WordPress; A Domainers Miracle Wand
I have been aware of WordPress for a long time now but have never actually used it until May of this year. This post might come as common place to a lot of domainers but this is awesome discovery for me. In less than two hours I was able to redesign an old website desperately in need of a makeover all with WordPress. I must tell you, I am greatly impressed. Check out SafariRacks.com
There is nothing spectacular about the design but the fact that it is simple and sharp. A big contrast from the parent site. I believe WordPress is the miracle wand I have been looking for. I did most of the redesign while waiting for a friend who was coming to borrow some stuff from me over the weekend. I intend to invest a few more hours seriously mastering this amazing tool.
Think of the possibilities; mini sites at the speed at which it takes me to write the articles in them— now that is way outstanding!
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SHHHHH… Don’t tell anyone…
yep. This is a timeless site with great wordpress/adsense-ready templates:
http://www.doshdosh.com/16-adsense-optimized-wordpress-themes-to-maximize-your-contextual-ad-earnings/
I’m using prosense and bluesense on many of my sites.
Enjoy!
Nice clean template, care to share this template with us, I figure it would make a great landing page for a bunch of my Domains,it would beat the heck out of parking. I never used WordPress before either but I do like the simplicity of this template, nice job and thanks for sharing this.
If you like WordPress, you will probably like WordPress MU even more. A much better kept secret, it will allow you to design and control multiple WordPress sites from one codebase. No more running around from site to site to upgrade.
I discovered wordpress recently and I have made a few sites that are pretty decent looking.
If you own real estate based domains, Foreclosure.com has an amazing plugin for WordPress. Simply install WordPress: http://wordpress.org/download/ (The best thing about WordPress is it truly is a 5 minute install!)
Next download the Foreclosure Listings Plugin here: http://affiliate.foreclosure.com/tools/wordpress.php
Ten minutes later you have a fully functional money making foreclosure site! Read more about the plugin here: http://tinyurl.com/4cufy7
Sign up to monetize as an affiliate: http://affiliate.foreclosure.com/
To see the WordPress Foreclosure listings plugin in action:
http://bloghomedenver.com/foreclosure_listings/
http://findforeclosures.com/
I wish you much success!
Good post, I’m also a WordPress enthusiast. I’m writing a series on building a WordPress Domain Selling Website which you can link to thru my name above.
Stephen, Thanks for the Foreclosure.com links – good idea. I have a bunch of domains this will work on.
Mark
More and more resources come online for WordPress everyday: themes and plugins, etc… blog themes have come and go, now the “magazine” themes are hot. Not many people venture beyond these basic formats. Here’s a recent list of some very cool plugins to get your WordPress blog humming:
http://speckyboy.com/2008/10/06/18-wordpress-plugins-to-add-professionalism-to-your-blog/
Here’s my foreclosure site
http://foreclosuredex.com/ I’ve done some work making cleaner/SEO-friendly URLs, but still needs work…
Thanks for the speckyboy plugins, I think the googlemap plugin is pretty cool. Might try that. Kindly list any other cool plugins and themes.
I’ve been using the “connections” theme, I heavily modify it for different uses but it is a pretty straight-forward theme that is easy to modify and takes plugins well.
I too use them as “selling sites” – I looked at the safariracks.com site and right off the bat I’d like to suggest going to the admin panel and changing the permalinks settings to “Custom Structure” and “/%postname%/” to get some SEO friendly URLS. I do it as soon as I set up the site.
I try to imagine the end user and a few pages that they might typically want and then I make them so that they will get indexed by Google. Then, when the site is sold the end-user can simply exchange the content on the pages and start reaping the benefits of immediate search engine visibility.
You can see it on one of my sites at http://stpeterslawyers.com/ – notice the URLs and also notice that I password protected the “About This Domain” page so that the search engines don’t index it, the reason being that I have a large part of the text that is applicable to many of my domains and I don’t want that to be found and treated as duplicate content.
I’ve also nearly completed my modifications of a shopping cart plug in that makes it amenable to both selling and auctioning domains. It integrates well with a nice forum plug in that allows selling of products within forum posts. It should be ready for real use in a day or two and I’ll update then.
Greg,
Thanks for the permalink reminder. I forgot about it.