Yesterday I was kind enough to share a list of 103 available domain names that are currently listed on the MillionDollarHomepage.com . It took me a while to make up the list, let alone to think of the idea and then I shared it with my DotWeekly readers. The only thing that I asked for displaying the list was that if somebody were to register any of the available domains in the list, they use the simple Click And Register method provided via an affiliate link with Moniker.

So how many domains in the 103 list were registered since I posted the list yesterday afternoon? How many used the affiliate link? How many domains were registered with Moniker? Traffic to the article?

Here is some transparency, which may also "call out" some of those who decided…. "thanks for the list buddy, your not earning $0.31 off of me buddy!" but I wanted to share what it is like to be a site owner and money wise what it can be like when you help others.

103 domains listed, 15 domains were registered (at time of this post)

Of the 15 that were registered:

  • 1 was with Moniker (thank you Paul)
  • 6 were registered with Fabulous
  • 6 were registered with Godaddy
  • 2 were registered with Internetwire

The article I wrote yesterday about the available domains that are currently listed on MillionDollarHomepage.com received 599 unique visitors on DotWeekly (over 300 already today as well). Prep time for the article was about 1.5 hours.  My Moniker affiliate account is reporting 591 views for yesterday (4/20/2010) and 131 so far today. I average about 15-30 views normally for my Moniker affiliate account.

Total Adsense earnings for yesterday site wide on DotWeekly was: $1.40 on two clicks.

Total unique visitors to DotWeekly.com yesterday was 1,970

The domain names that were registered include:

  1. ImagineAStory.com
  2. QnRetail.com
  3. PowerDatingTools.com
  4. DigiBusters.com
  5. ChallengeFootball.com
  6. FrutaDrink.com
  7. CashflowIsland.com
  8. ColemanSwimwear.com
  9. omegaMushrooms.com
  10. TheHostingIndex.net
  11. AnythingSeenOnTV.com
  12. RakeFish.com
  13. GiftbagIt.com
  14. GetAMentor.org
  15. Big10Pixels.com

I have expressed many times that I really enjoy helping people and is the reason behind why I write DotWeekly almost on a daily basis, free of charge. Clearly I have cut back a bit lately because being the nice guy and helping out all the time has been slowly catching up with me. I need to eat and feed my family too but when you earn $0.31 that doesn’t effect the monetary value of somebodies purchase and only 1 of 14 people use it, you can see how far it gets you (me).

Suggestions:

Be sure to simply THANK the bloggers from time to time if you use their sites. That can go a long way! (as my wife says, just because I said it now, doesn’t mean you can say it and mean it) :)

Click and use affiliate links and visit site owners sponsors. If not, things like Freshdrop.net will happen. (GoDaddy list was free but moved to pay)

Time is money and it takes a lot of time and money to offer something that is useful to people. Yes, many sites are free but it doesn’t hurt to show some love to the sites you like as well. I do not want this post to come across as a bitch fest, but one that puts you on the site owners side by providing the stats information that I did. (btw, no paid advertisers on DotWeekly (by choice due to uncertainty of continuing with the site) so the $1.41 + $0.31 was DotWeekly’s total earnings for yesterday. $1.72 .

Yes, some sites (mainly blogs, domaining.com etc) earn some money but many struggle to stay afloat. There are many reasons blogs and sites in general come and go but the fact is that many users of sites expect things for free, get it but yet most are well aware how affiliate links work and do not use them. See an ad and not click it, but visit the site via direct navigation seconds after leaving a site.

Help a site owner when you can, assuming they are "making money" is like assuming the site will still be up and still free the next time you visit.