We found a free URL redirection script before and wondered if we could find ourself a short and witty URL to use it with.
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We aren’t certain what we’ll do with this interesting URL but we’ve set it up as a free URL-forwarding service.
WeI’ll be using this ourselves to hide our own affiliate links.
Many months ago I wrote a 4-page report for my Geekcrets.com website called How to Get Free Money From Online Casinos. Although the article itself took me some time to write, I wasn’t especially pleased with it. After about 3 weeks of testing I concluded that it’s not such a clever way to make money.
To monetize the report, I added some affiliate links to casino sites. I added about 10 in total. After a week or two a friend - with considerablly more experience than me in the Casino industry offered to suggest some better casinos. I agreed to his help, and in exchange, I replaced about half my affiliate links with his.
I send news of the report to about 2,000 people on my mailing list and forgot about it. I forgot to even keep track of which affiliate programs I’d even used and didn’t expect to gain anything. In fact I didn’t get the page added to any search engines and there is no way anybody else would have discovered the page.
In the middle of August I received this email in my Spam folder …
Yesterday we launched PlugandSave which sells Power-saving electronic devices.
About 12 months ago Tik and I discovered these units being demonstrated in Thailand and we got in contact with the factory.
I created a quite crude sales-letter site (now offline) which had an even cruder Paypal integration (after every customer ordered, they had to be emailed to ask for their address). I wrote a few articles to market the site and let it run itself. A few times each month we’d telephone the factory, collect one or two units and take them to the post office a few days later. We made a good profit on the units but didn’t really consider expanding on it for some time.
One of our goals for now is to make sure that all 130+ of the domains we are sitting on get used productively.
We posted a survey on a popular webmaster website recently asking for members to comment on which domains we owned that they liked.
We were surprised to note that HeresYour.info came out most popular and last Sunday it took us took just 30 minutes to build a new site on the domain.
Google will allow for you to build your own custom search engine, selecting which sites you want to have included in the results. You can also integrate the search results with your adsense account too.
HeresYour.info is a simple academic search engine that includes only academic journals, encyclopedias and research websites in it’s results.
Initial testing shows it’s working great.
This is certainly not going to be a big money-making site but it’s one of many which we just hope to ‘incubate’ because in a few years the domain name will become quite valuable.
As long as we can increase the page rank, get some traffic to the site, get included in Google results and cover our hosting fee’s we’ll be happy with this site.