One change in particular warrants a little of your attention that I imagine the vast majority of sites are in violation of:

You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management.

photo credit: Air Force One

Jensense put together a quick template of a privacy policy that should do the trick. Being that I prefer to automate everything I can, I threw together an even quicker version that it doesn’t even require you to change the domain name in the template for each of your sites. Just upload to your site, put a link to it in your template (maybe call that link ‘Privacy Policy‘?), and you’re done.

If you’d like a copy: Save & rename this file to privacy.php. After all, no need to risk your Adsense account over something that can be remedied this easily!

Not getting much accomplished because of a little internal warfare, aka a heavy winter cold. It’s been ten days or so of this damn thing, but I think we’ve finally got the invaders in retreat.

I’ve decided to temporarily hold off on my grand plans until the fog encasing my mind lifts. After all, I hate to throw money at things that don’t make any sense when I’m thinking straight. But I’ve got quite a number of possibilities in my idea box, so I imagine shortly my domain stable is going to be expanding.

One thing I have been accomplishing is signing up for quite a few affiliate networks. It really is amazing how many different programs are out there. And the differences in payouts on the same programs from affiliate network to affiliate network is definitely something to look into if you are going to get into online marketing in any serious way.

The latest I’ve been messing around with is NetShops, which runs a network of online stores, all with pretty decent payouts (generally the 10-15% range). What I find really interesting is their datafeeds, and how simple they make accessing them. A little experimentation with these on the minisites (as well as the BANS sites) is definitely in order!

All of five days passed since the last purchase before I had to pick up another domain: Get Snorkeling. With this one, I thought I’d have a little fun with it and see how quickly I could do a site. From initial idea through keyword checking through domain search (yeah, I know, quite the shocker of a name from me) through registration to fully populated site: 22 minutes and change. At that pace, it would be a long weekend to get those theoretical 100 domains up and going. But I definitely see some room to tweak the process, mostly involved with the layout of the various customizations each site needs in my minisite script. A little time spent massaging the layout of those items, and I think I could easily get it down to <15 minutes a site... maybe even 10.

I keep catching myself looking up new domains whenever an idea pops into my head, so it is definitely time to start developing what I already have before I get buried in them! The parked minisite are doing alright - .05 here, .60 there - but the developed sites are doing so much better so much more consistently.

I did spend a bit of time this evening working on one of my Build A Niche Store sites, trying to get the look and feel of the site into what I have in mind for it. I’m not going to bother linking to the work in progress, as the search engine bots seem to like BANS sites too well, and they’d just index all the nonsense that is in it right now if they’d stumble upon it. I still get a fair number of random kitchen item searches that got indexed from when I let my sushi site sit undeveloped over a weekend. Not that I don’t appreciate the traffic; it’s just that I don’t expect any of it to convert into a sale, so really, outside of cluttering my stats, what’s the point?

OK, so I lied. Despite my stated desire to get back to BANS building, I didn’t quite get there. In fact, the only thing I got accomplished as far as my standard niche store creation is concerned was catching up on the Build A Niche Store members’ forum and chatting with a few other BANSers about some professional SEO services.

Instead, I maintained the focus I talked of in the last post, and went out and re-purposed an existing domain, plus picked up a couple new ones while I was at it. All now using my ever-evolving mashup parking script:

• Guest Goods was a practically abandoned, hand-edited blog that occassionally tracked a few of the late nite talkshows’ guests (and, of course, the goods they were pushing). Now, it automagically picks up who those guests are supposed to be, and lists even more of their offerings. If you were a follower of the previous iteration of that site, you must have been a comment spammer, because a couple hundred comment spams a day (according to my daily Spam Karma report) was all that it ever generated for me!
• In a further attempt to beat an idea into the ground, another ‘GetAX.com‘ domain - Get A PDA - joins my growing stable. Though I really can’t imagine exactly what I’ll be focusing on at that site…
• Finally, Llandró Collector makes its way onto the list of Domains Needing Development™. Classic (and classy) collectibles plus a ton of listings all over the place gives this one some real potential.

So I had a little practice in rapidly deploying a few domains during some downtime. A couple hundred sites over a weekend - from the initial idea research to a complete living and breathing site with everything in place - may be a bit of a stretch. But if I could streamline the process, not necessarily an impossible one!

What has me especially amazed about this little script is it’s success. Not necessarily monetarily - I’m definitely not bringing it in hand over fist yet. But the traffic it’s bringing in on each of the sites I have it running on is impressing me. For instance, my ugg shoe site is pulling in just shy of 40 uniques a day, from a high of 2 prior to the new script being installed a week ago. Too early to tell on commissions from the eBay/Amazon items, but enough AdSense/Chitika earnings to essentially pay for the domain registration in that short period.

If I could pull off similar results fairly consistently, considering the minimal effort invested in the site - outside of the initial script development itself, of course - I could see putting up a couple hundred comparable sites in no time. Like, say, over a weekend. The potential is a mind-boggling!

The next couple days has me wanting to spend a little time back in BANS development mode. While the parks have potential for a trickling income (having flood potential with enough trickles), I still believe the more developed niche stores have much greater potential for real single-site passive income. Plus, I like building them…