How Would You Make a Domain/Site Worth at Least $100?
I have a bunch of domain names that I'm not using. I've purchased every one of them with the intention of building a site on them (and some have, at some point, had sites on them), but they still remain siteless.
So, I'd like to either be making money off of them or sell them off.
I was looking at them, and focused on one that is expiring soon. I examined the niche it would be used for, and here is what I found.
For the domain name itself (a two-word keyword phrase), there are almost 10,000 monthly searches for that phrase. For related keywords and phrases, the monthly searches range from a few hundred on up to around 450,000.
From what I can see, the only way to monetize the site is with AdSense. There are no ClickBank products in this niche. I doubt there are many affiliate programs. The niche is for a product which people are likely to research online, but then go to the local store and buy. On the plus side, the average earnings on an AdSense click are estimated at around 72 cents.
On the surface, it doesn't seem like there is a lot you could write about in this niche. But, if you do some keyword research, there are a ton of things you could write about in this niche.
The usual answer, I would suspect, is to put up a small website for it with maybe 10 content pages. Maybe do some promotion, get some earnings and then try to sell it.
I'm sure some would suggest PLR. Well, there is scant little PLR in this niche. All the different topics I found in researching keywords? No PLR. Maybe someone somewhere has some, but I checked what I have and I checked several PLR providers and next to nothing.
I could write articles myself, or outsource it, but, if I do that, I'd want more than $100 for the site. If I were to pay a very low $5/article, it would cost me $50 for 10 articles, so then I'd want at least $150 for the site.
But, here's the thing. If I wrote the content myself, or outsourced it to a pro writer, I'd rather keep the content for my own use. The niche is a niche within a niche, so I can use the content on one of my other sites.
And, that's sort of the pickle. For me, there's little point in building this as a standalone website when I can use the content on one of my less narrow niched websites. For someone that does autoblogging or whatnot, this domain might work well for them. For me, I don't necessarily need it.
But, for ten bucks, I might as well keep the domain. I can use it for tracking or a shorter URL (keywordphrase.dom rather than mynichesite.dom/keywordphrase) or whatnot. It's not really worthwhile to bother going through the steps of selling it unless I can get at least $100 for it. The catch-22 being that it's not likely to be worth $100 without putting some work into it, yet there's no point in putting work into it for only $100.
That is pretty much the situation with a lot of the domain names I would like to get rid of.
Any ideas?
So, I'd like to either be making money off of them or sell them off.
I was looking at them, and focused on one that is expiring soon. I examined the niche it would be used for, and here is what I found.
For the domain name itself (a two-word keyword phrase), there are almost 10,000 monthly searches for that phrase. For related keywords and phrases, the monthly searches range from a few hundred on up to around 450,000.
From what I can see, the only way to monetize the site is with AdSense. There are no ClickBank products in this niche. I doubt there are many affiliate programs. The niche is for a product which people are likely to research online, but then go to the local store and buy. On the plus side, the average earnings on an AdSense click are estimated at around 72 cents.
On the surface, it doesn't seem like there is a lot you could write about in this niche. But, if you do some keyword research, there are a ton of things you could write about in this niche.
The usual answer, I would suspect, is to put up a small website for it with maybe 10 content pages. Maybe do some promotion, get some earnings and then try to sell it.
I'm sure some would suggest PLR. Well, there is scant little PLR in this niche. All the different topics I found in researching keywords? No PLR. Maybe someone somewhere has some, but I checked what I have and I checked several PLR providers and next to nothing.
I could write articles myself, or outsource it, but, if I do that, I'd want more than $100 for the site. If I were to pay a very low $5/article, it would cost me $50 for 10 articles, so then I'd want at least $150 for the site.
But, here's the thing. If I wrote the content myself, or outsourced it to a pro writer, I'd rather keep the content for my own use. The niche is a niche within a niche, so I can use the content on one of my other sites.
And, that's sort of the pickle. For me, there's little point in building this as a standalone website when I can use the content on one of my less narrow niched websites. For someone that does autoblogging or whatnot, this domain might work well for them. For me, I don't necessarily need it.
But, for ten bucks, I might as well keep the domain. I can use it for tracking or a shorter URL (keywordphrase.dom rather than mynichesite.dom/keywordphrase) or whatnot. It's not really worthwhile to bother going through the steps of selling it unless I can get at least $100 for it. The catch-22 being that it's not likely to be worth $100 without putting some work into it, yet there's no point in putting work into it for only $100.
That is pretty much the situation with a lot of the domain names I would like to get rid of.
Any ideas?
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Dan also writes content for hire, but you can't afford him anyway.