discuss Lots of traffic across all platforms, but no selling!

[keywordrichdomains]

Some of my domains consistently get high traffic in all platforms, including Sedo, Dan and Bodis. I also experimented with various landing pages. I also tested with different price ranges, but not the sale! What might be the reason?

 

[lock]

I know my reason i don't even say they are for sale most of time let alone have a bin or make it that simple. The idea is the name lures but unless they can see it for sale with easy to see contact it will go unnoticed. I don't believe platforms offer more exposure and only the name itself is the lure. I believe it is all in how it is parked or hosted the lander and ease of contact.

 

[nebeleacandrei]

I'm in the same situation
I tried to sell even for 100$
Sold nothing,but lot of traffic
And when park, nobody looks at adds
I think need more time
Nowadays it's a huge financial crisis

 

[lock]

Many ad blockers are blocking parking as they just grab snippets to block from sites so perhaps it loads and not seen.

 

[lock]

Without knowing any reasons i can say a black hat technique is to send low tier traffic in order to stimulate search engine traffic which leads to high tier over a period. Not saying these brands use any black hat or any idea of how they operate but there is talk of low tier hits on parking in general.

 

[NYJimbo]

Some of my domains consistently get high traffic in all platforms, including Sedo, Dan and Bodis. I also experimented with various landing pages. I also tested with different price ranges, but not the sale! What might be the reason?

Its very important to understand what that traffic is. For example I have a domain BeadedBear.com, which gets hundreds of visits a month. 95% of it is garbage bots. The only way I can tell is that I have Google Analytics (GA, not the new and inferior G4) and it lets me see more info on visitors. Your domains might not be selling for many reasons, but "traffic" is NOT a good way to tell if you have a good name unless you can analyze that traffic.

 

[Charybdis]

Some of my domains consistently get high traffic in all platforms, including Sedo, Dan and Bodis. I also experimented with various landing pages. I also tested with different price ranges, but not the sale! What might be the reason?

High traffic doesn't correlate with sales, according to the data analytics of Squadhelp.

Check out this blog post: https://www.squadhelp.com/blog/a-new-framework-to-measure-domain-name-interest/

They found a pattern, if the same user visits the same domain landing page 2 or more times, the STR will increase. If the same user visits the same landing page 3 or more times, or 4 or more times, the STR will increase significantly.

If if there are multiple different users who visit the same domain name landing page 2, 3, 4 or more times, the STR will be even higher.

So multiple visits by the same user or users for the same domain is the best indicator of interest.

I think it's logical. If you want to purchase a domain name for $2000+, you won't purchase it right away. You will think about that and visit the landing page multiple times.

In my Squadhelp dashboard I can filter these domains which received 2+ visits from the same user so I know which domains get high interest.

 

[keywordrichdomains]

High traffic doesn't correlate with sales, according to the data analytics of Squadhelp.

Check out this blog post: https://www.squadhelp.com/blog/a-new-framework-to-measure-domain-name-interest/

They found a pattern, if the same user visits the same domain landing page 2 or more times, the STR will increase. If the same user visits the same landing page 3 or more times, or 4 or more times, the STR will increase significantly.

If if there are multiple different users who visit the same domain name landing page 2, 3, 4 or more times, the STR will be even higher.

So multiple visits by the same user or users for the same domain is the best indicator of interest.

I think it's logical. If you want to purchase a domain name for $2000+, you won't purchase it right away. You will think about that and visit the landing page multiple times.

In my Squadhelp dashboard I can filter these domains which received 2+ visits from the same user so I know which domains get high interest.

Thank you @Charybdis. Very valuable information!

 

[UncleBrand]

this traffic is not type-in traffic or coming from other website

this is bot traffic,
i had a few domains at sedo who had these huge numbers
i created a small website with wordpress to test them

my results, the real traffic was 5% or less than the numbers shown at sedo
and this was useless traffic, not traffic coming from search engines

my guess is the seo optimization on these marketplace create some traffic from inside the marketplace

and i sold one of these domain for 1000€ at sedo, which is around the value of the domain.
yes people will buy domains if they think it can bring them traffic
lots of seo agencies buy domains for traffic and backlinks

 

[AEProgram]

post some of the names

 

[Josytal]

human traffic or bot traffic?
two different things.

 

[biggie]

Hi

it all depends on the "actual domains" in question.

from viewing some of my past sales, majority were domains that didn't get a lot of daily visitors.

good traffic on good domains, with consistent CTR/EPC will cost more, so they tend to sell less frequently

imo...

 

[Soofi]

Mostly BOT traffic and thats usually garbage traffic. Test your domains on Bodis parking!

 

[Bean]

I have a domain that receives 3,000 - 6,000 visits a month makes about $35 a year from parking but has never received an offer.
It could be that your domains used to be blogs or websites and are still being visited by old users. Regular users might not necessarily be interested in buying the domain.
I have domain names that I used on Blogger that still get visits months after I disconnected them from the blogs.

 

[Fayaz Ahmed]

People coming to your domain, assuming they are people and not bots, may not be interested in buying the name at all. Perhaps there were other bookmarked or back-linked content there previously, or perhaps the have some other interests.

Sometimes type in traffic can be significant as well. There are almost 8 Billion people in this planet. Even if a few people have just one reason to type your domain name, then you'll still get a lot of traffic. Doesn't necessarily mean that will convert to sales.

However, if the traffic is legit and you can figure out why they are coming, then there are always ways to make some money out of that.

Do some A/B testing with different external destinations, figure out what they are after.

 

[eyedomainous]

Some of my domains consistently get high traffic in all platforms, including Sedo, Dan and Bodis. I also experimented with various landing pages. I also tested with different price ranges, but not the sale! What might be the reason?

Let's be honest. The domain sales platforms really suck!
Anyone who can list millions of domains will sell 1 or 2%, by accident, without doing anything.

Over the years, I've mostly made a living from my domains, without a single sale on a platform.
All of my sales came from 'landing page' channels where I curate, and create, contextual content.

This approach gets the domain in search, which markets the channel to a whole market. Instead of just type-ins, and other incidentals. The viewing audience is still small, but most are not shopping for a domain, just interested in the topic. And videos are way more effective at stimulating a desire than lists and static landers.

At this point, I'll likely pull all my domains off platforms and (TV) network my domains, as I also found the end user is not threatened by a static page domain name that will likely never find a buyer... because the platforms really suck at outreach, then with a medium that is least effective at selling.

 

[scithe]

Let's be honest. The domain sales platforms really suck!
Anyone who can list millions of domains will sell 1 or 2%, by accident, without doing anything.

Over the years, I've mostly made a living from my domains, without a single sale on a platform.
All of my sales came from 'landing page' channels where I curate, and create, contextual content.

This approach gets the domain in search, which markets the channel to a whole market. Instead of just type-ins, and other incidentals. The viewing audience is still small, but most are not shopping for a domain, just interested in the topic. And videos are way more effective at stimulating a desire than lists and static landers.

At this point, I'll likely pull all my domains off platforms and (TV) network my domains, as I also found the end user is not threatened by a static page domain name that will likely never find a buyer... because the platforms really suck at outreach, then with a medium that is least effective at selling.

So if I understand correctly, you're creating microblogs/5-10 page websites on all of your domains and monetizing them while leaving a small link somewhere on the pages to sell the domain/website to an interested party?

 

[Fayaz Ahmed]

So if I understand correctly, you're creating microblogs/5-10 page websites on all of your domains and monetizing them while leaving a small link somewhere on the pages to sell the domain/website to an interested party?

IMHO, monitizing with microblogs is a great way to keep the renewal costs in check & earn some money at the same time, if:

1. The content is great and no black hat practice is done.
2. If the cost of development & content creation still maintains a healthy ROI.

Having said that, taking the domain out of syndication platforms like Afternic & SEDO is not necessary. You'll of course not use their landing page service, but listing there can only increase the chance of sell.

 

[eyedomainous]

So if I understand correctly, you're creating microblogs/5-10 page websites on all of your domains and monetizing them while leaving a small link somewhere on the pages to sell the domain/website to an interested party?

Not microblogs, but (one page) TV channels, networked together. Some are multimedia slideshows, but most are video playlist TV channels, where each video is clickable / monetizable.

Because the playlist is an embed, and 'Domain For Sale' pages don't rank well in search, I produce in-stream promos for domains, that link directly to their (Dan) sales lander, or my domain sales site.

 

[StartupNames]

Same problem. Bot traffic!

 

[AEProgram]

if you have landers that show price, platforms should add the option to only show if the users passes captcha. Only those are valid buyers. Most bot operators won't bother trying to solve captchas for landers.

Most traffic to parked pages is not from potential buyers. The traffic stats are misleading for people that don't know.

 

[Mkt Sales Leads]

Not microblogs, but (one page) TV channels, networked together. Some are multimedia slideshows, but most are video playlist TV channels, where each video is clickable / monetizable.

Because the playlist is an embed, and 'Domain For Sale' pages don't rank well in search, I produce in-stream promos for domains, that link directly to their (Dan) sales lander, or my domain sales site.

Why aren't most domainers using this approach then?

 

[NYJimbo]

Why aren't most domainers using this approach then?

If it were easy and really worked, they would. Microblogging dozens or hundreds of domains is exhausting. Unless you hit on something really popular, you can be grinding at this for years and never make good money.

 

[eyedomainous]

Why aren't most domainers using this approach then?

While its a 'video-first' world today -with video accounting for ~83% of internet traffic, and even traditional TV broadcasters are transitioning to all digital Connected TV, domaining is as it was 20 years ago -in the print based 'desktop publishing' era. Which is o'k for a name product, but its missing the big picture space.

Of course, folks have are other reasons... so perhaps its a question for them.

 

[Mkt Sales Leads]

If it were easy and really worked, they would. Microblogging dozens or hundreds of domains is exhausting. Unless you hit on something really popular, you can be grinding at this for years and never make good money.

There are those who believe parking /building out sites is the way forward and feel domainers are missing a trick by not adopting these approaches.