My Experiences in Domaining, Domain Name Development, Minisites

Having invested in my 127th domain name, I have gone really far in learning the ins and outs of domaining. I have made a lot of mistakes during the process but I’ve got a lot of great tips which I could use to develop my own projects. Developing domain names has always been my hobby and coupled it with domaining makes really strong partners. Here’s how I’m doing so far…

… I’ve stopped registering .PH Domain names that I have and have focused on developing each one of them as .PH is expensive compared to gTLDs. I believe that during this time I have to stay lean and just focus on getting something into those domain names than parking. If I want to stay in the game for long years I have to focus on generating revenues out of my portfolio than keep acquiring. At the same time, I’m planning to launch some really cool and new websites (web 2.0 projects) focused on the Philippines market

– Domaining and Developing Domain Names are really hard work –

So I’ve stepped up my minisite creation, making at least 1 or 2 minisites per week. I was able to reduce my development time and content creation to half as long as how it took me before. My minisites have been slowly generating traffic and I’m glad that even though it might not generate much revenues yet, it is appreciating in value and might be a good development target. I’ve so far released around 13 minisites which have their traffic grow from 1 a day to at least 20+ a day. I’m quite pleased with the Optimization and I’m expecting it to grow each month.

I’ve also started investing on .COMs, whatever I’ve earned with my ad revenues. I have made quite a few mistakes and am starting to learn from it. One of the biggest lessons that I’ve learned, which is really stupid, is relying on Google to give broad results which I’ve registered thinking it has around 100,000+ searches. What I should’ve done is to check the ‘exact’ terms to find the exact searched keywords. It was a valuable mistake, but not too costly as I’ve optimized it with great contents which targets the keywords well. I believe it shouldn’t be too hard to get it ranked but it will take time.