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!

Right now I’m kind of re-grouping/starting fresh again. I will do a little more planning, and then probably focus on developing just a handful of sites and give them 100% of my focus.

Trading for Development

Even though I really enjoy the process of developing my sites on my own, and also think that I’m quite good at it, I’m going to let Epik.com do some more sites for me. Time has been “quite” limited for me lately, and I just can’t produce sites for all the domains that I want. I’ll stick to a few that I’ll handle myself, and let Epik take care of the rest!

There is a quite steep $249/site cost for setting up the sites, but I’ve traded some domains for Epik Bucks, so I have credit for about 10 more sites + 5 that I already own (3 of them in development right now). Though this might change since I have some bids in for the SwapFest auction tomorrow, but that just gives me sites as well and domains that go along with them.

As it has been reported on some other sites, the earnings hasn’t been great from the Epik product portals. But I like the setup, and I think it will come around eventually as Rob and the guys tweaks the setups and features!

After seeing a very low CTR on TerrierGrooming.com for about a year, I decided to take the bull by the horns and try to do something about it. Turns out that I managed to double the CTR and income!

Before and After

After buying and then re-launching the Terrier Grooming site in the summer of 2009, I decided to re-design it again about a month ago. The reason behind this was mainly because of the bad optimization of the previous version. It did/does get quite many visitors – just around 4000 unique visitors so far this month. But the CTR was horrible before, AdSense showed 0.3-0.4% earlier, something had to be done!

Since the re-launch a month ago, the numbers have improved to around 1% instead, or in other words more than double the amount of clicks, which I think is an awesome result. It could be higher for sure, but a very high percentage of the visitors are coming in from Google Image results, and considering that I think it´s an fair amount of clicks! It´s without any doubt my best performing site right now if you only count AdSense.

Right now I’m thinking about putting the site up for sale at Flippa to see what I can get for it, and to free up some cash for other projects (I know that is a very common excuse for trying to sell crap sites/domains, but in this case it is actually true (come to think about it, that is also an common excuse for excusing a excuse)). Anyway, I’ll let you know if I decide to sell it!

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!

First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you! A little late I know, but to my excuse I just got back from my Christmas holiday. To make up for the lazy Christmas I’ve had, I’ve been really productive now, launching a new site and relaunching a older one with a new design!

I really love animals, and especially dogs, therefore one of my main niches when it comes to domains and development is the dog niche. It´s not the best paying when it comes to cost per click, and there is often a lot of competing sites on Google. But one of the things I do like is that it´s relatively easy to rank good for exact matching dog breed domains, and the various dog breeds often has good search volume. I currently own a few, it´s not exactly GoldenRetriever.com or any other of the most well known breeds, but still quite nice in my opinion! By the way, if you happen to own a dog breed domain that you wish to sell, don’t hesitate to contact me with your asking price!

One New Site and One Redesigned

Yesterday I launched a site for the Griffon Bruxellois breed. This is a site that I’ve been working on for a couple of days now. I must admit that it´s currently a work in progress though. I’ve designed the site myself, and I think and hope that this is a design that will work great both for visitors and search engines. Since I’ve done it all by myself it´s very easy for me to adjust it to the way I like it. The landing page still needs some attention, and there is more sections to be added as well, but it´s coming in a few days.

Apart from that I also relaunched my Appenzeller Sennenhund site. As you can see it uses the same template as the Griffon site. The reason for that is that I’m building up a small network for my pet sites, but to keep this post short enough I’ll get back to that later!

What do you think of this setup? Feel free to leave your feedback, good or bad, here in the comment section!