Virtual Real Estate

VRE

During my 8 years activly doing business online I have come to build up a quite big and also quite good domain collection. Apart from this I also have a really big collection of scripts and softwares aimed to be used on these domains.

A lot of these domains has been laying around for years and have never really been active at all. Some of them has grown quite strong and are still domains I see potential in. Because of this I decided to clean up this domain portfolio and only save the domains I see a real use for now and in the future. About 100 domains has been cleaned out. Some of them I sold, and some of them just got deactivated since I saw no real value in them.

After doing this I started to think of my domains and websites more like virtual real estate. Like an investment both long term and short term. Something that can be of great value in the future but also give me a steady cash flow from the start. In other words. None of my domains will be just laying around. My goal is to have all of them up and runing soon.

To help me with realizing this goal I now have an awesome team of coders. Two that works full time and one that works half time to satisfy my needs. The goals is that they will build at least one script a month. And so far they have. The good thing is that I often can use the same script on multiple sites and since they started 3 months ago over 10 websites are ready to launsche or relaunched. With a unique script the value of these websites get even higher. Something that might help in the future if I would sell any of the sites.

Regarding building traffic for these sites I have more and more started to focus on SEO. From being a total noob in this area I have gone to quite good. I have now managed to climb to the top 5 in Google for some very important keywords for some of my sites. It took some time but with good on-site optimization and relevant an high quality link building I have managed to get a steady and growing position for these sites on Google.

It feels like things are suddenly going in the right direction from me after a few years of bad investments and big mistakes. I have learned a lot from those years but maybe now the real big money will start rolling in. Anyway. You can expect a few really nice sites to be launched by me in the near future.

October 9, 2007 | Filed Under Virtual Real Estate

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