DropScout will help you find valuable expired domain names that haven’t been renewed by their current (last) owner. It’s a great way to find domain names that have been present on the market for a couple of years, that have a good reputation, that are short and relevant to your primary keyowrds etc. Give it a shot, I think you’ll like it.
Category: Marketing
Traffic Estimator
Are you wondering how much traffic can you expect by building a website around a specific keyword or key phrase?
Google Traffic Estimator can help you with that. It might be one of the very few tools that gives you traffic estimates that you can trust. These estimates are believed to be based on system-wide AdWords performance information, and it will give you information about the average CPC, maximum CPC, estimated monthly search volume and the number of clicks per day that you can expect.
There’s a lot of tools with this functionality out there, but in my experience they’re often just providing “guesstimates” and that’s not good enough. Google Traffic Estimator on the other hand has been pretty reliable and I can only recommend it.
Free Stock Images
If you’re looking for high quality images that are free to use (under the RF-LL license), I might be able to help you out. I’ve been using both Dreamstime and Free Digital Photos for a while now, and I’ve always been happy with the results. I’ll also write a blog post about free sound effects (if you’re recording a promotional video or something like that) in the near future.
What do your visitors really want?
This is most certainly one of the biggest questions in the online business. You don’t usually come in contact with your visitors as much as you’d want, and even if you do, you don’t always ask the right questions and get the best answers. Because of all this, it can be extremely helpful to use some tools that enable you to discover some of the background of your visitors.
With Google Trends for Websites you can analyze any website’s visitors, be it your own website or your competitor’s website. You can figure out what country / region represents the largest portion of website’s visitors, what other websites those visitors like as well and what those visitors have been searching for in the past. This way you can figure out what your visitors are interested in and you can make sure that your website gives them exactly what they want.
Because of this, they’ll love you and come back for more.
$1,000,000 a year – how difficult is that, really?
If you haven’t heard of David Heinemeier Hansson yet, you should check out the presentation he gave at Startup School ’08. It’s an amazingly motivational video and it got me thinking …
If you want to earn $1,000,000 a year, you only need 2,000 subscribers for your $40-a-month service. How difficult is it really to get 2,000 users for your high quality online service? Well, 2,000 people is .00011765% of people who use the internet. In other words, you need to have one paying subscriber in every city with 850,000 residents. Seems doable? 🙂
Okay, I give up – here’s my blog!
As many of you already know, I’ve been more than active in the online business for the last couple of years (has it really been 4 years already?!), but I was always simply posting comments to existing blogs of our projects / products / services, commenting on marketing and web-dev forums, and I never had my own blog.
Over the time, there were so many fellow internet marketers asking me to start a blog to write down my thoughts and code tutorials etc. that I eventually had to give it a thought. And here it is. Aaron’s blog about internet business in general, business principles, inspiration, search engine optimization, marketing, revenue generation and LOTS of code.
I hope you like it! 😉