Bronte Media

Long time blog readers will remember the domain experiment I started around a month ago.

So a quick update:

I originally had gone with Trafficz.com, which had templates but were hard to configure and came up with strange automatic suggestions (metal working for a real estate domain, and even after choosing the real estate template).

So at the suggestion of John, I changed over to Sedo, for a more simple domain parking page with ads.

In the last 14 days, 503 unique visitors have visited the 101 domains I registered. Or about, 36 people a day. 4 people clicked on an ad and generated a grand total of $0.26 in revenue. I need about $.50 a day to break even (so $7 in 14 days).

With that not working, I am going to create a custom app to manage the domains and lens into content from Homethinking and elsewhere and use the affiliate links and agreements we have there to monetize the domains.

The basic idea is twofold: If I develop meaningful pages for the domains, I should get the Google bump in the exact keyword phrase real estate. And then I can use each domain to link to Homethinking, which helps in our SEO efforts there.

Will let you know once I have the initial templates up and how they do.