handy

OK, I'm new at this, but got some awesome advice on my first post on this site the other day. I started by just buying about 20 Domains (I know, I know!), parked them at Sedo, now I'm wondering how to promote them. I don't know much about websites, but I buy and sell real estate privately through a 'website-in-a-box' from InetUSA that I've used for that business for a year (I can put on forms, list property for sale with photos, etc.).

Since mine is a 'template website,' I have no control over its internal design and code, I can't put ads on my pages myself. But I've discovered that I can create blank pages on my site--see www.npgmn..com for an example of one, it's not very fancy, but it's all I'm capable of--and would like to create a blank page using this system that will promote my newly-purchased domains, just put them on a blank page with some keywords and wait for the web to somehow connect search traffic to them...? Does this even make sense or seem like a reasonable way to proceed? Please be nice to me, I'm just starting out here and trying to find my way. Thank you.

shockie

unfortunately, domaining is not as easy as media may portray.

first thing you will realize is that you will get very little traffic going to that blank page. this means that even less will go to those parked domains, and even fewer will click anything (and generate you revenue).

in general, domains are parked when they inherently get traffic by themselves. the usual way this works is if the domain is something people will type in when they're looking for something (as opposed to using a search engine), and the second is if the domain used to have a website on it, in which case it gets residual traffic.

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netmeg

Many if not most parking companies wouldn't allow that kind of traffic anyway, the way I understand it.

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handy

Hmmm, that doesn't sound too hopeful. What if I created a minisite there (been reading about them on another forum)? I was a travel writer for years, I have plenty of travel content I could put on there, and/or buy research papers from students and put them up. I know the content of my template website-in-a-box gets out on the web cos I Google text from my real estate postings sometimes and it comes right up. Or am I still limited by my lack of ability to put my own click through ads on there? Maybe there's a way to put my own click through ads on my blank-template pages?

geb9696

Handy,
If you have domain names that have specific keywords then putting a ton of content on the sites could possibly get more traffic if you market it right. The problem? It takes time to build up links and get visitors. When you develop your click through rate is most likely going to be much lower then a parked page. Getting ads displayed is the easy part. You can sign up for a Google Adsense account and be approved within a few days. Driving traffic to the sites is the hard part. I would suggest trying to have educational content related to the topic of your domain. This way you can put links on Wikipedia along with submitting articles to article directories to build links. Getting indexed in Google is only half the battle.

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