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.

 

[Domainer_1]

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

What country your traffic is coming from? average ppc 0,26$ is good result comparing with 0,02$

 

[pablohc86]

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

Damn!! is different!! my page have the keyword forcing..
i think is better to wait the support..

 

[thegeekguy]

@Domainer_1 Getting $.28 click from a nursing niched with US type in traffic is just horrible. Making it worst I'm using a second click theme.

 

[Domainer_1]

@Domainer_1 Getting $.28 click from a nursing niched with US type in traffic is just horrible. Making it worst I'm using a second click theme.

Yes, for US traffic it's not good. Have you tried Voodoo instead of DS?

 

[Siriusfriend]

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

Smurge, would you be so kind to tell me the niche of the domain which gets a $398.00 click?

 

[wags]

I have been reading this thread for the last 2 to 3 days and picked up some great info(thank you). i have been building websites for the last 10 years, so i know a good domain when i see one (parking aside) and not to bad at SEO(off page and on page), but building sites, applying SEO etc takes a lot of time which i do not have, so in the last few months i have been looking into domain parking as an alternative but reading most of the info from around the web kinda got my head spinning lol, so i am really pleased to find this thread but i would like to get things clear in my mind before i launch.

Smurge could you please answer the following questions.

1. Are all extensions equal for parking?

2. Apart from direct type in traffic does "keywords.com" perform better than "randomcharacters.com" for traffic?

3. If you had 2 domains of equal parking traffic potential both based on the same niche say "LLLLL.com" or "keywords.com" for choosing keywords for Ads, would it matter which domain you chose( parking only not domain value)?

4. If i park a domain (with traffic) should i be seeing traffic from day one, or does it take a few weeks to see visitors as i have read that when trying different parking companies, domains should be parked for at least a month to see the best results( i find this a bit weird as if its type ins or refferal (backlinks) it should not matter, or are you talking about revenue and not traffic)

5. I know you have your own software but if you had to set up from scratch now, what tools would you use for backlinks, traffic analysis etc?

Thx Paul

 

[namemarket]

Re #4, if a domain has traffic (even low traffic) it should be reflected in your stats more or less right away, especially if the name gets at least 30-month on a fairly consistent basis, which results in not many days likely without traffic based on averages. I see no valid reason early-stage traffic would not be reported by a parking provider.

 

[equity78]

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?

Never heard of $21,000 click, Donny you ever hear about this you have all the info.

 

[wags]

Re #4, if a domain has traffic (even low traffic) it should be reflected in your stats more or less right away, especially if the name gets at least 30-month on a fairly consistent basis, which results in not many days likely without traffic based on averages. I see no valid reason early-stage traffic would not be reported by a parking provider.

Thx for clearing that up david

 

[smurge]

Need some help....please message me if you understand how to set up a blog site.

I appreciate it.

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

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 only Keyword optimisation Block keywords Block favorite keywords. But no "Edit force included keywords"

 

[wags]

Blacklist Checker

Here is a nice tool to test if a domain is blacklisted, if adsense ads appear its good to go

ctrlq dot org/sandbox/

Paul

 

[advaita]

newdoma - you have to get in touch with DS support and get them to enable it - but they are very slow and may need reminding more than once

 

[ibidu]

Need some help....please message me if you understand how to set up a blog site.

I appreciate it.

Send me a PM explaining what you exactly want to do and I will do my best to help.

 

[Siriusfriend]

newdoma - you have to get in touch with DS support and get them to enable it - but they are very slow and may need reminding more than once

DS enabled it for me about eight hours after my email.

 

[ohassim]

over the past 2 months all my domain have been with Voodoo, after reviewing the traffic majority +_75% is coming from Russia and China, the other +_25% from the US and elsewhere. Should I change my domain namesevers to Bodis or Above. Please advise

Also for having +_900 domains I'm getting between 30 - 50 views a day, avg 2 clicks. is this normal. my opinion, this sucks.

 

[thegeekguy]

@bradon31 you have 900 domains and your getting only 30 to 50 for all these domains combined?

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

DS enabled it for me about eight hours after my email.

What to write that correct because i was wrong myself in keywords for domains on domainsponsor?

 

[ohassim]

yes on all domains combined, in my opinion this is terrible

@bradon31 you have 900 domains and your getting only 30 to 50 for all these domains combined?

 

[thegeekguy]

@bradon31 I guess if you intend to use these domains for selling then low traffic would not be such a big problem but if your doing domain parking you really need to have a strategy in finding domains with traffic to make any money in any parking platform.