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Needing some direction

by Rza
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I have a client that was sold on the idea to buy several URLs in the political landscape and use SEO to monetize them this way. The sales agent sold them on buying misspelled political web addresses. The client is thinking that just having the parked domains is enough to make a few buck with.

There's no product or service, they have had some political emoticons made but not doing anything with them. They were referred to me. Any ideas? What do you warriors think?

My thoughts initially are to take the emoticons offer them as a product and send traffic through PPC social ads. Especially since political trend will die done soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    Originally Posted by Rza View Post

    So I have a prospect looking to spend a substantial amount of money. The thing is the client was up sold to buy several URLs in the political landscape. The sales agent sold them on buying misspelled political web addresses take those and monetize them.

    My mind is blank how to do so. There's no product or service, they have had some political emoticons made but not doing anything with them. They were referred and called speaking about SEO for the domains to make money. Any ideas? What do you warriors think?

    My thoughts initially are to take the emoticons offer them as a product and send traffic through PPC or event some social media ads.
    These are the questions I do not get. you have a prospect prepared to spend a lot of money with you and you have no idea what to do for them.

    First Political url's are they url's that have to do with the upcoming election, if so, you have less than 6 months. And if you do not know what to do in the first place then that is not a lot of time.

    What would you do if they were properly spelled url's. why not do the same.

    bottom line is if you have potential clients then you are in business and you should know how to run your business. If you are at a forum trying to figure out what to do then you are basically screwed

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    • Profile picture of the author Rza
      Originally Posted by agmccall View Post

      These are the questions I do not get. you have a prospect prepared to spend a lot of money with you and you have no idea what to do for them.

      First Political url's are they url's that have to do with the upcoming election, if so, you have less than 6 months. And if you do not know what to do in the first place then that is not a lot of time.

      What would you do if they were properly spelled url's. why not do the same.

      bottom line is if you have potential clients then you are in business and you should know how to run your business. If you are at a forum trying to figure out what to do then you are basically screwed

      al
      you must of have misunderstood, Yes I'm in business. The difference with this client is they have a preconceived notion from the sales rep that sold them the urls. They was thinking they could monetize these with some SEO to the urls and that's it. We all know to do seo properly just having a url is useless. I have an Idea of what can be done but really wanted to see if anyone else had any different ideas to monetize parked domains. Thanks for reading
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    • Profile picture of the author webmarke
      Originally Posted by agmccall View Post

      These are the questions I do not get. you have a prospect prepared to spend a lot of money with you and you have no idea what to do for them.

      First Political url's are they url's that have to do with the upcoming election, if so, you have less than 6 months. And if you do not know what to do in the first place then that is not a lot of time.

      What would you do if they were properly spelled url's. why not do the same.

      bottom line is if you have potential clients then you are in business and you should know how to run your business. If you are at a forum trying to figure out what to do then you are basically screwed

      al
      That was really no help. People come to the warrior forum and ask for help and a great percentage of you guys just want to dump on them.

      If you can't help him/her answer his/her question without trying to make him/her feel small, then why don't you keep your comments to yourself.

      There are too many people on this forum who are more interested in being negative and yielding no help, instead being a positive member of this community and contributing with actual comments that answer the questions.

      Ps....I will probably get dumped on for making this comment but that's ok...lol.

      I guess that makes some people feel good about themselves or more important. It's just the sign of the times.
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  • Profile picture of the author RS3RS
    The biggest value of misspelled URLs is the traffic received from users who type them wrong in the address bar.

    There's nothing you can do to increase that type of traffic (an exact number of people are going to misspell the URL regardless of your efforts).

    Google won't reward you for having a domain name that is "almost" the same as one that ranks well. They have no SEO value -- possibly less, since poor grammar is not a good quality signal.

    If they are getting a lot of hits from direct misspellings, then you might be able to monetize that traffic or maybe sell it to one of the political campaigns in question. Since you mentioned no traffic numbers, I'm guessing they don't get much traffic.

    I would be honest with your client and tell them the sales rep was misleading. You can still help them achieve whatever goals they are trying to meet, but you need a more solid business plan than "let's do something with these potentially useless domains".
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Originally Posted by Rza View Post

    I have a client that was sold on the idea to buy several URLs in the political landscape and use SEO to monetize them this way. The sales agent sold them on buying misspelled political web addresses. The client is thinking that just having the parked domains is enough to make a few buck with.

    There's no product or service, they have had some political emoticons made but not doing anything with them. They were referred to me. Any ideas? What do you warriors think?

    My thoughts initially are to take the emoticons offer them as a product and send traffic through PPC social ads. Especially since political trend will die done soon.
    Why don't you just be honest with your client? I'm not sure the issue here?
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  • Profile picture of the author brekmokmung
    do you have any examples which we all can relate to ?
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    • Profile picture of the author Rza
      When you say examples are you speaking of example misspelled urls?

      I'm going let the prospect know that with the time frame of the trend they are looking to capitalize on their options are slim. As other suggested I think honesty is the best option here and let them know that they was misled about what could be done with urls of this statue.
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  • Profile picture of the author webmarke
    Here is your solution that might help. You can try to find some cpa offers about related to the mispelled politic landscape domains and they can make money when their site visitors take a survey or poll.
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  • Profile picture of the author goyem
    how is the progress so far ?
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    • Profile picture of the author Rza
      Haven't sent anything to client yet but when I do, I'll let you all know.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    That's the approach I would take. YOU did not sell the client this "bright idea" but that doesn't mean you should try to run with it. Honestly - he's been had because he bought without knowing what to do.

    Several years ago it was difficult to find any CPA offers that paid much in the political arena. I think it's harder now than it was then. There is so much in the way of free info, free surveys, etc. on well established sites.

    Don't know what the 'misspellings' are but if they are anything where the term is covered by trademark - that could give you a good argument to use with the client.

    Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author Rza
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      That's the approach I would take. YOU did not sell the client this "bright idea" but that doesn't mean you should try to run with it. Honestly - he's been had because he bought without knowing what to do.

      Several years ago it was difficult to find any CPA offers that paid much in the political arena. I think it's harder now than it was then. There is so much in the way of free info, free surveys, etc. on well established sites.

      Don't know what the 'misspellings' are but if they are anything where the term is covered by trademark - that could give you a good argument to use with the client.

      Good luck!
      Thanks, this is great. Can you suggest any good cpa networks just to get an idea. Have you heard or know if this one is good? http://www.maxbounty.com/ We're typically in a totally different space when we're dealing with our clients. This came as a referral
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