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First $100 affiliate links/adsense on my blog. First $1000 after the 2008 tech bust I automated a process to look for expiring domains, analyze them for intere

First $100 affiliate links/adsense on my blog. First $1000 after the 2008 tech bust I automated a process to look for expiring domains, analyze them for interest (either as a business idea or potential to build out a website) and got a few banger domain names that I had no interest in using that I resold for $1K+. I started doing this because my ex-wife insisted we spend quality time together, which was us watching reality TV while she surfed Facebook so I needed something to do to not go crazy but that didn't take much attention so I could quickly context shift away from it.

bhu1st 3y ago
I did this an earned $35 once. The process was manual. It would be interesting if you could share your automation process here or via email. Good for you prioritizing family time.
- ROTMetro 3y ago
  I just took upcoming expiring domains and processed them to get things like the number of returned search results for the keywords in the name (to show interest in the topic and get a potential value also how much competition a website would have for keyword SEO) plus some other mojo I was using to generate a score that would bubble up domains that might be of interest. Pretty sure Google blocks off lots of the ways I was determining metrics now. Basically I just took the tips people did for deciding if a keyword had SEO potential for a blog SPAM farm and automatically applied the rules to upcoming expired domains instead the manual coming up with keyword ideas, see if the domain is available, see if the keywords meet certain tests that most people were doing back then. The tools then sent me an email containing ones of interest so I could do a quick sanity check before picking them up. But here is the REAL SECRET!!!! The one cool trick I personally used to generate $30k a year in side income while watching TV!!!!! You have to remember how bad things were in 2008. A lot of people just let go really good domain names that they had been hanging onto forever. So the main thing you need is for it to be 2008-2010.

bhu1st 3y ago

I did this an earned $35 once. The process was manual. It would be interesting if you could share your automation process here or via email. Good for you prioritizing family time.

ROTMetro 3y ago
I just took upcoming expiring domains and processed them to get things like the number of returned search results for the keywords in the name (to show interest in the topic and get a potential value also how much competition a website would have for keyword SEO) plus some other mojo I was using to generate a score that would bubble up domains that might be of interest. Pretty sure Google blocks off lots of the ways I was determining metrics now. Basically I just took the tips people did for deciding if a keyword had SEO potential for a blog SPAM farm and automatically applied the rules to upcoming expired domains instead the manual coming up with keyword ideas, see if the domain is available, see if the keywords meet certain tests that most people were doing back then. The tools then sent me an email containing ones of interest so I could do a quick sanity check before picking them up. But here is the REAL SECRET!!!! The one cool trick I personally used to generate $30k a year in side income while watching TV!!!!! You have to remember how bad things were in 2008. A lot of people just let go really good domain names that they had been hanging onto forever. So the main thing you need is for it to be 2008-2010.