Today is the big payoff for those of you who have watched the last two short videos (if you haven’t, shame on you, look here for the start)

Now that I’ve found a load of keywords and organised them according to my admittedly random criteria(!), I can now go and look up if any domains are available. Watch the video to see me reveal a couple of available domains that come straight out of this test run….and then go and register them quick.

The little trick in there with removing all the apostrophes and full stops will help the whole process run smoother. If Godaddy finds one of these, it gives an error but also expands out all the .com, .net and .org domain names in full in the search box……that means you have closer to 1500 names instead of the 500 you started out with and so the next search fails too.

Anyway, go out there, try it and grab some domains. Let me know if you find any really good ones (just the finding, not the name itself you understand.)

Back in the more mundane world, earnings for day 17 are as follows:

Adsense earnings 6c
Amazon UK earnings 37c – this is why you need to go for big ticket items….this small one paid me £0.25

I just checked round my sites and some are crawling their way up the rankings fairly slowly but the traffic isn’t enough to make any adsense earnings worth talking about.

Having said that, none of the other earnings are doing anything either, so a measly 6c earned on adsense yesterday is it for the report today.

A short while ago, I promised to make a video on how I use Google’s Keyword External Tool to find keywords to write about and build sites from. I went to get that going today and lo and behold, Google have changed the interface. Not much, just enough to ruin my old technique completely. I will re-think and show you how you can still do, but that will have to be for another video.

What I ended up doing instead, was making you a short series of videos on how I find keywords and then search for domains from them. So, here’s part one. Using the Google Keyword External Tool.

There are more of these coming as I get them uploaded to Youtube, so be patient it will be later today.

On a completely separate note, I am just trying to sign up to Shareasale as an alternative affiliate program to Amazon. There are some areas where the big A still has no offering, so I’m going to try somewhere else and see if I can get in.