However, I need to give an excuse. I was experimenting with something.

I know thinking of a domain name to start your online activities can be tough. Especially if you do not know where to start. Sometimes, you just want to have a very general blog that you can just post about anything under the sun.  Also, you may want to be more specific and choose a niche, like “How to make money online”.

What if you need not think so hard anymore? What if there are already established domain names that are available for you to quickly grab? What if these domains have Google PageRank of more than 5? Sounds good uh?

Well, this is very possible. Everyday, thousands of domains are expiring and some of these fit into that criteria what you would call a mature domain. There are expiring domains that have PR7. What does this mean?

High PageRank can mean higher traffic to the domain. These high PR sites have backlinks from other sites, and this can be potentially good if these backlinks are often exposed to visitors, increasing potential visits to the domain.

However, I would assume that no one goes on a buying spree of these domains. I would check where the backlinks are from and evaluate from there if it is worth bidding on the domain. Also, I would check the backlinks source and see if there is a kind of niche the particular domain I am researching on was involved previously. This way, I can plan how to make use of the domain should I win it.

I won’t disclose too much info here as I am not too sure if my experiment would work. I would have to do more research before letting it out here, so that others don’t jump the gun and make nothing.

To our success…

BlogWithZee.com is actually my second blog. Before this, I created a blog for the affiliate promotion for a game guide of an online game, Aion.

That blog address is aionmastery.affiliatemasterplan.info

The address isn’t that too SEO friendly, I guess. I set up the blog based on the keyword “Aion Mastery”. This blog came out on page 2 of Google for that keyword. And I did it over 1 week.

Not bad I think. I won’t blab too much on whether the affiliate marketing was a success on that site. Ok, I will just say it’s not successful. One thing I found out was that the guide wasn’t that too great anyway. If I had done my research, I would have advertised for another guide that is better in quality. I didn’t splatter the site with Google Adsense and other adverts at that time. But upon writing this post, I did just that.

What I want to say in this post is I’ve used a certain resource to get at that page 2 of Google. Its Google Sniper. Get it here.

I read Google Sniper and refer to it constantly while creating that blog. Although I did not follow everything in there, such as not using domains with a .info in them, I just had to try with methods that is economical to me as a start. I believe if I continue to optimize the site for the same keywords, it would make page 1 on SERPS. But, I guess I’d leave it as it is and try a different product that I have researched properly in the future.

I won’t give any further info on what’s in Google Sniper here, as it is copyrighted. I would just say that it gave me the information I needed to top Google Searches for that particular keyword. The information in the e-book is useful, relevant and most importantly works.

Another resource that helped me a lot is Do Fellow software. Get it here.

What it does is search for blogs based on your keywords and return its corresponding PageRank. You then choose which blog post you want to leave a comment. This is very useful and very important.

When I used the keywords “Aion Mastery” to search other similar blogs, I started commenting on blogs that has high PageRank. This helped in ranking my site amongst others for the keyword search. Like John Chow mentioned in his e-book…

“… commenting your way to the top…”

However, I did not just go around and comment something like, “Nice blog.” Or something that has no relation to the blog post I’m commenting. I actually read the post and give my constructive comments. This way, the administrator would appreciate my comments more and would unlikely delete it or mark it as spam. This is VERY important. Otherwise all the effort would go to waste.

I have a few other affiliate products that I have in mind to promote them this way. But I’ve been busy with this blog, as this is has much more meaning to me and is more fun writing.

Why don’t you be curious and try the two resources that I’ve used, get the results and post a comment here?

Until next time… Good luck sniping…

I do not want my current readers to suddenly feel that the blog is filled with advertisements top to bottom. I want to prime them from the start that this is the way my blog is going to look now and in the future. Maybe the Wordpress theme might change, since I am a very picky guy, especially in terms of designs and layout of my site.

I look for themes that are ready to publish advertisements with already allocated ad placements on the theme itself.

Google Adsense is a must on my blog. I guess that’s what majority of bloggers who want to monetize their blogs do. But I won’t stop there. I sign up for both Kontera and Adbrite as well to increase the earning potential. Although, I am pretty confident that I won’t make much initially, I want to make sure that these are there when the traffic starts to build up.

Other advertisements I considered for my site are affiliate banners. There are many sources of affiliate networks that one can sign up easily. One of them is of course, Clickbank. There are many others too that do not necessarily belong to an affiliate network. Take Shoemoneytools.com as an example. It pays 50% commission on sign-ups made through your affiliate link.

I am in the midst of creating sub-domain names for these affiliate links so that they look pretty in the address bar when the mouse cursor hovers over it.

There are many other methods to monetize the blog. I will take it one step at a time and explore what works and what not, especially for newcomers like me. Now that some of the monetization are in place…

Let’s look forward to the traffic…

A part of his website, Shoemoneytools.com, provide subscribers with the necessary tools to rank higher in search engines, particularly Google.

I am going to just skim through his website offer here and may consider signing up for his $9.95 trial for 9 days later on. However, the price after the trial is rather steep at $199.95 per month!

There are four categories to the whole set of tools, namely, SEO Tools, PPC Tools, Link Building Tools and Valuable Resources. There is another whole set of other tools under each category.

Looking at the tools list, I am not sure if they can be found elsewhere on the internet and used free. But, it may not give the same result and you would need to know which tools comes first if you are still new like me. The guides in Shoemoneytools should be able to help those starting out.

Looking through the list of tools, I can roughly imagine what each does. What intrigues me the most is the Adsense Crawler. What does it do?

I guess the guides and walkthroughs would be beneficial in learning what tools to use for what and when.

He garnered in more than $130k with that picture of him showing the cheque, all from Adsense. If he’s showing what he’s done here in the tools, people should at least be making a fraction of that. But the question would be, would that fraction be enough to cover for the high monthly subscription to his tools. If for a few months there are losses in investment, people may not be able to sustain and commit any further. This may create premature cancellation of subscriptions and people just give up. No one knows when the profits will start pouring in, and hence skeptical thinking sets in to give up.

Maybe, what one can do is to sign up for the trial first, look at the tools and decide if it can be applied for profits. I would strongly suggest that newbies do not jump the gun. At least make full use of the nine days of trial to learn a lot of things. Do not go in blindly. Understand and at least have a realistic expectation of what the tools can do.

If you are trying the tools then…

To your success…