Why not hold off on FB ads for now and just promote naturally. When you have more stuff to sell, you can spend more money testing FB ads.

I like the raffle likes (click 'like' and one person will win our product) Any forums or user groups in your niche you can directly buy ad space from?

First blog post on SEOmoz http://www.seomoz.org/blog/7-achieva...penguin-update

Interesting article thanks! And congrats on SEOMoz blog that's pretty awesome!

> Sitemaps unfortunately can only help you so much in terms of getting things indexed.

You say know your crawl path as one of the points, what circumstances does a sitemap not help?

Sitemaps generally only help to a degree, if you are a smaller site and you submit say 50k URLs in a sitemap there's a good chance a lot of those don't get crawled for a long while. There is a crawl budget allotted to your site by Google based on authority. You have a strong crawl path it's a lot more likely to get those 50k URLs crawled even without a sitemap. One competitor of my clients got over 150 million URLs indexed on one URL doing this (no sitemap).

Sitemaps are great for big sites (in terms of pages) and also really helpful if you can accurately set your crawl priority (this maximizes the crawl budget you get and let's you pick which pages should get updated the most frequently).

This thing slipped way to far down the list of threads...

I have a question in regards to valuation of MFA Micro-Niche sites. I actually put some time/effort into building one last January that churns out a steady $5 bones a month in Adsense revenue. It's based on a fall/winter topic, and I expect my revenue/traffic to increase 5-50x when the weather starts to get cold. It actually blows my mind that people are searching for this topic in the summer. The site also has some amazon affiliates links on there that hit for anywhere from $0-$4 a month currently in the off season.

What's this thing worth if I were going to sell it?

Sorry if this is a dumb question but what's "$5 Bones"?

It's only value would depend on the domain name likely. $5/month with potential isn't worth anything I wouldn't think.

$5 bones=$5 dollars

I pretty much figured it was worth very little on the resale market, but then another guy tried to convince me it was worth $1,000+. Got me thinking I probably better ask and find out.

What's a good way to buy a domain that is not in use? I checked whois and there is no good contact information. It's a 4 letter .com, the initials of my corporation name. Maybe I should just get the .us instead, or use ****inc.com and not bother? I just need a simple website and email domain for my brick and mortar store. I see sedo has a domain brokerage service but wondering if there is something better.

Look on Flippa and see what similar sites are selling for. My guess is that $5/mo niche site that hasn't been affected by Panda will probably sell for $50-$200.

So there is no email in the whois, or it's domainbyproxy? Did you visit the page to see what is there? Did you google the actual domain to see if it shows up on any classifieds for sale?

How much are you willing to spend? Squatted domains are not cheap and if you're looking at .us it doesn't sound like you have a budget for this. 4 letter .com with any semblance of meaning won't be cheap.

Addresses and emails in the whois are care of Network Solutions. Site is 404. nothing on google or sales sites. No semblence of meaning, just 4 random consonants. Screw it, I'm going to get the ****inc.com.

Anyone know of a webpage/app that lets you scan your twitter feed for a specific keyword?

Hootsuite.

10-20 x month's revenue is the model. but everything depends. How old it is, backlinks, ease of monetization, articles etc., etc.

Don't use domain brokers. These guys side with the sellers to get the highest price possible, because they are on % basis.

There should be an email on his whois. Even if it's private whois the disposable email will be forwarding to his real email. Contact him directly.

Don't mention price. Let him start and try to get lower and lower. Don't tell him you need it for your existing business.

Be ready to drop ~$5-6k

Right now I say you may only get 10x for it, so maybe about $50.

Anything that I should know before I register a Romanian domain being a US citizen? Is 101domain.com the best/only place to do this? $40 seems a bit steep for a domain registration? Id like to get it since myname.com is taken but myname.ro where ro are the last two letters of my last name is free.

Any luck dumping the junk links?

I bought an italian domain, and it was $30, so I think $40 is probably about right.

I think you're f'ed then.

Just got done with a 6 week workshop class at my college. This was the result of the workshop, not super duper awesome or anything, but I am proud of it:

http://www.theaustinmunro.com/roadtrippin/main.php

Never tried yet..not motivated when it comes to these crappy sites anymore.

I'm playing with the idea of writing some Kindle ebooks on topics I am good in, and then also doing some outsourcing. From what I've been seeing it's possible to pay like $120-$150 to outsource the writing of an ebook that will make on avg. $50-$100+ per month without any worrying about SEO and Google. That's also without any extra promotion..just uploaded and forget about it basically. I'd do some promotion though such as Social Media pages and some forums on the topics.

Why would that work? How could it be possible to pay $150 for something that generates 2/3 of that in a month, every month, forever - without extra work? That makes literally no sense.

I don't understand why you think it makes no sense. You write an ebook and publish onto the Kindle store. If you do the research on your topic to see if it's likely to be profitable it should make sales. This is obviously the extremely simple version of what I am talking about but in theory this is it and I don't see why this makes no sense to you.

What have you been seeing out of interest? Do they publish sales statistics? I'd be interested to see how you do, I'm under the impression it's highly saturated and that it sounds like it's easy money which is never often the case.

Bear in mind if you outsource and entire e-book for $120-$150 it's going to be crap quality. It would suck for someone to buy an e-book that bad, it's a bit of a hustle.