Domain Parking: Tips & Tricks to Help You Earn More!

[smurge]

And so it begins!:wave:

My goal is to help people learn more about the parking industry and help them earn more money while spending less of it.

There are tons of tricks,tips,secrets that people use to make money in this business.

Let me say this, I will not discuss illegal or bad practices here so please don't ask.

What will I talk about? How to find domains,with traffic for cheap. Creating long term wealth for yourself and how to do it on a budget. I will answer questions and talk about what I know. If there is something I'm not familiar with or not knowledgeable about I will say so.

I am not here to start flaming wars with other domainers or parking gurus. Everyone has their own set of rules to making money. If you don't like mine, that's okay , but please share your ideas with everyone instead of bashing others.


Myths I want to debunk now:

#1. Parking is dead. (Far from it)

#2. You can't make money doing it. (B.S.- you can make a ton of money in it)

#3. Only the rich can do this. (This is not true!)

#4. Google doesn't like domain parking! (Yes they do, they make a ton of money off it. If they hated it so much why do they continue to support it?)



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So what's the point of all this? It's to help people with parking.

Please feel free to email,pm, or post your questions here and I will do my best to answer them all.


Thanks!

RJ

(P.S. I'm not the best writer so I apologize for any grammar or sentence structure mistakes in advance.)



--Answers to Questions I'm frequently asked!--

#1. What parking companies do I support/like?

These are the main ones I use and have had great success with. I base my success not only on the amount of money I make but also, customer service and transparency.

In alphabetical order:

- Bodis.com (Supports Foreign Traffic)(Zero Click Model Supported)
- Domainsponsor.com (Supports Foreign Traffic) (Zero Click Model Supported)
- Parkingcrew.com (Supports Foreign Traffic)
- Voodoo.com (Highest Payouts In The Industry)


#2. What tools do you use to help you evaluate domains?

Besides my own "TOOL", which I'm not here to promote I would suggest the following;

1. Push2check.com - Great resource site (I do not affiliated with them in anyway)

If we break down the tools I generally look at the following:

Traffic Sources: (Understand that no tool is 100% accurate but together you can get a great picture.)

1. Compete.com
2. Alexa.com
3. Quantcast.com
4. Verisign Labs: http://domainscore.verisignlabs.com/ ( WARNING: This tool to be used when you have mastered other tools. The information on this site is tricky but can be useful)

History of the domain:

1. Archive.org
2. who.is

Backlinks: ( There are plenty of tools for these but here are some sites I use)

1. Majesticseo.com
2. Google Backlinks
3. Yahoo Backlinks
4. DuckDuckGo.com
5. AHrefs.com: https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/brickbuyers.com
6. opensiteexplorer.org (Enjoy this one. It's the search engine for backlinks)



Keywords:

1. Google Keyword Tool


#3. Where can I get lists to analyze:

I have my own tools that do the work for me however here are a few places you can grab lists from to analyze:

1. Dynadot.com
2. Expireddomains.net - (good site)
3. Namejet.com
4. Snapnames.com
5. Godaddy.com
6. Freshdrop.net - (this covers a majority of the above & more)


#4. Do all your domains make money?:

NO!

I'll say it again : NO! I STILL PICK LOSERS!

In fact anyone who says they make money on every single purchase is lying. No one has a 100% success rate and you don't need to. What you need to do to win in this business is;

#1. Pick 51% winners
#2. Make sure to keep your costs low and make more then your spending.


Understand a single domain can make up the costs of lost ones. I picked a domain that makes me $15.00 a day in revenue. That means I'll make $450 a month with it and it's recouped $300 I've lost on previous domains.

Trust me, the sea of domains is massive and there are ton's of GOLDEN NUGGETS ready to be mined by all.


#5. How much do you spend on domains?:

I've spent anywhere from $.99 - $x,xxx! If I like a domain I will spend what I need, to get it as long as "I CAN STILL MAKE A PROFIT"! That's the key.

However, recently I am testing a new program which allows me to buy strictly "HANDREGS". YUP, Handregs! You would be surprised at how much stuff is just sitting on the ocean floor of domains that people think are garbage.


#6. Blacklisted Domains? Revenue Sucks! HELLLLLP!

This is something that's not addressed a lot and something everyone should be aware of: THE BLACK LIST!

This still happens to me this day. I'll buy a domain only to find out the previous owner got blacklisted from Google. This will affect your revenue greatly because Google will not allow Parking Companies to display the proper ad's on your site. If this happens you will need to go to a second feed like Yahoo! or Zeroclick model.

Common Terms for Blacklisted:

1. Faillisted
2. Blacklisted
3. Fail

Check the status of a domain when you park it and you'll see what I mean.

Edit:6/12/2012: Thank You www.ri.sch.edu.sg for this tool!

Originally Posted by www.ri.sch.edu.sg

One thing I can add to this thread is to check if the domain is blacklisted before you purchase them, simply point to:


https://api.bodis.com/domainclassification?domain=(Insert Domain Here)

Classification:

Primary = Google

Secondary = All others but Google (Faillisted,blacklisted, etc from google)

Hope that helps






#7. YUM! YUM! Domain Tasting


If you're not sure what this is it's when you buy a domain and test the traffic for a set amount of time and if your not happy with the traffic you can get a refund or partial refund of your handreg fee.

One thing I see all the time is: Domain tasting is dead! No it's not!

Yes; it might not be as prevalent as it once used to be but there are companies out there that still allow it. How do I know this? Because I do it.

#8. Can I promote or advertise my parked domains?


No, No, No, No, No, No,No, No, No, No, No, No,No, No, No, No, No, No,No, No, No, No, No, No!

If I wasn't clear let me repeat it; NO!


#9. What do all those backlinks mean from different sites?

(Thanks Martiinko for the info)

All those sites "backlink" scanners work by "downloading" the pages all over internet and then searching for URLs in it. Moving from one page to the other over these links. But...

1. There maybe a difference in last time they check this domain for backlinks.

2. There is definitely a huge difference in their databases of pages. That means if one site has smaller DB they don't probably have all the backlinks from as many pages as the other site.

3. Some backlinks are maybe updated, some maybe aren't. The process of "crawling" the web is very time consuming, so not all the backlinks can be verified every day.

To your other question. The links like you described are ok. If you park a domain all the requests go straight to the main page. But what is important is where is the link located. Is it a "spam in comments section", is it in the "blog post" or is maybe a "banner"?

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So I collected couple different pages (and I'm collecting even more) for you to check if the webpage/domain was ever parked before Some have form input some are just simple url + domain name.
I will make it into a simple web app, so you don't have to go to all of this pages when checking a domain name for parking history. Mostly screenshots.

Was this domain name parked before?
All of them are free. And I don't have any connection to them whatsoever.

Fun fact: This article got to 2th place in google search for Domain name parking history after 20 minutes.




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*** WORDS OF WISDOM ***

1. Never spend money you can't afford to lose! Consider every domain investment a loss till you make your money back because that's what it is. No one can tell me different on this and the reason why is you are "NEGATIVE" that amount of money till it's recouped.

2. When you buy a domain to park; look to get your initial investment back within 6-12 months.

 

[ResoluteDomains]

Yesterday revenue for 1 domain. five $63 clicks.

Very nice! May I ask what industry that domain is? Medical, Insurance, Sports, ..... etc ?

 

[Abdul Aziz R]

bought it after it got available.. have high backlinks

it is related to coupons

if it continue for a year, it will help me renew 10 domains...

I bought one yesterday, with huge back links... will see what will do


I used majesticseo to test the backlinks, referring domains, referring IPs

seems nice tool

 

[NameAgency]

Very nice! May I ask what industry that domain is? Medical, Insurance, Sports, ..... etc ?

It's about health. Traffic from US

 

[ResoluteDomains]

It's about health. Traffic from US

Very nice!

 

[Mr.KTM]

Good jobs,

 

[VinnyP]

Wow thanks i've been online since 2009 never understood how this works. Thanks now I have an little understanding of how it works!

 

[NirmalaDevi]

Thanks frnds for helping..

 

[MoneyLeadz]

Thanks for great info as it help for NewWebie...

 

[baseballworld]

Smurge always has lots of advice and tips to help get people going.

 

[MoneyLeadz]

Yep ur Right ....... Smurge if one of best Member of Forum...

 

[lyricsmaze]

Awesome tips really helpful

 

[Mr.KTM]

This good for me, thanks !

 

[Oldclassicalmusic]

Hi there,

I recently started with parking some of my inactive domain names. Eight domains are 'new', one domain I captured due to outdated contact information of the previous owner. I use Godaddy for one and Bodis for the rest.

After a couple of weeks, no earnings. This is due to little visitors (about 10 in total).

Any tips of what I can do? The domains are - in my opinion - reasonably simple and strong. But it has of course no organic search potential (they are parked) and there are no backlinks (and I am not planning to link to them myself, since the agreement states that is not permitted).

Thank you for any respons!
OCM

 

[mozzie13]

Hi all, I'm new here and I need some recommendations, which is the best parking site?

 

[MoneyLeadz]

Hi all, I'm new here and I need some recommendations, which is the best parking site?

Bodis is Best ..........other parking companys comparing some are best too as voodoo,Rockmedia,domainsponsor

 

[smurge]

Just checking in to say hi. Keep up the good fight and hope you all are prospering one way or another.

 

[JohnnyNight]

Disagree here about the best...

I go 100 percent with ParkingCrew.com

 

[vipanil7]

thanks you...........

 

[myilraj]

Hi Smurge,
I am New to domain parking.. I would like to know how to work with parking sites...
sir, just provide simple starting steps so that it can help me a lot.

 

[xeno11]

What would you say is is the most important info when valuating a domain?
There are many domains with a 12 month average search.
Domains with high cpc domasin with many backlinks aged domains etc.
I am inclined to choos domains with high search but they rarely have many backlinks or high cpc.
what is the order of importance ?

 

[manish raj singh]

how much maximum earning per month use parking service

 

[Bilal Sheikh]

how much maximum earning per month use parking service

It depend on many things about your domain popularity/rank, keywords, traffic's country where click from, etc.
But ideally if you have a good domain setup to parking then you may got $300 per month. No one can tell you how much you will earn exactly.

 

[veo]

Just checking in to say hi. Keep up the good fight and hope you all are prospering one way or another.

Hi Smurge, thank you so much for your sharing! I am a newbee in this industry, and I have bought around 40 domains in a month. Half of them are CC as I know Chinese guys like CC. Now I am trying to parked my domains, but I've got rejected by Domain Sponsor and Voodoo. Any suggestion on the approval or other well paid Parking site that do not have strict admission requirement?

Thank you in advance and other member's suggestions are also highly appreciated!

 

[Banezer]

Thank smurge you are really a great teacher. Your good and kindness (helping other) will always keep you above. Never be discourage. You still remain the best. How can i reach you?

 

[DKN]

Its Great bro..... Learned a lot from this thread and fellow members