Buying and Selling Domain Names For Profit

I had some one ask me this question: “Can you make money Buying and Selling Domain Names?”

It’s a great question really, and many of you would say ohhh “that’s only something really smart people do” and “I have missed the boat there are no more good names out there to buy” and there are several dozen other excuses that I can think of that you could make as well.

Domain Names, URL’s or Web Address’s are all ways of owning some sort of virtual real estate. There is great money to be made in this form of Real Estate. If you think about it a domain name is very similar to owning a plot of land. You see, once someone lives at that “Plot of land” then that’s it no one else can buy that plot until it comes up for sale again..

Domain names are the same, once someone has bought the name it can no longer be used again. It can be sold but there will no longer be that name ever sold like that again.

Some will say that’s not right Gail, there is a Street address just like mine in another city or town, well that’s true, but it is not the same as yours is it, it is different, another words it is a variation of your address but it is not the same, the house will be different, there will be many differences….  and the same can be said on various forms of the domain name, you can have a .net, .org, .biz and a few variations but you will never get www.yourname.com again. Well unless it comes up for sale.

As I said it can be bought and sold and that’s where you can make an extremely good living.

It can be very frustrating though, I remember a few years ago someone bought a variation of my name and then tried to sell it back to me. I was really annoyed but hey, he was doing what I was teaching, he could have done it to someone else though In answer to your question, no I did not buy it off him, and since he has let it go. But all the same, what are your thoughts on buying another persons name and then trying to resell it back to them? Have you ever done that before, it was taught many years ago as a great strategy.

You might find this video really interesting that was on in USA news…. check it out as they decided if  Buying and Selling Domain Names For Profit is profitable.

I was recently at an Internet Marketing seminar and there were some folks talking about how much money they make buying and selling domain names and also websites. They spoke of buying website from sites like Flippa that had amazing web address’s then changing the site if needed, then they would either hold onto the site or they would flip it for a huge profit. They talked about how easy it was, I have to say I have sold a lot of websites and made great money doing so. But have not spent time just doing the Buying and Selling of domain names for profit. I don’t think I have the patience to look for domain names to buy. I am like that with property as well

However I see that for some this could be a great way to earn extra cash online. On looking around to who is actually doing this successfully I note an interesting trait … that is these same people who buy and sell to flip also love to do the same with property. When the folk I spoke of earlier talked about buying and selling domain names and websites they also do property and apply very similar rules to their web domain business.

Buying and Selling Domain Names For Profit: Warning

Be very careful about diving right into this and buying domain names. There is a huge word of warning here…… DO NOT BUY TRADE MARK NAMES…

Don’t get served Notice like I did…. scary

I have been served 4 times from companies whose names I bought. I did not even think about Trade Marks and things like that. 2 years ago I got 4 letters one after the other from high powered Lawyers that were going to sue me for every cent I had…. man I was scared. I had a couple of the letters come that I even had to sign for… so be careful. In my country we are not used to all this suing nonsense, all they needed to do was send a letter and I would have taken it down. But there you go thats what some countries do all day they search the Internet seeing who they can sue the pants off ( as we say here) In saying that I know how annoyed I get when people buy forms of my name so if the boot was on the other foot how would you feel if someone took your name, or your company name or product and used it…..

These people ripped me off and I got hoping mad…

I have also had this happen which has been even more annoying…. I had 3 really good domain names, one had facebook in address, one had yahoo and another had another company in there, shall remain nameless…. they were extremely good URL’s and worth money… after about 2 years of me using them and promoting them, I got these letters telling me I would be sued if I carried on using them and to let them go immediately… well from past experience I acted immediately… then I found out, the letters were fake and now someone else is using the domain names grrrrrrrr. I should have realised as all 3 letters were identical, anyway hindsight is a great thing.

I have this great report all about buying and selling domain names for profit. I had it written last year. It is fantastic and will help you to decide if this is something that you could do. All the pitfalls are in there, so you won’t have to go through what I went through. Nothing like someone else’s experience as a teacher right!

Here are some of the things I cover for you:

None of the above bad things need to happen to you, I have been there done that, given you the warnings, for you it’s simple now. I suggest you take a look at this report it really will be very helpful to you. That’s why I had it written so you don’t need to go through what I have been through.

I look every other day on Flippa to see what there is for sale, and 2 weeks ago put bids on a domain and website I wanted but then it went higher than I was prepared to pay. This style of Internet Marketing will suit some of you and you will love it.

I am selling the report for just $7 and it is $7 well spent, I suggest if you are really keen to get into Buying and Selling Domain Names for profit then this will be very helpful.

If you are not at all sure where to start to make money online then you can check out the post I have done called Internet Business 4 Newbies and I am sure you will get some ideas.

Get your copy today and start your Domain Portfolio, and start Buying and Selling Domain Names For Profit.

Amazing WordPress Sales Pages

I am sure you will agree with me when I say that using wordpress out of the box will get you really boring websites. And really what we do want are Amazing WordPress Sales Pages and Websites, and Blog Posts. So the problem… Boring uninspiring posts and pages…. people not staying on site to see that you have amazing information...

I have struggled on for a long time trying my best to get my blog posts and wordpress sites looking amazing so that people will want to stay, look around and really enjoy the experience.

There are a few things you can do to make the pages and posts look good like use the Tiny MCE plugin, that gives you quite a few options but really the pages etc still look boring. What people tend to do to make them look “better” in their eyes is add lots of colourful text, which really is a no no.So please stop doing it… it’s horrid

You can add pictures and video  etc into your posts and pages as well  to make it more pleasing to the eye. I have to say that most people do nothing, it’s just boring words on a page with a token picture in the right hand corner. Am sure you have seen that or maybe you do that…

You can do better than that. You need to do better than that.

I have written a blog post all about the Best Sales Theme and that theme has a great amount of pictures etc that you can use on your page but not everyone wants to use that theme. (No sure why not it’s fantastic )

I discovered last year this great and amazing plugin that allows you to add short code into your posts and pages which in turn allows amazing things to take place. Like your pages start to look different. Suddenly your posts and pages go from average to Amazing WordPress Sales Pages, so everything you do looks great, professional and much better than the competition.

You can read everything under here, or you can watch the video if you really need convincing.

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Short Codes Deluxe – Toolkit For WordPress

This really is one of the best WordPress Plugins I have used. I love it.WordPress in itself is awesome so easy to use but WordPress on it’s own without PLugins is very basic and boring I bought this Short Codes Deluxe Plugin a while ago and have started the process of getting it onto as many sites as I can.When you head over to the sales page you will see what it does and the graphics that comes with the plugin.Anyway what are shortcodes? Good question. When you want to do something on WordPress or any website really HTML is created, and sometimes there are lines and lines of it going on for ages, well with this plugin what happens is somehow in the back the long HTML code is converted into something very small and that tiny code can do all sorts of amazing things… look best idea is to check out the page with the video on it and then see if it is a match for you and I cannot see why you would not want to use it …Short Code Deluxe Plugin Here is Marks explanation….

Please go on over and check out the video I could shout about the Short Code Deluxe Plugin all day long. It’s fantastic and as you go and take a look at the sales page you will see how amazing you can make your pages look, even use the short codes on posts as well.

Th graphics that you get with this plugin are fantastic as well, you can see that from what I have above plus the video.

So if you want amazing WordPress Sales pages then please take a look at this plugin, I really do love it. Anything that can brighten the page, help people engage with your site is worth taking a look at. Don’t just look and say “I will get back to it”… because we know that you probably won’t, sort it now, today. It’s not overly expensive and you can use it on a number of websites.

No more Boring websites everyone you have a chance to change that today. Boring is out. Bright happy websites that are pleasing to look at, don’t have dozens of different coloured fonts and different sizes and shapes are no longer in.We want engaging websites and posts.

Amazing WordPress Sales pages and blog posts are in today, please do go check it out right here at the Short codes Sales page

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Clone Your WordPress Blog

Why would you want to clone your wordpress blog? That is an excellent question. A couple of years ago I wanted to be able to make copies of my websites so I didn’t have to go through the same process of building over and over again. The WordPress Plugins were the most annoying for me just having to install them one by one, then I found a way to copy them all at once and move them to the new site I was building. I was very excited about that. It made building websites very quick and easy.

However I still had to sort the theme and then setup all the plugins and make sure they were all working properly which still took time. I figured if I could copy the whole site (without content) that would save me about 30 minutes and I could pump out these sites. Then along came a cloner that allowed us all to Clone your wordpress blog… now once I got it up and running it was very fast. The Cloner took the entire site and installed it directly where I wanted it to go. Then all I needed to do back then was put in my keywords into my auto posters and “Hey Presto” the site was up and humming. That meant I could really pump them out.

Then Google made some changes so I had to make changes, I no longer could use the same theme every time or even the same plugins as I noted that some of the sites lost their rankings… so in the end what I did was setup about 10 different blogs, with different themes and different plugins,  then all I had to do was decide which theme I wanted for each of the sites I was putting up. There is a good tip right there, don’t use the same theme all the time with all your sites, that’s if they are all on the same hosting account…

Read on and you will read  my sad story … it made me cry…

Cloning your wordpress blog can also be a backup

The other uses for a cloner are :

1. Backing up your website or websites

2. Selling your site then having to move it to the buyers site

3. Building sites for other people on your hosting then moving it to theirs

4. Testing websites

5. Perfect for cloning membership sites

6. Did I say perfect for Backing up

1. Backup: I am sure you have all heard stories of peoples websites disappearing or when updating you press the wrong button and delete out entire section of posts etc… I have done all. My Sad Story… One time I mistakenly put a new site over top of one of my main sites. I could not believe I did such a thing. My whole site was gone never to be seen again. I just sat down and cried. I could not believe how easy that was to do. Anyway it required a number of live chat calls to my hosting and after about 5 hours they got it all back up again. Minus a few posts but most of it was there. Phew…. I have had a site hacked and I have also on another site due to no fault of mine but a hosting error, loose all it’s content… I decided it was time to backup my sites. So now we backup and we backup the backups. I cannot go through that pain again.

2. Selling Websites. I sell websites. I would encourage some of you to do the same it’s a great idea. After all it’s virtual real estate and does have value. When I first started there were no cloner’ss so I had to outsource the moving of the sites. That turned out to be near disaster on a number of occasions so am delighted now for this amazing cloner that is fast and easy to move sites around with. So if you want to build and sell sites then cloning is the answer. Gary has had to clone many a business site and move it.

3. Building Sites for other people. We have built a number of websites for business’s and what we do is to build them on a sub-domain first so we can show them it allcoming together, then when it’s all ready to go, it’s just cloned and then put onto the correct domain. It’s so easy.

4. Testing Websites: Sometimes it’s hard to know when setting up a website… shall I use a video squeeze page, and sales letter type page, which colours will be best, shall I go light blue dark blue etc… this is another job for the Cloner…. build one of whatever you want to have, then clone it and change colours etc and do the changes on each one you clone, that way you save heaps of time not having to build pages, all you have to do is change colours or change titles whatever, am sure you get what I am saying. It’s just easy to make one, clone it change, etc you can have 5 or 6 different pages up at once and drive traffic to them and find out which is the better converter. Not only save time but money too.

5. Perfect for cloning membership sites. We have a number of membership sites, they are setup on this amazing theme that I have been shouting about for a while  you can read about it on the post Best Sales Theme. Anyway I quite like to have membership sites and so now we have a couple backed up and cloned so when I want another activated all we need to do is add it to the domain where we want it, and then finish setting it up. It is very clever, takes away a lot of setup time. In saying that it’s really Gary (my husband) that does all that work, before we had the WordPress Cloner though he had to do everything from the start.

6. Back up…. Well I know I already covered this but it is so important that I have to write it at the beginning and the end. So please backup. It’s very easy to Clone Your WordPress Blog and have that as a backup. You can have it sit on your hard drive and if anything was to go wrong online you can just get the backup straight backup online.

Are there other ways to do a backup? Good question, there are other ways. You can ask your Hosting compnay to do it for you. They may already do one, but you need to check. You can also pay your hosting company to do it for you as well. I have also written a blog post about a plugin that will also do a backup and then it will either send it to you, or you can ask it to put it in your cpanel. However it does not backup your entire Site. You can read that post WordPress Database Backup

I have not put a video on here, main reason is there are three on the sales page when you head over there to take a look, so you can check it out Best Cloner Software

This Cloner Clones Everything… I mean everything in your Blog

What else you should know about the cloner software

Well I am sure that’s enough information, you really should take a look at it. Clone Your WordPress Blog Software is a must have in your Internet Marketing toolkit. If you look and think that it’s all too hard, we are  also able to help you.

Do you have a wordpress Blog Site that needs Cloning? Or A Website That Needs Backing UP??

So if you have a website that needs to be cloned for whatever reason, it has to be a wordpress site, but you just don’t want to do it, then please contact me and we will help you. We can clone, move, backup whatever it is you need.
So here’s the deal for you today. All you have to do, is “Like”,” Tweet”, Google + with the buttons below (between here and the like this picture) and you will get access to the 20% off coupon that you can then send us so you get 20% off the cloning or moving of your site or maybe you just want a backup done. Just contact us either way, let us get you organised…. Whatever you do you need to Clone Your WordPress Blog, or at least get some sort of backup happening. So Clone Your WordPress Blog with this mazing software, I would say the best Cloning Software.

 (I am thinking that the Facebook like button for some reason is not working at present, am sorting)

Best Blog Curation Software

What is the best blog curation software out there? That’s a great question that many of you have asked me. I have been doing blog curation for a very long time now using both the auto posting software (as below) and using specific Blog Curation Software.

I have used the auto posters and still do on some sites, the video, articles and Yahoo answers plugins are all excellent tools to use to  curate content onto your website. However, be warned it can get out of hand and so one does need to go into the sites now and again and check the posts coming in, to make sure that what is coming in is great content.We all know that Google loves new content so it’s well worth going into your auto posted curated content and writing something in there yourself. You can add things like your opinion, or a review, you may not even agree with what has been written so could write that as well. So now days I add at least 10% of my own thoughts at beginning and end of the content I bring in which really does not take too long at all.

There are a huge amount of curated sites out there that rank very highly and if content is great then why not use it for your self on your own site. ( always give credit though as to where article came from)

Here is what I have found. …

If I find a great article and want to share it on Facebook or Twitter then I am sending traffic to someone else’s site, they are probably happy, but I’m not as happy… why? well I want that traffic to go to my own site, so what should I do?
Easy… I take the content that I love and I put it on my blog, I write my 10% comments into it, then post the link into Facebook or Twitter or any other Social Site,  I send traffic to my site. That way my subscribers are happy, they have not had to wade through masses of info to find this great content, I’m happy because I know I am giving my subscribers great content, and I am also happy because I have driven traffic to my site and not the person who wrote the content, although I make sure I have a link back to them in the article or at beginning or end.

Don’t get me wrong though I also leave most of the links they put in there and I also write where I got the information from. Good news is the links out go to great authority sites ( in my case) so that make’s both myself and Google happy. So all round I am building a site that People love and Google loves. It’s a win win.

The other good news is I don’t have to think up what to write about everyday as there is so much great content out there I can curate and use.

If you are still not sure what Blog Curation is then you can go and read the Blog post I have written on WordPress Blog Curation

So what is the Best Blog Curation Software? In my opinion it is by far Curation Soft  you can have the free version of it or pay a very small yearly amount and have it to use all year on as many sites as you want. Plus you get to also use it on 3 Computers. The reason I believe it to be the best is the following:

1. Easy to use

2. Easy to setup

3. On paid version you have twitter as well as number of other places to curate from

4. You can add in other RSS feeds

5. You can use Youtube

6. You can bring in pictures from Flickr

7. One off payment

8. Great training

9. Great support which I had to use once

10. Drag and drop it’s so easy.

So if you have read enough and you want to go and see for your self then click on my Best Blog Curation Software link

One other question I get about blog curation is… Does Linking To Other Sites Bring You More Traffic?

Well here is a curated article on that topic…..

Best Blog Curation Software

This is one of the most often asked questions I get from beginner content marketers who are investigating  curation.  I say “beginner” because once you’ve read a few sites  that aren’t just shopping or direct sales sites, you quickly realize that everyone is linking to other sites – a lot.  And not by gun point, but willingly.

What’s more, sites that send people away are some of the highest traffic sites on the web.  So how can a site that actively sends people away, like Mashable.com, be one of the highest traffic sites on the web?

The answer is not to over think the answer.  It is so obvious that people don’t believe it at first.

As a content marketer you MUST send people away from your site in order to get a lot of traffic.  You don’t have to understand why to know it’s true.  If sending traffic away from your site was bad, all the major blogs, news sites, and niche content sites that link to resources outside their own domains would be unpopular instead of rolling in readers.

Some of the lowest traffic sites on the web, conversely, don’t link to anything outside their own domain.  Though there are sites that dead-end on the web which also get traffic, it is either paid traffic or comes from affiliates who are paid to send traffic from their sites and lists.  I’m talking about organic search and direct traffic from straight links on, you guessed it, other sites.

So Why Do You Get More Traffic By Linking To Other Sites?

Again, this answer is simple, but true.  Sites that actively (gleefully even) send people to other sites are hubs.  They are the watering holes of the internet.  In Africa, once a Zebra is full up on water, the watering hole sends them away, happy to live another day.  But do you think for a second that Zebra hasn’t burned the coordinates of a watering hole into their mind?  Of course it has.

Not only that, but the Zebra is going to lead any and all other Zebras he finds back to that watering hole.  ”The water is good, cold, and plentiful here.  We should always come back to this place.”

A hub site that delivers great and plentiful information to people who are thirsty for it has the exact same effect.  People come in throngs to sites like Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Mashable, Boing Boing and thousands of others every single day.  And what do each of those sites do?  They send those people right back out on the web to quench their thirst for information.

And those people bookmark, share, Like, Tweet, and email the crap out of those sites’ links to share the great watering holes they’ve found.  And the news spreads far and wide, virally, that there is this great place to learn about do-it-yourself projects, or about the trials of motherhood, or a site that has all the latest news on Android apps.

That is not just a primer on how to get a lot of traffic.  It’s exactly how the entire web actually works.  If hubs didn’t exist and no one ever showed their visitors the information that they’ve discovered elsewhere on the web, there would be no web at all.

Thankyou to the folks at Curation Soft for the article

Hopefully you have found this information helpful, if so can you share it round on the net, Facebook, Twitter, anywhere even Google + and you help me and I will continue to bring you great content.

Blog Curation is fun, quick and easy with the right tools. I know what it is like to get writers block so any help on that side is a great help. Sometimes all we need is a start to what we should write about and then our brain kicks in and we can go on writing.
If you have a site that needs new life breathed into it then make it a curated site and go download the software and use it to build huge sites that have a great following. You go out and find the good stuff using the software, it really is easy.

This is the Best Curation Software out there, I know some of you have bought Harlans and that is also great plus you get the training, this is abit different and for those of you who could not go the price we had Harlans course for this will be the answer for you.

I have been using this Blog Curation Software for a long while now and so can really recommend it to you all. You can trial it for free so come on give it a go. You don’t have use of all the features in the FREE version but it will give you a real good idea of how to use it, and you will quickly see why it’s the Best Blog Curation Software out there, for all the reasons listed above.