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.

 

[smurge]

Look, I need some info (I do it for learning purposes) , for example domain (already registered) dgch888 dot com according to majestic.com has stats like this:

External Backlinks 10,289,156 Referring Domains 14,965 Referring IPs 8,969 Referring Subnets 5,063
Educational Ref. Backlinks 1,483 Governmental Ref. Backlinks 10,803 Educational Ref. Domains 47
Governmental Ref. Domains 99 Indexed URLs 286,143 Position in Majestic Million 35,972
Could be this domain good for parking?

Has a lot of pretty numbers but that doesn't mean it's good.

Think of backlinks, referring ip's, etc, like friends referring something to you. I'll provide an example:

Friend A:

He's notorious for asking you for $5 and tells you hell pay you back next week. Next week comes and he tells you he'll pay you back the next week. This friend is a pain in the butt and one I would not trust. Much like some of the websites that are out there. Lot of websites will send you traffic but chances are they are bot's because they come from "Un-trusted" sites.

Friend B:

He has his stuff together. Dresses on point, never borrows money, has everything going for him. This would be considered a good backlink.

So your goal is to find the good friend online. Just because you have 10,000,000 friends doesn't mean they are all good links

 

[xarunasx]

Has a lot of pretty numbers but that doesn't mean it's good.

Think of backlinks, referring ip's, etc, like friends referring something to you. I'll provide an example:

Friend A:

He's notorious for asking you for $5 and tells you hell pay you back next week. Next week comes and he tells you he'll pay you back the next week. This friend is a pain in the butt and one I would not trust. Much like some of the websites that are out there. Lot of websites will send you traffic but chances are they are bot's because they come from "Un-trusted" sites.

Friend B:

He has his stuff together. Dresses on point, never borrows money, has everything going for him. This would be considered a good backlink.

So your goal is to find the good friend online. Just because you have 10,000,000 friends doesn't mean they are all good links

Thank you! Maybe you know where I can find coaching related to parking or who can teach domain parking tips?

 

[Kachi]

Has a lot of pretty numbers but that doesn't mean it's good.

Think of backlinks, referring ip's, etc, like friends referring something to you. I'll provide an example:

Friend A:

He's notorious for asking you for $5 and tells you hell pay you back next week. Next week comes and he tells you he'll pay you back the next week. This friend is a pain in the butt and one I would not trust. Much like some of the websites that are out there. Lot of websites will send you traffic but chances are they are bot's because they come from "Un-trusted" sites.

Friend B:

He has his stuff together. Dresses on point, never borrows money, has everything going for him. This would be considered a good backlink.

So your goal is to find the good friend online. Just because you have 10,000,000 friends doesn't mean they are all good links

I can't believe you abandoned the games thread

 

[pablohc86]

I can't believe you abandoned the games thread

the game is not abandoned, reach him via PM.

 

[Iyke]

hi smurge you are just awsome.
1) @smurge do you have a blog?
2) which parking company pays the most for type in traffic.Thanks

 

[smurge]

hi smurge you are just awsome.
1) @smurge do you have a blog?
2) which parking company pays the most for type in traffic.Thanks

Thank you for the kind words.

I do not have a blog but have been considering one. The highest click I ever received was via Parkincrew.com . However, I have had big clicks on Voodoo and Bodis. I would test a few sties out and see what works for you.

 

[smurge]

the game is not abandoned, reach him via PM.

I did not abandon it. I'm currently slammed with a ton of work and having issues keeping up with it. After I clear these projects off my plate I will begin to do it again. No worries, it will return better than before.

 

[Kachi]

I did not abandon it. I'm currently slammed with a ton of work and having issues keeping up with it. After I clear these projects off my plate I will begin to do it again. No worries, it will return better than before.

Okay do you have traffic domains for sale?

 

[Iyke]

@smurge Thanks for the heads up, p.s when monetized(I.e the blog) could bring in at least $5000 monthly for somrone like you.cheers

 

[smurge]

@smurge Thanks for the heads up, p.s when monetized(I.e the blog) could bring in at least $5000 monthly for somrone like you.cheers

Honestly, I have no idea how to go about setting one up or where to begin. Any advice?

 

[Kachi]

Honestly, I have no idea how to go about setting one up or where to begin. Any advice?

Do you have traffic domains for sale. No response to my Skype messages

 

[smurge]

Do you have traffic domains for sale. No response to my Skype messages

At the moment I do not. I probably need to change my message.

Sorry and thanks for reminding me.

 

[xarunasx]

At the moment I do not. I probably need to change my message.

Sorry and thanks for reminding me.

Maybe do you know who are offering coaching related to parking? Thank you!

 

[Iyke]

@smurge follow the link you'll find it easy to set up site without any coding required, and if you're interested an easy way to make money using Clickbank.i've learned alot from you just reading your posts, i'm sure a site would be a big platform for you to teach and earn money with it. p.s am I allowed to post links? will pm u also.Cheers

 

[Iyke]

@smurge did you get the link?

 

[smurge]

@smurge did you get the link?

No, I didn't . Feel free to p.m. me it

 

[Casey L]

does anyone recommend a marketplace to find domains with traffic?
Also how possible is it to see revenue from a mini-site in 2015 for my better domain(s)?
thanks

 

[Emanuel77]

Thanks @smurge
amazing post and quality answers

 

[gaap]

Honestly, I have no idea how to go about setting one up or where to begin. Any advice?

Im a webdesigner/developer. I have some great ideas on how to work this out for you. You help me i help you

 

[satyadeep singh]

No, I didn't . Feel free to p.m. me it

Hi,
I am new in this industry, how can i set up landing page to sell my domain name?

 

[SiteMachine]

Thanks for a great thread. I just wrote a program today to check backlinks on all tomorrow's expiring domain names and sort them and it was very illuminating (Still only about 20% done though as I finished late). I had been up until now expanding my portfolio of new TLD names that were a bargain (got a lot on black friday/cyber monday) and trying to hop on deals because I plan to build those sites up, but this has me considering investing in some parked domains eventually. I don't think I have the money to jump right in just yet (.coms are more expensive) so in the meantime this program will be collecting data and I will try to stay on top of it. I might grab some of the top ones with several thousand backlinks if I can tomorrow when they drop, but I'm not 100% sure I'm ready yet. If anyone else is interested I would be happy to discuss more. In the meantime I will be rereading the pages of this thread and seeing if I missed anything.

 

[codersabir]

Hi @smurge newbie here...I have a question. Some threads back someone asked this question already. What I can see that sites like expireddomains.net update a huge list of expired domains each night. Now do you really check each and every domains for their good backlinks? I mean how do you do it?..using softwares?...Thanks in advance.....Keep the good work up..

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

I can understand how someone might be skeptical about this and you should be as well. However, that being said , it doesn't mean that all big traffic domains are bad.

When I look at big traffic domains that an individual is selling, I have a standard process that I use.(Yes it can be modified)

#1. Why the person is selling? If I see things like; " Need to sell these quick, will cut deal" , it throws up a red flag instantly.

If the domain is generating good revenue then I.M.O. there is no need to sell it quickly. If it's truly a good domain, with legit traffic, someone who has the money will buy it instantly or quickly without you stating it.

#2. After I read why they are selling it I want to see at least 60-90 days worth of history. Now when I say this I don't mean a screen shot of the overall revenue but a 60-90 day, day to day look at it. This helps me see what the traffic looks like each day and what the conversion rate is.

#3. Ask Questions and Get The Facts! If you want more information ask questions. It's your money and you have the right to ask where it's going. If someone is dodging your questions or being extremely vague with their responses,this might be a bad sign.

Find out what you need to know to make you feel comfortable about purchasing it.

@smurge, I want to add some services in your question #2 What tools do you use to help you evaluate domains?
Backlinks: 7. SiteExplorer.info
Keywords: Not Only Google Keyword Tool. Early I used this tools for keywords till it was free for all. Then Google has tranformed keyword tool in Keyword Planner Tool which is a part of their Google Adwords. That get a number of searches of specific keyword(s), you must be registered in Google Adwords. But not only all this comfortable and because are other services like PageRank.net which offers free tool High Paying Keywords http://www.pagerank.net/high-paying-keywords/
And regarding History of domain:
3. DomainTools http://whois.domaintools.com/ Entering domain there you can view not only WHOIS of domain but and Screenshots History although screenshots you can view at Screenshots.com

 

[ChanHol]

Noob question here: is there any downside to signing up with a parking company and jumping right in with the domains I already own?
I own about 50 domains and have never done anything with them. Most have been owned for 15 years. I recently changed registrars, and I noticed that a few had weird nameservers, and when I typed the domain names into a browser, I saw that ads were being displayed--meaning that the registrar or hosting company was earning revenue off of some of them.

 

[decades80]

Noob question here: is there any downside to signing up with a parking company and jumping right in with the domains I already own?
I own about 50 domains and have never done anything with them. Most have been owned for 15 years. I recently changed registrars, and I noticed that a few had weird nameservers, and when I typed the domain names into a browser, I saw that ads were being displayed--meaning that the registrar or hosting company was earning revenue off of some of them.

Just sign up for Parkingcrew.com account or Voodoo account and start making money. If you own domains for 15 years there is a big chance they receive Type in traffic. So actually there is no downside of domains being parked, you can set for sale link at the top too.