Domain Parking: Tips & Tricks to Help You Earn More!

[smurge]

And so it begins!:wave:

My goal is to help people learn more about the parking industry and help them earn more money while spending less of it.

There are tons of tricks,tips,secrets that people use to make money in this business.

Let me say this, I will not discuss illegal or bad practices here so please don't ask.

What will I talk about? How to find domains,with traffic for cheap. Creating long term wealth for yourself and how to do it on a budget. I will answer questions and talk about what I know. If there is something I'm not familiar with or not knowledgeable about I will say so.

I am not here to start flaming wars with other domainers or parking gurus. Everyone has their own set of rules to making money. If you don't like mine, that's okay , but please share your ideas with everyone instead of bashing others.


Myths I want to debunk now:

#1. Parking is dead. (Far from it)

#2. You can't make money doing it. (B.S.- you can make a ton of money in it)

#3. Only the rich can do this. (This is not true!)

#4. Google doesn't like domain parking! (Yes they do, they make a ton of money off it. If they hated it so much why do they continue to support it?)



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So what's the point of all this? It's to help people with parking.

Please feel free to email,pm, or post your questions here and I will do my best to answer them all.


Thanks!

RJ

(P.S. I'm not the best writer so I apologize for any grammar or sentence structure mistakes in advance.)



--Answers to Questions I'm frequently asked!--

#1. What parking companies do I support/like?

These are the main ones I use and have had great success with. I base my success not only on the amount of money I make but also, customer service and transparency.

In alphabetical order:

- Bodis.com (Supports Foreign Traffic)(Zero Click Model Supported)
- Domainsponsor.com (Supports Foreign Traffic) (Zero Click Model Supported)
- Parkingcrew.com (Supports Foreign Traffic)
- Voodoo.com (Highest Payouts In The Industry)


#2. What tools do you use to help you evaluate domains?

Besides my own "TOOL", which I'm not here to promote I would suggest the following;

1. Push2check.com - Great resource site (I do not affiliated with them in anyway)

If we break down the tools I generally look at the following:

Traffic Sources: (Understand that no tool is 100% accurate but together you can get a great picture.)

1. Compete.com
2. Alexa.com
3. Quantcast.com
4. Verisign Labs: http://domainscore.verisignlabs.com/ ( WARNING: This tool to be used when you have mastered other tools. The information on this site is tricky but can be useful)

History of the domain:

1. Archive.org
2. who.is

Backlinks: ( There are plenty of tools for these but here are some sites I use)

1. Majesticseo.com
2. Google Backlinks
3. Yahoo Backlinks
4. DuckDuckGo.com
5. AHrefs.com: https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/brickbuyers.com
6. opensiteexplorer.org (Enjoy this one. It's the search engine for backlinks)



Keywords:

1. Google Keyword Tool


#3. Where can I get lists to analyze:

I have my own tools that do the work for me however here are a few places you can grab lists from to analyze:

1. Dynadot.com
2. Expireddomains.net - (good site)
3. Namejet.com
4. Snapnames.com
5. Godaddy.com
6. Freshdrop.net - (this covers a majority of the above & more)


#4. Do all your domains make money?:

NO!

I'll say it again : NO! I STILL PICK LOSERS!

In fact anyone who says they make money on every single purchase is lying. No one has a 100% success rate and you don't need to. What you need to do to win in this business is;

#1. Pick 51% winners
#2. Make sure to keep your costs low and make more then your spending.


Understand a single domain can make up the costs of lost ones. I picked a domain that makes me $15.00 a day in revenue. That means I'll make $450 a month with it and it's recouped $300 I've lost on previous domains.

Trust me, the sea of domains is massive and there are ton's of GOLDEN NUGGETS ready to be mined by all.


#5. How much do you spend on domains?:

I've spent anywhere from $.99 - $x,xxx! If I like a domain I will spend what I need, to get it as long as "I CAN STILL MAKE A PROFIT"! That's the key.

However, recently I am testing a new program which allows me to buy strictly "HANDREGS". YUP, Handregs! You would be surprised at how much stuff is just sitting on the ocean floor of domains that people think are garbage.


#6. Blacklisted Domains? Revenue Sucks! HELLLLLP!

This is something that's not addressed a lot and something everyone should be aware of: THE BLACK LIST!

This still happens to me this day. I'll buy a domain only to find out the previous owner got blacklisted from Google. This will affect your revenue greatly because Google will not allow Parking Companies to display the proper ad's on your site. If this happens you will need to go to a second feed like Yahoo! or Zeroclick model.

Common Terms for Blacklisted:

1. Faillisted
2. Blacklisted
3. Fail

Check the status of a domain when you park it and you'll see what I mean.

Edit:6/12/2012: Thank You www.ri.sch.edu.sg for this tool!

Originally Posted by www.ri.sch.edu.sg

One thing I can add to this thread is to check if the domain is blacklisted before you purchase them, simply point to:


https://api.bodis.com/domainclassification?domain=(Insert Domain Here)

Classification:

Primary = Google

Secondary = All others but Google (Faillisted,blacklisted, etc from google)

Hope that helps






#7. YUM! YUM! Domain Tasting


If you're not sure what this is it's when you buy a domain and test the traffic for a set amount of time and if your not happy with the traffic you can get a refund or partial refund of your handreg fee.

One thing I see all the time is: Domain tasting is dead! No it's not!

Yes; it might not be as prevalent as it once used to be but there are companies out there that still allow it. How do I know this? Because I do it.

#8. Can I promote or advertise my parked domains?


No, No, No, No, No, No,No, No, No, No, No, No,No, No, No, No, No, No,No, No, No, No, No, No!

If I wasn't clear let me repeat it; NO!


#9. What do all those backlinks mean from different sites?

(Thanks Martiinko for the info)

All those sites "backlink" scanners work by "downloading" the pages all over internet and then searching for URLs in it. Moving from one page to the other over these links. But...

1. There maybe a difference in last time they check this domain for backlinks.

2. There is definitely a huge difference in their databases of pages. That means if one site has smaller DB they don't probably have all the backlinks from as many pages as the other site.

3. Some backlinks are maybe updated, some maybe aren't. The process of "crawling" the web is very time consuming, so not all the backlinks can be verified every day.

To your other question. The links like you described are ok. If you park a domain all the requests go straight to the main page. But what is important is where is the link located. Is it a "spam in comments section", is it in the "blog post" or is maybe a "banner"?

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So I collected couple different pages (and I'm collecting even more) for you to check if the webpage/domain was ever parked before Some have form input some are just simple url + domain name.
I will make it into a simple web app, so you don't have to go to all of this pages when checking a domain name for parking history. Mostly screenshots.

Was this domain name parked before?
All of them are free. And I don't have any connection to them whatsoever.

Fun fact: This article got to 2th place in google search for Domain name parking history after 20 minutes.




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*** WORDS OF WISDOM ***

1. Never spend money you can't afford to lose! Consider every domain investment a loss till you make your money back because that's what it is. No one can tell me different on this and the reason why is you are "NEGATIVE" that amount of money till it's recouped.

2. When you buy a domain to park; look to get your initial investment back within 6-12 months.

 

[Lightthrower]

Hi Dordomai and Smurge,

Thanks so much for going to the effort of a great response. However I should have been more specific. The hand regs are "BRAND NEW". Do I need to add backlinks and host them on my own server prior to parking? Thank you for your patience.

No, that is illegal. You can in no way influence the traffic from your parked domains, it must be natural.

 

[Hotham Shinboner]

Ok, I think I got it. Thanks.

 

[Steve Bowler]

could someone explain the difference between Voodoo's "metatag keywords" and the "keywords" section please, I just copy the same keywords to both, but I have a feeling that is wrong. Why make you fill it out twice? So I guess I'm missing something here, again! Any advice appreciated.

 

[NameAgency]

The section "keyword Magic" it's only a voodoo's suggested keywords. You don't have to copy from one section to another , at least you feel that suggested keywords are correct, but you can ignore them and type your own keywords (obviously, always related to your domain).

 

[Steve Bowler]

@Primerlloc, thanks for your answer, I didn't explain my question properly, but you answered what my next question was going to be, about "keyword magic" thanks.

Back to my OP, in the options tab there is a "Metatag: Keywords "
and in the "keywords" tab there is another place to put keywords in different languages, those are the two places I was referring. cheers.

 

[Hypersot]

could someone explain the difference between Voodoo's "metatag keywords" and the "keywords" section please, I just copy the same keywords to both, but I have a feeling that is wrong. Why make you fill it out twice? So I guess I'm missing something here, again! Any advice appreciated.

The Metatag keywords are only shown in the page source of your domain (if anyone is interested to see it). There is absolutely no use for them.

The keywords' section is what you should be interested in since that's what defines the secondary keywords on your parked page

EDIT: and btw. you explained it fine. There was no need for a secondary explanation

 

[Steve Bowler]

thankyou @Hypersot
so I may as well copy the same key words then, one less thing to tweak/worry about, thanks.

I looked at the source code for one of my parked domains and it clearly shows you are correct, not that I doubted you of course.

 

[Steve Bowler]

while I'm getting cool answers I may as well try for another question.

I bought some hand reg's specifically for parking, (I know not to expect much with no back-links)
but these were good keyword domains with decent searches per month,
example; [big US city] casinos.com with 22k of spm.

But, in 2 days I did not get a single visitor, this I cannot understand.
I can understand no clicks (no money) but surely I should of got some traffic?

 

[Hypersot]

Why did you expect to receive traffic?
or, best question would be:
where did you expect the traffic to come from?

 

[Steve Bowler]

forgive my ignorance please.
The way I thought it worked was, google keyword says these two words [big US city] and casinos
together 22k of people typing them in google each month so.......Of course, my parked page wont be listed on google will it!!! Oh damn you just made me think, job done and a great lesson you taught me, thanks hyper lol I feel really dumb now.

Why did you expect to receive traffic?
or, best question would be:
where did you expect the traffic to come from?

 

[Hypersot]

forgive my ignorance please.
The way I thought it worked was, google keyword says these two words [big US city] and casinos
together 22k of people typing them in google each month so.......Of course, my parked page wont be listed on google will it!!! Oh damn you just made me think, job done and a great lesson you taught me, thanks hyper lol I feel really dumb now.

Those results can give you an indication of how popular a keyword term is but that's it. In no way it shows that people will visit your domain.

In extremely popular terms there *might* be some traffic but you need to have a really really strong keyword term

 

[Lightthrower]

forgive my ignorance please.
The way I thought it worked was, google keyword says these two words [big US city] and casinos
together 22k of people typing them in google each month so.......Of course, my parked page wont be listed on google will it!!! Oh damn you just made me think, job done and a great lesson you taught me, thanks hyper lol I feel really dumb now.

Once it gets listed on google though, then it might become interesting.

 

[Steve Bowler]

EDIT: I didn't think google listed parked pages?
sorry about typo.

I googled it and found this:

Parked Domains:
A Google update in December of 2011 decreased search visibility of parked domains.

so I guess parked domains do go on google but get marked down.
Hmm I wonder if we can ask google to index our parked domains?
Probably breaks parking TOS, not sure yet.

 

[Hypersot]

I didn't think google listed paged pages?

you mean 'parked' . Well, I have a lot of domains that receive traffic from search engines so I don't know what to say on this since a lot of people say that G removes parked pages from the engine.

In what @Lightthrower said though,
I'm pretty sure the days where a nice keyword domain got ranked just because of its keyword term are long gone.
Sites with no unique content and proper SEO go nowhere these days
just my opinion

 

[Steve Bowler]

Thanks for your thoughts hyper. Looks like i'm 10 years too late lolz

 

[Lightthrower]

you mean 'parked' . Well, I have a lot of domains that receive traffic from search engines so I don't know what to say on this since a lot of people say that G removes parked pages from the engine.

In what @Lightthrower said though,
I'm pretty sure the days where a nice keyword domain got ranked just because of its keyword term are long gone.
Sites with no unique content and proper SEO go nowhere these days
just my opinion

Hmmmm and if we were to create said unique content for the domain, we would have to go with adsense for monetization instead of parking? Curious about the options.

 

[Hypersot]

Hmmmm and if we were to create said unique content for the domain, we would have to go with adsense for monetization instead of parking? Curious about the options.

not necessarily with adsense. You could very well work with an affiliate network or other ad networks.
I would very much like to try those options but I have one big disadvantage: content.
The content I tried in the past was automated and that lead to some domains get the 'spammy content' status from google :/

 

[ecalc]

... [big US city] casinos.com with 22k of spm. But, in 2 days I did not get a single visitor, this I cannot understand. I can understand no clicks (no money) but surely I should of got some traffic?

22k qualifies you as big man on campus in this niche. Adwords US average monthly searches:
atlantic city casinos - 22,200
biloxi casinos - 12,100
las vegas casinos - 9900
atlanticcitycasinos.com - 10
biloxicasinos.com - 10
lasvegascasinos.com - 10

These dot coms probably get reliable type-in traffic independent of referrals and search. If you’re in this class be patient, 2-day dry spells happen once in a while, good luck!

 

[Steve Bowler]

thanks @ecalc you give me some hope i'm not getting it totally wrong.

 

[Hypersot]

thanks @ecalc you give me some hope i'm not getting it totally wrong.

Please let us know if you receive *any* non bot traffic on your domains.
I might as well start doing some type-in research if what ecalc said is true

 

[Steve Bowler]

I have got all the casino .coms I want, theres a few that may be of use to someone here so I'm sharing these in return for help I have got, tho these are not that great, i know.


[stupid domains deleted]

 

[Hypersot]

I have got allthe casino .coms I want, theres a few that may be of use to someone here so I'm sharing these in return for help I have got, tho these are not that great, i know.

Oklahoma-casinos.com 6.6k Med £1.53
Mississippi-casinos.com 2.9k low £1.27
Michigan-casinos.com 2.9k low £0.93
Iowa-casinos 2.4k Low £2.61
Maryland-casinos.com 1.9k low £2.02
Pennsylvania-casinos.com 2.4k Low £1.18
Ohio-casinos.com 1.9k Low £2.26
Alabama-casinos.com 1.9k Low £1.51
Connecticut-casinos.com 1.9k Low £0.83
Colorado-casinos.com 1.6k Low £1.23
Washington-casinos.com 1.6k Low £2.38
Texas-casinos.com 1.3k Low £1.69
Illinois-casinos.com 1k Low £1.03

Hey Steve, you do know that the dash negates the search results' importance, right?

 

[Steve Bowler]

I tested that and got the same results with or without the dash, though I know it could impact value of the domain when selling, Or have I got it wrong again lol, I'm the Frank Spencer of the domain world.

Hey Steve, you do know that the dash negates the search results' importance, right?

 

[Hypersot]

I tested that and got the same results with or without the dash, though I know it could impact value of the domain when selling, Or have I got it wrong again lol, I'm the Frank Spencer of the domain world.

The whole thing is how a potential visitor will type in the domain. Would you think they would put a dash? personally, I don't think so

 

[Steve Bowler]

oh dear, I best delete those then as dont want others to waste same money I have, cheers hyper, I learn everyday (expensively) -)

I best go to bed , it's 3Am here, thats my excuse.