As I said in my previous post, I sold all my sites about a month ago. It´s been a kind of slow month, with me pretty much staying away from everything… But now it´s time for me to get back in again, new site launched today!

The site launched is a product review site for Mp3 Speakers, located at mp3speakers.net. This site is kind of a new setup for me. I’ve decided to skip the ReviewAzon product listings that I’ve just on quite many sites now. Instead I’m focusing more on just displaying unique reviews written for me, outsourced through TextBroker. Of course each review also links to a buy now page on Amazon, so hopefully I’ll get some sales that way.

The product listing part has instead been trimmed down to only having a normal Amazon Astore on one subpage. I haven’t tried this before, and it’ll be interesting to see how it performs. If it doesn’t give good results I’ll probably switch to ReviewAzon, or something similar in the future.

I’ll keep you updated on the progress. Hopefully the site will index and rank somewhat well before all the Christmas shopping is over!

I’m very proud to present what I’ve been working on for the last couple of weeks… The Kiditect Network! It is a small network of sites that I’ve recently launched. It currently consists of 4 sites, all of them are affiliate stores selling products for toddlers.

I have put in a lot of time and work into this, the first site (ToddlerBoots.net) took me a little longer than I had expected. But once the ground template and work flow now has been build up I can quickly launch new sites with a little less effort and the following 3 sites took no more than a few hours each to put together.

You can check out the different sites currently in the Kiditect Network by going to the main network site. That site itself might not seem like much to the world, but it serves it´s purpose. I’ll spice it up a little in the future as I go back to refine and tweak things.

Domains in the Network

As I said there are currently 4 sites live, all using keyword rich domains and with good search volume. All in all I have 5 more sites that is going live in a few weeks. With the exception of ToddlerBoots.net which I picked up at NameJet a few months ago, all the domains are handregs. So it’ll be interesting to see how they perform. They are already starting to rank on Google, with 2 of the sites already on the first page of results. I’ll make sure to follow up on the performance as the sites settles in!

For the past months I’ve occasionally been browsing through, and placing a few bids on Flippa.com. But I’ve never actually bought or posted anything for sale there. So I thought it was time to try it out for real by putting up a site for auction!

I’ve been thinking about putting up sites for auctions at Flippa.com for a while – But in the end I’ve always ended up posting the sites for sale on forums like NamePros or DNForum instead. I think that one of the reasons for that is that I’ve been wanting to avoid the $19 listing fee on Flippa. Mainly because it has been simple sites without any revenue to talk about sold for under $100.

Selling an Amazon Affilate Site

For my first auction I’ve decided to let go of one of my most successful sites – Dual DVD Player. The site has earned a little over $100 from Amazon Affilate sales, since December 2009. I listed the auction with a starting bid of $150, which I think is quite fare. There is also a BIN price of $600, which I would be happy to sell it for!

Since this is my first try at Flippa, I’ve got no idea about how it will end. The auction ends 7 days from now (16th Mars), and I’ll make sure to post an update when it´s over!

Uppdate

The auction got quite much action close to the ending, and ended up selling for $325. Overall I’m very happy with the result, and will list more sites for sale in the near future!

Have you sold or bought anything from Flippa? I would love to hear your thoughts about it here in the comment section!

One thing that I’ve focused on lately is product domain names. I’ve mainly looked at getting .com and .net domains, as I don’t think the .org fits that well into product/shopping mini sites. But I have made a few exceptions though when the other extensions have been taken; ToddlerSlippers.org is one of them…

I got the idea for the domain while browsing through a list of expiring domains, where I saw ToddlerSlippers.net. I didn’t think it was worth the $69 NameJet price though compared to the reg fee price of the available .org version, so I bought that one instead. I don’t have any big plans for this domain, but I do own some related domain names that I’m going to develop, and I think this one might be a nice addition in the future.

Affiliate Mini Sites

I have a few other product domains that I’ve turned into mini sites, mainly promoting the Amazon affiliate program. Some examples are Portable Mini Fridge and Dual DVD Player, where I’ve tried quite similar setups. So I decided to do some experiments with the Toddler Slippers site and trying out some new techniques. I took the money that I “saved” by not getting the .net domain, and bought myself a copy of the ReviewAzon plugin (not an affiliate link) for WordPress to test it…

Ranking High on Google

Usually when I develop a site I like to do the design/template myself. But since I didn’t want to spend too much time on this little project, I decided to go with a free theme. All in all, installing WordPress and ReviewAzon and making some adjustments to the theme – I spent no more then 45 minutes getting the site online. Adding products to the site is also a really quick task with the plugin, so after adding some products to advertise I’ve totally spent about 1.5 hour on this site.

One of the things that I like about product domain names, is that it is fairly easy to rank well on Google with them. The ToddlerSlippers.org was launched in the middle of November, and it currently shows up on the first page for the search “Toddler Slippers” (with quotes) of about 227,000 other results. I think that is great for a site that I’ve only spent 1.5 hour on, and with no link building or promotion at all. I should also mention that the keyword “Toddler Slippers” has a monthly search volume of more than 22 000 exact searches, locally in the USA.

Revenue So Far

I realize that December isn’t the best month to get any statistical info from, with all the extra Christmas shopping going on. But in the 1 month that ToddlerSlippers.org has been online it has made me around $40 in revenue to my Amazon affiliate account. It´s not a fortune, but it has at least paid for the registration cost and some more!

Toddler Slippers might not be the best paying product as it is quite cheap – But often the visitors buys other products at the same time, and the commission is a percentage of the complete order, so it adds up. As an example I recently had one visitor who bought a pair of $13 slippers along with a $130 compound miter saw. A quite strange mixture there, but I’m not complaining about the generated commission!