HOW DO YOU INCREASE TRAFFIC TO YOUR AUCTION?

Johnny.ca said:

i was also going to list the auction on Namepros, but I have “Insufficient privileges to post their”… how do i become privileged?

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Anyone?

You could try https://www.domaining.com/forsale/

I used to visit this site a lot, not so much anymore. Are you on linkedin or twitter?

And i see .ca are you from Canada?

Oh ya, flippa... I never use it, wouldn't buy or sell there, lots of horror stories on here about them

No i haven't setup a linkedin account I'm waiting to get a headshot taken.

Yep I'm Canadian

Thank you for the tips. Where do you sell your domains at auction?

Use social media with hashtags for the subject and put the link in the post/tweet

I don't even remember the last time i put a name up for auction .lol

Hopefully we get some more good suggestions.

If your domain name is good (200+ in value), I dont think its bad to buy one of the flippa upgrades. If we are talking about traffic, those upgrades can massively increase the amount of visits. I have sold on flippa before, the upgrades got me 100+ visitors in 20 days. However, in your case I am not sold on the quality of the domain name and think you would be wasting your money if you bought the upgrades.

However, you can still try listing it in as many places as you can. gd, sedo, flippa (basic listing) and in a few days when you become an established member here, you can also try listing it here. like @HireDomains stated, social media is another avenue. I know there are Facebook groups dedicated to buying and selling domains so you can try that as well. Good luck!

A member on fiverr.com has a gig that promotes domain auctions through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media sites. He has good reviews, I will be trying it this week. $5 seems a good price to try and increase exposure to an auction.

If you want the best amount of traffic. try this.

1.List your domain in all the big boys GD SEDO Flippa.
2. I'd point your domain to your Flippa page.
3. Then pay for a Godaddy featured listing and a Namebio listing for that domain. just make sure on Godaddy you've set it to "Make offer" only. in the description I'd mention that there's a website on domain but the website is not included in the auction. That way they will be curious and follow the link which will lead them to your Flippa page. Godaddy featureds are cheaper than SEDO or Flippa. plus godaddy has over 1 million visitors daily (supposedly)
4. meantime why not keyword search on NP for threads related to the topic of your domain? might get lucky. don't spam contribute to the convo and make sure in your Signature your domain auction is prominently shown.
5. you can also go the Press Release route it's not cheap but gets your domain in the eyes of millions of people daily.
6. you could always pay for the Flippa blast to their 30,000 twitter followers.
7. then of course there's Linkedin.
8. if all thee above sounds expensive when you add them up. perhaps if you have more than one domain you can "piggyback" off your paid featured listings by "mentioning" your other Flippa auctions within the description for SeeMyTraffic.com. That way you can sort of spread the cost for advertising among your other domain auctions. It would come out to a fraction of the cost per domain.

FYI Godaddy won't let you mention your other domain auctions within a domain listing. Only SEDO and Flippa allow it.

@Avtar629 Thanks for the tips. So you point your domain to your sales page/auction page, then drive traffic from a GoDaddy featured listing? I'll have to test this method out.

@Avtar629

Do you do all these things for ALL your domains (or the vast majority of them) ?

Do you have an example of a press release for a domain ? (of course if sex.com becomes available it's a top scoop, but enrollVR.com might not attract much attention in the press)

what's your process for linkedin ?

Have you tried posting it to social media yet?

skyz21 said:

@Avtar629 Thanks for the tips. So you point your domain to your sales page/auction page, then drive traffic from a GoDaddy featured listing? I'll have to test this method out.

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exactly. I tried to get Godaddy to allow me to also mention my other godaddy domains like on SEDO and Flippa.and godaddy said no. although you can try yourself and let me know what they say as the people I spoke to seemed "unsure".

Plus isn't SEDO and Godaddy merged already? or something like that? so why don't they both allow the "mention" of other domains within the same marketplace?

plus you can try any variation of the scheme I've mentioned above and tweek it. Godaddy is the cheapest for featured and has the most traffic.

just make sure your godaddy featured listing is ONLY MAKE OFFER and then never take any offer.

hopefully they will follow the domain link to your Flippa or Sedo domain auction. Whichever you end up deciding to be your "main auction" where you ultimately plan to get your domain sold on.

Worst case scenario? you get a huge offer on Godaddy and you accept! If not then just follow thru with the scheme.

Me personally? I like SEDO.
so I list on Godaddy and Flippa as Make offer only and then point the domain to my SEDO domain auction.
I'd pay featured on Godaddy and Flippa and Sedo if your domain is really good. like $xxxx and up especially if you want TOP DOLLAR.

oh and of course setting your domain auction to be NO RESERVE is an eye catcher.

FYI if you have Chinese premium like short numerics or letters or pinyin.

now that 4.cn and Ename.com has an english version of their website. I'd list my numerics on there as MAKE OFFER only and then point the domains to the corresponding auctions on SEDO or Godaddy. ( I'd choose SEDO because SEDO has thee option to pay to have your domain listing translated to Chinese and other languages.


why SEDO? because on 4.cn and Ename you won't get much "western" viewers of your domain listings.

but the Chinese do frequent SEDO for sure. so better off making SEDO the main auction you plan to end up selling your domain. It's just logical.

Hope this helps.

aramyus said:

@Avtar629

Do you do all these things for ALL your domains (or the vast majority of them) ?

Do you have an example of a press release for a domain ? (of course if sex.com becomes available it's a top scoop, but enrollVR.com might not attract much attention in the press)

what's your process for linkedin ?

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To be perfect honest I have not "actually" ..."acted" on what I've been preaching but that is what I plan to do. It's summer and I've been procrastinating. But I have seen some on Sedo doing this and I have seen reversed engineered what they did. as far as I know their listings got the most bids and some sold for top $$$. I saw that they did use featured listings. Easy enough to follow their breadcrumb trail on the web. Feature on Godaddy and SEDO and Flippa and Namebio for their BEST "sells it self domain" then offset the cost of feature advertising by piggybacking on that featured listing by mentioning all their other domains on the listing on SEDO or Flippa. not Godaddy.

As for Linkedin, not too many sales off there from what I've been told but great exposure if you have your own DIY domain marketplace like from Efty or WP. Plus you can't beat Linkedin for finding endusers.just slap a 5% commission to anyone who gives you a referral and then just make sure the sale goes thru either Paypal or Escrow.com to offset the cost of getting a Linkedin referral. It's like DIY Godaddy or SEDO or Flippa minus the 10-20% commission to them

@Avtar629 Thank you for all the tips! I'm currently running an auction at Flippa and the methods you've mentioned will be perfect for increasing it's exposure.

I've looked on Godaddy but can't find how long they feature the domain for. Do you know how long? For $30 seems like great value especially if I can direct to an auction elsewhere.

Maybe eBay could work in the same way? It's a high traffic marketplace, if you place a listing for BIN $5-10K it will draw in people who are curious. Then direct them to the auction which shows them they can bid on the domain at a decent price. I'll have to test it out and see how it goes.

I'll definitely look at the Chinese sites as I was discouraged when I first tired and saw there was no English version lol.

Thanks for all the info and ideas buddy.

skyz21 said:

@Avtar629 Thank you for all the tips! I'm currently running an auction at Flippa and the methods you've mentioned will be perfect for increasing it's exposure.

I've looked on Godaddy but can't find how long they feature the domain for. Do you know how long? For $30 seems like great value especially if I can direct to an auction elsewhere.

Maybe eBay could work in the same way? It's a high traffic marketplace, if you place a listing for BIN $5-10K it will draw in people who are curious. Then direct them to the auction which shows them they can bid on the domain at a decent price. I'll have to test it out and see how it goes.

I'll definitely look at the Chinese sites as I was discouraged when I first tired and saw there was no English version lol.

Thanks for all the info and ideas buddy.

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no worries! most wouldn't tell you such things but I'm all about free enterprise. Good luck! and thanks for the Ebay plug. I think Ebay is great as a Godaddy replacement. but I've checked out Ebay domain auctions section and the BIN pricing on there gets kinda ridiculous like $88888 or $99,999. obvious eyecatcher for Chinese. but FYI you never see and domain sales on Namebio for Ebay.


just work the numbers on the piggybacking scheme.

if the total for doing featured listings on all the outlets comes up to $299 for a week. just make sure the listing you are pushing mentions at least 30 or 300 of your other domains you'd like to promote.

that way if you mention 30 domains in actuality it costs you $10 each to promote each domain.
That way if you mention 300 domains in actuality it costs you $1 to promote each domain.

oh and another thing.
Press releases? they served two purposes

pay for a press release and here's what you get.

1.Link Juice. Backlinks on top news and article sites (depending on which PR service you use like PRWeb or Newscred or NewsWire just Google press release. find a bunch and just do the numbers.

2. Exposure for your domain auctions to all news outlets.

3. after you do this. use a backlink checker to find out how many backlinks you've gotten. This is just another bonus to any potential domain buyer that your domain has good SEO. as an added bonus just mention in each domain auction that your domain has links on news and article sites and maybe namedrop and mention a few. or Flippa and Sedo's system will do all the work for you by showing your rank or SEO score.

again good luck!

baseballworld said:

Have you tried posting it to social media yet?

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I've tried that on Facebook. and have seen others doing it and tracked my domain auction activity and theirs. doesn't seem to be working. either that or my domain and theirs were just crappy.

although social media is a mix of spammy everything and I just don't think actual domain buyers will develop out of such promotions. You will be competing for the attention of people who are inundated with spammy promos for penis enlargement pills and some get rich quick schemes. so if by chance they come across to you peddling your domain on Facebook Twitter Snapchat they will be numb to it and just skip it. Domains are usually High ticket items and people who frequent Social media aren't in the habit of buying high ticket items like Laptops or a fridge or car.

Social media is more for personal stuff like a nightclub. Most business deals don't happen in a nightclub (well sometimes between you and an escort! lol) but in a business setting like Linkedin.

@Avtar629 Yeah I've seen lots of ones priced at $8,888 etc and it's definitely not the best for domain sales, but with such high traffic it could deliver those one or two people who are interested in the auction.

Cheers for the press release idea, hadn't thought of that. Would the free ones be any good? It would look good to state it has some good links already.

Thanks again

skyz21 said:

@Avtar629 Yeah I've seen lots of ones priced at $8,888 etc and it's definitely not the best for domain sales, but with such high traffic it could deliver those one or two people who are interested in the auction.

Cheers for the press release idea, hadn't thought of that. Would the free ones be any good? It would look good to state it has some good links already.

Thanks again

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from my readings online it's a NO NO for free ones for one reason. your press releases might end up on crap ranked venues aka article directories etc etc.

It's best to ASK the PR service you are thinking of using to give you a list of what Venues your PR will end up on and check those sites for Rank and Moz rank and Alexa rank and whatever else these days have value. From what I hear Google Rank is worthless now as Google no longer supports it and Alexa rank is more important now.

Thanks Avtar629, I will have to look at the options and try find some decent providers. Cheers for the information mate.

skyz21 said:

A member on fiverr.com has a gig that promotes domain auctions through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media sites. He has good reviews, I will be trying it this week. $5 seems a good price to try and increase exposure to an auction.

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I've heard that technique works really well for affiliate marketing. Never though about it for domains, but that sounds like a pretty smart and cost effective way to promote the auction. Let me know how it goes

Do you have a link to fiverr member?

Thank you for the tips

Hi
sorry to say, but your name isn't worthy of paying any fee's to promote it

with adsense tools or parking stats, who really needs a website for that purpose


there's also comscore, alexa and gkwt,etc. where the curious can observe statistics.

others may suggest you spend money in hopes of making more, but pouring good money out, to chase a hope, isn't wise.

you could spend those extra duckies on a better hand-reg or low cost backorder


on the other side, if... you currently have other domains that get traffic, then you could temporarily "point" those names to your auction page.


imo......

I've seen that and have been curious. Please share you experience.

skyz21 said:

A member on fiverr.com has a gig that promotes domain auctions through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media sites. He has good reviews, I will be trying it this week. $5 seems a good price to try and increase exposure to an auction.

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@Johnny.ca @Adam27 I haven't used his service yet, I plan to towards the end of auction. The link to his gig is:
https://www.fiverr.com/bhuvanesh/re...=shared&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=&view=gig