"Make sense, not cents"

lil bit of a play on words eh?

I keep reading article's praising craigslist.org for being ad free... The entire site consists of ads. Paid ads and classified ads, but it's ad free? Right.

Here's a quote from a PC World article,

"Most importantly, it has almost singlehandedly demolished the offline classified advertising business."

o rly? so you agree their site is a shit load of ads then?

"His Web site has no ads, charges absurdly low fees to a small fraction of its visitors, has a ".org" domain, and employs 23 people."

My head hurts.

article

I have this affiliate gig going and was making alright money, but I figured since some traffic didn't speak English I would translate and send them to the proper language. I had all of the site human translated into 5 languages. Really segmented it pretty good. And the revenue went down :( I think maybe when they could understand it they were more likely to click and fill in things in hopes of finding what they want in the end.

go figure.

Today at the Domain Roundtable Conference 169 names out of 450 sold at auction. It was broadcast live via webcam where 1000 people watched online as well as bid. $3,666,078 in sales total $21,692 average sales price Compare this to TRAFFIC MIAMI 2006's average sale price of $40,000 and Moniker's adult domain auction's average of $22,000.

Rebate.com	$1,000,000
Invention.com	$500,000
AZ.com	$500,000
Event.com	$165,000
Army.org	$99,000
MakeMoneyOnline.com	$95,000
ConsumersGuide.com	$66,750
Poker.in	$60,000
FederalStudentLoans.com	$50,750
UsedMotorcycle.com	$39,000
Dreaming.com	$35,750
Castillo.com	$35,500
Hot.tv	$35,000
GoodHotels.com	$35,000
Albinos.com	$31,500
Ahora.com	$31,000
FineCars.com	$30,000
p4.com	$30,000
Free-Credit-Report.com	$28,250
p6.com	$27,000
FreeHealthInsurance.com	$25,000
RecordingStudios.com	$25,000
LowestCost.com	$25,000
PayRates.com	$25,000
Growers.com	$25,000
Stronger.com	$25,000
47150.com	$21,250
WebSupport.com	$20,000
WebGeeks.com	$20,000
Gastronomy.com	$15,000
HardwareUpgrades.com	$15,000
Answer.net	$15,000
DropCatcher.com	$14,500
YourDomainName.com	$12,250
GameRules.com	$12,000
Suspects.com	$10,500
AntiPiracy.com	$10,100
LuxuryGift.com	$10,000
cMail.com	$10,000
FuneralArrangements.com	$9,500
Locals.org	$9,100
LaserPens.com	$9,000
BudgetProperty.com	$8,450
PrisonGuard.com	$8,000
BridalRegistries.com	$8,000
FigureSkater.com	$8,000
TaxRefundLoans.com	$7,600
FinancialCounseling.com	$7,550
CareerResource.com	$7,500
Chinaware.com	$7,500
DomainList.com	$7,100
LoanProperty.com	$7,050
DirectorySearch.com	$7,000
CoinStores.com	$6,900
SpanishGold.com	$6,800
WrestlingFans.com	$6,300
Loudon.com	$6,200
JapaneseAutos.com	$6,100
Southerner.com	$6,100
BankLocator.com	$6,000
CheapGadgets.com	$5,600
SpaHoliday.com	$5,600
BrokerageAccounts.com	$5,400
messenger.eu	$5,400
PhoneSmart.com	$5,200
HummerRentals.com	$5,100
FunDate.com	$5,100
CarManufacturers.com	$5,000
MusicReleases.com	$5,000
InternetHub.com	$5,000
CaliforniaDoctor.com	$5,000
xCode.com	$5,000
CarpetInstallations.com	$5,000
Dine.mobi	$5,000
Paper.info	$5,000
SecureVoip.com	$5,000
DrugRefills.com	$5,000
DailyFeeds.com	$4,600
UniversityPersonals.com	$4,300
UniversityPersonals.com	$4,300
Shedding.com	$4,300
MackDaddy.com	$4,300
LowPriceFlights.com	$4,100
CommercialPainter.com	$4,000
Voys.com	$4,000
FitnessDating.com	$4,000
StreetTruck.com	$4,000
SecureLending.com	$3,900
GoodCar.com	$3,700
HippieClothing.com	$3,500
VictorianPaintings.com	$3,500
ArmyBrat.com	$3,500
SecureProxies.com	$3,500
HotDestinations.com	$3,400
GreatBands.com	$3,300
CelebrityCouple.com	$3,300
PhotographyGear.com	$3,300
CurlyFries.com	$3,250
EscrowFee.com	$3,050
LocationMap.com	$3,000
Vaccinated.com	$3,000
Slightly.com	$3,000
DrPoker.com	$3,000
HawaiiDoctors.com	$3,000
FoodConsultant.com	$3,000
BcTours.com	$2,778
Convulsion.com	$2,500
FreeNameSearch.com	$2,500
MedicalInjuryLawyer.com	$2,450
LetsPlayPoker.com	$2,250
Defectors.com	$2,200
ImageBuilder.com	$2,200
SeoHints.com	$2,150
SeoHints.com	$2,150
LatestPolls.com	$2,150
AntiTobacco.com	$2,100
PortlandHousing.com	$2,050
AirIonizer.com	$2,050
JayD.com	$2,050
Cohabitant.com	$2,050
ForexCalculator.com	$2,050
AirbrushSupplies.com	$2,000
NewYorkSource.com	$2,000
LawRecords.com	$1,800
EssentialVitamins.com	$1,600
MathSites.com	$1,600
FieldGoals.com	$1,550
DayTradingSchool.com	$1,500
AntiLock.com	$1,400
eDoll.com	$1,350
SkiTrainers.com	$1,300
CreditSurvival.com	$1,250
UltraDisk.com	$1,250
CreditSurvival.com	$1,250
UltraDisk.com	$1,250
KidCrazy.com	$1,250
SpaceDesigns.com	$1,100
ChristianSoul.com	$1,100
GirlsBags.com	$1,100
HorseMedication.com	$1,100
HollywoodHousing.com	$1,050
SanjoseHousing.com	$1,050
VacantHouse.com	$1,050
HikerWorld.com	$1,050
PictureConverter.com	$1,050
Blackjack101.com	$1,050
GayDiscos.com	$1,000
PersonalsSite.com	$1,000
CharlotteHousing.com	$1,000
JacksonvilleHousing.com	$1,000
CameraPhotos.com	$1,000
CompanyManager.com	$1,000
MedicalClaimBilling.com	$1,000
StoreBargain.com	$1,000
BakeryFoods.com	$1,000
r11.com	$1,000
BakerySale.com	$1,000
Customers.eu	$1,000
ForeignCurrencies.eu	$1,000
IpodNews.com	$1,000
CasinoPokerOnline.com	$1,000
LadyShaver.com	$1,000
SanfranciscoPersonals.com	$1,000
EmptyJar.com	$1,000
Hastily.com	$1,000
SpokaneHousing.com	$1,000
FoodContents.com	$1,000
LeaseTakeovers.com	$1,000
StockTradingAccount.com	$1,000

Recently affiliate marketing has started to make me a full time steady income. Here is what I realized:

$15 offers are super competitive. $1-$2 to get noticed.

To break even you need to convert 1 out of every 15 visits.

$0.40 offers are not competitive and overlooked. $0.05 bids can be quality scored down to $0.01.

To break even you need to convert 1 out of every 40.

Although you get paid more per commission with a high payout, you have to pay a lot more for that commission. The roi on these cheaper offers is a lot better.

I was trying to research my backlinks via msn and kept getting a blank page, then I headed over to digital point and it turns out MSN has stopped allowing the search for the excessive amount of automated queries they receive. That's gonna hurt a lot of link pop tools, but there is hope. hotbot.com can still be used for this type of search.

Big Jumbo is great so far, I just signed up so it's auto optimizing still, but these past few days it got it right and is still tweaking. I think the revenue will level off and stay consistent soon, but this is optimizing extremely well. Especially when the bulk of that traffic is adult and paid horribly before.

I've been testing my domain names here there an everywhere. I have moved from sedo to goldkey to namedrive to parked to namedrive to parked to streamic to bigjumbo in that order. Right now I'm testing bigjumbo because skenzo apparently does well for adult traffic, but I don't meet the reqs.
Anyways, about these additions. Namedrive announced today a couple new services. The most interesting to me is Broker Select. I submitted my .us portfolio. Other additions include Building Blocks, NameDrive Corporate, and a blog.

I messed up. I misunderstood the thing about overture. The bid tool is gone, not the search tool. I think a lot of people made the same mistake because overture is fast as ever or it's just because tools that showed bids next to searches are down.

A few football team names .info dropped. I caught colts.info. Low and behold they won it all. I did the only logical thing, EBAY it of course.

Colts.info