Ray on November 7th, 2009

I have been really keen to build up EnglandWide.com into a substantial England portal. So, much of my time over the last few weeks has been devoted to thinking a little ‘out of the box’ to try and develop something a little different. Currently exploring a few ideas including:-

blogging about UK tourist resorts
UK visitors social networking site
Travel forum

Not particlulary new – still thinking though :)
Not sure how to progress and I will write up what I have decided shortly, hopefully.

Ray on October 27th, 2009

Geodomain development – Ive been working hard on developing the network. Nine sites, so far. Decided on a basic template – and plan to take things from there. Everything connected to www.EnglandWide.com. Plan to make that site into an England travel and tourist blog. In the meantime its just a basic site. Plan to develop around 150 geo domain websites. After that I’ll start on the generics. Lots to do, so little time.

Ray on October 16th, 2009

I have made an important decision – NO MORE DOMAINING! Well at least thats the plan. Now its development time! With a portfollio of over 500 domains I need to start building sites. Even single pages would be better than parking pages. Lots of thoughts about how to progress. http://www.LiverpoolWide.com and http://www.BristolWide.com are online with a single article each. Enough to get a little interest from Google, so its a start at least.

Hoping to develop about half of my portfolio over the next 18 months. Probably want to concentrate on a small number of geos and then work out from there.

So that means no domaining – for the moment. But I don’t think my domaining days are over, but a transition from domainer to domainer developer.

Ray on October 8th, 2009

The latest addition to my slowly growing geo network is SheffieldWide.com. At the moment it is little more than a one page site, but I plan to develop it into a fully fledged minisite in the coming months.

I’m slowly forming a geo network of sites targetting major English cities. ManchesterWide.com was the first. Over the last few months sites for Birmingham and Leeds have been added to the network. Bristol, Newcastle, Liverpool and Nottingham will follow in due course.

In addition, I added Manchester Breaks to the network some time ago.

Except for my Manchester site, they are all basically pages that need to be made into robust sites.

I think a mistake that many geonetwork developers make is to fail fully build out their network before moving on to the next site. There are lots of reasons why this is a good strategy. However, I believe the money is in development, so I want to build out the existing nine sites before moving on to the next ones.

The revenue goal I have set for myself is $1 per day, per site. Is this achievable? The way I look at it, if a $1 a day is achievable, so is $5 and $10. How easy that is, and whether I think its worth the effort, is something I will discuss in future posts.

Ray on August 23rd, 2009

I have started to put up for sale a number of gambling domains from my portfolio.

Prices are in UK pounds and are for sale through Sedo.co.uk

BackgammonForums.co.uk (£1,900) – Backgammon Forums – nice domain. Increasing interest in Backgammon makes this domain a bargain

Blackjacks.org.uk (£2,500) – Blackjacks is a great generic – plenty of Blackjacks around. Casino blackjack and online blackjack are two variety of Blackjacks people enjoy, and there are plenty of different types of blackjacks you can play online. A memorable domain with great affilliate ad income possibilities.

iJackpots.co.uk & iJackpot.co.uk (£2,000 each – possible discount for the pair). This would lend itself to a site about internet gambling, or an online casino.

SportsBettingForum.co.uk (£2,750) Possibly the best of the bunch. Sports betting is big at the moment. Football, rugby, horse racing, betting exchanges, betting systems. Great opportunity for a sports betting forum and sports betting content site.

If you have any questions about these domains, contact me on

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