New incarnation of EVOLanding to launch in February.
DevHub, a free platform for rapidly developing web sites, will launch to the public later this month.
Mass developing web sites isn’t easy. DevHub makes it easier, but you shouldn’t expect to be able to just press a button to develop 1,000 domain names. Technically DevHub would allow you to do that, but you won’t get long term search engine traffic. It takes a little elbow grease to realize its true potential.
Hence the new name, DevHub, instead of the parking-centric EVOLanding. As DevHub describes it:
DevHub is a web hosted publishing platform and content editor. We bring publishing tools, API integrations, and monetization partners together into an easy to use ecosystem of reusable building blocks for accelerated development.
The company is purposely distancing itself from being just a glorified domain parking service. DevHub takes the pain out of development making it possible for technically challenged people to develop dynamic web sites.
I’ve been playing around with the system and wrote a preview back in November.
Consider a domain name you own related to chess. Within minutes, you can create a basic web site with 5 pages of content including videos of chess tips, a store of chess items, a news feed, etc. Just drag and drop modules such as videos, affiliate links, or pay-per-click ads to the location on the page where you want them. Then enter your own custom content (and that’s important).
DevHub will open to new clients later this month. You can submit your e-mail address at DevHub.com to be notified of its release.
VERY interesting.
1. Will evolanding still be in business or does this replace evolanding?
2. What is the cost?
3. Their nameservers and/or hosting or our own?
4. Give us some advice. I know you use xsitepro and whypark. Say you had 100 domains that you wanted to “develop”. Can you compare xsitepro vs whypark vs devhub?
(I left off aeiou because I consider them to be developers rather than a parking alternative/micro site development company)
I don’t know sendori so maybe you can address that too?
I would love to see a table of all these services comparing features and costs to each other.
Thank you.
Great q’s, Rob.
Also, Andrew; any actual/sample sites we can view?
Thanks.
Footballcrowd,com I believe is a domain you mentioned Andrew that is using the service. Is that site making better money if it were parked?
Answers to your questions…
An example site I built on DevHub in about 20 minutes (including writing content) is BankProfiles.com. Obviously it could be much better, but this is a start.
1. Will EvoLanding still be in business – yes. DevHub will either be a product name or the company might change it’s name. You can convert your auto-generated EVO sites to DevHub sites.
2. It costs nothing. They make their money by taking a cut of any syndicated affiliate revenue and ppc. If you look at BankProfiles.com you’ll notice some examples. That said, you can also put your own Adsense or affiliate code and they get nothing of that.
3. You host your sites on their nameservers
4. Regarding DevHub vs. Xsite vs. Whypark, I think these are all different ways of addressing the issue of domain development. The key is that domain development takes more work than parking. If you just use the auto-generated DevHub or Whypark, it won’t be beneficial for long. If you get in there and use their advanced features, including **adding your own content**, both can be valuable. Xsite pro is a different animal since you host your own sites. It’s must more flexible, but takes more work.
@ Johnny – footballcrowd.com is on DevHub but is a bad example because I haven’t really set it up. Whenever you go from a parking page to a developed site your revenue should go down at first. The idea is to build more traffic (search & repeat), which ultimately should lead to more revenue. FootballCrowd.com is a low traffic domain so I can’t compare it.
Nice info. Please keep us posted on how the revenue performance goes…..
Thanks. Really a great topic. Keep it going.
I think BankProfiles.com is a good example. It is attractive and actually provides some relevant advertisers.
My initial reaction after seeing BankProfiles .com is this would seem to work best with things like banks, plumbers, electricians, etc…since they work better in a directory type of setting. Maybe there are other good uses too but that angle looks attractive to me.
People pls do not call this “developping”. Those are just scraps, not developped pages.
@ Johnny – The reason this one looks like that is I used the “local directory” module. It will work on all types of domains.
@ D – depends on how much you put into it. Sure, with 20 minutes it’s not development. But what if I had 10 more content pages? And another 10 next week? At what point have you “developed” a domain. Right now it has two pages of unique content out of four. It then pings a database of local banks and a news feed.
@Johnny
I agree, looks interesting for niche directories. Have to keep an eye on this.
Yeah don’t call this developing.. It’s a cheap and quick way to build a junk site
I was fortunate enough to be involved during DevHub’s early beta testing. Evo Landing (DevHub) approved and created a few of my websites. Now that DevHub is up and running, the process for non-technical entrepreneurs, like myself, to build-out a network of web sites is relatively easy, albeit with some detailed work, relative content and a lot of follow through. An example of one of my active sites relating to the best travel ” deals to Vegas ” is DealsToVegas.com
I am continuing to update the website daily as anyone would do with their site. The DevHub system improves almost daily. I highly recommend them over any domain parking company, if you can meet their quality standards.
So, how has the business come along since its inception? Have all of the goals been reached? Is there a satisfied cliental? Tammy