Are there parking services allowing incoming links?

[Tribulatio]

I have owned around 100 domain names for several years, a few of them active (and ad-free, yes!), most of them dormant... and not parked! I have decided it was time to start monetizing them, so I am testing parking solutions - I am entirely new to parking, but I have read a number of articles, as well posts on several forums, especially NamePros. Very good and informative. I have also visited many websites offering various solutions - not all of them entirely convincing...

My opinion is that content matters, and I will try to build a few minisites with content + Adsense (testing it right now on two of my websites, a newly created one with very little content, just for testing, and another one with more than 300 original articles and several 100s visitors a day).

I have also bought 3 credits at PPC-Sites and will order three built websites, to see if it can work (I will probably add some content of my own, in order to avoid duplication issues).

But I have a busy professional life in completely different fields, and I cannot devote too much time to building websites. So mere parking will remain a solution for a number of my domain names.

I have some good keywords (most of them in French and German)... but mostly .info names, since my goal was not monetization, but having names available for possible informational websites.

Obviously, monetizing .info names with parking is difficult, if not hopeless. Hardly anybody will try to look for information typing .info after a keyword. The only way would be to drive some traffic to well-optimized parked pages, offering highly relevant ads.

However, parking services seem to forbid the creation of any kind of incoming links. When I mean incoming links, I do not mean inciting people to click in order to visit a parked page: but just the inclusion of the name and URL of some of my parked pages in a small directory of links which I would build on one of my websites, mixed with links to fully operational, content websites.

Since parking services where I have checked this possibility all seem to exclude it (and obviously I want to abide by the rules), I have wondered if somebody on this forum has explored this question, and if there are parking services allowing incoming links created for that purpose (within limits such as those described above)?

I am curious to know!

 

[Gunner Steele]

Check out WhyPark. Use your own Adsense code, add your own content and affiliate links, and build all the links you want to.

Take a look at the 'WhyPark - Just What the Doctor Ordered' thread in this same subforum for a great intro and tutorial on the power of WhyPark.

Greg

 

[Tribulatio]

Thank you for the suggestion - I had attempted to access WhyPark earlier today, but the website was not accessible - I could access it now, however.

It seems quite interesting. But I wonder if it is able to generate content also for non-English keywords? This is a major issue for me, since more than half of my domain names clearly relate to (major) languages other than English...

And by the way, has anybody ever tried: www.gecoparking.com/
It claims to be a software able to do more or less what WhyPark is doing - of course, it costs something initially (some 300 Euro), but in case it really does what it claims, it could be an attractive tool for people with many domains (and it is not limited to English).

Anyway, I would appreciate clarifications regarding non-English content with Whypark, and also other ways of parking domains while bringing visitors.
(I read some fascinating ways of using WhyPark for such purposes, i.e. moving a domain to a parking site after developing it with WhyPark first, quite nice technique - but I am also interested to know about other ways than WhyPark.)

 

[netmeg]

Geco Parking looks like the same thing as adegro.com and hn90.com - I believe the adegro folks are reselling their package to others.

I put a few domains into adegro, it was free. Made a few Euros, and then Google de-indexed it, and the site started throwing up errors when I tried to access it.

Your mileage may vary.

 

[Tribulatio]

Thank you, Netmeg, for sharing your experience. Obviously, the perfect way of creating good, lasting content with automation has still to be found. And I would indeed by careful before buying such a piece of software. While I must admit that Whypark sounds like an interesting solution, although I would prefer to be able to park contents on my own servers, since parking with WhyPark might sooner or later lead to problems with Google. But I must explore more of the relevant thread on this forum.

Anybody with a suggestion for a WhyPark-like solution working in some major languages other than English (eg German, French, Italian)? Since it seems unlikely WhyPark will work with languages other than English, unless somebody has had a positive experience on that line.

And still my original question: any parking service allowing you to create incoming links (e.g. in a directory of my own), insofar there is no explicit incitement to click on them?

 

[weblord]

i think whypark.com does accept incoming links.

 

[Tribulatio]

I don't know if WP has anything other than English "articles"....

But have you thought of a site translator widget? I use them on all my WP sites - here's an example - www.Telepresence101.com - upper right.

They're easy to work, and appear to work well too.

From my years - it seems most folks from Europe know English as a second language.

Just a thought.

L2

Thank you for the information - since you seem to be one of the most experienced WP users (reading your posts was very informative!), your input is much appreciated.

Translation widgets: to be honest, while a simple text is made understandable through the translation, the result is usually... well, a little bit strange to say the least! Useful nevertheless for getting the essentials of an article (I use some online translators when I want to understand the basic content of pages in Russian, for instance - provided one is familiar with the topic, one can get the general meaning).

You are right, many folks in Europe understand English (not all of them, nevertheless: you would be surprised to see the number of people complaining about simple software when the instructions are available only in English).

My problem is not creating English websites: but I bought years ago (at the time of the .info landrush) a number of .info domain names which are GENERIC words in French or German. Obviously, it does not make sense to have content in English when the generic word which is the name of an .info domain is in French or German, visitors would probably leave instantly.

For the English .info names which I own, however, I am now experimenting with two techniques: a) creating myself a small domain in a few hours; b) having three domains produced by PPC-Sites (waiting to see them, I am curious!). In the meantime, I have parked most of them, but with little hope that it will generate any income, except possibly for the .com domain names. But after those experiences, I may indeed switch to WhyPark, although I have probably only 30-40 English domain names, the other ones are related to other European languages.

Thank you again! And if by chance you hear about tools similar to WhyPark or PPC-Sites in languages other than English, kindly share the good news with us!

 

[zabijaq]

Parked.com is also fine with expired traffic, they also got 404 stats in reports