Domain Development

Two domains I’m not sure what to do with

I have two domains which I really am not sure what to do with. The first is whitelabelpoker.com, the second is birminghamnewstreet.com. Both hand registered and have a basic landing page, which I do with all domains I think will be worthwhile developing down the line. I was particularly pleased with hand registering Birmingham New Street as it benefits from 6,600 exact local searches per month and my initial plan is to get it ranking 1st place for its exact name and then do a mail shot to a load of businesses on Birmingham New Street (the most central parade in Birmingham City Centre) in an attempt to sell advertising space on the site. › Continue reading

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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 Domain Development No Comments

Keyword Domains and Mini Sites

Today I have started my presentation for ThinkVisibility.com in September. With 68 days to go I wanted to be well prepared, seeing as though it will be the first time I have spoken at the event. › Continue reading

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Monday, June 28th, 2010 Domain Development No Comments

Fly Fishing Books Domain Development Part 4

Since my last Fly Fishing Books post the other week , I have progressed nicely down the domain development road and finished with a great looking mini-site. I have added a full banner across the top of the page, finished off the CSS, which I have actually down on the same file, rather than separate it and changed the layout of the Google Adsense in an attempt to maximise CTR (Click Through Rate.)

After finishing the site I submitted it to Google and also built a few links from various other sites (directories and forums.) A few days has passed by since then and the site appeared today on its first index on the front page of Google for “fly fishing books.” › Continue reading

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Sunday, June 27th, 2010 Domain Development No Comments

Fly Fishing Books Part 3

Fly Fishing Books And so here we are, part 3 of my Fly Fishing Books domain development series of posts. This week I have spent 2 hours getting to the next stage of the build, which means I have spent 2.5hrs altogether on the site. You can now see that the basic content and monetisation tools are in place, a banner has been added and the domain is now starting to resemble an online book store of some sort. › Continue reading

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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 Domain Development No Comments

Fly Fishing Books Part 2

Welcome to part two of my Fly Fishing Books domain development tutorial. If you missed the first post here it is for reference. In this weeks post I will be covering how to move your domain from being parked with your domain registrar, to hosting it on a server and then setting up a basic landing page to begin working on. The aim of my Fly Fishing Books posts is to give an insight into domain development and how by following these simple steps it can help you make your own scalable development strategy for your domains. › Continue reading

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Thursday, June 17th, 2010 Domain Development No Comments