My friend Tiberius Burciu, owner of My PPC Advertising, has just recently started a new project. He created a new website that deals about everything you want to know about domain names. It provides some good info and today I will give a short review on his new site and also talk about some money making techniques he is using.

The site I will review here is named Domain Names 101 and, as already stated in the post title, it deals about domain names. Well, you may have guessed it already?

Ok, today I had a deeper look at Tiberius’ site and I was really impressed with all the good content you can find on it. I don’t say this because we are friends and I’m only here for promoting his site, but because he has really invested a lot of time and hard work in it, and that should be worth a review on my blog anyway.

Design

Let’s go on. His domain name site has a quite clean and clear design. No fancy graphics and annoying popups, the whole page looks very “friendly” in my opinion.

The navigation is well done and easy to handle. I like the uncluttered navigation style, nothing is more annoying than those hyper-cool, javascript driven flyout menus and that kind. A navigation should be easy both for your site visitors and also for search engines, which can better navigate through your site.

Content

A website’s design doesn’t matter too much when it comes to creating a information-based site. What really matters is content, and Domain Names 101 has a lot of content!

Content is really important, both for visitors who are looking for it in order to get answers, and search engines who are permanently searching for new sites they can index. Domain Names 101 features a lot of quality content and provides usefull information if it comes to domain names.

The site contains nearly everything you want to know about domain names, from choosing domain names to selling them, from mobile domain names to free ones. I was amazed about all the info Tiberius has researched for his niche site! But he goes even more into the details, e.g. do you know what a homograph attack is? I doubt many people will know that.

It’s a great plus for his site to offer such specialized information, it will drive targeted traffic from search engines and therefore visitors who are looking for the right answers. Besides only providing the info to those people, it’s also useful for monetizing a site as I will explain in the next paragraph.

Monetization

Ok, let’s come to some monetization strategies Tiberius uses on his domain names site. I think it’s nothing wrong about monetizing such a content-rich site, on the contrary, it would be a bad idea not to do so.

In general, to make money from websites, you need traffic and the best traffic you can get is from search engines like Google or Yahoo for example. In order to get search engine traffic, you must provide unique and useful content. In other words, you must provide the answers to the user’s questions. If you do your job right, you’ll reap big fruits.

So, traffic shouldn’t be a problem with Tiberius’ site, although it will take a while before search engines index all the pages on Domain Names 101. But now it comes to monetizing that traffic.

One strategy he uses is contextual advertising. It’s a well known technique to monetize a site and it’s really simple to work with. All you have to do is to integrate a small piece of code in your underlying website template. That code snippet will “scan” your pages for keywords and show advertisements tailormade to those keywords and phrases. If somebody clicks on those ads, you’ll make money ranging from only some cents to several dollars. The amount depends on the keywords and how much advertisers are willing to bid on it.

Tiberius is using SpeedyAds as the advertising network of choice. It’s like Google Adsense and can bring you a nice amount of money if you have some good traffic. I’m personally using SpeedyAds too and so far I have had several clicks, including clicks on high-priced keywords.

Another money making strategy he uses are affiliate banners. Those banners are another nice way to make some real good money from your sites. Most times they are sale’s based, meaning that someone has to click on that banner and buy a product or service on the merchants page that the banner links to. You can make anything from some dollars to several hundred bucks (yes, really) from a single sale. But, as any other money maker, it higly depends on targeted traffic. People must be looking for a particular product/service you advertise via affiliate banners in order to make sales.

Conclusion

That should be all for my short review here. I think all I can say is that Tiberius’ site has a good potential to make him at least some bucks a month at the beginning. If search engines start to pick up his useful content, traffic will definitely grow and he should be able to make even more money.

Tiberius has done a good job on creating Domain Names 101, he has gathered some good information about domain names and created a great site. I wish you all the best Tiberius!

Check out his site and learn everything about domain names!

Cheers,
Querblogger