When someone gets on the internet for the very first time, and they want to earn money in their spare time, they have a lot of questions they will want to ask.

I will seek to answer those questions here, as well as to provide a Day Planner to enable the new online entrepreneur to navigate the maze of building a successful online business.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Making Money By Using Smart Expired Domain Trading Techniques

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Copyright © 2009 John Khu



Expired domain trading is possibly one of the most profitable businesses around and probably the most satisfactory one with least business risks involved. With this wonderful business opportunity, you can create a viable and stable income generating opportunity. Of late, expired domain trading is gaining international prominence, because many people believe that expired domains name will always be in demand irrespective of the state of the world economy. With increasing domain name registration, there is also a tendency of large number of them dropping and becoming dead due to a number of reasons.

Expired domains are similar to scrap materials, which you can use to make decent amount of money. There is a famous saying - one man's scrap is another's treasure. Domains discarded by someone could be a big treasure for you! It is almost like a hidden treasure trove that contains precious gemstones and ornaments. A big pool of expired domains is there up for grab by you. You just need to select and buy few good ones to make money out of them. However, choosing such domains expiring or expired is not so easy! You will need to use the best techniques and methods to buy a small inventory of expired domain names.

Professional expired domain traders use a series of intelligent and well-conceived methods that ensure them very good expired domains. These techniques are very sophisticated and sometimes automated. However, seasoned domain traders also use a number of simple techniques that do not involve complicated procedures. Even you can use one or may of them to choose your domain name.

Professional expired domain traders, who are in the business, know how to pinpoint to a good domain. Street-smart and intelligent, they can easily select the best domain from a big stock of domain names. In fact, most of them avoid long and elaborate domain names that come with numbers as suffixes or prefixes. Longish domain names with hyphen in between two or more words are always inferior to those that are simple, short and without any suffixes o prefixes.

Generic names do not come so easily these days and you may wish to buy those domains that are offshoots of generic domain names. For example, you may like to buy domain name that act as adjectives to the main search term. Books.com is never available for purchase, but you can always buy domains that come with names like hitbooks.com or oldbooks.com. If you go one level down, you can choose domain names like hitbookcounter.com or classicbookshelf.com.

Another commonly used technique is the usage of keywords that are in excessive demand on Google or Yahoo. People always search for information by typing keywords or their phrases. You can use this user's preference to choose a good expired domain name. For example, leather shoes are the most commonly used durables by people. People always search for web portals that sell leather shoes. To find an e portal that sells leather shoes, a typical web user will enter search terms like "black leather shoes" or "Italian leather shoes". Based on this search trend, you may wish to look for expired domain names that reflect the buyer's search preference. For example, you can buy expired domain names that reflect the main theme of leather shoe business. Here, you can easily buy expired domains like blackleathershoes.com or Italianshoes.com. These are some of the most common techniques used to search for good expired domain names. You can use them along with other techniques.


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


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