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How to Sell Your Blog for $20,000

August 18th, 2010

I love the Delicious bookmarking site.  I usually stop by the site once a day to see what’s hot and what people are bookmarking and reading on any given day.

Sometimes you find really good articles and resources and sometimes you find nothing of interest.  Today I stumbled upon a very cool blog called Blog Tyrant.  More specifically, I stumbled on an article called How I Sold My Blog for $20,000 in 8 Months.  It’s a great read and will give you all the basic information you need to know to start a blog, build it into a trafficed and authority site, and how to eventually sell it.

The Blog Tyrant doesn’t go into the technical details of actually transferring a site and domain over to your purchaser, but you can probably find the information elsewhere.  For anyone interested in how to build websites, how to monetize websites, and how to sell websites, this is a great read and is a good primer on how to get started today.

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Get a Free Domain with iPage Web Hosting Purchase

August 18th, 2010

You can currently get a free domain name for life from iPage web hosting with purchase of a year hosting plan at the price of $3.50 per month.

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The Power of a Domain Name

August 18th, 2010

Domain names are literally the real estate of the online world. An exact keyword phrase domain name can be worth a lot of money and a lot of traffic.

Most people who do well in Internet marketing understand that it’s not only high levels of traffic that will help you succeed, but more importantly, it’s high levels or even just decent levels of very targeted traffic.

The right domain name will help you get targeted traffic. So if you can purchase a domain that has the keywords you are targeting, you will most likely be able to rank higher in the search engines than you would otherwise. Obviously, there are a lot of other things that come into play in search engine rankings (authority, back links, etc), but it is clear that strong domain names play an important part.

Another interesting thing about having a keyword rich domain name is that it encourages people to use your targeted keywords in anchor text that they point back to your site. This is an added benefit.

I have recently seen the power of domain names and how they can be utilized to further your online marketing goals and to position your sales pages or informational blog to the right audience.

Another tack to take is a brandable domain name. A brandable domain name typically won’t have keywords in it, but will be something memorable, interesting, and easy to say that you can build a business around.

The truth is that you can do well with either kind of domain name–keyword rich or brandable–it just depends on how hard you are willing to work to create excellent content and to build links and drive traffic.

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