About 2 months ago I was contact by someone interested in one of my domains. The first offer was a reasonable offer, say mid $xxx, but not something I was interested in selling the domain for.

About a week later an offer came for about double the original followed by one about double that. Now we are near very low $x,xxx. I did not reply to these. About a month later I emailed back and said I would take something about 25% higher than the last offer and the buyer accepted. After about two days the transfer was complete.

Now I understand that low $x,xxx is not a great success in the online world, but for something that I had only paid reg fee, it was a great success for me.

Have you had any success stories selling domain names?

Then I have two suggestions for you. The first one is to check out the webmaster seciton on the google support page. It offers suggestions from the Google Team on what they believe your site structure should look like as well as many other tips. You can find this information at the Google Help Page.

If you prefer to set back and relax while getting suggestions from the Google Team then check out the Google Webmaster Help section on YouTube. It has many videos from Google Engineer Matt Cutts as well as other Googlers sharing information, commenting on other webmasters questions and more.

Check them out and let me know what you think.

Technorati Profile

Now of course Shoemoney is a SEO / Web Marketing Hero, how does that affect a SEOLoser like myself. I do not currently have a site that even gets 25,000 visits per month. Well, on a smaller scale Twitter and the other social network sites are very helpful in bringing traffic to your sites. I launched the Twitter account for this site on May 5th, and I am currently getting about 6 visits per day from Twitter and the rest of the Twittosphere. If that pace continues and say that goes to 60 within a couple of months, or 4-500 visits per day in a year, that is a nice extra traffic boost for me.

If you have not used this services to attempt to drive traffic to your site give it a try. If you have, let us know the results.

Thanks for reading.

At one point I had a forum, which I still have, which was doing over 1000 visits per day. It lasted about six weeks and was gone, back to the 2-300 visits per month it gets now. Not a very profitable site, but still something I am glad to have.

I registered an expired domain that for 6 weeks received about 800 visits per day, mostly from Yahoo. The previous owner of the domain seemed to use some black hat techniques that paid off for a short time for me. After the 6 weeks, it was down to 14 mostly type in visits a day. I have tried to get the website un-banned with emails to yahoo and resubmissions with no luck. A very profitable 6 weeks is all that I received out of this site, but it was still the best earning two months that I have had with a site.

Have you had any past successes that you can share? Please comment.

What do you think?

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Get watchin if you do not want to be a SEO Loser.

SEORoundTable is providing an excellent recap of the all of the events with a lot of detail on what they are seeing and hearing. If you have not visited SEO Round Table before, it is a site that you may want to get used to visiting.

SockMoney is an great blog that is doing a small recap of the events and their comments on them.

Update: Dan Zarrella from DanZarrella.com is also Live Blogging from Pubcon. Thanks for sharing Dan.

Update 2: Chris Winfield, President of 10e20webdesign.com, is also at Pubcon blogging about the event with pictures. You can find Chris’s blog here.

Update 3: Looking for another option for staying up on the happenings at Pubcon? Joe Duck is covering Pubcon as well and includes many great pictures in his flickr account. Enjoy.

Of course, being a SEO loser I have never been able to attend. I do know though that it is a very important conference for webmasters, website publishers, and SEO people and hope to attend one of the next upcoming shows.

Why?

I am sure that you are thinking “Wow, this erob guy must be some kind of SEO Superstar if he says this is the last SEO blog that we will need”. And you would be right to think that except for the fact……….

Well, except for the fact that I am a SEO Loser. Could not generate much traffic to a site if it was the only site in the world with the information. I have spent the last two years trying to grow my sites, with some successes, but mostly failures. I have seen sights start from no where and becoming amazing successes, with what on the outside would appear to be no different than that sites that I have, some even not as good.

I am sure that there are many others like me. We see the “ShoeMoney’s” going from zero to hero, even superstar, in the time of about a year. There are many SEO success stories, many publishers who start with nothing and grow a site or network of sites to incredible levels. What did they do that we didn’t is the question. I spend many hours on my sites per day. Everyday I am adding content, studying competition in the same segment, improving sites, obtaining quality on target links, yet the traffic pretty much stays flat.

Well, this blog is where I will study that and see what I can do to improve my SEO skills and knowledge base. I hope some of you other “SEO Losers” will join me as well and work to make our site more successful.

Stay Tuned.