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Virtual real estate is becoming more and more lucrative as “overnight hits” (spam sites) are disappearing as search engines “block” all new sites and weed out spammers .
Gone forever are the days when anyone with moderate experience could enter a market and dominate it in a month or two on search engines. Since Google and other engines no longer reward new sites of any kind with immediate results, only the mature and savvy online real estate investor will win the day in 2006.
Smart niche network publishers have been gearing up for 2006 with strong, thoughtful site designs, content strategies, and niche research to put content-rich sites out there for no other purpose than to let them grow into highly valuable properties on the Internet. 6-8 months time.
Having a site rooted in the search engines means it’s been around for at least 3 months, and that’s stretching it out. The rewards are coming to those who wait patiently. And only for those content site publishers who build real sites, not the spam sites we all eagerly expected to disappear from the engines last year.
Finally, content, which has been referred to as “King” for years (but actually treated as cheap whore until recently) is really the focus of savvy investors looking to build a network of niche sites to attract lucrative advertising and revenue from product sales.
Many virtual investors and developers who have created now popular sites are selling their networks by the millions today.
And this is the real “exit”. Savvy virtual real estate investors are not just building for short-term profits, they are also building popular sites and site networks with an eye on big profits in the coming year.
All it really takes is some good research, creativity to isolate a market, and above all, patience. The more time you allow your network to grow and adapt, and the more popular you make it with strong promotional tactics, the more it will be worth to investors looking for any network of sites that drives traffic.
The second level of investment in virtual real estate is to buy networks of content sites and focus traffic on profitable product lines, affiliate product sales, services of all kinds, and advertising revenue.
Investors who sell traffic through banner ads, pay-per-click, and any number of text link schemes always seem to have a greater demand for ad space than the supply of traffic. This will continue to be the case for years to come and savvy niche site publishers rely on the advertising industry’s insatiable appetite for good targeted traffic.
Once people get past the AdSense boom and bust period of 2005, they’ll start to realize that AdSense is just “funded research” and that the big game is the virtual properties themselves.
The biggest mistake in 2006?
Spam sites! Once they are removed from the engines, and they all have been or soon will be, they are totally useless. Complete and utter failures from the domain name to the time and money invested in them.
However, publishers who go the extra mile and exercise a modicum of respect for their industry are still riding the tide of profit by building real sites.
Think of it this way: A publisher starting from scratch today and building one rich content site a week in 2006 will have around 52 sites next year.
With a good marketing plan for each site that includes no SEO gimmicks and no “grey hat” in the mix, you should be able to isolate 10 sites in your network that are worth spending more time on than others. . This given that the revenue model for each of the 10 sites produces at least $10 per day.
Turning those 10 sites into people earning $30 a day can bring in over $100,000.00 in revenue in a year! With good research on profitable niches to provide good content, and a simple but solid marketing plan for each site, anyone with the right training and patience can get into the game.
Now the publisher in the example above makes $300 per day with only 10 sites. Last year it took over 100+ spam sites to do the same thing with no hope of it continuing day to day depending on when the engines caught up with them and delisted them.
The publisher in the example above can keep that money rolling indefinitely without fear because their top 10 sites are perfect content sites that search engines love. No gimmicks or spamware involved.
A publisher can then search for the next 10 winners in their network or continue to target the current 10 with an eye to drastically improving one or all of the sites’ profit margins with accelerated marketing and content development.
Now comes the big part. A publisher that finds its 10 winners and develops them into sites that average 300-500 visitors per day each now has a network of sites that attract 3,000-5,000 eyes every day.
Depending on the markets served with the top 10 winners, a network of sites like this, that have proven revenue and traffic, can easily be valued from $150,000.00 and up these days.
Because? By traffic, proven earnings and the quality of the sites themselves. This is something that was completely forgotten about in the days of the AdSense spam site. The guys who built 5000 sites with no more value than a single casino affiliate site with no traffic have lost everything they worked for. Once they were out of engines, they were out of business.
And they have nothing to sell. No assets No content means no value. No search engine ranking means no serious traffic and no revenue.
But the publisher who built just 10 content sites last year that now earn at least $30 each per day has not only gross annual revenue of $109,500.00, but also a network worth far more than they can sell to rabid investors. who seek just such a deal to land in their lap every day.
Again, all it takes is an understanding of the niche publishing industry and the tactics of creating and marketing content-rich niche sites and a little patience.
This is what the market wants. All you have to do is give it the strength it deserves to make massive gains in the relatively short path to success.
Copyright 2006 Tale Chaser Publishing, Inc.