City Portal Script PT.2

[radioz]

With a portfolio of over 420 US .info county domains I never thought about developing them along these lines

I plan to buy this script for a couple of my names. Do keep in mind though that to make something like KankakeeCounty.com and to make it useful for your audience is hard work. You can't develop hundreds of them on a dime. If you try to, I believe that you will have a big pile of useless, (and worse) unprofitable sites. I'd concentrate on wherever you live as JD, Kankakee County's developer has. What he notes is worth repeating:

As I am sure you have heard 1000 times in the domain market, CONTENT is KING... So to answer your question you need content, content that provides something and that changes regularly, maybe weekly at first but eventually daily/hourly... if you check out my Site I use Facebook as a way to keep people connected. I have almost 900 fans on their and to show you the power of facebook. I released a jobs module on the site a few weeks ago. Right after i put it on their I sent out a facebook update, within 2 hours I have almost 500 views on the new jobs section... HUGE potential...

So get a local car dealer on board to list cars, and a local realtor to list houses. hook them by promising them that the listings will ALWAYS be free for them for helping you out on ground level. once you have them onboard then move on to the next stage, promotion. promote the website through local flyers, banners, maybe a local sponsorship of a kids sports team...

That my friend is a lot of work! The good news is that his one site will probably make more than a whole bunch of junk sites.

[Bill Roy]

radioz, you are absolutely correct, but 'I' would not be developing them.

[djriel]

We've been developing a points and ranking system to help with competitive feelings on the sites.

It's tied into the social sharing tools, so it encourages link building ... which is even more important to traffic and SEO than meta tags are.
http://tribexl.com/blogs/community/v...building/38730

Oh ya, we also use the business name in the URL, so ... we import local businesses and setup their profile for them, allowing them to claim it. This means many of them are showing up in searches already, particularly the ones that don't have their own websites, as their business name is in our URL structure and typically in a community / geo site that is relevant to their area, so google sees it as an authority site.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=dwayne+launt

Dwayne is a good example. After his own site and facebook page, you can see several first page results from various domains he's on
liveonthedrive.com/go/dwaynelaunt
northvan, main street, strathcona and others

They take notice when they see themselves in the search results, then they can claim their profile.

[Sterling]

We've been developing a points and ranking system to help with competitive feelings on the sites.

It's tied into the social sharing tools, so it encourages link building ... which is even more important to traffic and SEO than meta tags are.
http://tribexl.com/blogs/community/v...building/38730

Oh ya, we also use the business name in the URL, so ... we import local businesses and setup their profile for them, allowing them to claim it. This means many of them are showing up in searches already, particularly the ones that don't have their own websites, as their business name is in our URL structure and typically in a community / geo site that is relevant to their area, so google sees it as an authority site.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=dwayne+launt

Dwayne is a good example. After his own site and facebook page, you can see several first page results from various domains he's on
liveonthedrive.com/go/dwaynelaunt
northvan, main street, strathcona and others

They take notice when they see themselves in the search results, then they can claim their profile.

What does that have to do with this post and this script?

Nothing.

So why spam it?


MODS, could you please delete his post?

[Bill Roy]

Unfortunately the 'discussions' ended up as one way traffic, so I have decided to pass on this, I have since found a more stable way of developing the portfolio without being constantly asked for details of a business plan I have developed.

[radioz]

We've been developing a points and ranking system to help with competitive feelings on the sites.

It's tied into the social sharing tools, so it encourages link building ... which is even more important to traffic and SEO than meta tags are.

What does that have to do with this post and this script?

Nothing.

Agreed!

Unfortunately the 'discussions' ended up as one way traffic, so I have decided to pass on this, I have since found a more stable way of developing the portfolio without being constantly asked for details of a business plan I have developed.

Huh?