As a domain investor, it is important that you maintain a high-quality domain portfolio. Domain names you own should be credible and of high value and demand. You should not be wasting time and money for domains that are just sitting on your portfolio with no potential buyers, and that are gaining no interest from your target market. You need to assess which of your assets are beneficial to you and which of them are not performing well.
In knowing this, you can take the next steps in further developing the value of your high-performing assets, and make decisions on the future of the low-performing ones. In short, you need to keep track of the performance of your domains. This will give you an idea of how to improve the quality of your domain which would in turn lead you to higher profit.
With the digital asset management (DAM) system, there are key performance indicators and metrics that will be able to help you evaluate your domains effectively. These are data-driven references from DAM that will further improve the quality and profitability of your domains, as well as guide you in the allocation of your resources to optimize your investment.
What is Digital Asset Management (DAM)?
Let us first briefly define DAM. Digital asset management or DAM is a system that is used to store, retrieve, organize, manage, and share content in a digital file format. It is a highly organized library of digital content arranged into categories.
Digital assets are not limited to audio, images, documents, and videos, but also include NFTs, cryptocurrencies, domain names, etc. These are digital files with an established ownership that needs usage rights or permission to use. Access to certain digital assets is modified for users within and outside the organization.
This system is often used by domain investors because it is time-saving, cost-efficient, provides security and control, ensures quality consistency, and is also utilized for asset evaluation.
In this article, we will discuss the last-mentioned benefit of the DAM system, which is asset evaluation. Through asset evaluation, it will help you gauge the performance of your domains. It is vital that you regularly measure the performance of your domain. This will help you with future decisions you have to make that would be advantageous in maximizing your return on investment (ROI). DAM
has key performance indicators or KPIs and metrics that would assist you in that. Let’s differentiate key performance indicators that are useful in tracking domain performance.
What Are the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Metrics in DAM?
Domain Usage
Through the DAM system, you can track the number of downloads, views, and shares your domain has accumulated. These metrics show not only how popular your domain is getting, but also how relevant and engaging it is to internal and external users.
By knowing how well your domain is being used or not, you will know what assets are still worth investing in and what assets need improvement. You can also classify asset usage by segments. You can identify them by other metrics, such as the channels used to access your domain, the average time clients spend on it, the device used, and the location of the user.
For example, if your domain is gaining more attention from mobile phone users, you will then know that your domain should be more user-friendly to mobile users. This will help you acquire additional users and most likely, your domain will be shared more. By measuring user adoption like this, you will be able to know more about your audience and what relates to them more. You will have data and references on what a specific group of users would be more likely to be interested in.
Domain Quality
Domain quality is what increases domain asset usage. This KPI is measured through several factors, such as the content, the brand, the metadata, the consistency, and the visibility. Content of the domain should be relevant to the domain name itself, or the brand it is carrying. This is to avoid misleading users and have it ruin your credibility.
The trust you gain by being consistent will produce more return visitors and therefore more potential income. Satisfaction with great user experience also promotes loyalty which would help build your domain’s reputation. Metadata should always be accurate and updated as well.
This means that they are appropriately tagged and that it would be easy for searchers to find your domain. Making it more visible and having more visitors creates domain authority. This may lead search engines to rank you higher in search engine results pages (SERP), and at times, even on social media sites.
But if you have domains that have few to zero searches, then you have to do some revisions on your tags. Or, you may also have to do some keyword and search engine optimization (SEO) work. The quality of your domain is key to increasing user engagement.
Domain ROI
Like any other investor, all domain investors want to have a high return on investment or ROI. It is the revenue versus the total cost from creating to managing to distributing the domain. You need to know if your asset is still profitable.
By knowing which of your domains are performing well in terms of profitability, you will be able to make adjustments to your priorities with regard to your assets. You will also be able to compare why a certain domain produced higher ROI than some of your other domains.
What made them more profitable? Are there changes you can make to your other assets that can make it as gainful as that money-making domain? On the other hand, if a domain is underperforming and has been costing you more time and money than what it’s worth, you will be able to make a decision on probably reallocating your resources to a more valuable asset.
Using digital asset management is also included in the cost of these domains. If your domains provide high ROI, then your DAM is also worth its value, and that you are effectively managing them.
Domain Development
The domain development should also be looked into. From the time it was created, a domain may have evolved through time. It may have been updated to several versions and it may also be nearing its expiration.
As discussed earlier in the domain asset usage KPI, you will know if your domain is still relevant and useful. Are there still interested parties for your domain? Are there still enough clicks and views on your domain?
Through the DAM system, you can trace the life cycle of your domain. By doing so, you can track changes made from its creation to its current status. You will be able to know what modifications made were effective and what further alterations need to be made.
On the contrary, you will also know what updates didn’t do anything at all for your domain, or what past versions were more profitable than their latest versions. You need to classify what changes were best for certain domains but were not beneficial to other domains.
Why Is It Important to Use KPIs and Metrics in DAM?
Digital asset management is a great system for domain investors. Aside from the fact that using the DAM system is cost-efficient, time-saving, secure, and ensures quality consistency. It is also an exceptional tool for evaluating your assets.
In other words, it helps you keep track of the performance of your domain. It gives you an insight into which of your domains are performing well and which are underperforming. It provides certain indicators that will help you measure the value of your assets.
By using these key performance indicators and metrics, you will be able to optimize your portfolio according to which domains currently hold more value. It assists you in gauging which domains are currently relevant in the continuously changing trend in the digital world.
By this, you can reallocate resources to more valuable assets and work on improving or discontinuing those that are not applicable to users anymore. You will be able to measure performance according to segments as well, like geolocation, device used, and channels used. With this knowledge, you can update your domains to be more relatable to a specific target.
To sum it up, these key performance indicators and metrics will help you in making decisions regarding your digital assets based on data derived from the DAM system. Domain usage, quality, ROI, and lifespan are just the basic indicators you should continuously observe in measuring the performance of your domain.
By using the DAM-driven data, you will not be making hasty judgments based on digital trends alone. You will have a reference on what changes you need to make. It will guide you in knowing what other options are there to have a more profitable domain. You will gain actionable insights that would benefit you in achieving your goals.
Keeping track of the performance of your domains will help you ensure that your domains are not only making money but are also making the most out of your investment, maximizing your return on investment (ROI).