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And now you can do it on Sitepoint premium marketplace there is one for sale.

PR6 sites are seen for sale very rarely and PR7 even less than that. But here is a real PR9 site! With this SEO weight you can rank in google for pretty much anything with limited amount of content and work put into it.

The sales thread also reports some $4,5K monthly revenues, but you can probably get more by just selling a few links on it.

This little quote at the start of the sales thread reveals a bit about the buyer interest: read more »

Bune.com For Sale on dnforum and here

Fabulous.com
Expiration Date: 2010-12-28
Creation Date: 1998-12-28

- top cvcv.com, pronounceable and memorable
- Over 20 Million results in google,
- first and last name in various countries

sedo stats last 32 days:
bune.com 318 23 7.23% 0.11 € 8.25 € 2.62 €

taking offers on the dnf thread, or by email

Lets admit, most domainers don’t have a clue about SEO and while many know links are important for better google rankings, finding these links is no easy task. There are many guides, ebooks, online courses and all kinds of heavy stuff to help you educate yourself about search engine optimization, so I’m not going to do another one of those huge and mainly useless lists, but rather I’ll show my favorite method for getting good quality, on content links.

First a few guidelines for beginners: read more »

Update: domain was sold

Civa.com

GODADDY.COM
Expiration Date: 2009-02-20
Creation Date: 1996-02-19

Made 4.53 € = $7.04 in 32 days on sedo. Average 34 visitors per day. Screenshot here
Rather high ctr, but very low clicks, so with some optimization and maybe at another parking service it can do much more.

Over 1,5 Million results in google and many potential end users. Many sites: civa.org, civa.org, civa.org.uk, civa.com.pe, covacom.com, civaglobal.com, civa.be, civatools.com - all are used for various businesses.
Also a last name, like veronicaciva.com.

All these are active sites and there are a lot more. This is a top 4 letter name with excellent opportunities and steady type in traffic, don’t miss out.

Should sell quick at this price. Also for sale on dnf
Post sold to claim, winner will be decided by timestamp.

payment within 2 days by paypal masspay, or escrow, buyer pays all fees

Now that I’ve found the designers and content writers, after a bit of testing the mini site building is proceeding at full force. Most sites are just 7-8 pages, but I’m also doing a few that will have a substantial amount of content, some 20-50 pages, articles, videos, news, flash and other elements.

Here are a couple finished mini-sites: Go Oslo, about the Norway capital with a few short articles and MyNamibia.com - about the Republic of Namibia in Africa.

Next step is to add links from some other sites, directories and social bookmarking services to get them all indexed and well places in google. It’s also good to avoid the nofollow links as they don’t contribute much value in google and are used by most social bookmarking and news sites, like digg, propeller, wikipedia etc.

The Bethel Park site I’ve posted about earlier is getting 75-85 uniques per day, but while the adsense clicks are rather high, the ctr is not so good. Probably the ads are too “blended in”, so I might change that one.

What do you think about the designs and content?

NyTimes has an interesting story on a guy who flipped a site for an awesome $173K, after buying it for $1800 and doing some changes. According to compete.com traffic estimates the site bird-cage.com only has 5-6k monthly visitors from US, so it’s strange that just 200 visits per day can provide such nice income. Besides the site only has 257 links in yahoo and doesn’t seem to have any decent google rankings for the top keywords.

So it really looks strange why would someone pay a healthy amount of money for a small site, without much traffic.

On the other hand it shows that development could bring nice profits and e-commerce sites are the money makers!

here is the article: read more »

VQU.COM Sold for $6551 on Bido, just $51 above my estimation as posted in the sale comments

The letter quality isn’t good and only 123K results in google, but it has a decent acronym for “very quick update”, a phrase that could be branded into a hosting, or web services.

This is the forth bido sale of LLL.com domain, after:

2008-07-11 14:00:00 utq.com 20 6,001.00
2008-07-02 14:07:42 qvk.com 19 6,730.00
2008-06-20 14:03:46 ryy.com 10 7,124.00 read more »

Since I’ve started developing my US city domains I’ve been positively surprised by the adsense clicks.

In general my average adsense clicks are between $0.20-0.30 through out my sites, but the US city names had many clicks in the $0.5-$1 range. The traffic is as targeted as you can get and it’s easy to understand why advertisers would be willing to spend more, but these are relatively small cities, so the number of advertisers is quite limited.

These clicks are definitely nothing compared to what one could earn by attracting direct advertisers. I just read on dnjournal that PalmSprings.com earns over a million dollars a year only from the homepage! This definitely shows the potential in geo domains and pretty clear plan: get a top city domain, make some site and make it rank well in google, find advertisers to purchase banners for some annual fee. read more »

I’m finally getting more into developing my domains and at first I’m planning to build a few small adsense sites on the city names and generics.

Here is one I did this week BethelPark.com - Bethel Park is a city of 33.5k people in Pennsylvania.

This one is a small site with 10 content pages. I’m currently testing different templates to see what gives the best ctr, but I think this one should do good. The trick is to make ads blend in and fit the theme. read more »

Hoce.com

Amazing 4 letter domain, over 6 million results in google, premium cvcv.com.
Also a first name.

here are only 2700 premium cvcv.com domains and you can buy one of them here, it has great collectible value and also brandable and easily pronounceable.

Crazy bin for today only, $2750 + escrow fees (or paypal masspay)

At this price it should sell quick, post sold to claim the domain! 

Another similar name hopa.com sold for $15,000.00 on afternic this week.