Have you ever asked yourself if you think that the content that you write on your blog is worth being talked about? I have several times and it is one of the reasons as to why I created the series on Google Webmaster Tools. I am just now starting to see some organic traffic from Google and while I haven’t received much feedback on the series, my goal is to inform those that are looking for information and to answer any questions that they may have. 

I started my blog because I have an interest in affiliate marketing and it is something for me to chronicle and look back upon. I can use my blog to either vent my frustrations and make posts about me losing money and at the same time I can make posts about me making money (hopefully soon).

Is YOUR Blog Worth MY Time? continued

I have a few domain names that I have acquired over the past 2 years or so. Like most people I bought them because I had huge plans for them when I first saw them and I thought that I would turn it into some huge money maker and it would become wildly popular. Also like most people that never happened and the domain just ends up collecting dust and never getting used.

Most of the times people just park their domains in the hopes of receiving type in traffic and maybe a few clicks here and there. Unfortunately I was dumb enough not to park any of my domain names and instead just had them sitting there so that if somebody did type in the name they would receive a 404 error. Well on the 28th I finally decided to take all the domains I am not using and park them with Sedo.com. 

I had actually forgotten that I even parked the domain names and only remembered about them yesterday. So I login and check things out to see if there has been any traffic to any of the domains. What do you know, one of my domain names has gotten 93 unique visitors as of this posting! So far it is averaging 3 visits a day and had I known this I would have had it parked a long time ago.

So now I am in the process of deciding whether or not to turn this domain into something. Even something small that wouldn’t take a whole lot of time to produce. Maybe even outsource some of the content and see if I could turn it into a small passive income or a small community with a forum. With 93 unique visits, that is direct type in traffic mind you, if I had some content on the domain I could have converted that into some possible cash.

I think I may end up doing something real quick with it just to see what happens. It’s worth a shot and it could turn into something bigger then I suspected.

Do you have extra domains sitting around that you don’t have parked? If so, head on over to Sedo.com, sign up for a free account and get them parked! You could be losing money!

Well after trying out another very small campaign for I site that I have been trying to promote with both Yahoo and Google, I find out today that I got the slap from AdWords. I had most of my keywords set around 25 to 30 cents and now most of them are inactive sitting at 40 and 50 cents. 

Why? Because I am lazy and have not been working on trying to get the CTR up. It’s my fault and I know it, am I really concerned about it at this point? No, but I really should be. I started this site up probably around 4 months ago, when I first started this blog and I haven’t had much success with it so far. However, the site that I am using to promote the products paid me today which I was surprised. 

I have the payout set to the minimum of $100 and it is just directly deposited into my banking account. My account standing was close to $90 something and so I thought that I would never get paid. But the payment wasn’t for the full amount either, it was only for $33 and some change. So I am not sure why they decided to pay me all of a sudden, maybe they want me to move on.

I think that I am officially done with the site and I am going to just set it up for sale on sitepoint.com and see what I can get for it. Probably more then it has actually made me which would be nice.

So for any of my readers, if you are interested in trying to run a website selling digital software, hit me up with an email and I will give you the details. No reason to be discouraged just because I couldn’t get things to sell, maybe I am just not a PPC type of guy.