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.

 

[sofiapartner]

The most important question is how to pick domains with REAL traffic. It seems that more than 95% of them are with fake traffic, fake Alexa,fake estimated traffic, fake PR, fake Compete, fake everything.

Who can we trust? Or at least - where we can see some real numbers?

 

[smurge]

Smurge / experts: thanks for all this input, took me a while but now i am through with this thread. It was worth every minute

Thanks and I will be posting even more when time allows.

 

[VisionEdger]

im trying to find some info on how to determine the value of parked domains with traffic so when I try to resell I have some idea what the value of my portfolio is.

How do you determine value of your parked domains with traffic before you offer for sale?

 

[pablohc86]

For me depends on how many months you can provide stats.
1/2 months of stats I ask 10 months average revenues
4/5 months of stats I ask more than 1 year average revenues..

The money request depends also by the traffic volume.. If is constant or dropping..

 

[smurge]

im trying to find some info on how to determine the value of parked domains with traffic so when I try to resell I have some idea what the value of my portfolio is.

How do you determine value of your parked domains with traffic before you offer for sale?

Valuation is determined over a 60 day period. It's based on the revenues earned during that time and the traffic. Once you have that info you can turn around and sell it for what you want.

 

[S_Equity]

Great thread! Noob question here: In theory, instead of using a parking service, couldn't I just create a page on Blogger or something, put some information about how the domain is for sale and my contact info, and just fill the rest of the page with Google Adsense? What is the advantage to using a parking service?

Also, which parking services tell you how much traffic you're getting?

Thanks!

 

[smurge]

Great thread! Noob question here: In theory, instead of using a parking service, couldn't I just create a page on Blogger or something, put some information about how the domain is for sale and my contact info, and just fill the rest of the page with Google Adsense? What is the advantage to using a parking service?

Also, which parking services tell you how much traffic you're getting?

Thanks!

Sure you could but why do you want to do all that work? Also, a parking company takes a lot of the bad stuff out of it. Another thing you have to remember is you are thinking about 1 site. Imagine for a moment you have over 1000 domains like myself; how would you manage all those?

It's much easier to just let a parking company handle all this.

---------- Post added at 03:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:44 PM ----------

Great thread! Noob question here: In theory, instead of using a parking service, couldn't I just create a page on Blogger or something, put some information about how the domain is for sale and my contact info, and just fill the rest of the page with Google Adsense? What is the advantage to using a parking service?

Also, which parking services tell you how much traffic you're getting?

Thanks!

Also, all parking companies tell you how much traffic you are getting. They show you real time what the traffic is, where its coming form, etc...

 

[smurge]

So I've been teaching an 80 year old grandmother how to do this and she gave me permission to post this. Please tell me more how parking is dead:


$124.00 Click

 

[thegeekguy]

@smurge Its really cool what your doing for the grandmother. I'm sure its going to help her a lot.

I do have some questions
Is her daily average income with out the high click around $5 to $10?
Any hint on getting the niche that got the $100 click?

I'm currently targeting nursing and law education using Voodoo, waiting patiently.

 

[getaddicted]

So I've been teaching an 80 year old grandmother how to do this and she gave me permission to post this. Please tell me more how parking is dead:

Let it be dead for others, atleast we will buy more names and earn more .... j/k

Only people who make money and get good cpc like us know parking is not dead, but others who dont still feel that.

From my statistics, i find CPC has been increasing year by year. 4 to 5 years back i never got $50 to $80 clicks on the niche what im getting now.

 

[Domainer_1]

Smurge, what extension is better for finding domains with backlinks: .net, .org, .info or .com?

 

[VisionEdger]

How aand where to sell domains with traffic and good cpc?

Due to family health problems I need to sell a few domains that are 1-2-3+ months old with traffic and some decent cpc but i'm unsure how and where to go about selling them.

I was thinking of flippa possibly but unsure whats best venue to sell them at.

I REALLY need to sell them even though I dont want to since there are many good paying domains in my portfolio now but I have no choice


Any suggestions?

 

[benitez1957]

Hi,

Interested in domains with traffic, can you post the details of the domains you have for sale, along with your price expectations?

Thanks

 

[smurge]

Smurge, what extension is better for finding domains with backlinks: .net, .org, .info or .com?

First let me say I'll take any extension as long as it can make me money. With that being said typically .COM will always be best because it has been around the longest. However, a .UK can be just as effective because backlinks are simply ways to get back to the site. So a .Com might now have as many backlinks.

Once again its about quality not quantity.


Hope this helps

 

[ProSence]

As .com is very popular so it receives good type-in traffic if the keyword/word has good number of searches.

 

[Domainer_1]

First let me say I'll take any extension as long as it can make me money. With that being said typically .COM will always be best because it has been around the longest. However, a .UK can be just as effective because backlinks are simply ways to get back to the site. So a .Com might now have as many backlinks.

Once again its about quality not quantity.


Hope this helps

I understand that any extension might have quality backlinks. But what domain has more chances to have these backlinks? Is it .com domain because of the fact that all serious sites stand with .com? How often do you find good domains in other extensions? Is it as usual as finding them in .com?

 

[ibidu]

Due to family health problems I need to sell a few domains that are 1-2-3+ months old with traffic and some decent cpc but i'm unsure how and where to go about selling them.

I was thinking of flippa possibly but unsure whats best venue to sell them at.

I REALLY need to sell them even though I dont want to since there are many good paying domains in my portfolio now but I have no choice


Any suggestions?

If you can substantiate the traffic and the earnings, yes I would give Flippa a shot definitely -- I would stipulate where the domains are getting their traffic from i.e. from backlinks or typein -- btw, if you like to PM me the names I can check to find out how good your backlinks are (if they have any) - stipulating good backlinks would be a good selling point.

Also, you may like to write to some independent brokers and see if they're interested in them - if you manage to find the right ones they may increase your chances of getting good values for them.

Also, try writing to Elliot Silver @ elliotsblog dot com - I am sure he could really help you as he is a very nice guy and he's flipped loads of good domains. I'd tell him the reason why you have to sell them as well.

All the best.

 

[thegeekguy]

@smurge I have a law related domain regarding US bar exams parked at domain sponsor. But clicks seems very low got $.02 today. left settings in default.

correction: There was no click from the visitors, but got search revenue in total $.03.

mylawrelateddomainorg 3 3 0 0 0.00% $0.00 $10.01 $0.00 $0.03 $0.03

 

[pablohc86]

@smurge I have a law related domain regarding US bar exams parked at domain sponsor. But clicks seems very low got $.02 today. left settings in default.

Only today low click value?
What is the average generally?

 

[iqbal51]

At first select a domain name, think it will popular in the next time. This content is very helpful to park a domain and earn money form online.