DotWeekly.com was my very first development project. I heard of Wordpress at the time but never had a hosting account, I had no clue what FTP was and well, I never knew what all of it was about.
I started DotWeekly in early 2008 and now have over 1,600 posted articles with 16 different pages and over 6,500 comments on the site. I never once paid for any traffic because I looked at that as the "easy" way to get it. I wanted to earn my traffic by learning the ropes of SEO, copywriting, page titles, alt text and how important a domain name really is! Traffic stats are more important than the actual number of people who visit daily. So if I say 2,500 – 5,000 those are the actual numbers but the stats of those numbers is what means the most.
Starting off with a domain name that doesn’t really mean that much (Dot Weekly) made me work harder in my domain niche but you can work and put in the time to make a similar domain work as I did. Keywords are so important.
Domain names often sell for crazy prices for often times the wrong reasons. Candy.com that was purchased for $3 Million was purchased for the right reason and is being used correctly! The domain name is working the way great domain names do! Direct navigation traffic is secured and search engine traffic is the strongest it has been since Candy.com was alive with a #1 spot at Google for the matching term.
Over the years my readers may have wondered why I posted what I did at times but if you were wondering why, it was likely a test of mine! Some work, some do not but learning from these really help!
I have learned a lot from DotWeekly by researching stories and digging deeper into things from domain name aspects and from the development aspects.
I can spend two hours and write about the way I do a process and see very little return, besides the satisfaction of helping others learn. On the flip side, I can spend 15 minutes and see hundreds of dollars in return because of what I learned.
The interest is often about the NOW, so you have to be ahead of the game or get your ass moving NOW! This morning, I noticed a chance that I could jump on and I did it. Using many of things I learned about keywords, SEO, affiliates and much more it didn’t take me more than 2 hours to have the site up and running the way that I wanted. The legs started on their journey today and will climb the hill like others I have done the same with before.
I have been doing this more and more. Building site. Once in a while I will build a site within the domain industry that I know will help but I see very poor returns on the vast majority that I do like it. When I do a site outside the domain industry, it almost always does fairly well.
It is hard to make it if you are catering to domainers. Most want or expect things for free. If I step my toes slightly outside, it becomes easier. Like things work the way you would expect, where it just doesn’t work in the domain industry.
I have learned from many of my readers and many of DotWeekly readers have learned from me. The thank you’s are great and are much appreciated. The great people I have met along the way are great!
So do you think I’m leaving? 
Well, I had mentioned a little while back that September 9th was a specific date, so that would be the date to find out if you are interested.
DotWeekly.com has a pretty lean, mean, screaming engine under her hood, so DotWeekly will be around, it just is not that likely to stay the way it has been for nearly 3 years. More to come and a little insight as to why my posting has been a bit lighter from time to time.
