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.

 

[pablohc86]

Is available on the net a tool where I put a domain name and it display its backlinks sorted by real traffic (no alexa, no compete, no quantcast)?
If not for the exact backlinks at least for the backlink's root domain name.

If not for all backlinks at least for the top 15/20 backlinks or root backlinks domain name..

Free would be great..

Majestic Seo was doing a sort for traffic but too many times the sort doesn't respect the real life..

 

[domino66]

@smurge:

I thought the most helpful request / post ITT was someone asking if you could walk us through one of your purchases, from beginning to end. Starting from the research phase where you evaluate the attractiveness of a DN, to the keyword analysis, to the parking, to the monitoring of parking/monetization stats, to tweaking things when you're not getting the performance you want.

Would you be willing to do this? I'd love to see an ACTUAL case study, but if you just want to make one up, that would be cool too. Thanks!

 

[earthgld]

Hm, seems like majesticseo is limited even for free users, and I'm not yet confident about this whole thing so I'm not ready to pay for my membership. Would like to at least find 1 domain with a little potential first. Is there any other similar website you recommend? Someone mentioned backlinkwatch.com, and I'm not sure if troll or if he was promoting his own site, but it's totally worthless, plus all the adds is driving me crazy.

Edit: went to expireddomains.net and checked the dropped domains with back links the last 24 hours, it did say back links, but then there was only Blekko inbound links to sort after, some random website is supposed to have 82k links, and when I go to google and type link:xxxxxxxxx.com it shows nothing at all. Am I doing something wrong here?

It's just you or every one if i can say noobs in domaining always complaining without knowing that what it that shared here is free useful knowledge. For backlinkwatch it is a very good tool in earlier times, maybe now more great tool is available, like majesticseo, ahref or opensiteexplore. But if you know yahoo site explorer that are now dead, the backlinkwatch is share the same data with it and it is one of the best tools to check the backlinks.

And you know that google is never expose all of his indexing result. What you see if you text "link:" it only show some example of backlink indexed by google. What you see in third party backlink indexing service is just a picture that is not represent what google indexed.

 

[pablohc86]

on your experience, backlink inside the "links page" or the "resource page" also on well trafficated website could be a good potential traffic bringer?

in my opinion and experience those backlinks are garbage.. 95% of times no one look at those pages on a websites.. and hoping that one person click on the link among many others is very hard..

anyone join my theories or anybody have different ideas?
please share, thanks

 

[KwelX]

So what is your pick and why?

Thanks,

I often wonder if people understand the importance of keywords. Let go over an example and discuss.

If I was parking a domain that had to do with college education and had to pick one keyword, what would it be?

I'd like to hear your thoughts and please give your 1 keywords with explanation. I will give you all my pick afterwards and explain why I picked the specific keyword.

 

[waqascheema]

Hi i like to few thing i have few domain's which i like to park can you tell me best service.

 

[domino66]

@smurge:

I thought the most helpful request / post ITT was someone asking if you could walk us through one of your purchases, from beginning to end. Starting from the research phase where you evaluate the attractiveness of a DN, to the keyword analysis, to the parking, to the monitoring of parking/monetization stats, to tweaking things when you're not getting the performance you want.

Would you be willing to do this? I'd love to see an ACTUAL case study, but if you just want to make one up, that would be cool too. Thanks!

bump - so you still checking this thread, smurge?

 

[dibbledabble]

whats more important when valuing the backlinks to a domain, Blekko inbound links, or SEo kicks domain pops. Kinda confused as to what the difference is and which number should be higher when buying an expiring domain..

 

[smurge]

bump - so you still checking this thread, smurge?

I do check the thread. Sorry guys been extremely busy with our business and getting ready for Webfest. Also, Starting Monday we are releasing a new book on this topic, so that's been a big process.

I will try to answer some questions later today but I do check here as often as possible.

 

[smurge]

whats more important when valuing the backlinks to a domain, Blekko inbound links, or SEo kicks domain pops. Kinda confused as to what the difference is and which number should be higher when buying an expiring domain..

It's not about which ones have more value. It all comes down to relevancy and traffic to the site the backlink sits on. If it's a popular site and has my backlink on it, I dont care which engine I find it on.

 

[marlonmark]

Thanks Smurge for sharing such a relevant information. I was using Sitexplorer till yet however now have a lot of options open bcoz of u thanks for the same.

 

[baseballworld]

Hi i like to few thing i have few domain's which i like to park can you tell me best service.

Only way your gonna know is sign up for a few different parking companies and test them out at each. see which ones are converting your traffic best for you. Some people even find that self parking them gets them better results. Trial and error now will have better long term results for you instead of sitting and not knowing.

 

[smurge]

I wanted to show you all something. Let me know your thoughts and if you truly believe parking is dead!

A single: $154.10 Click!

 

[doescrow]

Incredible! ! !

I wanted to show you all something. Let me know your thoughts and if you truly believe parking is dead!

A single: $154.10 Click!

 

[namemarket]

The highest click I have ever seen in all my years in the business. Could it be an error?

I also see it's a dot-org. What's the name, category and parking firm?

 

[ibidu]

I wanted to show you all something. Let me know your thoughts and if you truly believe parking is dead!

A single: $154.10 Click!

It must be from a car donation site? Or is it?!

 

[smurge]

It must be from a car donation site? Or is it?!

It is "not" a car donation site. I won't say the name of the site but it has to do with credit cards, lawyers, etc..

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The highest click I have ever seen in all my years in the business. Could it be an error?

I also see it's a dot-org. What's the name, category and parking firm?

Parking Company: Domainsponsor.com

It's not an error. It's been finalized.


I won't put the name out there because I don't want it banned for advertising. However I will say it looks like this xxx-xxx.org

It's category shows multiple industries such as; credit cards, lawyers, education, etc..

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Here's a screen shot of one of my accounts:



Once again there are plenty of big clicks to be made and plenty of money going around.

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

@smurge

Do you think DomainSponsor is better than InternetTraffic? Which is the best parking platform overall in your views? Also have you tried InternetTraffic for parking your domains?

 

[ibidu]

It is "not" a car donation site. I won't say the name of the site but it has to do with credit cards, lawyers, etc..

I know which one this is now, as you gave me a list - this one should be the one on alcoholism and it has 100's of relevant backlinks and it looks a gem by the looks of it. Nice one to have and no one will be able to emulate this domain because of its precious backlinks.

 

[smurge]

@smurge

Do you think DomainSponsor is better than InternetTraffic? Which is the best parking platform overall in your views? Also have you tried InternetTraffic for parking your domains?

I.M.O. the best parking companies around are the following and in no specific order;

1. Domainsponsor
2. Voodoo
3. Bodis



Regarding which platform is best that's a different story. Each company filters traffic a different way. I have a domain on bodis that gets big traffic but when i move it to domainsponsor the traffic goes away and vice versa with other domains. This is one reason you should always use multiple parking companies.

I have not tried Internettraffic yet but I might in the future.