Domain Magnate

Here are further details as promised for attendants of my SEO workshop today at Gvahim, TelAviv.

These are the links to online tools mentioned in the presentation.

Keyword research tools: G keyword tool, G insights, WordTracker; G analytics

Advanced keyword research: SemRush.com, KeywordSpy.com, MarketSamurai.com

Backlink Checker tools: BacklinkWatch.com, OpenSiteExplorer.org

More Link Tools: Majesticseo.com, Ahrefs.com, Alexa

Bonus Site tools* (weren’t included in the workshop): Push2check.com, SpyOnWeb.com

SEO Browser extensions for chrome: SEO Site Tools, SEOQuake

Sitting kills linkbait example

Social Media and Reputation Management tools: Klout.com, Trackur.com; Google.com/alerts, SocialMention.com

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 »

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 »