I recently spent some time at a bloggers network meeting (how geeky is that, but I actually enjoyed it). There were about 20 bloggers who all made a living with their blogs. Several of the members make over a quarter million dollars a year! Some of these people have been blogging for over 10 years now. Did blogging even exist 10 years ago? Apparently it did, and they took advantage of it’s power before it was officially ‘discovered’.
They were all gracious enough to allow me in the confines of their brains, while taking morsels of information with me to pass on to you. One question that I passed around was, “If you were to start your blog from scratch, knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?”. The most common answer, by a land slide…..
“I would use a real domain name”
Most of these bloggers use XXXXX.typepad.com or XXXXX.blogger.com as their primary blogs. Although these names are working fine for them, they can’t change it without losing the years of hard work getting their pages ranked.
Now here they are, stuck with their XXXXX.typepad.com domain name, making a $250,000 a year from home. Who has pity for them? I sure do. I think if they had a ‘real domain’ name, they could be making $500,000 a year.
This article is in the ‘First Steps - Must Do!” category for a reason. Trust me, you really won’t want to do it later.
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July 9th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I never thought about it that way but it makes a lot of sense. Can you tell us the URL of their blogs. I want to make a lot of money too.
July 9th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
sorry Kevin. They allowed me into their meeting with the understanding that I would not give their URLs to anyone, let alone publish it in my blog. They don’t want a million new competitors to their niche(s). But, if you keep reading this site, I’ll be delivering more and more info that I learn from them.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
awww. I was hoping you’d tell us where we could see their money making blogs.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later ..
May 19th, 2010 at 2:15 am
What company is the best Domain Registrar? i’ve heard that Godaddy and Moniker are the best.`”`
July 18th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
i always buy domain names at Godaddy or Moniker because they are the most reliable registrars”:.