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]

Can it be fixed: YES

How? The domain is not blocked by google.

 

[Bizname]

Hello,

I'm wondering if it's worthy to use Above at the beginning. I'm just begin to do some clicks on different platform (Bodis and Sedo for the moment) with Above. However, I'm afraid to not reach the minimum cashout rapidly if I split my earnings on different platforms.

Do you think it's preferable to do only one platform or split with Above? I'm thinking about test Bodis, DomainSponsor, one by one.

Thank you

 

[thegeekguy]

@bizname If you have hundreds of domains using Above would certainly help you out.

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

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...

@smurge My domains have too no clicks. How set Zero click?
And what to do with blocked keywords? in field for optimization i enter my disared keywords and mark Exact match. But ... in overview for this domain in section Blocked keywords I see my keywords i entered. What it is? What i do wrong?

 

[smurge]

@smurge My domains have too no clicks. How set Zero click?
And what to do with blocked keywords? in field for optimization i enter my disared keywords and mark Exact match. But ... in overview for this domain in section Blocked keywords I see my keywords i entered. What it is? What i do wrong?

Use Bodis or Domainsponsor and they will auto set them. I also heard Voodoo is working on a Zeroclick model as well.

 

[Bizname]

@bizname If you have hundreds of domains using Above would certainly help you out.

Yes, you're right.

By the way, I'm wondering if it's normal to never get accurate data? Especially on Above?

During few days, I drove all my traffic through Bodis thanks to Above and both of them are showing me different figures.

Hard to track properly what happens :s

This is normal in the parking industry?

Thank you,

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

What is RPM? It is my income from parked domains?

 

[Domainstore]

Interesting thread
I'm a newbie for this thread.

 

[pablohc86]

What is RPM? It is my income from parked domains?

Rpm is not your revenues but is Revenues per mile so the calculated revenues with same daily conditions for each 1000 visits.

You can use this parameter to easy compare different keywords or different parking company..

Your revenues are in the revenues column

 

[smurge]

If it holds it will be my biggest click ever: $232.00

 

[Name Trader]

Wow! 1 click almost $233. You are the master. Bow. Bow even lower

 

[speedaccu]

Smurge,

Is there any chance to be your apprentice! Your single click equals to my couple of months revenue.

*Pls check your pm.

MANO

 

[rngrdanny22]

Nice job smurge! You've effectively earned roughly 23 years of renewals for that domain on one click.

 

[kevintruong]

If it holds it will be my biggest click ever: $232.00

impressive numbers

 

[alok897]

Domain parking is also one of the good option for your inactive domain from there you can also make money by Google ad-sense. This are nice discussion is going on here it will be useful to many of us.

 

[smurge]

Domain parking is also one of the good option for your inactive domain from there you can also make money by Google ad-sense. This are nice discussion is going on here it will be useful to many of us.

I agree. The biggest thing I get frustrated about is when people say "DOMAIN PARKING IS DEAD.


It's not dead nor has it ever been dead. What's dead is lack of information and know how. I still learn things everyday about this business and try to share as much as possible.

 

[thegeekguy]

@smurge its not easy to get high value clicks here's a sample of my trial domains with domainsponsor. first domain nursing and next one is lawyer related.

This one bellow was 4 days ago from the same lawyer domain:

 

[smurge]

@smurge its not easy to get high value clicks here's a sample of my trial domains with domainsponsor. first domain nursing and next one is lawyer related.

This one bellow was 4 days ago from the same lawyer domain:

What keywords are you using?

 

[thegeekguy]

@smurge thanks ahead for the help

Nursing
online nursing programs
online nursing schools
nurse jobs
nursing scholarship

Colorado Lawyer domain
colorado lawyer
colorado injury lawyer
mesothelioma lawyers
colorado accident lawyer
colorado dui lawyer
colorado lawyer jobs

Lander Type:
multiple landers:
Chicago
Atlas 2

 

[meph]

I also doubt parking is dead. Last few days I had tried to register some names which I parsed out of large list. Every single one of them was caugth. So don´t tell me, that somebody is willing to pay 69$ for name if he´s not sure he will earn money from it. These were domains with probably quite large traffic volume, but anyhow.

From what I´ve learned, almost every domain with dns_traffic_reach (from versigins domaincountdown tool) above 3000 will be most likely caught.

Smurge, can you please elaborate on the handreg/preregistration ratio of yours? From what I´ve seen on your screenshots, you are not targeting domains based on traffic. When (or based on what criteria) you decide wheter you´ll wait and try to hand register or preorder the name?

Second thing, are these huge clicks > 100USD really pure clicks, or pay per lead/something similar? I can´t imagine how much money would advertiser need to spent at google for that click, because as far as I know, you will earn just "small" (not in your case lol) portion of what will advertiser spend with google.

Thanks a lot for your help in this thread. Really appreciate!