Freedom Writers
Monday, January 14th, 2008What’s all this nonsense about freedom writers?
Well, its a little experiment I’m trying out with this blog and with my whole self-branding methodology. You see, I need to be getting more traffic to this site and by trying to rank for the keywords Terry Didcott, well… you can pretty much figure out that doesn’t exactly get a whole lot of organic searches a month!
So I decided that if I want the Terry Didcott brand to get out there with a bit more oomph, I’m going to have to be a little more creative.
So I decided to get this blog to rank for some rather more popularly searched words, writer being amongst the foremost of them. But writer has an enormous amount of competition for the top pages of the serps, so an alternative had to be found, hence freedom writers.
What’s freedom writers?
Hell if I know! It sounds good and there are actually some searches made on it so it just makes plain horse sense to get this blog to rank for freedom writers as anything else (and freedom writers is rather more searched than Terry Didcott!)
So here’s to the new freedom writers of the blogosphere - me! Ha!
Other things are a changing too, but it’ll have to happen slowly as this freedom writers has been bogged down just recently with a ton of writing work! Ok, I’m happy to have it but it’s like busses, you don’t see one for ages then they all come along at once! I’m writing around 10-20 reviews a day for a website that seems to have a bottomless pit when it comes to requiring content, so if you’re wondering why you haven’t seen much of my posts in my blogs, that’s why!
Freedom writers, signing off!
The Domain of Expired Domains
Monday, January 7th, 2008Following on from my last freedom writer post What Do Writers Write?, which was a bit of a kick in the pants for many bloggers who simply don’t know any better, here’s another thought provoking piece of freedom writer information all about expired domains that’ll get you annoyed for one reason or another!
If you haven’t already heard about another freedon writer, Vic Franqui and his over the top let it all hang out blog Blogger Unleashed, which I’m sure he’d like me to anchor as make money online (!!) then read his freedom writer blog from start to finish, then come back here.
Yep, he’s giving away a lot of hitherto unmentioned secrets on how to really make money online that all the other so called A-list bloggers and gurus have omitted to tell you about.
Why would they do that?
They don’t want any more competition, of course.
So from this Freedom Writer extraordinaire, here’s an extended spreading of some of that information that a lot of you won’t be aware of. I know I wasn’t.
That’s buying expired domains and why you should be doing it. Ok, granted you may have known about the fact that you can buy expired domains but I bet you haven’t bought any domains yourself, right?
Why would that be?
Probably because you didn’t see the potential for making a lot of money from buying expired domains. Or maybe you thought that you couldn’t afford to buy expired domains because the prices were so high or you’d have to battle it out with other more experienced Internet Marketers in a bidding war and end up paying thousands of dollars for those expired domains. Well that could happen, but it doesn’t have to if you know a bit more about it.
This here Freedom Writer does now!
So far this freedom writer has bought ten expired domains that had been allowed to expire by their previous owner for whatever reason. All but two of those expired domains cost me $5 plus a years registration. One cost $10 and the other $15. I had to outbid someone for that last one which is why it was sooooo expensive!!!
But what is this freedom writer going to get out of them?
Well for starters, expired domains are all aged, which means that whatever I do with them, either create static websites or blogs, I can start advertising and promoting straight away and I won’t get sandboxed by Google. That happens a lot with new domains and can cost you anything up to a year’s worth of lost organic search traffic. Not so with two year old or more expired domains.
The other little gem about the expired domains I bought is all but one of them came with serious Page Rank.
Ah yes, the holy grail of Internet marketers and niche marketers alike (not to mention aging freedom writers…) is good page rank which means more authority when it comes to trying to dominate any niche - a five year old PR6 site that is creatively SEO’d will stand a much better chance at getting up to page one on the Google SERPs for its keywords than a new PR0 site (or even a one year old PR3 site, for that matter) that may be SEO’d up to the hilt.
And I have five PR6 domains with verifiable back-links. I’ve also got three PR5 domains and one PR7! Think I might have some niche dominating to get on with…
Where did this freedom writer buy those expired domains?
GoDaddy Auctions. There are many more places, but as I get my domains from them anyway, I was already familiar with their site. Except I’d never ventured past the “auctions” button because I simply didn’t know. Now that I do and I’m annoyed I didn’t know this a year ago - all that freedom writer’s time was wasted on new domains sitting in the sandbox losing me money that I didn’t know I was losing!
Think about that!
