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Old 11-03-2006, 08:48 PM   · #1
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Lightbulb New Parking Program - By Domainers for Domainers

Recently I have been fed up with the low paying parking sponsors such as Sedo and the rest that just lie to us and drop our revenue day by day blaming it on advertiser bids. Some parking sponsors close your account when you are making too much, others don't account for more than half of your traffic or don't have any support team or a support team of 1 person - the owner.

It is TIME FOR A CHANGE. I am going to invest this month's and next month's revenue from my parked domains to create a domaing parking program with suggestions, advice, and ideas by domainers for domainers. When is the last time you seen decent templates that don't look like they were made in 1995 - take DomainSponsor for example. Yes, DomainSponsor may have nice payouts, but CTR will not be as nice as a domain with RevenueDirect, will it? But what about RevenueDirect? Well pay is not great there as it is on DomainSponsor. What about the nice tools with Sedopro and others? Well, it is time to combine all of that to make 1 great service, that has great templates, great payouts, and great tools. And I will make that happen. I will be hiring a template designer to make the best templates, so that they can have the BEST possible CTR. With this parking program I promise to all fellow domainers, there will be no games, no lies, and no excuses.

I am asking other fellow Namepros members to contribute their suggestions/advice for this parking program that they'd like to see. Do you have a unique idea that you always wished Sedopro, or DomainSponsor, or whoever had? Well it is time to contribue that idea below, and I will do everything possible to contribute it in one way or another.

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Old 11-03-2006, 09:18 PM   · #2
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Old 11-03-2006, 09:30 PM   · #3
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that is an excellent idea! I think more people, who are great domainers () should donate their revenue from this month and next month (doesn't include me since i'm a noob with no revenue ). Can't wait to see the end result!
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I will be calling my design firm to start on the design this Monday. I am going to come up with a name for this parking sponsor this following week and file for a DBA.

The thing is to put all other parking sponsors completely to sleep. This has to completely revolutionize domain parking. I already have a few fantastic ideas in mind! If you have any ideas, please post.
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Old 11-03-2006, 09:49 PM   · #5
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1) sharp clean looking graphic templates

2) ability to set your own title and meta tags

3)ability to set your own email address or link back to your own site for sales

4)referral program

these are the basics I look for as it puts all sales into my own hands and helps with good search engine placement, parked currently has these features and works pretty well for most of my domains, use all of the above features like parked does and throw in sedos public traffic stats and you have a solid start, as I myself was considering doing something like this, unfortunately I got way too much on the table at the moment, I'll keep my eye on your progress, good luck

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Old 11-03-2006, 09:55 PM   · #6
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Truly amazing, cfguru!

I'll look forward to this
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Old 11-03-2006, 09:55 PM   · #7
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[QUOTE=cfguru360]I will be calling my design firm to start on the design this Monday. I am going to come up with a name for this parking sponsor this following week and file for a DBA.

The thing is to put all other parking sponsors completely to sleep. This has to completely revolutionize domain parking. I already have a few fantastic ideas in mind! If you have any ideas, please post.[/QUOyhooTE]

I agree with your 100% that something must be done.

The problem is that many people has tried to do this and no one has succeeded because of one or more of the following reasons:

1. Don't have high total traffic figure to get the maximum revenue share rate from goog or yahoo like DS or Sedo etc.

2. Lose motivation after trying for a while.

3. Don't follow the google or yahoo TOS and get banned and shut down.

4. Sign up bad members who send fake traffic and get the entire program earnings come down or program shuts down due to bad traffic.

5. Become too greedy and lose the trust of the domainers just like other ppc companies.

6. Program is never designed to be unique, and better than other ppc companies.

I think you really need to implement great checks and balances in order to succeed.

Just my 2 cents......

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Old 11-03-2006, 09:56 PM   · #8
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Great idea. Parked pages should have a bookmark this page button.

Make it a co-op
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Old 11-03-2006, 10:39 PM   · #9
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Great idea. Parked pages should have a bookmark this page button.

Make it a co-op




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Old 11-03-2006, 10:41 PM   · #10
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have a micro site option with ability to import articles etc . . .
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i wouldn't use googles advertising on the landing pages...Yahoo - adbrite - anything but google,,,they change thier TOS every week,and it would be PITA to keep up with imo,,A parking service with more flexability ,Be able to put your parked names in a signiture on a forum,Advertisers want conversions..understandable...But they also want visits that will lead to conversions,Pure typin traffic is the strangle hold of the domain name parking industry imo.....You can advertise a website with adsense on it on a forum..why not a parked domain name? I agree with the above,allow monitization via meta tags and ect,,nice page layouts,,nice headers,,content updates,,,instead of the same old content all the time...good luck with your project.
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I'd like to see an option to place real affiliate product links on my parked page. For example, I have a domain that brings in 300-400 uniques per month. People that type in this domain are 100% looking for bicycle trailers. Almost 50% of the people who come to my Sedo parked page click on an advertiser, on average. This action of course brings them to an advertisers website that sells the product or service that they are most likely interested in. If my Sedo parked page had picture links of actual products that are for sale, then many individuals would probably click those links and perhaps make a purchase. If only 1% of the people who visited my particular page were to buy bicycle trailers or accessories through my parked page, then I (and the parking service) would make considerably more than if the page only offered PPC ads.

If a parking service split the PPC with me AND helped me to set up affiliate product links on my parked page, it could be very lucrative for both parties. Plus, every affiliate that was found for me would go into a growing database of affiliate companies for the next person who happens to have a domain that pulls in similar traffic.

This would be awesome for domainers that don't want to go through the hassle of seeking out vendors, signing up for several affiliate programs, designing/coding a page, setting up each product link, paying for hosting, and then waiting to see which vendors will rip them off when the time comes to collect. You could have one employee dedicated to the task of setting up affiliate accounts with many different companies. You could also ask domain owners to provide info on affiliates that they might like to use on their parked page.

Just an idea that I think would be useful. The logistics may not be ideal to implement such a concept. Good luck! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
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Old 11-04-2006, 05:05 AM   · #13
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if you have a design firm, may be make the parking look more like a mini-site.
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Old 11-04-2006, 05:47 AM   · #14
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I fully agree with Briman here. Incorporating affiliate links as well is a tremendous opportunity to create better revenues.
But for this certain agreements have to be arranged with the advertisers.

Also something i would like to mention is the question what has been on my mind for a long time.
Why can't we design our own templates? Why do we have to have limited choices?

If there are certain guidelines for the template for incorporating the ad feeds then let these be known and domainers and customize their own parking pages.
With this type of implementation pages would stop looking as the parking pages you see today.

These pages can be unique in it's kind and this type of implementation can be a refreshing new way of parking monetization.

These uniform - limited options in design need to be stopped and domainers - owners of parking pages in general need to have the abilty to have more control/input concerning the look of their pages.

Template options implemented today by ALL companies is like trying to do a sales pitch with only 5 words to your disposal while there is a whole universe of variety out there to get your point across.

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hey cfguru360,

Me and my partner have been working on an idea simular to yours for just over a month. Its something completely different than the normal parking and I believe exactly what your looking to do. If your interested in speaking about investing feel free to pm me. I can give you a brief run down of what were doing and whats already been done.

@briman1970: I have felt the same way, this was one of the first features on my list.

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I wish you all the best cfguru.

Not being the best with ideas, I am so glad that someone is going to give it go.

With ref to possiblity of passing some earnings from parking. I will help out if I can, but I guess this is something that can be sorted out further down the line.

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This is an excellent idea cfguru - I obviously have no idea what your budget is but I would imagine it would be very expensive to get it going.

There have been some excellent points mentioned here already : ie

"The ability to set your own Page title and meta tags"

" domainers and customize their own parking pages.
With this type of implementation pages would stop looking as the parking pages you see today"

These are two very important ones, one of which I have already spoke to sedo and namedrive but neither has bothered to try and implement it ???

I think one of the biggest things that 99% of parking companies seem to do a piss poor job at is how these parking pages get indexed by the search engines so poorly (This "may" be a deliberate move on the part of the search engines ???).

I have made a "quick" attempt to make my own parking page for a couple of my domains (just one page) - The result was one of them ended up number 5 in Google for the three keywords in my domain -

dubai luxury property and the other is number 27 in google for the two keywords which are - dubai timeshares (out of 175,000 results)

This page is still there and can be seen at dubaitimeshares_c o m

I fail to see why parking pages do so poorly with search engines (unless as stated it is deliberate).

I think with self customisable page titles - meta tags and an area where you can put in some related keyword rich text far better results would be achieved.

Can you imagine how much more everyone would be making if we could get our parked pages within the first 100 results of a search.

why do the direct type in names have to be the only ones generating the majority of clicks ?

This idea of your sounds great and I will be following this thread to see how you get on with it, best of luck





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Brilliant cfguru!

If domain sales are supported (and I really hope they will be) then may I suggest that you make contact with advertising and marketing companies! These are tomorrows big buyers for domains as the advertising money moves away from traditional media to the internet.

Encourage these 'ideas people' to check domain names, see if they have clients that could utilize the domains effectively. This is currently a major gap, in fact void that exists in the current scheme of things.

Please post here regularly to let us all know how things progress.

I think we all wish you all success.
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A couple more suggestions so that genuine traffic from domainers don't suffer:

1. Restrict the unknown (less known extensions and countries) from your program to avoid FRAUD.

2. Restrict traffic from well know fraudulent countries.

3. Do NOT offer referral system......Why reduce payment for domainers. If you really offer referral system, restrict it to 10% of "First 3 months" of revenue just like hitfarm does.

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I don't like parked pages in Search Engine results....when im searching I want content and the best content. I do not want to get directed to parked pages.



True - it would be a pain in the ass if there were dozens of parking pages in the top results - still I think there is room for improvement in that area to generate extra income.

I suspect that the search engines probably put some sort of block on known parked pages so they rank very low in the results.

MSN seems to drop most of the parked pages after a week or two - not all ...but most


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I still think the advertising guide lines play a big roll.... typin traffic only is a load of crap....people should be able to advertise thier parked domain name via a link in thier forum sig imo....and other ways aswell.
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