First 3 Months BANS results (Coupon too)
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It's been almost 3 months since I started to use BANS. If fact, I started on April 9 with my first pre-owned domain. Those are my real numbers.
Stats for April
Total BANS: 10
Total .info: 6
Total earned: $1.84
Total from .info: $0.06
Stats for May
Total BANS: 10 (20)
Total .info: 6 (12)
Total earned: $98.12
Total from .info: $10.88
Stats for June
Total BANS: 0 (26)
Total .info: 0 (12)
Total earned: $164.62
Total from .info: $3.97
Total earned since I started: $264.60
Things to take into consideration:
- Google deindexed most BANS + .info in June and only recently started to reindex them. Hopefully, my anchor link will be counted also.
- For most domains, I only did a Bookmarking Demon run. I created Squidoo pages for 2 domains only(pre-owned and .info). I did left a few comments but not many.
- Part of May and all of June was used for AuctionSiteWriter. Most of July will be for it too.
Some will say that it's not very much money. True but it's entirely my own fault for not creating more links to them. But they are missing the bigger picture: I still earned more in June while doing nothing. That is passive income.
I have a bunch of pre-owned and .info that I decided will be used with phpBay(Wp plugin and API). You might want to buy AuctionSiteWriter today(pre-launch price end's today) because I want to support phpBay(Wp plugin and API) and the later. I still have some things to work out first and I only bought it last Friday. You know now why I used Auction in AuctionSiteWriter. I will write a short post about phpBay.
My recommendation is still to buy pre-owned domains from Freshdrop. I had a bigger return using the existing traffic. I got a 60% off coupon(gdp0649g) and if It's like the last one(30%), it should work on pre-owned too but I did not used it yet. It's only valid until July 16.
I sure I will go there buy some pre-owned for later. 
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April said:
I just bought a pre owned domain with a live site still on it. It was UK£7.62 and with the coupon was £6.62.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:17 pm -
Steve McGrath said:
15.10USD but cost you 13.12USD after converting. I would had expected much less. It’s no where the 60% off. Maybe the price is different outside US/Canada.
About your “live” domain wait a few days. If the owner did not want to sell because he/she forgot to renew, you will get a email very quick.
It happened to me last month to me. I’m waiting for the deal to be over before I post about it. I can say that I should make this post interesting but I want the money in my hand first.
I also have another one but I’m waiting to see if the owner reply me this time around. Vacation time in the US these days.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:39 pm -
April said:
I am downloading the site as we speak using site-thief.com software. It’s taking a lot longer than I expected so am going to have to stop it now as I have to go out.
Seemingly there has been a live site on it since 2001 so it will be an interesting experiment anyway. Even if they don’t want the site renewed, I should be able to do well with BANS.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm -
Steve McGrath said:
Thanks for site-thief.com. I might check it out.
Plan A is to resell it to the previous owner but I still work on Plan B to build a BANS site or phpBay API(now) site.
In either case, I make money.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm - Niche Blogging said:
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Steve McGrath said:
Yesterday, I had 2 clicks to one of my .info and got a sale yesterday. Now, it does not mean that it came from Google. Anyway, a fews buck is a few bucks.
The months is 50%/50%: 2 days of sales and 2 days with nothing. Many must be enjoying their 4th of July vacation and not buying.
I gave my opinion in my next post but I will switch to phpBay API by using AuctionSiteWriter. First, I must integrate it better into my AuctionSiteWriter to support many words. For now, it use the main word only thus creating a single page. I’m also “playing” with the “free eBay widget”. I advanced a lot today by adding it in ASW. I need to do more test. Again, it’s only for a 1 page domain. It’s a good solution to replace a park page. I do use phpBay plugin on this blog now(see my opinion post for examples)
July 5th, 2008 at 4:14 pm -
April said:
Site Thief was junk. A1 Website Download is much better.
I’ve only just got around to downloading and uploading the site and changed the DNS. I’ve just got to install BANS now and include a contact page now.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:09 am -
Steve McGrath said:
April, that’s good to know.
July 9th, 2008 at 7:40 am
