Find Keyword Rich Domains Fast then Build a Niche Mini Site

Posted on 27. Jun, 2007 by Dave in Business

Buying and selling domains is a hard market to enter into (because of the lack of great domains) but making money using keyword rich domains for building mini niche sites is a whole lot easier, with the right niche and a decent amount of traffic you can do well.

A tool that helps you find keywords rich domains is going to speed up the process as it allows you to come up with ideas quickly and conveniently. I have just used this tool and this is what I came up with.

This is how quick I can build a mini site and a potentially (maybe) make some money from it (who knows really) It’s just enjoyable doing it!

I’m going to time stamp this (13.40pm) – used the tool mentioned above. I decided on “salmon river rafting” why? because I like the sound of earning upto $7.00 + for a potential Adsense Click (the keyword tool also shows you how much “approx” it could be worth for an Adsense Click).

(13.45pm) – check the Google trend which looks healthy and fairly well searched. Head over to NameCheap and register the domain name. Bit gutted! I have to register the DOT CO DOT UK not a problem for me as I’m in UK but this is not the point, we are not building a brand business here. We are going for the quick and out, get it into Google SERPs fast and make cash. I may do well, I may not…I don’t care ethier way but I would like to make my money back from the domain name cost and time.

I also may really enjoy it and build a better site later on, only if I see great results (in terms of traffic) and long term potential. The main point of this (tutorial/post) is to try and highlight how quick it is to build a mini site and make some money from it. Note: I don’t really like this way of making money online but it’s good to have a go and the real joke is that it takes so little effort! (the marketing will be the hardest part and getting a decent listing in MSN/Yahoo/Google – MSN/Yahoo should be easy (he say’s!).

Google Trends

(13.53pm) – Got the domain now, time to build my site and make it look pretty for my visitors (who love their salmon adventures!) head over to OSWD as I want to create a site fast and not from scratch, (there’s no need). I chose the design Dreamy. Now time for some customisation to fit my niche, head over to SXC for some free stock images, choose a suitable image and then open up Photoshop to adjust the size and anything esle I need too. Now I need content and I’m lazy so I go to EzineArticles to look for decent articles in my niche. With that done, I want some Adsense, this template already has a 468×60 spot so I use this although I know the 300 x 250 is a much better performer in terms of CTR.

Photoshop

(14.08pm) – Time for some very basic SEO (SEO is a simple process really) adjust more of template and possibly add Affiliate links that relate to my niche. I will also look at other ways to make it look more appealing and improve the monetization. Amazon store add-on might be a option and some eBay ads.

Salmon River Rafting

(14.19pm) – Ready to start marketing, this is what I will do next – manually submit to Google/MSN/Yahoo or I may buy a text link for the robots to come over and spider me. Get someone on DigitalPoint to do some directory submitting and possibly pay for inclusion into the better one’s like:

Yahoo Directory (http://directory.yahoo.com)
* Open Directory Project (DMOZ) (http://dmoz.org/)
* Joe Ant (http://www.joeant.com/)
* Gimpsy (http://www.gimpsy.com/)
* GoGuides (http://www.goguides.org/)
* SevenSeek (http://www.sevenseek.com/)
* Business.com (http://www.business.com/)
* Skaffe.com (http://www.skaffe.com/)
* Wow Directory (http://www.wowdirectory.com/)
* Microsoft bCentral Directory (http://sbd.bcentral.com/)

Also -
http://www.seocompany.ca/directory/free-web-directories.html

That’s it for now, was that fast enough? here is the not quite finished result – www.SalmonRiverRafting.co.uk – I might have missed some bits out but I will update you on what I am doing with the site perdiocally. Depending how it goes, I may even launch one every week.

Added Note: I didn’t mention hosting but just incase you wanted to know, I have a reseller account with HostGator.

45 Comments

admin

27. Jun, 2007

Hello,

Giving the people what they want? – this is just something I also now how to do, even before I purchased this blog.

Hell's Kitchen 3

27. Jun, 2007

Well then, I’m actually rather amazed at how faster you were able to get things running.

I look forward to seeing how the site performs, be sure to keep us updated on the traffic and revenue stats, as well as any other work you put into it.

I love when people do this kind of thing.

Cheers,
Soultrance

27. Jun, 2007

The site should be live tomorrow (sorry).

Jason

27. Jun, 2007

Your link is still pointed at parking for your site http://www.SalmonRiverRafting.co.uk

Joey

27. Jun, 2007

Thanks for the information. I am very interested in Niche or Mini sites. I have not been able to find too many articles like this one. Please keep us updated especially if you do a new site weekly.

Online Cash Flow

27. Jun, 2007

This is what I see when I click on your URL:

http://www.onlinecashflow.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/salmon.gif

Just letting you know.

Austin Overton

27. Jun, 2007

I was wondering what you views on article rewriting were?

Vijay Teach Me

27. Jun, 2007

Hi Adie,
Now thats the way to go after the mini…. I got some pointers and links to master.
Thx

Vijay

RichF

27. Jun, 2007

Adie, first of all I’m really enjoying your blog.

And more to the point, thanks for this posting which has inspired me to actually get on and do something proper with one of my domains I’ve been sitting on since around Jan. The time is currently 19.11, and I’m going to have something up within the hour!

Pablo

27. Jun, 2007

Great tut!

btw guys, DNS must be updating if he did that today so wait some hours before you can see the actual page.

5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums

27. Jun, 2007

Niche Mini-Sites – Step by Step Guide…

Adie just wrote another MAYBE EVEN BETTER step by step article about how to find a niche KW domain and build a site – QUICK & EASY!

…

admin

27. Jun, 2007

Yes…thought about this, not too fussed really. Lets see what happens…

MSN/Yahoo won’t be too fussy :)

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27. Jun, 2007

Adie,

Hrm. I think that if you used those articles word-for-word for your site content, you’ll get a duplicate content penalty in google and never show up in the SERPs.

Regards.

Guitar Hero 3

27. Jun, 2007

I read matts article on building a niche minisite about a month ago. Took me about 3 hours to build the site and write 5 pages of content. It made me about $30 bucks the first month. I suggest anyone who wants to build a site like that use wordpress as a backend. Starting off i built the site myself, then after a little while i switched to wordpress and my traffic and SERPS shot up immediatly.

Chad

27. Jun, 2007

Great post Adie. I learned a lot and plan to use some of these techniques.

Rocket French

27. Jun, 2007

Seriously that’s all you’re doing for traffic is to submit to the big 3 and directories? I don’t think you’ll get much traffic at all. I look forward to seeing your stats in a month though.

Amit

28. Jun, 2007

Copy-pasting content – isn’t that something we call a spam blog? in which you lose interest a couple of days after it’s launch? I’ve created hundreds of such spam blogs and earned good money from them. I’ve even earned over 100$ on the FIRST DAY itself of a blog! (There’s no need to even get a domain name – blogspot does it for free) But i keep dumping them cuz i never find (rather expect) loyal visitors/readers.

Actually, I’m not saying that they don’t make money. They DO make money! But at some time you start feeling guilty of publishing spam blogs don’t you?

Ken Xu

28. Jun, 2007

Mini site are excellent as your side stream of income. Just Make sure to choose the right keyword and write the right content. Choosing keyword alone will not effect much than creating good niche content…, Is that right, Adie? :)

admin

28. Jun, 2007

Hello,

I’m not creating a blog here but I understand the problem with duplicate content. I’m not to bothered either way. Google scares webmasters into doing what they want so who are we meant to believe?

If I see good results in the first month, I’m going to make it more than just a spammy copy-content site. I’m definitely going to utilise more than just Adsense for monetization as there are many more options out there.

I’ll keep you all updated on how I get on…

Matt

28. Jun, 2007

Even though you are using content that is available elsewhere on the web I would argue you are doing it in a way that is more presentable then whatever article site they came from…. so there is some added value there.
That being said, I have no clue how you are going to get listed in google using duplicate content. It will be interesting to see how much traffic you get and where it comes from.

Online Cash Flow

28. Jun, 2007

I’m very interested in how this goes for you. I would love an update post sometime in the near future!

misguided user

01. Jul, 2007

re-doing the same articles the person did the owned the blog before you? trying to get back on digg?

these mini sites are on the verge of being against googles TOS, its a grey area and they punish them with their new ranking algorithm and duplicate content checking.

bidding directory

01. Jul, 2007

Let us know your curerent status.

It could be a great way to earn $$$. But why copy and paste content? Surely its easier to make an autoblog, which pings google with a new sitemap every day. That way you dont need backlinks, google crawls your site every day, you get loads of indexed pages, its all auto, so you spend less time, you just site back and watch the SE traffic increase along with adsense earnings :)

Mike

admin

02. Jul, 2007

I’m not that interested in Mr Google. The others will bring enough traffic to make a solid little amount of (passive) income.

Remember, I’m doing this for you rather than me, so that I can show exactly what I did over a period of roughly three months and then you can copy it.

I’m sooo nice like that!

Waterslides

02. Jul, 2007

Overture shows only 300 searches/month.

kayliz

03. Jul, 2007

I really like this post. I’m currently going through an apprenticeship of building up or disposing dead or dying businesses and your post seems a lot like what I do. I’m very eager to learn more. Please write more on this!

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15. Jul, 2007

so this also violates Ezine’s TOS:

” n. Agree to not add any active links to any article you reprint from our site. This unethical behavior would lead someone to believe falsely that the author of the article endorses the active link when in fact there is no truth to that.”

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24. Aug, 2007

Adie, could you tell us a little more about what amount of searches are “fairly well searched” and how to you find how well that is?

Secondly, what would be a sufficient amount of searches for you to go for it?

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18. Sep, 2007

What a great post. I have several domains on sedo that I’ve made a whole $.13. I’m definitely going to try this.

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19. Sep, 2007

Can we get an update on the money from this endeavor? Curious to see what you have in and what you have made. Cheers.

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Can you give us an update on this one? Also, have you developed another site this way?

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