Most Helpful
Most Helpful
From what I can see, Epik sites vary widely in terms of revenue. I think it depends on the products you'd be selling. Some of their sites appear to do quite well (which is necessary since you'd be splitting the profits with them), but most of them don't make much money at all.
You can check the stats of Epik sites by adding /stats/ after the domain. One example is Elliot Silver's site BumperProtectors.com, which he put on the Epik platform. Check the stats. $1.45 this last week (not including Adsense).
You can check the stats of Epik sites by adding /stats/ after the domain. One example is Elliot Silver's site BumperProtectors.com, which he put on the Epik platform. Check the stats. $1.45 this last week (not including Adsense).
@Adam
As someone who has a lot of experience in Mass Domain Development, let me shed a little about the process and the implications of your requests on a platform in the middle of development.
But first, the me remind you the goal is PASSIVE income, which Rob talks about in almost every blog post, is to remove as much involvement and interaction with your site as possible. Can you make the same amount of money with a blog/adsense - lets say yes for the sake of argument.
But then you have to blog consistently to keep traffic flowing. That is not passive. Nor can you replicate and scale that with any validity in Google's eyes. Would you rather have 5 blog sites you are scrambling to manually manage, or a large network of sites programmed to best practices in SEO, conversion, content, cross-promotion, etc?
Your request about the cross-linking is valid. I"ve seen it on their other sites. However, making custom changes to one photo is small consideration when you are building out thousands of sites. Usually, that one image is used over the entire category. Not to say it cant be done, but when you are in the earlier phases of developing a platform - not tweeking it - you're goal is to get a SOLID foundation. Minor details will eventually follow. Which would you rather have? A perfectly pretty site, or one that has a few asthetic flaws but is making you money?
How long has the site been up? Is it indexed yet? It might helpful to do a free press release or drive some traffic to it via social just to let the Bots know it exisists.
Not jumping on you, just want to defend the difficulties of large-scale platform development. There are very few others doing it because it is not easy - but parking sure isn't the answer. Might want to look at your Epik sites with more optimism and understanding of it's early stages of evolution. There seems to be a lot of potential with their platform, especially at $249, 50/50 rev.
Jay Lohmann
LeadGenerationDirectories.com
As someone who has a lot of experience in Mass Domain Development, let me shed a little about the process and the implications of your requests on a platform in the middle of development.
But first, the me remind you the goal is PASSIVE income, which Rob talks about in almost every blog post, is to remove as much involvement and interaction with your site as possible. Can you make the same amount of money with a blog/adsense - lets say yes for the sake of argument.
But then you have to blog consistently to keep traffic flowing. That is not passive. Nor can you replicate and scale that with any validity in Google's eyes. Would you rather have 5 blog sites you are scrambling to manually manage, or a large network of sites programmed to best practices in SEO, conversion, content, cross-promotion, etc?
Your request about the cross-linking is valid. I"ve seen it on their other sites. However, making custom changes to one photo is small consideration when you are building out thousands of sites. Usually, that one image is used over the entire category. Not to say it cant be done, but when you are in the earlier phases of developing a platform - not tweeking it - you're goal is to get a SOLID foundation. Minor details will eventually follow. Which would you rather have? A perfectly pretty site, or one that has a few asthetic flaws but is making you money?
How long has the site been up? Is it indexed yet? It might helpful to do a free press release or drive some traffic to it via social just to let the Bots know it exisists.
Not jumping on you, just want to defend the difficulties of large-scale platform development. There are very few others doing it because it is not easy - but parking sure isn't the answer. Might want to look at your Epik sites with more optimism and understanding of it's early stages of evolution. There seems to be a lot of potential with their platform, especially at $249, 50/50 rev.
Jay Lohmann
LeadGenerationDirectories.com
Mark. Just ran across this post about Epik.com from a well-known domainer and it reminded me of yours.
domainshane.com
It depends on the quality of the domains and the traffic you are getting. I'm experimenting myself one domain name with Epik: www.americanflowers.com -- so far it's not making that much but i would like to wait and see what will happen in next coming months. I saw some websites are making decent money from such platform like IceCreamMakers.com, $390 a week is not bad but i'm afraid to say that with such name you can easily make the same income with a simple set up: Blog/adsense. I was excited about finding Epik and paying the $249, I was even considering adding more domains but I had to change my mind. It seems to me that Epik are busy developing bunch of domains and they don't really care about details. When my website was up, I requested few basic changes, assuming it's our mutual products and that I can express my opinion and suggestions. For example, I requested a change of the header because the flowers look dead to me, I also asked if possible to feature the site on other related websites, same as the ones featured on mine.. Sadly none of my suggestions were taking in consideration... It's like they were doing me a favor and that it is what it is.. It seems to me that it is a mass platform and once a specific website is done, they just move to the next! Anyway, I'm not complaining nor giving a bad review to Epik. I know that Rob is probably around and I hope that he can read this oneday and take customers/partners inquiries in consideration.
Good Luck
Good Luck
Oh I see, very interesting point. Also I was thinking about the great deal to have a website developed only for 249$ (I'm a web developer too).
But as you said it seems like they prefer big orders, that's normal and fine. Probably I'll give it a try only for one domain to see how it will go.
Thanks you so much for you're interesting post and your experience.
Best regards



