Avoiding Domain Parking Accidents - Tips for Optimization

[DotSauce]

Hey everyone, I just published this article tonight on my Domain News blog DotSauce. I thought I would share the article in it's entirety here in the Parking forum.

AVOIDING DOMAIN PARKING ACCIDENTS
http://www.dotsauce.com/2007/10/22/avoiding-domain-parking-accidents/

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I can’t say that all my own parked domains are perfectly customized. Maybe it’s time that we all did a little investigation and optimization into our parked domain names. Get some feedback on keywords and design from friends, family and colleagues, though be sure to tell them not to click links!

Optimizing Your Landing Pages

Improving your landing pages on even a few domains could start you earning an easy residual income. It may be a time consuming process, but in the long run it will definitely be worth your while. Here are some things you should really put some thought into perfecting on your landing pages.

• Unique and relevant title and sub-title.
• Creating the right photos, graphics or logo.
• Matching and appealing color scheme.
• Relevant and powerful sponsored link keywords.

Get started with your highest trafficked domain names and work your way down. Even if your name gets a single visitor per day and you can gain that persons trust and attention enough to click on a sponsored link for, oh let’s say a measly 10¢, that would earn you $36 a year from one domain!

 

[mplswifi]

Great post! The revenue seems minor in most eyes but look at it like i do and say you make at least $36 yearly from one .10c click a day by 500 domains which is 18k a yr income minus lets say $8 reg fee for .coms with codes =14k net not to mention possible resale value of the better names. Buying plus 300 domains so far this year has been profitable for me and probably more valuable is the knowledge i've gained from the process making my future buys\sells more effective and profitable.

There are some great advice post like this that everyone should read and take notes. I'd say my biggest mistake re starting to buy domain earlier this yr was buying any 4 char.com(zq's) and cool sounding names thinking i'd make quick flip. LOL I did make my money back and got out of them but learnied a lesson.

I was full of myself since my previous experience with domains was very $$$ for me. I started yr's back when the ipod 2nd gen came out and i went crazy with the ipod related names accessories-cool names and seriously flipped 25 within 30 days at $500+ profit for each.

The experience is invaluable- good - bad- Ive found my niche and learned to be patient and it's been working ..

sorry i ramble.....

 

[DotSauce]

Thanks for your response and nice comments on the article

 

[wiseguy_75]

Awesome read! Very helpful information...

Thanks DotSauce

 

[meegwell]

With so many parking services out there, who does a good job of making your page SEO friendly for your specific chosen keyword(s)? Ive used parked, 1plus, and sedo and Im quite sure it is difficult if not impossible on them to easily say the keyword for domain texaswidgets.com is texas widget (not just widgets, not just texas) and have the META desc, key, title as well as link content reflect this....I understand content is a bit tougher (although that would be nice) but it should be too hard to spit out the key words to picture alt tags, the metas, and a portion of the links on the page.

I realize there are site generators that do all this, I would imagine that the major parking services could incorporate this (and probably do?)

 

[netmeg]

With Parked and (I think) 1Plus, you can set the titles and description tags yourself.

I just put about 75 names over at Fabulous last month, and they're all ranking in the top 20 in Google now, so they're obviously doing something right.

 

[meegwell]

oh yeah - I know you can do it with 1plus, but you have to manually do it AFTER you have already entered your key - that seems foolish to me, why wouldn't it just pull your key and populate the necesary fields? Its tough when you have 100s.

 

[dongan]

Thanks for your tips. it is really helpful.

 

[netmeg]

oh yeah - I know you can do it with 1plus, but you have to manually do it AFTER you have already entered your key - that seems foolish to me, why wouldn't it just pull your key and populate the necesary fields? Its tough when you have 100s.

I don't think I'd want it automated, even if I had (and I do have) hundreds of domains. Very hard to get any decent search engine position without manually tweaking your titles and meta descriptions, and every niche is different. I believe to do it right requires time spent on research and thought, no matter how many domains you have.

I have also found that it helps a lot to keep the keywords simple. You end up getting better (and better paying) ads that way.

 

[dongan]

oh yeah - I know you can do it with 1plus, but you have to manually do it AFTER you have already entered your key - that seems foolish to me, why wouldn't it just pull your key and populate the necesary fields? Its tough when you have 100s.

I think BODIS has such a good feature.

 

[TheBulldog]

If your going to go to that much bother to tweak, you would be better off getting a cheap reseller hosting account and templating all your sites. You clone one and upload to all of your 100's of domains, then just go in and tweak your keywords.

With the right template, you could have a unique look for your footprint of domains.

I use a template: http://wiichannels.tv/ and am very happy with it. It has google adsense, ebay ads, and plenty of content.