Please, follow the link above to install the latest version.

Each plan includes:

• Disk Space: up to 600 GB – more than enough for your VRE empire.
• Bandwidth: 6,000 GB – that’s a lot of traffic!
• 52 scripts that can be installed with a click of the mouse, including blogs, portals, CMS, customer support scripts, discussion boards and forums, shopping carts, FAQ systems, image galleries, mailing lists, polls and surveys, site builders and other scripts.
• All major features you can find on other hosts are supported, like unlimited MySQL databases, PHP 4&5, Perl, Ruby on Rails, Cron, Frontpage, SSI, and a lot of others.

With superior support and a features like instant backups, 99.9% Uptime plus an all new 45 day money back guarantee you will be glad you chose HostGator as a hosting provider for your Virtual Real Estate empire.

Today, we are adding another resource to the toolbar’s Design menu: Free CSS Templates.

They are currently providing 230 professionally looking website templates, all of which are:

• Released for FREE under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license
• Very lightweight in terms of images
• Tables-free (ie. they use no tables for layout purposes)
• W3C standards compliant and valid (XHTML Strict)
• Provided with public domain photos from PDPhoto.org and Wikimedia Commons

All of the templates are free to use for both commercial and noncommercial purposes provided you link back to FreeCSSTemplates.org in some way. The website is updates regularly adding new templates.

Enjoy!

The toolbar was started as a convenient way to organize my efforts of building and promoting my VRE websites. I wanted a tool that would be able to guide me through the entire process:

• from picking the idea for the new website >>
• to creating a list of related keywords, >>
• to choosing a domain name and hosting, >>
• to designing the website and filling it with related content, >>
• …and finally, to driving traffic, over and over, and over again.

Many people liked the tool, and I made it semi-public, for The Reese Report subscribers only. That version was for Internet Explorer only, and I started getting requests to create a Firefox version.

After a short period of time, the FF version has been launched, and both versions became public.

Over 20,000 webmasters and online entrepreneurs have downloaded the VRE Toolbar since July 2006. Thousands of them are using it daily.

I would like to thank all contributors and users of Virtual Real Estate Toolbar for your help and suggestions to make it even better.

Andrei Mikrukov

This new feature allowed us to offer our most popular service, Yahoo! (Overture) Keyword Suggestion Tool, as a search service that you can add to your search bar.

How to Add Keyword Research To Your Search Bar

Click on the link above to open the keyword suggestion tool in a new window.

In Firefox 2, look at the search icon. You should see the icon glowing slightly.

Click the icon, and you should see the “Add Keyword Research” menu item in the dropdown menu. Select that item and that’s it.

In Internet Explorer 7, you should see the little arrow next to the search icon highlighted in orange.

Click it, and navigate to the “Add Search Providers” submenu, then select “Keyword Research”, and that’s all you have to do.

Now you can easily access the Yahoo! Keyword Research tool even if you don’t have the VRE Toolbar installed.

Enter a tag (keyword) and select this tool. You’ll get popular posts in del.icio.us community for that tag. Great for finding out what’s hot for the topic. Works only with one-word keywords, because del.icio.us’ tags are not phrases but words.

eBay – Want It Now
VRE Toolbar > Ideas > eBay – Want It Now

eBay’s Want It Now service lets buyers post requests for hard-to-find items and allows sellers to respond to those requests with eBay listings. Browse it to find out what buyers want!

Trend Watching
VRE Toolbar > Ideas > Trend Watching

TrendWatching.com and their trend spotters scan the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. This site is a great place to visit for ideas and inspiration on building a niche website around a hot trend.

ScriptLance
VRE Toolbar > Outsource > ScriptLance

ScriptLance is a place where you can find freelance programmers to outsource some of your tasks. If you require professional programming or website design for your business, whether its a long-term job or just a single website, you will find the help you need here at the prices you want to pay.

What resource would you like to have in the Virtual Real Estate Toolbar to help with your day-to-day niche website building tasks?

The term Virtual Real Estate Empire was coined by John Reese. Have you seen his famous $526,744 Video?

John spent less than 120 hours setting up what he calls a “little side business”. In just over a year, it generated 17.1 million page impressions and $526,744 in AdSense revenue, with NO advertising.

See John Reese’s $526,744 Video

Very compelling!

Privacy note: The VRE Toolbar collects anonymous statistical usage data but it DOES NOT spy on your browsing habits. It does not track webpages you visit or keywords you use in the search box. Please see our Privacy policy.

1. Keywords Suggestions & Research
   Grabs the Overture search counts for different geographic markets. Offers suggested monthly regional search volumes by market for Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Provides links to price estimate tools from Overture and Google AdWords.
2. Niche Generator
   Randomly suggests niche topics. Provides links to keyword research and domain lookup.
3. 43 Things
   Lists other people’s goals related to a keyword. Helps discover people’s interests, that can give you great ideas to create websites around.
4. Adwords Traffic Estimator
   Gives you keyword traffic and cost estimates at a glance. For any keywords you select, you’ll see the following information: minimum bid, maximum cost-per-click (CPC), search volume, estimated avg. CPC, estimated ad positions, traffic estimates based on an unlimited budget.
5. ColorImpact
   This software allows to create beautiful color schemes for your website with a single click.
6. DomainsBot Ideas, Suggestions
   Helps find great domain names.
7. DigitalPoint (Wordtracker)
   Shows the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often. Gives suggestions for alternate (but similar) keywords.
8. Rapid Niche Websites
   Quickly create cash-pulling web sites by following this easy step-by-step system.
9. Google Sets
   Automatically create sets of items from a few examples. For example, when you enter ‘armani, versace’ subset, it returns Gucci, Chanel, Prada, Calvin Klein, Fendi, Dolce Gabbana etc. Fun and very addictive!
10. The Reese Report
    A highly regarded monthly publication (a printed newsletter & companion CD-ROM) that demonstrates and teaches tons of little-known online moneymaking strategies, provides techniques and methods you can use today to start building an online empire made up of tons of tiny content sites.

What’s your favorite tool?

Let me show you how to organize your virtual real estate empire with a beta tool from Microsoft Research Group. You’ll know how to structure your network of niche websites, and how you can easily find out your niche neighbourhood or related themes.

The secret tool we will be using is called MSRA SRC. MSRA stands for Microsoft Research, Asia. It’s the research group that developed the tool. And SRC stands for Search Result Clustering. It’s a technology to on-the-fly cluster search results into different groups, and provide meaningful and readable names for these groups. To access the tool from the VRE Toolbar, enter your keywords in the toolbar’s search box and click Ideas > MSRA Clustering.

Let’s pick some niche to explore it’s related themes. The Random Niche Generator suggested ‘Picnic Tables’ niche for this article. Type picnic tables in the toolbar’s search box and select Ideas > MSRA Clustering.

If you don’t have the VRE Toolbar, you can access this tool here: MSRA Search Results Cluctering. Note, that it works better in IE. For example, expanding/collapsing of groups doesn’t work in Firefox browser.

Take a look at the results in the left side frame called Result Map:

Let’s group the results slightly differently. We want to separate them into two groups. We’ll put those that contain ‘picnic tables’ in the first group. This is what our main website will be about.

picnic tables
wood picnic tables
cedar picnic tables
recycled plastic picnic tables
folding picnic tables
concrete picnic tables
round picnic tables
octagon picnic tables

The remaining key phrases give us some ideas about what related websites we can build around our main site:

outdoor furniture
park benches
picnic benches
patio furniture
plastic lumber
picnic baskets
adirondack chairs
chaise lounge

Each of these phrases is a related topic to build another website. When you’ve built your main website, you just type a related phrase in the toolbar’s search box and click Ideas > MSRA Clustering again to get start it over for your next site. For example, one of the related topics for ‘picnic tables’ is ‘picnic baskets’:

And that’s not all! There is the right frame of the search results. When you click on the term in the left frame, the right frame shows websites related to the term. You can visit them for more information about your niche, to exchange links, submit articles and setup joint ventures with them.

It’s easy to organize your virtual real estate empire with the VRE Toolbar and Microsoft Search Result Clustering.

Now it’s your turn. Type your niche theme in the search box and click Ideas > MSRA Clustering. Take Action!

P.S. The term VRE Empire was coined by John Reese. You can read more about VRE Planning and Stategy in the May 2006 issue of The Reese Report.

43 Things is one of the most popular resources among the Virtual Real Estate Toolbar users.  It helps to find out what people want related to your keywords. It allows you  to search for goals documented by their users.

For instance, let’s go to the Niche Generator and pick a random niche theme (select Ideas > Niche Generator from the toolbar). I just did that, and  got Jacuzzi Hot Tubs.

Let’s look what people want related to jacuzzi hot tubs. I’m selecting the words Jacuzzi Hot Tubs, then  dragging and dropping them into the toolbar’s search box. Now I’m selecting Ideas> 43 Things (Goals).

If you used the 43 Things  tool from the toolbar before, you’ll notice that it works slightly differently  now. It doesn’t redirect you to the 43 Things website.  It now  gets the  goals list  from the source and displays  it on our  website instead. This allowed us to link each goal  right to the Keyword Research Tool, so that we could analize the goal phrase with one click.

Here are some examples of what I got for ‘jacuzzi hot tubs’:

buy a hot tub
own a hot tub
get a hot tub
build a hot tub
soak in a hot tub
get my hot tub working
get a hot tub for the basement
put a hot tub in my apartment
buy a hot tub/spa/jacuzzi
have a hot tub
relax in a hot tub, and even…
make love in a hot tub

This tool tells you what goals  people set. Now it’s your turn. Help them to achieve what they want with your network of niche websites.