I was browsing the Overture Keyword Tool and saw a nice phrase that attracts a good few thousands searches a month.

Did a quick domain search and found a perfect keyword rich domain and knocked up a not too shabby site. I checked my Adsense stats sometime time later and it was already making me money."WTF" was my first reaction.

Did a little bit of digging and turns out the domain has an age of 3 years, and is already linked to and listed on several sites. Some days this job can seem tough. Other days it's so easy it's almost funny!

I just got lucky in that instance, but to do the same thing in a more organised way, you might have a look at Deleted Domains which is a site my friend just recommended to me.

aStore provides aNice Suprise

Amazon's aStore is a nice little tool and I've incorporated it into a few sites, but I must have been a bit slow on the uptake because I've only just realised it can actually rank quite nicely on it's own. I guess because I've integrated it into a few sites using IFRAME I didn't think of it as a site in its own right, but I just noticed they do actually list in the SERPs. And one of mine ranks one for the keyword phrase which is the title of the aStore page. Unfortuntely it's not a phrase many people use so I've reoptimised the page titles with something a bit more search worthy and look forward to seeing where lands when its indexed again.

Labels: adsense, domain names