Developing Domains With DomainDEVpro Domain Development Made Simple Learn How to Self-Publish Profitable Websites Updated on October 21, 2010 What is DomainDEVpro? DomainDEVpro is a website publishing platform that allows for fast creation of fully populated websites ready for browsing. Users manually add domains and set keywords then publish each domain to website. The system handles adding the domain to the hosting account and creating all the necessary site files. Content management tools allow for fast and easy creation of original content and insertion of monetization code. Benefits of Using DomainDEVpro The DomainDEVpro platform was developed with proprietors of large domain portfolios in mind that don't want to rely on parking solutions. Parking solutions devalue domains and rely strictly on type-in traffic. Search engine algorithms reject parked sites and thus parked domains are not permitted to organically age on the search results pages. The best long term solution for domain investors is to develop their domains. However to develop hundreds to thousands of domains is not financially nor time-wise viable if developers are hired to develop each individual domain. Large sums of money are required up-front which can take quite some time to break even before profits can be registered. DomainDEVpro allows domain proprietors to deploy their sites immediately and build content over time in a financially and time managed way. The low-cost to entry and monthly investment permit sites to be developed in an organic manner. The major part of the investment can be devoted to content creation rather the site development. Content is the key to building profitable websites. This guide will explain how you can do this at any rate of investment. DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ an IDEAe.com product Table of Contents ... i Overview of DomainDEVpro ii Quick-start Guide to DomainDEVpro iii Adding Custom Pages iv Inviting Offers for Domains Published v Adding Header Sponsor Code vi Adding Sponsor Code to Sidebar and Pages vii Adding Custom Header Images viii Adding Links to Sites ix Editing Templates x Hiring Help to Build Content & Promote Sites xi DIY: How to Add Articles xii DIY: Finding website images online Copright В© 2010 by IDEAe.com вЂ“ a division of TCK Media DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ an IDEAe.com product i. Overview ... DomainDEVpro allows you to build a network of sites and edit sites individually, in groups and across entire network. Once a domain is pointing to the correct nameservers, it takes just a couple of clicks to publish a new site. Sites are grouped based on the template selected. Any edits to the template will effect all sites created with that template. You can make duplicates of templates and edit the templates as you feel necessary. Templates edit includes defaults to the Welcome (home page) and About page content, which can be overwritten per site edits. Master Pages and Settings edits effect entire network of sites published with DomainDEVpro. DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ an IDEAe.com product ii. Quick-Start Guide ... First thing to do, before starting to publish your sites is to set up or check the Setting by selecting the settings tab option. Next, start publishing sites. 1. Make sure your domains are pointing to the nameservers of the DomainDEVpro server. (Allow 24-48hrs for the nameservers to propagate across the Internet after setting them.) 2. Add the domain listing, setting the targeted keywords related to the domain. Separate the keywords with a comma. Commit your changes. 3. Open the domain listing and select the option вЂњDomain To SiteвЂќ below the domain title. 4. Choose a template from the available templates list and then select the option вЂњMake SiteвЂќ After the successful creation process, you can edit your new website. Click on вЂњEDIT THIS SITEвЂќ You can now edit the key elements of the site: Description: This is the description of the website. It will be used in search engine optimizing the site and in link pages. Logo URL: If you have a logo for the site, you can replace the text title with it. Upload it to the server using the Upload Tool and copy-and-paste the link url to the logo here. Header URL: You can change the default header with another one of your choosing. You can upload it using the Upload Tool and copy-and-paste the url here. Home page: Create custom home page here, using the built-in content management tools. Any content you add here will replace the default content created in the initial domain to site creation. About page: Same as the home page. Replace the default content with your own here. Adding Header tags and 3rd party tracking code: Select Head Body Code option from the Edit Site navigation. DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ a TCK Media product iii. Adding Custom Pages ... Creating custom pages is the salient feature of DomainDEVpro and most important to build sites that maximize search engine presence and return visitors. There are two types of pages you can create in DomainDEVpro. The first is pages that are displayed on one particular website. The second is pages that are displayed across the entire network of sites. The second option is useful for creating generic pages such as for advertising info, disclaimers, privacy statements, and the like. Adding pages to individual sites Select the domain for the site you wish to edit. Open the DomainDEVpro menu options and select Edit Site. Order Num. is the order in which you want the page to be displayed in relation to other pages created. This is a numerical value. A value of 0 will display the page only in the footer navigation. Vanity is the SEO-friendly url that is readable to the human eye. You don't need to enter anything here. It will be generated based on your title. You can edit this value at any time. NOTE: the vanity url should not contain spaces or unusual characters. Adding pages to entire network To create pages to appear on your entire network, select the option Edit Master Pages. The process of creating a page is the same as for individual sites. Adding 3rd party javascript or other code You can add code such as Google Maps(tm), YouTube(tm) videos, or another, to the Web pages you create. However, be sure to turn off the HTML Text editor as this tool may alter the code and causing it to break. iv. Inviting Offers ... To invite offers on domains published with sites, go to the template you will use for domains on sale, or select the template used to publish the domain. Enter something in the field For Sale Text, something like: вЂњThis domain may be available for sale or lease.вЂќ If you don't wish to publicize that the domain is for sale, then leave this field blank. DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ a TCK Media product v. Adding Header Sponsor Code ... To add a sponsor ad banner on all pages above the fold, follow these steps: - Select the template for which to add the sponsor banner - Add the sponsor code in the field that says Header. - Select Update. vi. Adding Sponsor Code to Sidebar and Pages... There are two places where you can add sponsor code to the sidebar. 1) Under Settings, add the code to the field titled Sidebar Code. 2) You can also add sponsor code to specific templates by selecting the template to edit and inserting the code in the field titled Sidebar. Anything entered here will appear above the sidebar code you set in Settings. To add sponsor code above and/or below article body, add the code to the following fields under Settings: Top Sponsor Code вЂ“ This code will appear above the article. Bottom Code вЂ“ This code will appear below the article. vii. Adding Custom Header Images... Although templates are designated for a specific topic by default and come with related image header, this doesn't mean you can't use the template for practically any topic of any domain. By simply changing the header image, any template can be used for any given topic. This is done on editing individual sites. To change the header image, you must upload a new header via the Upload Tool and copy the url. Then open the editor for the website you want to use the header with and paste the url in the corresponding field. Unless otherwise indicated, the default header dimensions are 980px by 260px. You can find more header images at the official DomainDEVpro website media repository: http://media.domain2site.com You can copy the url and paste it in your editor or save the images to your hard drive (right-mouse click, then Save Image) and upload to your hosting account. DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ a TCK Media product viii. Adding Links to Sites... You can add links to your sites by selecting Add Links from the Edit Site navigation menu, which will take you directly to the add link form for the site you are editing, or by selecting Manage Links in the main navigation menu which will then give you the option of adding links to any site you already built from a drop-down scroll list. You can add links one at a time or add them in bulk. If you add them in bulk then you must enter the link data in the following format: anchor text, url (which includes the http://), description, keyword All elements are separated by a comma and each link is on a separate line. If you make a mistake, you can always delete or edit your links. Why enter a keyword? This is a SEO method and also places the link on pages with that same keyword. Suppose you have a page named anniversary_gifts.htm and the link keyword is вЂњanniversary giftsвЂќ. Then the link will automatically appear on that page, in addition to the links page. ix. Editing Templates... You can edit each template and create or edit default home page and about page text, for sale text, header, footer and sidebar code. If you know some html and css, you can also edit these elements as well. You can create a duplicate of the existing template and edit that so you never lose the original code. Any edits you made to a template will automatically be applied to all domains you published or will publish with that template. Editing the home and about pages text: Any time you include the string [domain], it will be replaced with the domain name. [keywords] will be replaced with the keywords you set for the domain. This way you can create standard text that will then be customized to each domain. For sale text: You can use this area to enter a phrase such as вЂњThis domain may be for saleвЂќ or вЂњInquire about this domainвЂќ, or even вЂњAdvertise on this siteвЂќ. You are not limited to what you can write here. Any text entered will appear highlighted on the sidebar and linked to the contact page. CSS: This is the styling code. Do not edit this unless you know what you are doing. Header: Anything you enter here will appear at the very top of all pages. Can be advertising or any other use you feel appropriate. Main HTML: Again, do not edit unless you are very familiar with HTML. Sidebar: This code will appear above the Settings' sidebar code and can be used for monetizing purposes. Footer: Any code here will appear in the footer area of every page this template is used on. DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ a TCK Media product x. Hiring Help to Build and Promote sites... There are many developers, designers, writers, marketers, Web professionals, etc., that can be contracted to build your Web projects. Fortunately, with DomainDEVpro you can hire anyone to tweak your sites rather than doing it from scratch, which can be very expensive. Once you publish a domain to a site, you will need to work on original content and promoting the site on the search engines. If you want to do it yourself, just skip to the next section. Here we'll show you were to find low cost help. NOTE: TCK Media, the company behind DomainDEVpro, offers design and development services, including SEO-friendly content creation. You are welcome to write [email protected] for a quote and more info. NOTE: this information is only provided as a way to help our clients. We do not recommend any particular service and urge each domainer to do due research before engaging any type of 3rd party service. Content Writers http://www.elance.com/article_writing_experts/294 Freelance board, article writers http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/by-job/Articles.html Freelance board, article writers http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=102 Forum to find and look for content writers http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/categories/content-for-sale Content for sale Search Engine Optimization & Link Building http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/by-job/LinkBuilding.html Freelance board, link building services http://www.elance.com/sem_experts/190 Freelance board, search engine marketing http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/categories/link-exchanges Link exchanges DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ a TCK Media product xi. DIY: How to Add Articles... You can populate your site very quickly utilizing the following sources of royalty-free articles. Although the effect on SEO is minimal, if any, however, by utilizing free article sources it will give you a quick way to populate and add value to your websites. Another low cost option, and much better than using free article sources, is to write your own articles. A 300-500 word article would not take a long time on most topics and will have positive impact on search engine results. Royalty-Free Article Providers http://www.ezinearticles.com Ezine Articles http://www.articlesbase.com Articles Base http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Publishing_and_Printing/Publishing/ Free content directory Services/Free_Content/ http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=free+articles&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&o Results on Google for free articles q=&fp=e8d6ef47431c6a4a Help and Resources for Writing Articles http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=241 Forum, Content for Your Site http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Articles How to write articles DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ a TCK Media product xii. DIY: Finding Website Images Online... The following sites, free and paid, provide a wealth of images or logos that can be used on your website. Having an image with an article will enhance the appearance of the page and also search engines love images. Free Images http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ http://www.sxc.hu/ http://www.freefoto.com/ http://www.morguefile.com/ Free or Low Cost Logo & Icon Design http://www.logoease.com/ http://www.templatesbox.com/free-logo-templates/index.htm http://www.logodesignengine.com/ http://www.templateworkz.com/logo_templates.php Paid Images http://www.gettyimages.com/ http://www.istockphoto.com/ http://www.corbisimages.com/ http://www.jupiterimages.com/ DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ a TCK Media product More to come soon.... This is the second edition of this ebook. Stay tuned for more info and help on developing your domains into complete sites. Please feel free to contact us if you need any customization done to your service вЂ“ www.ideae.com вЂ“ [email protected] DomainDEVpro вЂ“ www.DomainDEVpro.com вЂ“ a TCK Media product