Domain flipping is where the millionaries live! You just have all read stories around the sale of Insure.com which went for $16 million in 2009, or Business.com which sold for $7.5, casino.com, diamond.com and the list goes on. To get a generic name like this nowadays is next to impossible…or is it? One of the clever ways of buying and selling domains (domain flipping) is to look for a term that is trending right now. If a news item gets published about a specific story and it takes off… then you can cash in big style. Look at how many Bin laden T-Shirts were sold over the last few days. Looking at Google Trends – the search volume went to 400 times average see Google trends (not surprisingly).. but what if you managed to identify that search term and buy an exact match domain. If you build a quality site on it, then it would most likely be on Page1 in a week or 2 attracting massive traffic.
So how would an Internet Marketer take advantage of this?
Well one way is to read the news every day, look for trending topics and then identify keywords that people might be searching on. A quick check in Google Trends will give you an idea of the volume. (note Google keyword tool data is too old to use).
OR use a tool that looks at news content for you, pulls out relevant keywords and then checks the availability of domains automatically. That would be cool wouldn’t it. Feednamer is such a tool. Simply point it at any RSS feed like a PR news site (PRWeb is one example) and it will pull the latest news and delver you a list of already validated domains. All you need todo is scan the list and check on trends for a decent volume and you’re away.
What can I do if I find one?
If (or in reality ‘when’ ) you find a good domain with search volume you can either a) Build blog, post some content and monetize it using adsense. b) If its a product domain name like 30inchplasmascreens.com for example, you could setup an ecommerce store or an amazon affiliate store and make moeny that way. c) Do both a and b, and then flip it on flippa. That way you make a serious business around domain flipping on auto-pilot. You can get feednamer here.
Or watch this video, and click on it at the end for more…
Is it any good?
In fact tis awesome.. and I’m not saying that because it works and its really cheap to buy…no its because no one else is doing this and its such a simple idea. It installs using Adobe Air (it’ll run on Mac and Windows) so its small and fast. All you need todo is punch in an rss feed, click scan and it’ll begin listing all the domains available. Double click a domain and it’ll take you to Godaddy to buy it. The next versions are promising to include a keyword tool… which will complete the process. Watch the video on how it works.
