Thoughtful Ways to Market Your Expired Domains

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Now that you have a pack of expired domain names that you believe are your potential money spinners, your immediate next task is to act on those domains quickly to start gaining some amount of income. There are many ways of earning money from your expired domains depending mainly on how you are planning to expend and in what way you can promote those domain names. Here are some time tested methods that will help you create a solid pool of gains from domains expired.n Just sit on your domains and expect some future buyers to come and buy them! This seems to be the simplest and easiest way to market and sell your domain. Just do nothing and don’t put any extra effort to sell the domain. Here, you may be waiting for some potential buyer to approach you, see that you are the legal owner of the domain and later send you an offer to purchase it transfer of ownership. Using this method is quite safe and secure as you are not spending any money on advertising and promotion. But, the chance of selling your domain for a reasonably good price is very slim and you may never even sell your domain even after months. Unless you have a great expired domain name, you may simply fail to dispose off the domain expired for a good price.n The next obvious step is to retain the expired domain with you and create a very simple web site on it and promote it by floating a short message as “This domain is for immediate sale. Please contact xyz@abc.com”. You can list the names of your domain names on the web page created and hope for a better price sometime in the future. Though this method is fairly simple and straightforward, you may not really hope for an immediate sale as there are thousands of web sites like yours that throng the internet. However, if visitors find your web site and get impressed by what they see, they may decide to contact you with a request for a domain or two at fairly decent prices.n Domain flipping is an attractive and efficient expired domain gains method that can bring you very handsome income over a period. If you are ready to devote a considerable amount, energy and money to market and sell your domain names, then it is possible to convert your expired domain into a fully functional web site containing some products, services or affiliate links that leas to other web sites. The most ingenious way is to develop and promote the web site with key word enriched text and content and place a notice somewhere on the front page of the site to inform that the site is up for sale. The site that you develop over the domain expired should have some minimum requirements like:n Good and useful textnSEO enabled text with very good keywords and meta datan Marketable products and servicesn If possible, links to affiliate web sites.n The main benefits of hosting a web site on domains expired are:n Increased traffic and linksn Increased chances of selling the domainn Combined advantages of selling both the domain as well as the content of the website.n Selling traffic and linksn The last method that you can use to dispose of your expired domains is to employ the following series of steps:n Contact various brokers and ask them help sell your domains on a commission basisn Send a series of e mails to interested parties who can buy your domains.n Contact corporate and business houses with an attractive offern Put the domains under auctions on famous auction sitesn Use the power of domain parking to make some income from your domains expired.n Whatever the method you use, just remember that periodic disposal of domains expired will help you maintain rhythm and flow in your business. But, never ever dispose of those domains that you feel are very good and worthy.

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John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is the owner of the path breaking web sites called http://www.expireddomaingains.com which provides complete and up-to-date information on expired domains and their eternal secrets.

Candice Rodriguez

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Candice Rodriguez joined iNET in 2011 as Product Manager for the Internet Services Vertical. She has been involved the Web hosting industry since 2000 and has held roles in Marketing at Dialtone Internet, Interland now Web.com & Web Host Industry Review. While at Interland, Inc, Candice was awarded the Best e-Business Execution Award for her work in Internet Marketing by the Technology Marketing Association of Georgia. Candice received a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications from Florida International University and a Master of Science in Organizational Communication & Marketing at Barry University. She is originally from the Caribbean and enjoys spending lots of time at the beach. Follow her on twitter @dicerod

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