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.

 

[smurge]

Great tutorial here.

One question, I have parked many domains with voodoo, but they are giving just $0.01/click, why?

Two domains of theme are high traffic domains one is miss-spelling of Facebook, and another one is related to tv news......in non-english country.

I need tips to improve revenue, or can you suggest any good parking company?

You answered your own question .

1. Facebook - trademarked and most likely banned
2. Foreign - depending on where it comes from it pays low

 

[sofiapartner]

Well I figure I might as well share this one: $398.00 click

Well - i am just thinking - who is this advertiser to pay $400 for a click.

And yes - I think this only happens to you. I dont believe that someone else has $300+ click from parking. And surely you can write to Guinnes.

I would like to ask - what is the traffic to these domains with $100+ clicks - 2-3 a day or 30-40 a day.

As far as the screenshots are concerned it seems that those domains dont have such huge traffic.

 

[rngrdanny22]

@Smurge

Where in DomainSponsor do you select keywords? Are you referring to the "Site Keywords" section under "Meta Tags"?

Or is it something else under the "Keywords" tab?

Thanks!

 

[thegeekguy]

@rngrdanny22 You will need to request this feature from Domain Sponsor Support. They had this feature activated a day after I sent them an email.

 

[rngrdanny22]

I'll send them one now. Is there anything specific that I need to ask for?

Thanks!

 

[pablohc86]

No need to send nothing..
After the schedule you mention (the meta tag and so on..)
You have the keyword page..
You have to disable the automatic optimization and on the right you can force keywords.
Need 24h maximum to switch key optimisation and 24 to 48h to optimize keywords.

If you write to them they do the same but you can do by yourself saving time..

 

[rngrdanny22]

Gotcha, so if I disable to optimization and wait 24-48 hours, I'll have the chance to enter them then?

Thanks!

 

[thegeekguy]

@smurge how has your experience with using the domainsponsor search box theme (Atlantis or Zurich). Are you getting $XX or $XXX from using them?

 

[pablohc86]

Gotcha, so if I disable to optimization and wait 24-48 hours, I'll have the chance to enter them then?

Thanks!

Sorry..
I've make an error.. Don't disable keywords optimization.
Just put your forced keywords on the tab near the keyword optimization selection..

You need to wait up to 48h before the forced key take effect..

If you disable key optimization others things happen.. But revenues drop.. Tested by myself. The Ds support confirm that to me.
Sorry if you have already switched off

 

[HiFiNames.com]

DomainParking is too far from dead. One of our customer has sent her stats on her domain with $272 / click this January.

Pay per click for
Dec - $54
Jan - $272
Feb - $51
Mar - $43.

But these clicks happen rarely. (This domain was actually sold by us to her for just $400) I will ask her permission to put the screenshot here.

I remember I have read somebody parked at sedo! and got a click for $21,000 few years back. Also I remember the domainer said he has called sedo to confirm was this ok and got confirmed ok. I googled for it and couldn't locate it now.

Do anybody remember or locate it?

 

[advaita]

Sorry..
I've make an error.. Don't disable keywords optimization.
Just put your forced keywords on the tab near the keyword optimization selection..

Pablo - can you tell me what you mean by 'put your forced keywords on the tab near the keyword optimization section'? I can't see such a tab - which page is it on ?

I sent a question to DP support - but got no answer.

 

[tarikpierce]

Me neither. All I see is fields for blocking keywords. Please create a video.

 

[ibidu]

Deleted by the poster since it could have started world war 3 if it had been misunderstood!

 

[pablohc86]

Pablo - can you tell me what you mean by 'put your forced keywords on the tab near the keyword optimization section'? I can't see such a tab - which page is it on ?

I sent a question to DP support - but got no answer.

DS support is very slow to answer.. on your account on the right top you have you AM mail.. send mail to him/her..

i can't make a video but follow me in this steps in your account:

1)Domain management
2)Manage domains
3)select the domain you want modify keyw.
4)On the right you can see "edif features" click on it.
5)you have 3 tab now.. lander design, lander features, keywords
click on keywords.
6)leave keywords optimization ON and suddenly under you can see the line:
"force included keywords" ok?
on the right you have: "Edit force included keywords:" and here you can write your keywords..

under you have the blocked keywords..

all is clear now?

 

[zaki.ahmed]

Deleted by the poster since it could have started world war 3 if it had been misunderstood!

hahahha really funny comment. awesome.

---------- Post added at 09:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 PM ----------

DS support is very slow to answer.. on your account on the right top you have you AM mail.. send mail to him/her..

i can't make a video but follow me in this steps in your account:

1)Domain management
2)Manage domains
3)select the domain you want modify keyw.
4)On the right you can see "edif features" click on it.
5)you have 3 tab now.. lander design, lander features, keywords
click on keywords.
6)leave keywords optimization ON and suddenly under you can see the line:
"force included keywords" ok?
on the right you have: "Edit force included keywords:" and here you can write your keywords..

under you have the blocked keywords..

all is clear now?

There is no such option for my domains.
May be this is only for few. based on traffic etc ?

 

[advaita]

Many thanks for taking the time to answer Pablo - but I'm like ZA - I don't have that option, I guess DS is different for different folks - here is what I see

 

[cantstop]

My apologies, I didn't see your question.

DuckDuckGo.com is it's own search engine. It does not base it's results off Google or Yahoo. So when you are searching for backlinks on there it's just another way to validate real backlinks and results.

They have a feature that "helps out" the surfer if you search for a domain that is parked it says "we have determined that ^^^^^.com is a parked page..." and just shows related results.
BTY there Faq page says they get their search results from bing.This is revealed under "how do I submit my site to duck duck"

 

[thegeekguy]

I'm still working out how to get higher clicks using domain sponsor for some strange reason its just not working for me.

 

[tarikpierce]

You have to request keyword inclusion from your Account manager.

How do I include certain keywords to show up on the landing page?

You can use the keyword inclusion tool. This feature is enabled only by request. If you wish to have this feature, please contact your Account Manager. If you have this feature enabled, follow these steps:

Click Manage Portfolios under the Domain Management tab.
Click the portfolio that contains the domain.
Select the domain and click the "Edit" button. This goes to the Edit Domain Settings page. Click on the "Keywords" tab, which has the Optimization Settings section.
Enter the keywords in the text area under Keyword Inclusion
Click the Save button.

Source: https://pubman.domainsponsor.com/help/faq/domain_management#inclusion

 

[NameAgency]

I wrote an email to support and they activate the keywords option in 24 hours.