Developing a domain is not that hard as said and is not that easy too as you assume it to be. Only putting up a niche site on a domain and filling it up some filler text is not going to make you that extra side money that you expect from developing just about any domain.
Domain development takes time and if you are into it then you should have lots of patience and some common sense before you process any further. Today i am going to show case 5 easy methods for developing domain that won’t break your bank and will still give you that extra revenue that you expect. But be sure, developing a domain does not ends with just using any of these 5 tools. There are many more steps to be done once your domain is live with a new website.
WordPress
Yes, the Almighty WordPress. Take it as a God-send Gift for Domainers. It is by far one of the easiest methods to develop domain with WordPress and if you know how to use email then i am sure using WordPress won’t be that hard. There are tons of free WordPress themes available on almost any niche. Most hosting providers have one click WordPress installation services. If you don’t have automatic WordPress setup in your hosting then you better change your hosting provider. Seriously!
Install WordPress, find a good looking theme, install the theme, add some content related to your domain and then if you prefer using AdSense then you can install the AdSense Manager Plugin available freely from Wordpress.org site or if you plan on using EBay or Amazon Affiliate then you can use Phpbay which is available for free as well.
Web Directories
Web directories are collection of links. For an example of web directory see Dmoz.org. Though directories are slightly out of fashion these days but still if you have a spare domain which is not making money through parking then install a free directory and charging few dollars for premium listing can bring in some extra revenue. But mind you, you may have to do a lot of work keeping the directory free of spam and still be lucrative to those who would want to pay for premium listing. This is only recommended for people with some good website management knowledge.
Photo Galleries
Another simple way of developing a domain is by using free photo gallery scripts like Coppermine, Photopost and such where you can have people posting images which can be watermarked using your domain name and when users starts redistributing those domain you get a free of cost marketing for your website as well as domain name.
Auto blogs
Are you fan of doing things automatically then Auto blogs are for you, But be sure, auto blogs are like villains in eyes of Google because all they have is duplicate content. Using WordPress as the base site and wp-o-matic you can fetch RSS feeds from almost any sites that provides feeds and then can post them in your blog automatically. Nothing to do, just set it up and forget. Wp-o-matic will do the job and you can watch your website grow each day. Requires some advanced knowledge of WordPress.
Real Estate and Local Business Listing
WordPress is an amazing piece of code. You can do almost anything you want with it and that too for almost free. If you have a geo domain or a domain name that suits a certain locality. Building a site that fetches local business and real estate listing from Yelp and Zillow.com is just piece of cake. Local Market Explorer is one freely available plugin which you can use to display local market data from above mentioned two sites. The plugin has few more features and if you are interested you can check them out too. But Yelp.com and Zillow are two most promising features of it as they have the most accurate and detailed data of local market. Though using the plugin is pretty easy but you have to apply for the API key for both of the site and that’s too pretty easy process.
These were the five domain development tool or methods as you want to say which won’t cost you anything but still give a good looking website at the end of the day and with some proper SEO and marketing you can surely earn more than just parking your domains.
