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.

 

[Bizname]

Are you saying that you thought all domains would get a 10-15% click through? If so, that is definitely not the case every time.

For example:

I have one domain that got about 118 uniques last month with a 78% click through (made a whopping $0.65 last month at Sedo).

On the other hand, I have a domain that got 348 uniques last month with a 0.8% click through (it made $0.42 last month at Bodis).

This goes to show you that just because it gets tons of visitors, not all domains are going to have high click throughs. It can also show you that just because one has a high click through, it's CPC may be so low that it doesn't matter.

Ok I see, thanks for the feedback, so yes I was clearly too optimistic about the CTR.

It seems more complicated than I though to do some revenues with parking. (even X$ per month ^^)

 

[sofiapartner]

Just to let those, who dont know, ALEXA rank can be manipulated - so be carefull. Trafiic also can be manipulated. So if you are buying some 400K Alexa domain with 80000 a month traffic - 99 percent of the time you will get 10-20 visitors per month.

The best way to evaluate a domain is to see the backlinks, backlinks anchore (http://www.seokicks.de/), age, reputation, keywords, archive.org for its history, indexed pages in google. In this way you should be sure that traffic and alexa are real, before making a $100 purchase for nothing.

Oh - and if you see some high ALEXA rank domain with high ALEXA in India - RUNAWAY !

 

[rngrdanny22]

Totally agreed sofiapartner. Also, be aware that Alexa can work backwards from this as well. For instance, I have the following two names:

Domain A: 5 uniques per day / 4,000,000 Alexa rank
Domain B: 15 uniques per day / UNRANKED

Alexa is 100% based on whether the unique visitor has the Alexa toolbar installed.

 

[Bizname]

Just to let those, who dont know, ALEXA rank can be manipulated - so be carefull. Trafiic also can be manipulated. So if you are buying some 400K Alexa domain with 80000 a month traffic - 99 percent of the time you will get 10-20 visitors per month.

The best way to evaluate a domain is to see the backlinks, backlinks anchore (http://www.seokicks.de/), age, reputation, keywords, archive.org for its history, indexed pages in google. In this way you should be sure that traffic and alexa are real, before making a $100 purchase for nothing.

Oh - and if you see some high ALEXA rank domain with high ALEXA in India - RUNAWAY !

seokicks.de seems quite good.

It provides different results than majesticseo.com, it's more accurate, no?

 

[smurge]

Xleopard. I had enough with 10 sec. of analisis to this domain (it's shown in your pic) to check that is not good for parking.
Yes, it has lots of backlins, more than 2K with 3 .edu included. But all of them are very poor quality backlinks. 99% are replies to posts in blogs, forums and webposts. Somebody wasted his time with this awfull backlink building practice. Although they count as valid backlinks, they do not drive traffic becasuse the link is hidden between hundreds of other replies. And nobody is interested.

And if you check the anchors you find a mix of adult expressions, games, motor, hotels.... That is, no keyword defined, no clisks. It seems that somone before you used this domain to drive traffic to other sites.

This guy! What this guy said is correct!

Id recommend others pick up what he is saying and apply it.

 

[NameAgency]

Thanks smurge.
But don't push me up as a domain parking master. I'm a newbye still learning and making mistakes. Just read your advices, applying some work and lots of common sense.

 

[xleopard]

Just to let those, who dont know, ALEXA rank can be manipulated - so be carefull. Trafiic also can be manipulated. So if you are buying some 400K Alexa domain with 80000 a month traffic - 99 percent of the time you will get 10-20 visitors per month.

The best way to evaluate a domain is to see the backlinks, backlinks anchore (http://www.seokicks.de/), age, reputation, keywords, archive.org for its history, indexed pages in google. In this way you should be sure that traffic and alexa are real, before making a $100 purchase for nothing.

Oh - and if you see some high ALEXA rank domain with high ALEXA in India - RUNAWAY !

Sofiapartner, Thanks very much for your explaination, AND thanks for your recommendation of SEOkicks.de, I will try to use it.

Well , I have to say, there are too much silly guies likes me, because I paid 100$ for that terrible domain because some guies bidded with me, and finally I won. After the crazy happines of winning it, the sense of lose came~~~

Whatever, that is a lesson for me~~:tri:

 

[advaita]

Xleopard - at the moment it seems to be parked with Sedo which IMHO is not the best idea - Voodoo, Bodis and Domain Sponsor seem to be the places that get the most recommendations

 

[xleopard]

Xleopard - at the moment it seems to be parked with Sedo which IMHO is not the best idea - Voodoo, Bodis and Domain Sponsor seem to be the places that get the most recommendations

That is not the key problem, tht point is the traffic are mostly form backlinks, but the bL of that domain is not good in quality~~~

 

[Domainer_1]

That is not the key problem, tht point is the traffic are mostly form backlinks, but the bL of that domain is not good in quality~~~

Even if your domain can show better results in revenue, you will never know this by parking it with Sedo. Use other parking systems as it was said above. Sedo is not a profitable place.

 

[ibidu]

BTW, I paid more than 100$ for this domain, but revenues only $. in 5 months, ths sucks~~~8-X

By what criteria did you pay $100 for that domain? Just because someone else was bidding for it?!!

 

[buyresaledomains]

Questions

at smurge

Where do you park all or the majority of your domains? Do you solely sell them there or elsewhere? If elsewhere where is your preferred local? Aside from the back links you mention, do you push traffic to said parking location? If so, how?

This is the major question i have not been able to nail down. Until I can find the preferred answer I'm frozen with indecision. Thanks for your time smurge!

 

[xleopard]

Even if your domain can show better results in revenue, you will never know this by parking it with Sedo. Use other parking systems as it was said above. Sedo is not a profitable place.

Hey Domainer_1, thanks for your reminder, I will consider to move it to domiansponser or voodoo later,
:hi: to get a comparision, thanks a lot

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By what criteria did you pay $100 for that domain? Just because someone else was bidding for it?!!

As I said in the thread with the pictures, I find the total number of backlinx are over 2000, and including 40 edu blacklists, and the alexa ranking is competetive, so I think it valuable for granted~~~

I did not try to check the backlinks one by one, that is the reason I picked it and had bid it for 100$, what a terrible ~~~

btw, would you check evey backlinks one by one when you pick a domain with many backlinx?:gl:

 

[ibidu]

As I said in the thread with the pictures, I find the total number of backlinx are over 2000, and including 40 edu blacklists, and the alexa ranking is competetive, so I think it valuable for granted~~~

I did not try to check the backlinks one by one, that is the reason I picked it and had bid it for 100$, what a terrible ~~~

btw, would you check evey backlinks one by one when you pick a domain with many backlinx?:gl:

I like to point out to everyone that finding a good domain for parking purposes is not an easy task -- it's definitely not as easy as a lot of you have come to believe it is, perhaps as a result of reading this thread!

Just because a domain has lots of backlinks that does not necessarily mean that domain is going to perform well when it's parked - there's a lot more to that than you may think - lots of those backlinks are perhaps useless backlinks which would not bring any traffic at all --- to really engineer which backlinks are traffic generating backlinks you would need a special software written for it and I am not even sure such a software currently exists -- thinking about it logically...... if anyone wrote such a software would you really believe that person would share it with others?!! That software would be a "Gold Finder" software.... so why should anyone share such a software with you and me where he can use it himself to find domains which would earn him 1000's of dollars per day instead of selling it to perhaps 1000 individuals at a price of 20 dollars per person?!

On the other hand, it is perfectly feasible that an individual would buy 10 to 20 expired domains with some backlinks and one or two of those domains turn out to be an income generating domain -- this is basically a hit and miss situation which follows the "Law of Averages" principle.

 

[xleopard]

I like to point out to everyone that finding a good domain for parking purposes is not an easy task -- it's definitely not as easy as a lot of you have come to believe it is, perhaps as a result of reading this thread!

Just because a domain has lots of backlinks that does not necessarily mean that domain is going to perform well when it's parked - there's a lot more to that than you may think - lots of those backlinks are perhaps useless backlinks which would not bring any traffic at all --- to really engineer which backlinks are traffic generating backlinks you would need a special software written for it and I am not even sure such a software currently exists -- thinking about it logically...... if anyone wrote such a software would you really believe that person would share it with others?!! That software would be a "Gold Finder" software.... so why should anyone share such a software with you and me where he can use it himself to find domains which would earn him 1000's of dollars per day instead of selling it to perhaps 1000 individuals at a price of 20 dollars per person?!

On the other hand, it is perfectly feasible that an individual would buy 10 to 20 expired domains with some backlinks and one or two of those domains turn out to be an income generating domain -- this is basically a hit and miss situation which follows the "Law of Averages" principle.

Hey ibidu,
What you said is very to the point, To find a good domain is not an easy work like mowing the lawn. Well, I think there are still some tips exist and we would find it step by step, that is also the reason why here is this thread.
As some great guies shared in this thread, the links from blog comments and sex links are low of value, the links from the big websites or edu or government websites is good~~~

I am still not sure whether the links from the news are good quality, such as the website(the domain) reported in some news website, I think they are clean and convertible too~~

 

[Domainer_1]

and sex links are low of value

It was said that sex links are good too if they are quality links. Of course they have lower cpc than real estate links, but you still can earn some money with them.

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I am still not sure whether the links from the news are good quality, such as the website(the domain) reported in some news website, I think they are clean and convertible too

If news are hot, you will get traffic. But articles on news sites change quickly. Who will read news which were up-to-date 2 years ago? No one. So, how much traffic you will get? Zero.

 

[smurge]

I like to point out to everyone that finding a good domain for parking purposes is not an easy task -- it's definitely not as easy as a lot of you have come to believe it is, perhaps as a result of reading this thread!

Just because a domain has lots of backlinks that does not necessarily mean that domain is going to perform well when it's parked - there's a lot more to that than you may think - lots of those backlinks are perhaps useless backlinks which would not bring any traffic at all --- to really engineer which backlinks are traffic generating backlinks you would need a special software written for it and I am not even sure such a software currently exists -- thinking about it logically...... if anyone wrote such a software would you really believe that person would share it with others?!! That software would be a "Gold Finder" software.... so why should anyone share such a software with you and me where he can use it himself to find domains which would earn him 1000's of dollars per day instead of selling it to perhaps 1000 individuals at a price of 20 dollars per person?!

On the other hand, it is perfectly feasible that an individual would buy 10 to 20 expired domains with some backlinks and one or two of those domains turn out to be an income generating domain -- this is basically a hit and miss situation which follows the "Law of Averages" principle.

The software does exists ...we have it.

 

[sofiapartner]

@ smurge, could you send this software for review

Kidding of course.

I have a question - I have one decent domain in domainsponsor, which is in the patent trademark lawyers niche and is getting good traffic = ~15 uniques per day (~10 US) - however I am not getting any clicks for a week now. I suppose that the clicks will make nice earnings. Without clicks the domain is making ~ $0.10 a day. The question is what I am doing wrong.

The lander is Atlas 2 click.

I am not sure if I am getting the domainsponsor keyword optimization right. I put my desired keywords in the blocked keywords section and checked "Exact match" because it says:

"The system excludes all keywords containing the substrings that you provide, unless you check "Exact Match"."

Am I doing something not right ot it is just bad luck that there are no clicks?

Thanks, smurge.

 

[smurge]

@ smurge, could you send this software for review

Kidding of course.

I have a question - I have one decent domain in domainsponsor, which is in the patent trademark lawyers niche and is getting good traffic = ~15 uniques per day (~10 US) - however I am not getting any clicks for a week now. I suppose that the clicks will make nice earnings. Without clicks the domain is making ~ $0.10 a day. The question is what I am doing wrong.

The lander is Atlas 2 click.

I am not sure if I am getting the domainsponsor keyword optimization right. I put my desired keywords in the blocked keywords section and checked "Exact match" because it says:

"The system excludes all keywords containing the substrings that you provide, unless you check "Exact Match"."

Am I doing something not right ot it is just bad luck that there are no clicks?

Thanks, smurge.

If you are making money with no clicks that sounds like you are on the Domainsponsor "ZEROCLICK" model. Basically, they have determined that you can't get clicks for whatever reason.

Can it be fixed: YES


However, you need to find out if your domain has been blocked by Google. Typically DomainSponsor will put you on a Yahoo feed second and Zeroclick third.

Hope this helps...

 

[ibidu]

The software does exists ...we have it.

How can we have it too?