Recently Ron Jackson shared his experience monetizing domains with SmartName ecommerce templates. To be honest these Smartname shops are much more than parking templates as they’re integrated with Shopping.com product feeds and are almost fully customizable, from everything including adding a custom header to manual SEO optimization, for those that are comfortable.
I’ve been testing SmartName shops for some time and have also been happy with the results, moreover from an SEO perspective as I’ve found that several of my domains are now reaching the 1st page of Google results for the main keyword term. Rather than bore you with further details, I simply wanted to show you a recent letter I got in the mail that I think is quite an endorsement for the SmartName shop.
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Why is this interesting? I have a SmartName shop on CommercialEntranceDoors.com under the heading Commercial Entrance Doors. The letter address (and offer inside) indicates it was meant to be directed to a place of business and that my ‘site’ was convincing enough to lead someone to believe I was actually in the business of selling commercial entrance doors.
I can only guess that the advertiser, Deluxe For Business, scraped their mailing list from a list of domains that they believed were running actual online businesses.
Incidentally, it looks like Deluxe For Business is going to be throwing a lot of money down the drain on their direct mail campaigns if this is how they are targeting their advertising.
By the way, if you’re in the commercial entrance door business yourself and happen to be reading this, CommercialEntranceDoors.com is still for sale as of this post, and here are several good reasons why owning multiple, targeted keyword domains is good for business
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Hah, that is awesome. Though it kind of sucks because I wholesale electronics from China and quite often my staff who sources prospective websites (clients) often run into affiliate websites and or PPC websites like Smartnames or Epik’s.
yea, i can see where that would be a problem, especially if the staff is not well versed in detecting and differentiating between these types of websites which i think largely depends on experience navigating the web.
Well, its also another reason why the Chinese are going to be losing their jobs because they either don’t give a shit and just look at the bigger numbers they found each day over quality, and or they don’t pay attention when I train them.
I am migrating most of my jobs to my new Philippines office soon so its just a matter of time of “will be happy” to have a job compared to someone who soon will be looking for a new one.
interesting to get that insight into the work force overseas. I know nothing of the quality of work, but I have just heard that China has just surpassed the US in terms of energy consumption and it seems like their economy is growing while ours (US) is shrinking
Well the problem is my work is in “english” and to find someone that speaks it and do repetitive work like a factory worker, you have to pay them good wages. However anyone who can speak good enough english will try to find a better career path then a dead end data entry job. Whereas in the Philippines, the people there seem to be happy “just” to have jobs…It has to do with culture and the attitude of the people.
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