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Originally Posted by pornask
I registered HoustonGlobal.org after it was dropped. I loaded it up with some worthless page and put Analytics on it only to find out that it doesn't get any Google traffic. I went to check it out and the domain is banned by Google (whatever previous owner did ? it does have some good backlinks though, including one from MichaelMoore.com). However with shitty no-page, it's been generating more than $1 a day off of AdSense so after 1 year when time came to drop it, I saw over $500 in earnings so I renewed it even though it's banned by Google. I do jack shit on it. After I bought it, I invested 10 minutes of work into it and it's generated nice few hundred dollars in exchange. Banned or not, I'm keeping it for the time being :P |
LOL, so banned in Google but earning money from Google. Whatever works!
It's actually amazing sometimes what a crappy minisite can do. We had one on a domain with a phrase with 1x,xxx searches per month. Obviously parked it's a cold day in hell to get rankings for a term like that, but as it happened, maybe a month after we put a minisite on it (which was horrible at getting content to fit the sought keywords), it was ranked as high as #3 on Google for the term, was getting nearly 100 uniques a day and was making a couple bucks a day. Keep in mind the only reason parking pages are not high in rankings is because Google specifically targets and penalizes them. I've had a number of cases in the past where some slipped by and ranked highly for nice profitable terms...once was making about $4-$5/day on a blackjack domain that was page 1 in Google for its term for a few months.
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Originally Posted by gleem
what service are you using to monazite the clicks?
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Mentioned elsewhere in the thread - BigJumbo.com, a Lite version of Skenzo.com which one day I hope to qualify for.
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Originally Posted by lazycash
I've gotten a few drops for reg fee with similar earnings and I'm always asking myself why can't I just find another 100 domains doing the same thing so I can sit back and not have to lift a finger.
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Yea that's the killer. I've had cases where I managed to snag typos early on of a rising poker site, only for the site to eventually go bust, so there's cases like that too where the names aren't earning money forever that make it harder too. I have means of finding traffic domains but even with that I'm lucky if 5% of those names that I get make their reg fees back in the year let alone make a nice profit like this name has been. BTW, as I figured it ended up adjusting yesterday's earnings up to $13.12 - still truckin!
It's amazing what some typos can earn. I once knew someone who owned a .org of a very popular poker site that op'd on both .com and .net. The take? $700 a DAY. Yes, 6-figure earnings on 1 domain, and actually today it's probably higher since that site has grown even popular.