google will fill your domains page with adverts, when someone clicks on an ad, you get paid, for doing nothing.

Just go to Google AdSense setup and click on AdSense for Domains, this will take you to where you can add new domains.

Click on Add new Domains and there is a box to the right where you can add any unused domains you might have in a list, just copy and paste them in then select your language and click the “Add Domains” button.

When you have done this you are taken to the next page where you have to do a little editing at your domain registrar, see below.

If you have registered your domains with Go daddy or Enom, there are others too, Google will give you step by step instructions on how to set your domain names up correctly with these registrars.

If you have a lot of domains, you can set up the first one as described above and then use that one as a template to set all your others up.

Initially you have some work to do but once this is all done you won’t have to do any more, just sit back and wait for the money to roll in.

One of the best things about this is that it’s pretty much free money.

If you think about it, how much does a domain name cost these days? Why not just buy loads for the sole purpose of putting Google ads on them to make a little extra money.

You won’t be making a fortune here but its better than just having your domains sitting there doing nothing at all and you’re going to make a lot more money than the cost of the domain each year.

Picking the right domain can be one of the most critical stages of any kind of website promotion. Factors such as domain name age, domain extensions (i.e..com v..org), memorability of the name, keyword names, and more can affect the quality of your domain.

Although a single article cannot possibly cover all the key elements of a good domain name, a few will be treated briefly here. It should be noted that some of these factors are important in regards to getting ranked in the search engines and some are simply good business practice.

Domain name age: Google knows how long a domain has been consistently registered. Although there remains some debate regarding whether this matters or not, many believe that a longer-standing domain will have greater impact on your sites rankings in the search engines. My experience has shown that a longer standing domain will gain a search engine ranking more easily.

Domain extensions: This is really a fairly simple issue. It is taken as a mark of quality for a domain to have a.com extension. If your site is promoting a cause, a.org is more appropriate. While many other extensions exist, they become less trusted beginning with.info and.net and becoming less trusted from there. This can affect both your search engine rankings and your perceived value with customers.

The name as perceived by people: Many of the most popular websites in existence have bizarre names that would not be viewed by most search engines as meaning anything. Yahoo and Google themselves are examples of such domain names. However, there is something to be said for a simple name with branding possibility. As my two examples demonstrate, it is clear that having a domain name that is memorable can make a major difference. Websites such as Yelp, Digg, Facebook, etc. rely on the memorability of their name to bring visitors. If aiming for a memorable domain name, it is worth brainstorming and seeing if it is possible to buy a domain name that has already aged. It is also important to keep it short: yelpdigfacebook wouldn’t be easy to remember.

The name as perceived by search engines: Another factor to consider when choosing your domain name is how the search engines will perceive the domain name. In today’s internet market, competition to rank for keywords has become fierce. For that reason, it can be better to rank for a keyword with your domain name. That does not mean you have to have a boring domain name, but if you want people searching for “chinchillas” to find your domain, it would be worth putting the word “chinchilla” in your domain. Your website is simply more likely to get noticed by the search engines.

History: As mentioned above, Google knows how long a domain has existed. But it knows more than that. It also knows what was on the website previously. If that website had illegal or poor quality content on it before, it is possible that Google will know that and penalize you for it. There are numerous tools to uncover this history, such as iwebtool/Google_banned. Before registering a domain, always check its history.

Legality: This likely goes without saying, but it is best to avoid trademarked or copyrighted names. Even if you discover that a major company failed to register their name +.info or.net, registering that domain and putting up content is likely a copyright infringement. If you have a question regarding that, consult a lawyer. If you wish to avoid consulting a lawyer, you are probably in better shape to simply use your head and avoid registering a domain that could be a copyright infringement.

I am afraid I will not open a very large secret if I say that any web site needs promotion. This postulate is obvious like sunrise or change of season. But promotion of a web site is not as simple as it seems to be. There is a difference between the two promotions. So, (this is only my personal opinion and I am not trying to impose it on anyone) if the registration of a web site had a certain effect about two years ago, then today to make the like procedure with a newborn resource, is like to drown a kitten in a bucket.

The second point. Promotion of a web site can as paid as free of charge. But as a rule beginning web sites owners do not have enough money for the promotion of a web site, that’s why either for objective circumstances or making a conscious choice, at the beginning many prefer free promotion of a web site.

Let’s talk a bit about free methods of promotion of a web site. They are:

- Party at thematic forums. Decoding: in this case we talk about fitness, a health life style, various diets, hence it’s only fitting to find similar forums, to register on them and to take part in discussions on these forums.

- Place articles on thematic portals indicating links to the author’s resource.

- Interchange of articles and links with resources of close or similar subject matters.

- Announcements on a site about various competitions with prizes for participants.

- Organization of posting.

- Organization of groups in social networks.

Here is a practically ready plan of free promotion of any resource.

By the way, a small, but very important addition: participation in forums, creation of groups in social networks should be made long before the resource appearance in the World wide web. A person who has selected the given way for a web site promotion, needs time to become an expert at one or another forum, to gain the authority at participants of the groups in social networks.

For justice’ sake it is necessary to notice that the similar way of promotion of a resource is not simple at all. It takes a certain amount of time, and you will not get the results fast.

So, there is one way: if an owner of a web site wants to promote the resource using this method, then besides being active at a forum or in a group, the web site owner has to spend time for developing individual relations with members of groups or forums. The web site owner will have to write letters, personal invitations, to add people to his/her friends, to say in a few words, to be active in all directions. Here it is necessary to remember that it is very important to observe the balance – between informal communication and banal spam. The web site owner decides him/herself where this boundary is.

Let’s sum up. Participation in forums, creation of thematic groups in social networks is a free way of promotion of a site. Actually its the main advantage is that this method is free, and we can relate to its lacks that it demands time and certain efforts, but does not bring at once to the expected result.

Today the Internet technologies are very popular. The web network is not only a place to entertain but also a platform to make money. Whatever the reason is, to be presented in the Internet one needs a site. And it is the time when the question how to plan a website arises. Those who are looking for info on how to build a website, should refer to the Web itself. There are lots of guides on how to plan a website and related topics.

In any way, it wouldn’t be smart not to take advantage of this chance provided to us by digital technologies. Google and other search engines, social networks and forums, blogs – all of them could assist to find information on “website strategic plan” and similar topics.

Learning How to Make Money Blogging

There are two major types of business models that
entrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first
and most common way to turn a blog into a profit
making machine is to sell advertising to different
companies and brands who want to reach that blog’s
readers. The second kind of money making blog is one
that helps a single brand improve its image by creating
positive associations between the blog and the product
in the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can
make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen
mind for marketing.

If you are blogging with the goal of selling advertising,
there are two basic ways that you can go about
recruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site;
you can let someone else do all of the legwork, or you
can do the work yourself and keep all of the revenue.
Within the first group, many people make money
blogging by selling space through Google’s AdSense
program. The advantages of this program are numerous,
as it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger
or webmaster to begin raking in profits. However, most
people discover that they make less money through this
method than they had hoped that their blog would earn.

Selling advertising directly to companies who want to
put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take
quite a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative. If you
have a lot of contacts in industries that are related to the
topic of your blog, you may want to try to go this route.
People who have a strong background in sales and are
experienced at pitching proposals can make quite a bit
of money by renting blog space to interested companies.
The most serious problem with this model is that you
often have to build quite a sizable readership before you
can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to
do several months of work before you start to make
money blogging.

As blogging becomes a more and more lucrative
business, a lot of established companies are considering
how they can get into the action. One way that
companies are capitalizing on the blog movement is by
having blogs that provide a kind of friendly face for
their corporation. Often, a company will employ an
established blogger to create a weblog designed
specifically to appeal to that company’s customers and
to create positive associations with the brand in
consumers’ minds. More than one writer who never
even dreamed that he or she could make money
blogging has been approached by a company and
offered quite a pretty penny for this kind of gig.