Best Alternative to Parking?

[dezinerite]

I have several parked domain names and they have been with me for years. Mainly brandable .coms and 4-letter .coms.

Due to the nature of these domain names, they do not receive many visitors. So I find myself paying reg fee for each and every one of them every single year and this can accumulate to quite a lot of money.

I'm done with parking them. I want to develop them, either turn them into minisites or turn them into blogs, directories, etc.

What's the best alternative out there to parking a domain name, through your personal experience?

 

[smurge]

I have several parked domain names and they have been with me for years. Mainly brandable .coms and 4-letter .coms.

Due to the nature of these domain names, they do not receive many visitors. So I find myself paying reg fee for each and every one of them every single year and this can accumulate to quite a lot of money.

I'm done with parking them. I want to develop them, either turn them into minisites or turn them into blogs, directories, etc.

What's the best alternative out there to parking a domain name, through your personal experience?

I believe you already said it, develop them or let them go. That's all there really is.

 

[dezinerite]

Thanks everyone. I've started linking them up to hosting and I'll be developing them all as soon as I can.

 

[ibidu]

Thanks everyone. I've started linking them up to hosting and I'll be developing them all as soon as I can.

It's not as simple as it may look at first.

B4 spending time and may be more money developing them, I would be inclined to think of how you're going to monetize them after?

I am talking from experience since I've myself spent nearly one month on developing a name of mine and then putting Adsense on it and so far it's not doing very well to be honest.

I developed it fully myself which means I did not use Wordpress, the site looks really beautiful (if I may say so myself) - the ads are professionally placed and blend nicely with the content of the site - the best performing ads have been chosen - all rules of on page SEO have been employed and despite all that so far I am not happy with the ads performance.

I must admit though that it's been one week only since I've put it up

During this time all 9 pages of the site have been indexed by both Google and Bing but only 2 pages have been indexed by Yahoo.

So going back to your original point, one cannot even be too sure about developing sites being that profitable! But I hope that yours will.

 

[wellparked]

you need to focus on automation to passgoogle and make money from your domains, hope to be announcing more on our system soon.

 

[wonderfulsites]

I suggest loading wordpress on them then building content. Autoblogs still work regardless of what people. Once you get a decent visitor count and revenue sell on flippr.

 

[dezinerite]

It's not as simple as it may look at first.

B4 spending time and may be more money developing them, I would be inclined to think of how you're going to monetize them after?

I am talking from experience since I've myself spent nearly one month on developing a name of mine and then putting Adsense on it and so far it's not doing very well to be honest.

I developed it fully myself which means I did not use Wordpress, the site looks really beautiful (if I may say so myself) - the ads are professionally placed and blend nicely with the content of the site - the best performing ads have been chosen - all rules of on page SEO have been employed and despite all that so far I am not happy with the ads performance.

I must admit though that it's been one week only since I've put it up

During this time all 9 pages of the site have been indexed by both Google and Bing but only 2 pages have been indexed by Yahoo.

So going back to your original point, one cannot even be too sure about developing sites being that profitable! But I hope that yours will.

Thanks for your input, I really appreciate it! I completely understand what you mean about developing sites. My developed sites have always been able to profit, but the problem with these domain names that were just sitting there was that they were annual expenses so I really didn't know what to do with them (they are mainly 4-letter.coms that I bought during the rush). It's not as easy to think up of what I should do with them because they are not made up of generic keywords. But it's okay, I'll do whatever I can to make it work with them and if I can't I'll just sell them for whatever I can get because I no longer want to keep the expense.

 

[wellparked]

Thanks for your input, I really appreciate it! I completely understand what you mean about developing sites. My developed sites have always been able to profit, but the problem with these domain names that were just sitting there was that they were annual expenses so I really didn't know what to do with them (they are mainly 4-letter.coms that I bought during the rush). It's not as easy to think up of what I should do with them because they are not made up of generic keywords. But it's okay, I'll do whatever I can to make it work with them and if I can't I'll just sell them for whatever I can get because I no longer want to keep the expense.

drop me a p.m i may just be able to get you into our trial which we have promoted here on namepros. then you will see how easy it is to set up parked domains using our automated unique content that will passgoogle and start making money from them!

 

[ibidu]

..... using our automated unique content that will passgoogle and start making money from them!

1- Have you got a sample site for us to look at?

2- How are sites monetized? Domainers' own Adsense ads etc or as per normal?

3- Is there a minimum requirement for joining?


Edit: Okay since my post I've looked at your website and you seem to be working like BenPark, i.e. domainer's own monetization plan. I just hope the content is much better quality than BenPark provided, if it is I reckon it's one of the best business models for ordinary domainers.

If it's possible to look at a sample site to check the quality of the content, it would be great.

 

[wellparked]

reply to your questions

1- Have you got a sample site for us to look at?

2- How are sites monetized? Domainers' own Adsense ads etc or as per normal?

3- Is there a minimum requirement for joining?


Edit: Okay since my post I've looked at your website and you seem to be working like BenPark, i.e. domainer's own monetization plan. I just hope the content is much better quality than BenPark provided, if it is I reckon it's one of the best business models for ordinary domainers.

If it's possible to look at a sample site to check the quality of the content, it would be great.

1. Yes, PM me. Although if you're on the trial, you can try it free yourself, and that is (fairly obviously) the best thing to do, as you will be looking at content specific to your needs.
2. You monetize them however you like. Our download page has links to some of the more popular free monetization plugins, for adsense, clickbank, ebay, amazon etc.
3. You need your own hosting, that can support Wordpress. That's all.

Our content quality is second to none. We are nothing like Benepark. Our tech used to do this has been *years* in the making, and our content will pass google at the point of delivery.

 

[ibidu]

1. Yes, PM me.

What is it that you want me to PM you exaclty?

BTW, how do you make your share of the profit?

 

[wellparked]

I said PM me as you were taking an interest and I thought you wanted to be part of the trial.

We charge for the unique content, which is just a few cents per post.

 

[.X.]

I said PM me as you were taking an interest and I thought you wanted to be part of the trial.

We charge for the unique content, which is just a few cents per post.

I would be interested in testing your system. However, You will need to host the sites and ect.

I have plenty of traffic to several of my names via backlinks and .gov one way links. I just don't have a whole lot of time to set up a bunch of stuff. I gotta run my business, which is not in the domain industry.

If interested. send me a PM, Lets get together and make some thing happen.

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I have several parked domain names and they have been with me for years. Mainly brandable .coms and 4-letter .coms.

Due to the nature of these domain names, they do not receive many visitors. So I find myself paying reg fee for each and every one of them every single year and this can accumulate to quite a lot of money.

I'm done with parking them. I want to develop them, either turn them into minisites or turn them into blogs, directories, etc.

What's the best alternative out there to parking a domain name, through your personal experience?

I personally like DomainApps for my traffic names. Write, Or have some one write your unique content for your site.

Noomle.com is another alternative, Again, Use your own content.

Work on backlinks, Bookmarks and use social networking "Correctly" to bring traffic to your developments. Be patient, Once you have done the above, It can be many months before you see results of your labor, But the wait is worth it.

Don't send tier 2 traffic, You will not make much money, And you could get banned.

Good Luck

 

[firefly]

I would be interested in testing your system. However, You will need to host the sites and ect.

I have plenty of traffic to several of my names via backlinks and .gov one way links. I just don't have a whole lot of time to set up a bunch of stuff. I gotta run my business, which is not in the domain industry.

If interested. send me a PM, Lets get together and make some thing happen.

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I personally like DomainApps for my traffic names. Write, Or have some one write your unique content for your site.

Noomle.com is another alternative, Again, Use your own content.

Work on backlinks, Bookmarks and use social networking "Correctly" to bring traffic to your developments. Be patient, Once you have done the above, It can be many months before you see results of your labor, But the wait is worth it.

Don't send tier 2 traffic, You will not make much money, And you could get banned.

Good Luck

Did wellparked give you a trial run John, and how did it go? Very curious about this since I simply don't have the time atm for development of the names I am starting to pick up again.

 

[alber5901]

Like dezinerite, I have an annual registration bill (about $600 year) so it's time for me to do something with them and/or let the worst clunkers go. I am new to the domain business, no experience with domaining, parking or parking services.

However, I am a professional web designer/developer (full-time freelance business for the last 12 years) and some SEO - but now tired of building for others so have decided to start developing my own sites full time. I have a few dozen domains purchased over the years, a couple might be worthy of resale but most are nothing special: longish, some with dashes, various TLD, some .co and a few with decent keyword combinations.

I'm thinking that I should develop a select few of them and maybe park the others.

I already maintain a hosting server with plenty of space for unlimited domains.

With regards to time/cost/benefit Would "parking" with a 3rd party service (Sedo, Bodis, etc) offer any benefits to me (automation, content, etc)? or should I just park/host on my own - park some and develope some from scratch?

Similar time/cost/benefit question with regard to whether to use Wordpress or build site from scratch?

These may seem like naive questions from someone in my profession, but I've been busy working for corporate clients with big budgets and established brands where they supply the content and drive the projects forward and I just do the design/programming - there was never any parking or adsense.

How would you proceed if in my shoes - please offer any and all advice, specific or general?

 

[dompro]

best alternative would be to develop them if you have time or pay somebody to do that. Unless the domain has some type-in or expired backlink traffic, it will not likely to receive any traffic without some unique content on it.

 

[.X.]

Did wellparked give you a trial run John, and how did it go? Very curious about this since I simply don't have the time atm for development of the names I am starting to pick up again.

I never heard a word from them

 

[firefly]

Thanks for the info.

 

[willmfftt]

Just remember, there's not many sites that make money/get visitors from the start. If your starting a blog then it takes at least six months before you start making any money (on average). I would say if you can pick a non-competitive niche for each domain then I would start there and develop from that.

And remember, QUALITY content is king. Google isn't going to put you on the first page easily. And try to promote your sites in any free way as possible, at least every other day.

 

[firefly]

Just remember, there's not many sites that make money/get visitors from the start. If your starting a blog then it takes at least six months before you start making any money (on average).

Bullshit! If it took me six months to make money with a name I develop I would shoot myself.

I would say if you can pick a non-competitive niche

Ridiculous! If there is isn't some competition then there isn't any advertisers in the first place. Also, some competition increases your ability to earn via better CCP.

And remember, QUALITY content is king.

Sweet Jesus!!

I'm going to go and kick a kitten now.