Two Dummies

Well, we are ready to start publishing our purchases.  We plan to buy a variety of domains, not in any particular niche.   Since we’re newbies, we figured, as most intelligent people would, what makes a good domain.  We’re not sure our analysis was correct, but we figured that if a domain contains high paying keywords, it can’t be too bad of a domain.

In that vein, we began to look for good keywords to use for domains from top keyword lists.  We found that many of the paid “top keyword” or keyword reserach services are crap - however we found a few that we won’t disclose - oh, come on, you can’t expect us to tell you everything!  So, given that we were looking for high paying keywords, we looked to see what domains were available with the words “high paying keywords” - as we suspected, most would be gone.  At this point, we’re not sure of the affect of dashes on domain traffic, so we’re going to jump into domains that have dashes - good idea?  Only time will tell.  I suspect that two domains, one with dashes and one without, with all things being equal (data on their sites), the one with more quality links will win out.  So, we figured we’d give the domain high-paying-keywords.com a try.

Now that we were unafraid of domains with dashes and we were looking for relatively high paying keywords, we went a bit crazy on some domains - we’ll be able to tell long-term if these were worth purchasing, but we suspect they’ll have some value in the future, even if they are .info domains! :)  We purchased:

• cheap-auto-insurence.info - Yeah, we know it’s a spelling mistake and we knew it when we made the purchase too, FYI
  
• how-to-trade-currencies.info - We’ve considered dabbling in forex, so to learn we might develop a site with this domain as we’re learning
• on-line-trading.info - We’ve done our fair share of online trading, so we thought we’d pick this up.
  
• refinancing-your-house.info - In this turbulent housing market, people are looking for this type of information
  
• student-loan-consolidation-programs.info (paying for university is tough, especially when getting money lent from different sources.
  
• back-ground-checks.info - We’ve dabbled with the idea of making a site on this topic - now it seems like others have taken this idea and run with it, so we’re a little too late…oh well

That’s all we got this time around.  Keep apprised for our future purchases!

The Two Dummies have been in business for almost three years - we started off dabbling in affiliate programs, directories, informational sites and some consulting, which has eventually led us to this blog.  We have also been buying and developing domains for three years, but our initial intent was not to sell the domains we purchased - we now are active sellers as well (so feel free to contact us if you are interested in any of the domains we blog about).

We have about 200 domains aand we’re still adding to our treasure chest, slowly but surely.  Let me tell you - once you hit about 100 domains, you’ll invariably forget about some of the domains no matter how good your memory is.  You forget if some were developed, you forget where they’re parked and how much money they made you.  We host our domains on multiple servers and parking programs - we’re still testing out the best methods of monitizing and we’d be ecstatic if this blog was used as a forum of sorts to get feedback from other webmasters and domainers out there about best practices in the domaining world.