Domain Embarking Experiment Update

Well it has been two weeks since I started my domain embarking experiment and I though I would give you all a little update into how it is coming along. First, it took somewhat longer than expected to actually embark all the pages to my satisfaction. The main reason for this seems to be that their servers could be really slow at times.

However, I did eventually get them all embarked, but it probably took at least 15 hours worth of work to get all 96 domains ready for prime time. To see what domain embarked pages look like you can visit three of my sample sites here: japanflights.info, berlinholidays.info, brugestours.info.

In terms of traffic, my embarked domains are doing much better than anticipated. Currently, they are averaging about 1 visitor each per day, with absolutely no promotional work done on my end. Moreover, most of them have been picked up by Google, which is very important should I choose to resell the domains later on.

I am hoping that traffic will continue to increase over the coming months as they get picked up by other search engines. Also, I hope that the sites improve their rankings somewhat in Google as time goes on, but that remains to be seen.

Finally, the part I am sure most of you are interested in. How much money have I made? Well, to be honest this has been a bit of a disappointment. So far, I have only earned $0.91 and 1 premium share (worth about $0.48 at the time of writing).

I am somewhat surprised at how little I have made given the traffic I have received. My only conclusion is that the AdSense clickthrough rate I get on my own sites is much better than what I can expect to get with embarked domains. Unfortunately, domain embarking does not allow you to choose where and how AdSense is displayed on your sites.

Thus, I hope the clickthrough rate improves once domain embarking comes out of beta but I am not counting on it. On the other hand, if my traffic does increase, I may start to see a large increase in my earnings. Remember, the experiment has only been running for 2 weeks so far.

So what is my verdict two weeks into the experiment?

Overall, I got indexed in Google and traffic much faster than expected. These are both very important factors if I choose to resell the domains at a later date. However, the income earned from the traffic I have received has been less than I would have expected.

Nevertheless, I am still cautiously optimistic that the whole thing will ultimately turn out to be a positive experience. 2 weeks is too short a time to declare any sort of final verdict on the whole project. I am going to let it run for at least 6 months and see where I stand from there.

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