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

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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.
 
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Do you guys experience any revenue drop in almost all parking services in these last 3 months? ( G feeds?)
I notice big drop regardless of parking company.

Is it me alone or common to all?

Yep, it's been a disaster since mid-November. They changed something in their algorithms, that's for sure. What exactly was changed is not clear, but Donny mentioned they dumped the low mobile traffic. However, this sort of traffic is only a few % and the revenue drops are like 30 - 50%, so there is something more to it.

Did you try DNS too ?
 
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How much time does it take to actually see some revenue coming in? With around 50 domains.

Edit: With parkingcrew
 
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Usually if there's traffic to the name it will show right away. But it can take up to 3 months in some cases for it to show accurate numbers.
 
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Do anybody have any update / improvements to share?

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Do you guys experience any revenue drop in almost all parking services in these last 3 months? ( G feeds?)
I notice big drop regardless of parking company.

Is it me alone or common to all?
 
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Yep, it's been a disaster since mid-November. They changed something in their algorithms, that's for sure. What exactly was changed is not clear, but Donny mentioned they dumped the low mobile traffic. However, this sort of traffic is only a few % and the revenue drops are like 30 - 50%, so there is something more to it.

Did you try DNS too ?

I agree. March was a disaster. Like someone pulled the plug.
 
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I agree. March was a disaster. Like someone pulled the plug.
i agree too, in March i've a big drop in RPC on all the parking platform especially for domains with RPC under the 1$
 
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Although a tough period, thanks a lot for all the parking info smurge!
 
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I lost 1/3 % of parking revenue in march. traffic also terribly low.
 
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Just yesterday I received $2.5 click in DNS.
 
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Got $2 click on sedo! But overall decline in feb, mar, april
 
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can you still hand-register good domains with backlink traffic? What would the monthly revenue for a good(non-typo) hand-reg be?

I bought a couple of hand-reg names recently just to test. With a $0.99 coupon most should be profitable but revenue is not exactly exciting. The best name might make $50/year. Another does $20/year. Most will be less than $10/year.

Do i need to buy from auctions to get better results?

How many visits/month should i aim for?
 
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can you still hand-register good domains with backlink traffic? What would the monthly revenue for a good(non-typo) hand-reg be?

I bought a couple of hand-reg names recently just to test. With a $0.99 coupon most should be profitable but revenue is not exactly exciting. The best name might make $50/year. Another does $20/year. Most will be less than $10/year.

Do i need to buy from auctions to get better results?

How many visits/month should i aim for?

you *can* find good domains dropped that no-one has tried to claim which can bring you even $x,xxx / year

it's just needs *a lot* of work, persistence, patience, common sense and be open-minded and not sticking to cliches (especially those that roam the forum)

Visits / month are irrelevant. I once got a domain with a coupon that all it earned was one visitor that did 3 clicks that earned me something like $10+ click (it was long ago and don't remember the exact amount)

my opinion would be to spend some coupon money doing research and begin to recognise patterns that help in parking domains. Only then start buying domains for real (either in auctions / backordering, etc.)
 
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so if traffic is irrelevant High PPC is what one should look for?

what metrics do you guys use? Services/data that i found useful:

domainscope.com
alexa.com
expireddomains.net
openlinkprofiler.org
archive.org
screenshots.com
search.yahoo.com

So far i lack the experience/skill to do something with that but i think these are all quite helpful data sources.
 
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hi smurge,

if i buy a Typos domain which is related to one of high traffic web, do you think i still can earn some money if i parked on Sedo?
if so, what criteria should i look for on this site, for example
- monthly visitor visit?
- alexa ranking?
-backlink ?
etc

thanks
 
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hi smurge,

if i buy a Typos domain which is related to one of high traffic web, do you think i still can earn some money if i parked on Sedo?
if so, what criteria should i look for on this site, for example
- monthly visitor visit?
- alexa ranking?
-backlink ?
etc

thanks

Zero money. Because users do not click on ads.

I have about 20 typo domains of about 20 original sites (1M->20M visitors each site each month).

Visitors of each typo domains about 200 each month (following Sedo stats. If parking at Parkingcrew about 2000 each month)
Total earning money with Sedo is about $1 each month. lol
 
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one of my typo domain

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Hey so, i have a question. I have been buying a specific type of domains and just trying to park and see which will pay the best and then develop. Now, i have some domains that have supposed really high CPC but even though i get traffic, organic searched from google and type-in, it still will only be a few $ rather than much higher as said on sites with the top paying, relevant keywords etc. structuredsettlementcompanies.us for example, i mean im happy with even the few clicks at the lower CPC rate but, whats going wrong here? Am i supposed to park with many groups of relevant top CPC keywords for ads placed , only one keyword string?
The supposed 100+ isnt even close , am i doing something wrong? Does Page Rank play a role in this other than traffic? Any light shedded on this would be appreciated.
 
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This is what mines looking like so far, after lots of trial and error, buying domains that wont get any return, ive accumulated some decent domains for parking -- im curi0us what these would be worth
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This is what mines looking like so far, after lots of trial and error, buying domains that wont get any return, ive accumulated some decent domains for parking -- im curi0us what these would be worth
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Which parking service are you using?
 
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yes, voodoo parking -- after a few weeks of fiddling with it, tweaking this and that, adding mobile friendly keyword for new google policy etc. i mean prior to a 2 weeks ago, 300domain payout(most arnt for traffic)was 3$/week lol -- now its like 600$+ and climbing a month and only really 5 domains that are makig up 90-95% of it
 
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yes, voodoo parking -- after a few weeks of fiddling with it, tweaking this and that, adding mobile friendly keyword for new google policy etc. i mean prior to a 2 weeks ago, 300domain payout(most arnt for traffic)was 3$/week lol -- now its like 600$+ and climbing a month and only really 5 domains that are makig up 90-95% of it


Nice stats, would you like to share the domains?
 
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