There is a painless and cheap way to learn field names that make money and which ones do not. If you have the time and some simple website building skills you can make some pocket change, then use what you have learned to make larger money.

The largest field registrar in the world Godaddy.com sells .info field names for less than a dollar each. I know, I know, most of you are thinking, “Yech, no one wants .info field names. And besides they don’t get visitors and don’t make money.” If that’s what you are thinking, too terrible, you need some thought adjustment therapy.

I have been buying field names for a couple of years. I expect some of the names I have bought to fetch nice prices ultimately. I know there are people who make their livings flipping field names – buying them with the intent of selling to someone else at a profit in a few days or weeks or a month or two after they buy them. If you believe what you read on the net, some people make excellent money in this field name flipping game. I tried flipping a few names. Let’s place it this way: I don’t have the flipping upset. This stylishness of making money hasn’t worked for me. Besides, it doesn’t suit my temperament and I’d much rather do other things.

What I have learned to do and what I like doing is building new websites. I have my skills down so well that I can buy a field name, place up a website for the field, monetize the website and give the website some decent starter make pleased all within an hour. I have been able to juggle as many as about a hundred websites at the same time. Perhaps a real website developer would wrinkle her nose at my development hard work since they are not the most advanced and sophisticated things. But I delight in keeping myself busy this way and I really get visitors who click on my advertisements and make me some pocket change.

OK, that’s nice, but where does .info figure into the tale. My real hopes for ultimately breaking into huge league green rest with my .com and .in field names. But whenever I buy a nice juicy .com name from Godaddy I add in an .info name or two to keep me interested. At a buck apiece, who can resist?

Once I have the .info name safely entered into my Godaddy tab I place up a website and do my amateur development thing. Because I have so dang many websites out there in the world and because I am a one man operation I do not keep my websites up to date and full of new posts. Some weeks I am on a tear and place up a dozen or so new posts on my sites. Some weeks go by with no new posts. There are ways of using feeds so that the feeds grab other common posts and add them to your websites. That’s kind of a coward’s game and it isn’t highly prized by Google. But it’s a tiny bit better than nothing.

The top is that I do get visitors and the pattern of my visitors teaches me a lot. It teaches me that if an amateur developed .info website can attract visitors who click on advertisements a more serious .com website with the same or a similar name will go to town.

I won’t give away any more secrets in this post but let’s just say that my .info field shopping bender has opened a couple of worlds for me. I have gone from half-assed .info domains in certain sectors to fully developed .com names that make real money in the same sectors. I have learned from my .info visitors where I can follow up and get paying .com and .in visitors. And I have learned where I am not passionate and where I have weaker prospects and where not to waste my hard work. At a buck a website, it’s a cheap lesson.

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