discuss Am I doing something wrong?

Hey Tony,

I don't know much about parking myself, but making money on it these days is no easy thing. From what I know, those results from 9 random domains is not all that bad.

Great recent thread on parking here:

Why Domain Parking works for me…. - NamePros

Joe N said:

Hey Tony,

I don't know much about parking myself, but making money on it these days is no easy thing. From what I know, those results from 9 random domains is not all that bad.

Great recent thread on parking here:

Why Domain Parking works for me…. - NamePros

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I did read through that thread and it is interesting but there is no specific information (obviously probably secrets top parking guys don't want to get out). I was just wondering why my CTR would be so low and maybe some things I can do to increase it if possible at all.

To be honest I haven't done anything yet in terms of optimization except for keywords on BODIS so we'll see how that goes. My thinking is if I can get my parked domains to cover the cost of my overall domain portfolio it will be with it for me.

So for example if I have 100 domains 20 of which are parked the 20 parked names I would use to cover the cost to renew all my domains so that way I am not losing money if I don't sell any names in a year.

Anything extra would just be a bonus.

TonyTsolakis said:

I did read through that thread and it is interesting but there is no specific information (obviously probably secrets top parking guys don't want to get out). I was just wondering why my CTR would be so low and maybe some things I can do to increase it if possible at all.

To be honest I haven't done anything yet in terms of optimization except for keywords on BODIS so we'll see how that goes. My thinking is if I can get my parked domains to cover the cost of my overall domain portfolio it will be with it for me.

So for example if I have 100 domains 20 of which are parked the 20 parked names I would use to cover the cost to renew all my domains so that way I am not losing money if I don't sell any names in a year.

Anything extra would just be a bonus.

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I agree, that would be amazing. My understanding is that it's rare to be able to accomplish that without either: significant upfront investment in quality parked names, or a very good eye/knowledge of what domains will generate parking income.

Wish I could be helpful in terms of helping you to optimize, but I'm pretty clueless there... I have about 40 EMDs that I'm currently testing with BODIS, and I've only made a little over $1 in a couple months.

There are some guys here that are experienced parkers, though. If you send some of them a PM, they may have some advice to offer, considering you're not actually looking for tips on how to compete with them for good names.

Hi

if, you average $15 in 30 days from parking 9 domains, then
in a year you average $180

average renewal fee for .com $10 X's 9 = $90
net profit $90

if CTR or EPC increases, so does the spread for those 9 names.

Good Luck!

Thanks for the reply.

I guess I will have to just wait and see. I am just not sure exactly where the traffic is coming from so it's hard to project performance based on the stats I have right now.

Also, I want to see how much of a difference using a website would make for example if I just made a quick info page with some ads.

All in all this parking thing has me very interested since it is scalable once you figure out the numbers and what works.

It would be nice to have a mentor lol

I've made some revenue through Bodis however I notice that sometimes my domains do not resolve, for example if I enter the domain the "www" vs just entering the domain*com, this is a problem because some traffic still uses the www.

Have you experienced the same issue? I tried in multiple browser and computers and got the same result.

Javier-Ramos.com said:

I've made some revenue through Bodis however I notice that sometimes my domains do not resolve, for example if I enter the domain the "www" vs just entering the domain*com, this is a problem because some traffic still uses the www.

Have you experienced the same issue? I tried in multiple browser and computers and got the same result.

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i saw something like you say only on ngtld domains

TonyTsolakis said:

Thanks for the reply.

I guess I will have to just wait and see. I am just not sure exactly where the traffic is coming from so it's hard to project performance based on the stats I have right now.

Also, I want to see how much of a difference using a website would make for example if I just made a quick info page with some ads.

All in all this parking thing has me very interested since it is scalable once you figure out the numbers and what works.

It would be nice to have a mentor lol

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the only way to know what is the best optimization set up is just one way and it's: make tests!

try to understand where the traffic is coming from and then try to guesstimate what those uniques are looking for.
there are some keywords with lower CTR but higher EPC and others that have the opposite behaviour so you need to find what is better for your traffic.
there are domains that never will go over 5% CTR.. there are domains with CTR close to 100%...
this can depend by the traffic quality or by the amount of the traffic filtered by a parking company (ie smartname filter out less traffic than bodis).

How has your bodis been last 7 days?

mine nothing special...
better than 2019 but worse than 2020.

However i have less traffic on my domains and i've traffic only in very few niches so i can't talk in general

TonyTsolakis said:

I just recently parked some domains with bodis. (9 of them total) here are my stats so far. It has been about 1 week.

My CTR is pretty bad I think? But I am actually surprised I am getting this many visits.

Any advice on how to improve my CTR?

Also is the fact that I am getting some views good news? Or is this simply happening because I have my domains listed for sale on multiple marketplaces.
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What is your CTR? I don't see it in the screenshot you shared.

Last week I posted on another thread about increasing the CTR, check it out, it might give you some insights.

AEProgram said:

How has your bodis been last 7 days?

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I have seen a drop in RPM, us traffic. From yesterday it seems to be recovering again...

These results are not bad at all