Building traffic AND THEN parking??

[cjbay]

If parking companies don't allow you to park domains and build traffic, but they allow you to park domains that have traffic from when the domain was a real site, what is the rule here? Do you have to wait a certain period of time between taking a real site down and then parking it? What prevents me from registering a domain and building a website on it, building up traffic for 1 week and then taking the website down and parking it? I don't understand this whole part of it. can someone please explain if you know. Thanks

 

[Name Trader]

There is no problem with what you want to do here with most companies. Pre-existing traffic is generally ok. Of course, if they think you are scamming the system, they might look upon it poorly.

 

[goodkarmaco]

It takes a good amount of work to build a website that actually gets traffic.

So if you have a website that gets good traffic, why the hell go and park it?. Keep it a web site and build more traffic to it. You will not make more money by parking it.

 

[Keral_Patel]

It takes a good amount of work to build a website that actually gets traffic.

So if you have a website that gets good traffic, why the hell go and park it?. Keep it a web site and build more traffic to it. You will not make more money by parking it.

Exactly. Building a good traffic website is also not easy. Plus the traffic has to be consistent. So if you have already built a website which has consistent traffic. Then keep it as a website and you will be making more in ads and all rather then parking.

 

[weblord]

1 week will not build up enough traffic, the ideal usually is to build up traffic 3 to 6 months then park it.

 

[Kenny]

1 week will not build up enough traffic, the ideal usually is to build up traffic 3 to 6 months then park it.

This is called pump & park...

 

[Keral_Patel]

This is called pump & park...

Yes as I think Park and Pump scenario will get the account banned in no time :D

So this is another way to bend the rules. Pump then get bored with website development and marketing and park it. Then after some days get bored with parking and again put up something in hope to establish the traffic. Then again its time to get bored with it and park it.

I think this will take up much more efforts compared to what the earnings will be.

 

[Kate]

I think this will take up much more efforts compared to what the earnings will be.

Besides parking is not that lucrative unless you have top domains
Good development is more sustainable.

 

[weblord]

easy said than done for me, usually if i "pump" up traffic to any web site it's grown with me as well and Im attached to it, either I sell it right away or develop it further.

This is called pump & park...

 

[SharonTucci]

Even if you park a domain that had legit traffic built over a period of time, you may risk not being able to monetize it. I just posted at http://doma.in about a 4500/day, Alexa ranked 14,000 domain that Sedo pulled the plug on because Google said they are not paying on linked traffic.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Nice info there Sharon,

Thks for sharing that.

 

[advaita]

Thanks for the info. Sharon - it seems more and more that development is needed, that parking is going to become even more difficult to monetize than it already is.

I had a blog that was getting a few visitors - I took it down and parked the domain and got visitors for about a month but then they all disappeared

 

[domainpark]

Even if you park a domain that had legit traffic built over a period of time, you may risk not being able to monetize it. I just posted at http://doma.in about a 4500/day, Alexa ranked 14,000 domain that Sedo pulled the plug on because Google said they are not paying on linked traffic.

WOW

I read the whole story Sharon and all I can say is this is a SHOCK.

The industry is a changing and seems that G and Y have the industry by the *****!!!!!!!!!!

If google is actually saying it does not allow linked traffic on a expired domain honestly the the whole industry for the most part is totally screwed.

My assumption is this domain what ever it was got singled out from either google and or sedo.

I mean everyday domainers pickup expired domains and 99.99% of these expired domains have linked traffic to them. So sedo saying that google does not allow link traffic to me is a pile of BS. HUGE HUGE players deal everyday with expired domains and to the best of my knowledge park with google providers and make $1,000's.

The thing is google is so in accessable when it comes to things of this nature that all a domainer can do is say WHAT THE F and move on.

Best of luck selling the domain!!!!!

 

[netmeg]

I'm sorry for your experience.

I was further told that Google is only interested in monetizing type-in traffic.

I believe this is another indication that Google is taking steps to make sure that parked domains eventually fall out of the search results. They'll index 'em, sure. But they don't want them coming up for a search, unless it's extremely obscure and/or longtail.

 

[domainpark]

I believe this is another indication that Google is taking steps to make sure that parked domains eventually fall out of the search results. They'll index 'em, sure. But they don't want them coming up for a search, unless it's extremely obscure and/or longtail.

Which is beyond me.

I mean all day long results come up for:
made for adsense style sites
bloggers which alot of them are just glorified adsense sites
Sites with just a ton of affilates links all over them.

What the heck is really the differance of todays parked domains and these other money making sites. Parking now has meta tags, content, good looking templates. I mean comeon.

I have said this time and time again Google and for that matter Yahoo need to wakeup to where this industry is and where its going or some other company is gonna comein and take away the icing on their cakes.

 

[Kate]

I think it all boils down to conversion rate. As long as it's cost effective for the advertisers does it really matter what type the traffic is.

Feed providers always have reserved the right not to monetize certain names, at their discretion. Nothing new. Often it is because the domain has a dubious history like spam issues, or you have junk traffic. But it is not always clear what makes a domain acceptable for monetizing purposes.

 

[ballisticjoe]

Is it allowed to park domains when you buy them, park for week or so then
develop content and promote.
Then after a few months or a year set to parking again?

Or does this constitute Pump and park as I have had it parking before?

Also can I submit sites to google and yahoo that are parked?
Or is this frowned upon.

 

[Aggro]

C'mon, how intuitively rational is it to think that users intending to get to a busy forum but reach another friggin park page -> that user does not have the the same pure "intent" as type-ins to top tier generics ...
Eg if the forum name is JoesForum,com, without the developed forum, no-one would ever type in the URL..
Just like if Namepros,com resolved to a park page full of webhosting and domain ads...wouldn't think it would convert too well for the advertiser (even if people are clicking on the ads for whatever reason)..

Would think in both cases many of the users clicking are "curiosity clicking" and have little intent for the service/product at all...

Good for Google! :hi:

 

[Timewarp]

I mean all day long results come up for:
made for adsense style sites
bloggers which alot of them are just glorified adsense sites
Sites with just a ton of affilates links all over them.

Hello wake up! Google has severely cracked down on all of these types of sites, they're not perfect but 90% of MFA sites have been eliminated from SERPS. They did it for a good reason too, made for adsense and parked sites ect. do not provide any use to users and degrade their search results. The entire company is based on providing relevant search results, not funneling people off to spam sites. Just because this doesn't help your personal business model doesn't mean they are out of touch with the industry, they know exactly what they are doing.