Sean Stafford on Data Mining – D2S1 – Live from Traffic DownUnder 2008
November 18, 1 Comment - Author: Simon JohnsonSean Stafford is the author of DomainGraduate and CEO, Elvate LLC.
Key points:
- Data mining is crucial.
- Be prepared to spend a lot of time at the PC
- Find keywords from your portfolio (that people search on). Add a .com and run it through whois.
- Use google adwords.
Buying From Others
- If buying from a Domainer, ask for screenshots
- Verify traffic if possible
- View trends and seasons. eg: the US election & Christmas. Be conscious of the fact it will drop.
- Don’t pass great deals, but don’t be too eager to spend money
- Types of traffic will dictate multiple
Remember Traffic Sources
- Links
- Type-in
- Typo
- Spam/Bot
- Traffic Bleed
Common Mistakes
- Relying on Google frequency to be a benchmark for domain value.
- Do your due diligence and get to know your parking provider.
Squeeze Revenue
- Pop-ups
- Email monetization
- Traffic splitting. eg: Sean owned tube.com.mx – half Mexican and half US traffic. Half were looking for tubes and others were looking for youtube videos. Some parking providers will enable you to split the traffic. This enables you to maximize revenue.
- Mini-site development. If you aren’t getting the return, throw up a 1-2 page site in wordpress and integrate a few ads.
In summary, whatever you do, change it up.
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