Alternative to parking income from domain names

[GoDesign]

I'm not sure about this, but thought i'd ask anyway.
I have about 40 names parked now, sometimes i log into stats and see they've had around 10 hits for the day, but no click through so no revenue, then i check back later and those 10 hits have turned into 5, but thats a different subject..
Would a better way to generate revenue not be just to use URL re-direct for your domians and pick up your commision directly off your sponsor via an affiliate ID?

Thanks

 

[b.a]

maybe you can develop these domains and monetize them runing Adsense or YPN

I'm not sure about this, but thought i'd ask anyway.
I have about 40 names parked now, sometimes i log into stats and see they've had around 10 hits for the day, but no click through so no revenue, then i check back later and those 10 hits have turned into 5, but thats a different subject..
Would a better way to generate revenue not be just to use URL re-direct for your domians and pick up your commision directly off your sponsor via an affiliate ID?

Thanks

 

[Datalife]

GoDesign,

Youre not the first person to be wondering about this, here's another one who's thinking along these lines too. Depending on the affiliate program, maybe a couple of sales a month would be the equivalent of a year of parking.

Although parking can earn something, it looks like in the long term it doesnt have a bright future with Google and the other search engines, unless you have a multi million dollar domain that everyone types in. If you had one of these, you'd never worry about Alexa, LP, PR ...etc. It just is.

Thats why apart from developing a domain, maybe redirecting a domain may be a better choice than parking.

:imho:

 

[GoDesign]

Thank you Data,
Seems a bit of a waste seeing type-ins and no rev's. I'm not sure if they're not clicking through because they know what is there isn't really relevant to what they'd have expected, whereas, if you re-directed they would at least find something for their troubles.

Thanks

 

[commandercody]

Namepros tread on affiliate programs (redirecting)

http://www.namepros.com/affiliate-talk/227434-best-affiliate-programs-in-cj.html

 

[winst]

When I first started in the domain parking space. I didn't pay too much attention key words or the optimization. I got very little revenue. However, after I started to study where the traffic came from, who used to own the name, and picking better, higher paying relevant keywords, my revenue have skyrocketed.

I also have some web sites with affiliate links. However, they are not as profitable as the parked domains for me. I'm sure if I spend more time develop them, they will generate more revenue. But I just don't have the time right now.

 

[cache]

build a mini-site use adsense

 

[GoPC]

My best producers are sites wtih Adsense. Hands down.

I do make some ching with my parking sites but not as consistantly and not, on average, as much.

Thinking pragmatically, a Parking pages SHOUTS that is is a parking page... that there is no realy reason for it to exist except to point the visitor, once again, to another page. There are a great many parking pages out there and I think the general surfing populous is getting tired of them. Thus the push for new and improved landers, the tendancy for them to look more and more like websites and not parking pages. The push is to disquise what we do.

The same holds true for Adsense and YPN on web pages to some degree.... people see ADS and that turns some of them away.

But the right combination of a solid site with blended and highly targeted ads can make for a great PPC ad site with high click through and good revenue. The $2 - $3 clicks I get on Adsense would only be $1 clicks through some PPC pages so what have I lost?

The upshot is that you can make your page something worth returning to. Build it well and people will bookmark it or even set it as their homepage. Can you ever imagine a Parking Page doing that?

It goes without saying that the real powerful dot commons are not what we are talking about. The tables turn a bit if you own "Cameras.com" or "Hotels.com"

The problem is, they don't exist anymore and the rest of us are really dealing with keyword phrases and search traffic potential. That's why you ask.

So try it all... my favorite strategy is to develop, host, optimize, seo and then at some point park to measure and see where traffic is coming from and going where... then reorganize and focus. I'd rather have all the net's resources working for me, not just the power of the random type-in.

Good luck with your strategies.

GoPC

 

[globefrog]

Hey Mate, I used to redirect to an affiliate program and it worked ok. But I decided to develop a poxy site (www.naughtyden.com) which just has links to my affilliate links and works ok for me at the moment. the site isnt really finished yet tho and is just a quick throw together site, which just works better than a parking page I guess.

 

[RJ]

The perfect match of domain name and affiliate program can be very profitable.

If your domain gets traffic, and you know what your visitors are looking for, look for an affiliate program that fits the bill. I've done exactly this with 8 different domains. With parking, they were making less than $75/mo combined. By redirecting the same domains to perfectly targeted affiliate programs the income is now between $500 and 700 a month.

I just wish I could find more domains to do this with.

 

[globefrog]

Yeah well said RJ. It in a way is taking out the middle pocket. I think the more time you invest in finding the perfect match for a few specialist domains the better than quantity. :D in a way sedo's €0.04 clicks may have given us new motive to look for something better!