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Originally Posted by PornMD
How are the stores doing? I've been considering going through and developing a bunch of mainstream ones, and while I've been leaning towards info blogs w/ aff/CPA, stores seem to be getting popular in our industry for a mass development kind of thing, so just curious how they perform.
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I have a ton of 2 word generic product .com domains so I wanted to do something with them. Doing your own articles etc... is probably a better road as then you have unique content but even on some of the ones where I did automated scripts or solutions amazon, ebay, shopping.com, for stores some of those are making $5-$10 a month + which isn't a lot but it pays the renewal fee of the domain and kicks in a little profit each year so it allows you to be more patient in selling the domain as something that generates profit each year is more of an asset than something you gotta fork out $7-$8 a year to renew with zero earnings compared to parking.
If your domain makes good cash parked probably better to leave it be but if you got some good product related domains making jack shit each month worth a try to get some form of earnings out of it. Even some of the ones I did with SmartName ecommerce stores that only take like 5-10 minutes to build are chipping in a few bucks a month and have held some google rank for months which is harder to achieve with a standard parked page.
I have all the pay per sale memberships cj.com, linkshare etc... but I have still been leaning more to adsense and shopping.com pay per click as the thought of having to update 100's of sites with advertisers new deals each month as they always come out with new banners and promotions sounds like a pain in the ass so I have stuck more to automated ppc ads on them but I should probably test a few on pay per sale just to see if the earnings increase over pay per click on the ones with better traffic as it would be worth the extra work if I saw a substantial increase.
Domains I wanna sell I usually just leave parked. Domains that are strong enough to where I am in no hurry to sell I'm trying to do something with them whether that means light development, full development or just an automated store script etc... Not making me rich but due to the quantity of them I have online it seems to be adding up nicely when you put them all together and you really only need to make over .63 + per month for the domain to fall into the profitable category which is better than the 0 category.