question-answered $10 click yesterday

[psalm91]

I just received a $10.96 click on one of my domains. Parking is definitely not dead. My earnings have gone up each month. Reading, patience, trial/error, and a little money can get you started on the right path. Read the popular forums for those nuggets over and over again.

 

[LoveCatchyDomains]

What is a $10 click? Sorry for the dumb question.

$10 for a click on the parking page ad. Someone visits the ad page, then clicks on the advertisement. The domain owner gets a portion of the revenue. They call this EPC (earnings per click).

No, not a dumb question. There's always a learning curve on Namepros, and asking is one of the best ways of learning.

 

[psalm91]

I knew you would be the one to ask these questions @LoveCatchyDomains. Don’t mean to be cryptic but don’t want to create competition in this area. I can say that it is not financial, medical, or insurance related. It’s pointing to the above name server. It’s not a typo and yes I am looking for other names in this area. I have other domains in this area that perform similarly. I have added higher paying keywords and have seen great growth.

 

[psalm91]

Thank you so much! I’ve received tons of motivation from this forum and am glad to have given some motivation to others. I’m constantly tweaking and reusing keywords that have been successful. Each month I look at my domains that have a CTR lower than 10% and evaluate if the keywords need to change.

For that $10 epc ad, it sure would make sense to not provide any distractions!

Thanks, incidentally, for the continued ad-parking commentary. Often, after you post, I have more motivation to explore options and try new features. For example, I didn't realize in Bodis that one can easily change the desktop and mobile appearance of the sale banner. Wow, what a difference that makes!

Promoting the sale of the domain is still a priority for now. But if I start seeing those $10 clicks, then that one's likely a keeper for ad-revenue alone!

Congrats, again, on your success, and hopefully the revenue gets even better.

 

[psalm91]

Once you look in terms to see what they are searching/clicking on and manually add keywords that are similar. I was able to increase my ctr on one of my domains by using this method.

 

[psalm91]

To be completely honest, my limit for purchases are $100 or less. I usually break even in a few months to a year. I rarely hand register domains.

@psalm91

Are you hang registering or buying on the aftermarket? if yes, what's the average price?

Thanks

 

[psalm91]

Nope I just set high epc keywords and let the visitors click away.

Thank you for pointing out the terms section, and the fact that you can see more microscopically the terms that are actually clicked upon.

Did you ever also check to see what actually is showing up when a customer clicks on one of the ads on your pages? For example, for the $10 ppc ad, one would certainly be curious as to what exactly is being viewed and done at that point.

Admittedly, I've never tried, out of respect for the integrity of the ad-company services and not seeing a "zero click" or non-counted click option readily available. Obviously one does not want to violate the TOS, and cause a click that inadvertently appears to be an attempt to create undue revenue.

 

[psalm91]

Definitely not a parking king trial & error have spent tons of money learning. There are tons of valuable domains dropping each day. Take the domains that are working for you and analyze it to see what makes it different.

Perhaps you should go by a new nickname, "The Parking King?" I realize that you don't want to share your trade secrets. Your experience emphasizes the importance of finding the right parking niche and the right keywords.

 

[LoveCatchyDomains]

I just received a $10.96 click on one of my domains. Parking is definitely not dead. My earnings have gone up each month. Reading, patience, trial/error, and a little money can get you started on the right path. Read the popular forums for those nuggets over and over again.

Thanks for sharing, and congrats on the revenue.
Several simple questions.
1) What general area did the domain cover? In other words, was this a financial, medical, or some other commercially-related domain?
2) Was this through Bodis or Above.com?
3) Are you now buying all the potential permutations related to that domain, to list them for parking purposes?

 

[psalm91]

Haven’t received another $10 click yet. I have received plenty of the $6 to $8 clicks each week.

Another burning question: Have you had any more $10 clicks?!

 

[psalm91]

I would strongly recommend reading the popular forum post and keeping your money. Park your domains and let the loser domains go. Put them up for sale and see what happens.


Hello, seems like you all are experts in this space! I am NEW. I have 1400 domains and looking to monetize. If I can make $10 a month, not even a each click, well, that would be fantastic. I am willing to hire anyone here by the hour, month, part time, whatever makes sense, at $20 an hour, for advising or consulting to help guide me through best ways to monetize these pages. Any takers can email me at [email protected]

 

[Namingfy]

Well, one question would be whether the domain owner was being paid for the click outright, even if the customer didn't buy anything or generate any revenue. I do wonder if this was a situation where the click represented a commission for some final purchase related to the referral.

EPC (Earnings per Click) is similar to CPC (Cost per Cick) which is all about being paid for a customer clicking on the link/ad, irrespective of the purchase. Parking revenue is more like placing ads in a web page and getting paid if someone clicks on it.

IF someone is paid ONLY AFTER the purchase, then it falls under AFFILIATES MARKETING category.

 

[psalm91]

Above maximizer, Bodis, and Parking Crew is what I use.

What other parking companies to you advise to add on it a part from bodis and parkingcrew?

 

[psalm91]

If you click on the domain under manage reports in bodis there is a tab called terms. This tab will show you the keywords and what they clicked on.

Well, one question would be whether the domain owner was being paid for the click outright, even if the customer didn't buy anything or generate any revenue. I do wonder if this was a situation where the click represented a commission for some final purchase related to the referral.
There is a challenge of understanding what the ad-clicks lead to. On Bodis, you can see each of your domain page's ad listings, but I don't believe you are supposed to click on those to be able to check what they actually lead to. There should be a mechanism for that, where it doesn't count as a paid click. That way you can better understand all that is happening on your domain parking.

 

[psalm91]

Congrats I strongly recommend using above.

Well, the good news is that I did recently have one healthcare-related domain with a click over $2, and some others were getting around 30 to 40 cents for epc. But I'm waiting to see if perhaps between either Bodis or Above, they can do even better with their maximizers and optimization tools.

 

[psalm91]

Yes it does make it simpler when you have 400+ domains. For me this is the easiest way for me to scale up.

 

[psalm91]

I don’t add a sales banner to any of my parking pages. In my opinion the click thru rate is not as high.

Do you also use the sales link on your parking? If you were using the inquiry form for the sales lead, would it be helpful to add on the explanation section available at least on Bodis), that this domain has EPC as high as $10?!

 

[psalm91]

I use google and bing keyword tools. I do believe that you can increase revenue in the Christian niche as well. You just need need to figure out what the people are looking for and manually put those keywords.

Thank you for the motivation.
Do you check CPC with google keyword tool? I have a domain that just pays its renewal. It's about christianity. Do you think i can increase revenue even in this niche?

 

[psalm91]

Finding domains that have quality backlinks will be helpful. Usually bad domains have similar backlinks that you will start to recognize.

Thanks for your answer. How to recognize a good domain for parking?

 

[psalm91]

1.Yes they can generate traffic if they are typos.
2.Yes even domains that have hyphens can generate revenue. Quality backlinks are important.
3.If the domains are spammy I would avoid them.

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Thank you. I have 3 other questions.
1- Can a domain without backlinks generate traffic?
2- Can domains that mean nothing and worth nothing in intrinsic value like 5f56d54d6.com generate parking revenue?
3- Does domains with spam score, example +50% spam score bad for parking?
Thank sooooooooooo much bro !!

 

[psalm91]

I would highly recommend not going to any of your pages. Once I have determined what my customers are looking for, I add high epc keywords. I would give it a week or so to see what happens.

Thank you
At bodis.com i set new keywords in a new folder and received a confirmation email but these keywords are not shown at parking page. It still shows as before (as it was for unassigned). What do you think is the problem?
And do you enable high quality ads only at bodis?
Thank you, you helped me a lot

 

[McJilton]

I just received a $10.96 click on one of my domains. Parking is definitely not dead. My earnings have gone up each month. Reading, patience, trial/error, and a little money can get you started on the right path. Read the popular forums for those nuggets over and over again.

If it was $10 on a parked conversion good, but if you developed it and had a relationship with a good affiliate program that conversion could have been worth 100-1k depending on the niche.

 

[Sam1234]

$10 for a click on the parking page ad. Someone visits the ad page, then clicks on the advertisement. The domain owner gets a portion of the revenue. They call this EPC (earnings per click).

No, not a dumb question. There's always a learning curve on Namepros, and asking is one of the best ways of learning.

So if I understand right, the person who put out the ad paid more than $10 for that click? That's insane (seeming).

 

[LoveCatchyDomains]

Well, the good news is that I did recently have one healthcare-related domain with a click over $2, and some others were getting around 30 to 40 cents for epc. But I'm waiting to see if perhaps between either Bodis or Above, they can do even better with their maximizers and optimization tools.

 

[LoveCatchyDomains]

Congrats I strongly recommend using above.

I very much would like to use them, but the high-traffic domain I was going to transfer to Above almost sold on a marketplace last week. If only I had remembered that the marketplaces can do a decent job providing a decent "earning per one click" when they present a respectable offer on the table from a buyer. Counteroffering didn't work, but I'm still hoping that perhaps the buyer will change his or her mind.
This year has been exciting to at least have Bodis have income that for one domain at least easily paid for its renewal--and that was with a fairly short time doing the parking. Since sales seem to be down for at least some folks, your continued postings about the ad-parking are all the more relevant. At least if the domain isn't sold, if it still pays for itself, that's a start.