The Estibot Domain Development Guide (40+ page eBook) is here and it’s completely FREE to download.
Some time ago I wrote a blog series on domain development. By popular request (both of my blog readers requested it) I expanded the scope and turned it into an eBook. The eBook is now ready, a 40-page guide to monetizing domain names through development. It covers both beginner and advanced strategies, keyword analysis, domain name selection, etc.. and best of all it’s completely free of charge (and comes with redistribution rights).
You can download it here: Domain Development Guide (PDF)
Here is the list of topics covered:
1. Recommended resources for the domain developer
2. No More Mr. Nice Guy: Trim Your Portfolio
3. Minisite development
4. Development Strategy for Keyword Domain Names
–>Case Studies
5. Affiliate e-commerce stores
6. Getting Serious About Development
7. Benefits of Domain Development
–>Search Engine Rankings
–>Increase in Domain Name Awareness and Value
–>Gauging the market and creating business contacts
8. Revenue Expectation
9. Scalability Strategies and Bulk Development
10. SEO
11. Transforming your Domain Name from a Minisite to a Bona Fide Business
I hope you enjoy the guide. Please send me some feedback once you’ve read it.
Thanks,
-Esa
Posted: February 16th, 2010 under domain development.
Tags: domain development, domain hand registration, domain name selection, keyword research, minisites, seo
Comments
Comment from Rashid Mahmood
Time February 17, 2010 at 8:36 am
I think this is a wise move and let a big geo owner and development team do this right imo. Having a geo owner, domainer and developer only will make this more of a success and gain traction. No offense to your other web guy on burbank.com but it sounded like a pain to manage. He did a wonderful job on your dog site.
Comment from Johan
Time February 17, 2010 at 11:59 am
Thanks for releasing this! Will take a closer look at it as soon as possible. But I remember reading and enjoying the original articles on your blog!
Comment from Sharon Hayes
Time February 17, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Great stuff! Thanks for keeping it free!
Comment from Pete
Time February 17, 2010 at 9:12 pm
What software did you use to create this eBook? Thank you.
Comment from webworker
Time February 18, 2010 at 2:09 am
I just finished reading your book. It has a lot of helpful tips and information. It looks like I have to go back to the drawing board and thin the herd with my domains so I can focus on my good names. Your site examples, especially neon sunglasses, are very attractive and well organized. I plan to purchase a few of the services/plugins you linked to. Can you recommend any good domain development services? Thanks for the information.
Comment from eepee
Time February 18, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Pete: I used Pages (Mac), then just exported to PDF. It’s just a fancy word processing software.
Comment from Luke Webster
Time February 20, 2010 at 1:54 am
Esa;
Thanks looking forward to reading it…
Comment from Dan
Time February 21, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Thanks for the white paper.
Great job on the new estibot!
Comment from rj
Time February 23, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I wish I could print it to read on my bus ride to work! if taht’s possible, pls send me a printable version. This is really great stuff. Much appreciate it.
Comment from Christine
Time March 2, 2010 at 2:40 am
A good read, for sure. Looks like I’m on the right track with my minisite and affiliate site development projects, just started 2 weeks ago. Good reminders in your ebook, and some new ideas too. Thanks for making this freely available to those of us who are still weeding out our portfolios. 
Comment from vashti
Time March 4, 2010 at 1:06 pm
for the site you used as an example in the pdf.
what you can do is link somewhere on your page to a developed hupage selling organizers from amazon,cj or Ebay.. ex. the closet organzer can link to a page set up on hubpages.. use your links from your site as your tags.
Comment from Alex
Time March 7, 2010 at 8:46 am
I skimmed through your book, and it’s more about parking domains! I think parking domains for a maximum of 0.5 dollars per day (in case you are lucky) is a bad habit!
There are many many good domains out there, parked, hardly making any money, which could be used by other people to make cool applications not necessarily commercial, but good ones! But the owner simply has parked it and has a made an ugly application out of a good name, without even deciding to sell it at a reasonable price!
Comment from Santiago
Time April 14, 2010 at 6:55 am
Alex, you did not read the PDF. It advices *against* parking domains: “parking just doesn’t work” (page 7)…
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Comment from Pat
Time February 16, 2010 at 8:06 pm
This is really great stuff! Invaluable.