I’m in the middle of re-hashing some of my adsense strategies. I currently have 280 domain names. Some of which are being used for large, web 2.0 projects and others are just sitting waiting for me to develop them. Currently they are all on my own personal parked domain system. I can manage the content on each individual name parked on this system and I only have 1 template file that controls the design across all 200+ websites. This is great because if I need to tweak the design or the adsense layout, I can do it very easily and all from 1 place. However, there are a few problems.
The first problem is that even though my template is really a clean design, it looks just like all the rest of my 200+ parked pages. And, the design is very basic. I cant customize all of the graphics, colors and themes to that individual market. Thus, it might appear to many to be a parked page, and cause them to “bounce”.
So, my new adsense involves this:
Building individual websites
Even though it will be very time intensive, building an individual site will mean that I can customize the look and layout of each design and make it more attractive to users. It also means that I can develop multiple page sites which will definitely make the site appear to be more kosher.
Using eye catching Adsense Ads
After doing a ton of research, I have found that the “blue link” adsense ads work the best because people are already programmed to click on “blue links”. As a student in one of Joel Comm’s classes said, “Its the color people trust”. I hesitate sometimes because it seems like that blue is so bright, but its also what people notice.
Writing Unique/Original Content
I plan on making my 200+ websites worth something. I desire to build trust in my readers. I dont want them to come to the site and feel like its just another adsense revenue site. I want them to come to the site, learn something, and then post links on forums to my sites and tell their friends to visit my sites also. In the end, I will make way more money having quality content. Also, by having quality, unique content, and gaining those links from my trusted followers, I will also be granted favor with search engines.
That is the plan. Does it sound like insanity to try and build up all of those websites? Yes. But here is the thing… I have a heck of a time getting my web design clients to pay for any value I give them in their websites. Everyone wants to be on the web, but nobody wants to pay for a good job. I spend so many hours doing a good job, and coming up with unique, attractive works of art for people only to be paid pennies. If I put just a little of that effort into building unique websites every day, that make me even $10 a month, I will be doing way better for myself, building up my own business and domain name value, and have a great residual income to show for it.
$10 a month multiplied by 200 is…$2000 a month. If I can pull this off, I will do it full time. Only with 1000 domain names.
The older I get, the more I’m convinced that it does not matter how big a company or a website gets. Something else can always come along and be bigger and better. In this case, Myspace was thought never to be replaced. It was just so massive. Their growth was unheard of. It wasnt even that many years ago that Myspace exploded and got as big as it did. At that point all of my dreams of ever coming up with something better were crushed. (dont worry, it wasn’t that serious)