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What to do with YourName.com?

Brian — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:19:40 +0000

A little while ago I wrote a post about owning YourName.com. Before that post I bought my name BrianDiener.com. I have left it just sitting there on my hosting account. I have an email account set up, but that is it. I really want to do something with the site for a few different reasons. Is there anything that you think I should do with MyName.com?

1. I would like to rank number 1 for my name in google for various reasons.

2. I would like to have a site where I can blog about different topics than domaining and Internet related topics

3. I would like to be able to use the site for other business that I have that are not domaining related.

What do you think I should do with this site? I really like using wordpress but I would try something new. I am also looking for a design that is clean, simple but looks good.

What do you do with YourName.com?

Domaining is Like Running, You have to Put the Time In

Brian — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:39:01 +0000

Cross Country has just started back up at school and it is always fun to see who will show up for the first few practices. Almost all of the runners have not been running at all over the summer and thus are in no shape to run miles in the miserable South Florida heat. And they should not expect to be able to come out with no training and run!

Running in the Florida Heat

The same principle is true with domains and earning money online, you have to put the time in. There is no path to overnight millions. Recently, I have been feeling the rewards for some time I put in on a newer site of mine NameCheap Coupon Codes with a great month of PPC, and more importantly affiliate programs.

With the craziness of the start of my Junior year of high school over I am now back to putting more time into my sites and I am looking to expand. I have my eyes on a few names that I think are great values right now, and I have 3 or 4 sites in the works right now. Its going to be fun, but remember you have to be patient and put the time in!

If you have any questions respond below or eMail me Brian[at]TeenDomainer.com

Why not spend 10 min to make $60?

Brian — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:39:58 +0000

I don't know if I have mentioned it before but I make a fair amount of money selling items on eBay every month. This is how I first started domaining. Awhile ago I put up a small wordpress site to showcase some of my items that I sold on eBay. I did not see any result sand just lost interest after awhile. The site was indexed in google for a couple keywords and it started to get just a few visitors every day. I am in the ebay affiliate network and I put up some ads on the pages that were getting traffic form the big G.

The site only gets 1-7 visitors every day but I make on average $5 a month from Ebay Partner Network. This is not huge but this is a site that I do no work on and never promote. It took less the 10 minutes to set up and now makes me $60 a year. If I put a little more effort into the site I know it could make more. Right now the design looks horrible and there is little content. I plan on creating and updating a few of my site soon and optimising them for earnings.

If you have a site that get minimal traffic try Ebay partner network or another ad network. All it takes is a few sites to be earning 100's a month. Which one of you would not like to be handed a 100 bill every month.

I have had great results using wordpress and just writing short keyword rich articles. This is a great part time solution to your non earning parked or vacant domains.

Take an hour one day and put up a small site on your vacant domains and you will thank yourself later when it comes time to renew all of your domains or hosting.

Does anyone have any stories like this to share?

Thanks for reading

Do You Own YourName.com? Why not?

Brian — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:42:30 +0000

Do you own yourname.com? Some people cringe at the extra registration fee every year, but not owning youname.com could end up costing you much more than the $10.00 a year.

Not only is yourname.com a great place to showcase a portfolio of your work and websites, it is unique to you. It is perfect to have a small personal blog with a about me page. This could be very important when you are looked at to be hired for a job. You could put a great resume on the site. It does not matter what profession you are in, you will always be identified by your name.

When people go to look at someone today they go to Google. They type in your name and click on the first result that comes up. You want the first result to be owned by you so that you can control what it says. No one wants the first result on Google when searching for their name to be about another person of the same name. It would be even worse if a complaint about the person came up first. This could end up costing you a job one day if it was bad enough.

You should register your name today because what if someone else is reading this with the same name as you and they register it? You do not want to have to buy your name from someone because it will end up being much more expensive.

In conclusion go to your favorite domain registrar and buy yourname.com and set it to auto renew. If you want put up a small site with an about yourself page and some links to your sites.

Do You Own YourName .com? Why not?

Brian — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:17:28 +0000

Do you own yourname.com? Some people cringe at the extra registration fee every year, but not owning youname.com could end up costing you much more than the $10.00 a year.

In conclusion go to your favorite domain registrar and buy yourname.com and set it to auto renew. If you want put up a small site with an about yourself page and some links to your sites.