Various Ways To Make Money With Domain Names

As more people and companies than ever are investing in domain names, it has become evident that not all of these names will realise their full income earning potential. As a Domain reseller and investor with a reasonable sized portfolio ,I have often been asked the best way to make money from these investmentdomains. The following are the most common ways to create an income stream or maximize resale value.

* Park the name with a parking service

These places pay a percentage of the advertising revenue derived from ads placed on a page displayed when someone visits your domain. Also most of these parking services also offer a sales listing service to enable easy resale marketing of your domain.

* Make your own park page

Similar to the above ,only you create your own small Website with ads and get 100% of the revenue. This however will not be as profitable because the parking services get a much greater traffic flow.

* Develop a small, but content rich minisite

These small minisites are usually filled with articles andcontextual ads from Adsense. Also often called AdsenseSites

* Develop a full featured web-site

Selling services or products and also have some ads and paid links.This can be either selling your own products or as an affiliate for an existing online website.

Factors that increase value

At any of the above stages of development and Value adding,you can make money by reselling the Domain/

* Keywords & brandability of the name

i.e. http://Become-rich.biz is Keyword rich and is valued higher than http://CrappyNames.com

* Amount of Visitor Traffic

Simple equation More visitors = More Income = Greater Value

* Return from site

(Income for Ads,Sales or Paid Links) . Higher Income earned ,Higher value for the site

* Current Demand for similiar names

If a particular type of name is hot property ,all the similar names increase in value because of the demand.

* Current Search Engine Ranking

If the Name is Not listed by the major search engines or is on page 346 than value is low, conversely if it is listed on the first page of the listings than value will be higher.

* Number of Sites linking to your site

Related to Traffic and S.E.Ranking , More links = more traffic + higher rankings

* How keen is the buyer for name

Buyer may want the name for a specific purpose and will pay a premium to ensure they get it.

Ways to Lose money on Domains

* Register a trademarked name

like "P*yP*lFees.com" because of the Legal hassles. Most High profile companies can afford an expensive legal battle ,can you?

* Pay too much for Domain Name

Just because http://ReallyGreat.com sold for $Big-bucks , doesn't mean paying $bigBucks for any old name will mean reselling it for an even higher price.

* Get scammed by Email and other types of fraud

Domain investors attract more than their fair share of Scammers A common one is an email claiming to be someone wishing to buy your name ,all you have to do is use their preferred Appraisal service to confirm the offered price. It is just a ruse to get you to pay an inflated price for this appraisal.

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Domain Name Registration and Web Hosting Tips

If you are not really serious about making money online, then this would be the right time to hit back button without wasting a single moment her on this article. If you are serious, then we would be privileged to share some great online money making secrets with you. Let's get into the issue and explore the answers to some of the widely asked questions.

What is your online identity?
You might have seen at least one stranger asking a traffic police about someone's address in your life. If such identity doesn't exit then how would you expect the traffic police to explain the directions! So your address is your existence in a certain locality. So if you want others inquiry about you online, then you should have an online address. Though there are several other ways to obtain an online identity, but the most secured and profitable way is; owning a website. You can specify details about yourself, your business or profession and you can add the contact details so that others can contact you.

How Can I Own a Website?
This is one of the significant steps. There are several factors involve before launching a website of your own. Domain name registration is the very step in launching your own website. This is the sole identity of your online business and your business brand. People prefer various ways before choosing a domain name. Let me add some marketing sense to this particular discussion. Though there are several other ways to access World Wide Web. Search Engines are one of the widely used resources that most of the internet users use to access and retrieve information online. Almost 80% internet users use search engines. Search engines are specifically developed to store online information (in various forms like webpage, video, image, PDF, Doc and so on) and also produce relevant information after processing the user searched keywords. There are several factors involve while synchronizing web document for a searched query. The search engine algorithm considers the URL, Meta Elements, Content and number of relevant back links to s webpage. So you should do some research before select the most popular term for your domain. Because this enables you to get your website exposed easily and quickly. The better and more relevant domain name you choose the more business you will get out of your website.

Selecting the Right Extension
There are various types of extension and this defines what type of website is yours. For example, ".com" is the extension for commercial websites; ".org" is for non-commercial organizations; ".edu" is for education institutions. There are country specific extensions too, like .in, .ie, .com.au, .us and so on. Recently there are some other new extensions are used, like, .travel and .mobi. So now you can select the appropriate extension for your website.

Once you are done with right domain name with appropriate extension, now it's the time for selecting the right web hosting company. There are millions of web hosting companies are operating online. They promise a lot, but your negligence and ignorance can cost you heavier. So ensure everything before registering and hosting your website.

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