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.

 

[Name Trader]

@Smurge - How many backlinks in MajesticSEO gets you interested? How do you check the backlinks that MajesticSEO gives you for quality? In your opinion, do you think the number of backlinks in MajesticSEO are reasonably accurate, wildly inaccurate, or somewhere in between? What are Citation Flow and Trust Flow? What do you read into those figures, and what are good numbers?

 

[Domainer_1]

One thing I know about MajesticSeo is that at least a free version of it doesn't show all backlinks for the domain. In this thread I asked if the paid version is more effective, but didn't receive any respond.

Stub, I think quantity of backlinks is useless factor for making decision about registering domain or not. One quality link could make you plenty of money, and it was said above in this thread. But I doubt MajesticSeo is a way to check this quality. Do you know any other free or paid service for checking backlinks?

 

[Name Trader]

So the number of backlinks showing in the free version is on the low side? That means there could be a number of backlinks on those domains showing zero? I'll have to check that. Thanks.

Which was why I asked Smurge how he checks backlinks for quality.

I don't know any others. MajesticSEO is the best I've found. I'm not really qualified to answer your question. Maybe someone else will chime in.

 

[Siriusfriend]

I use seokicks.de to check backlinks.

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

Have you guys used ahrefs.com. Can any one share their experience if MajesticSEO is better than ahrefs.com for checking quantity and quality of backlinks. I am asking because I normally use ahrefs.com to determine the quality/quantity of backlinks.

 

[nobitaemon]

1st Post Introductions

:hi:thank you for the opportunity to join in this forum. I was a newbie. Please help. Greetings. :loveyou:

 

[Domainer_1]

Have you guys used ahrefs.com. Can any one share their experience if MajesticSEO is better than ahrefs.com for checking quantity and quality of backlinks. I am asking because I normally use ahrefs.com to determine the quality/quantity of backlinks.

ahrefs.com looks good, I checked one domain which I know has 1 backlink and this site shows it!(Majesticseo doesn't show)

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

Backlinks in parking? All parking companies forbid advertising of domains or pasting links on forums and other sites.

 

[Domainer_1]

Backlinks in parking? All parking companies forbid advertising of domains or pasting links on forums and other sites.

This business is about parking domains with existing links, not about making new ones.

 

[thegeekguy]

@AbdulBasit I currently use majesticseo for bulk back link check. But after using for a month I figured out using several free tools combination to get similar data.

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

@AbdulBasit I currently use majesticseo for bulk back link check. But after using for a month I figured out using several free tools combination to get similar data.

Have you tried ahrefs? What's your comparison between MajesticSEO and ahrefs? I wanted to know which is overall the best backlink checker website...

 

[Domainer_1]

Have you tried ahrefs? What's your comparison between MajesticSEO and ahrefs? I wanted to know which is overall the best backlink checker website...

May be the key is to use them all and compare data? That's why important to know as many tools as possible. Let's count them all: seokicks.de, majesticseo, ahrefs, backlinkwatch.com...Do you know any more?

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

I use only couple of them at most. Not very much familiar with any other backlinks checker site.

 

[martiinko]

May be the key is to use them all and compare data? That's why important to know as many tools as possible. Let's count them all: seokicks.de, majesticseo, ahrefs, backlinkwatch.com...Do you know any more?

seokicks.de
opensiteexplorer.org (seomoz)
majesticseo.com
ahrefs.com

Backlinkwatch is getting data from ahrefs, so there is no point to it.

 

[BullS]

Lots of parking companies promise they have the best platform and pay the highest payouts...blah blah blah...

How about we show you the payout of the last 6 or12 mths and after 6mths if your platform cannot meet the target as you "brag" about, pay us back with 20% increase.


Take the challenge and Show us the MONEY!!

 

[hostmaster_2k]

The software does exists ...we have it.

How can I get involved? Thanks for your time.

 

[Name Trader]

Have you guys used ahrefs.com. Can any one share their experience if MajesticSEO is better than ahrefs.com for checking quantity and quality of backlinks. I am asking because I normally use ahrefs.com to determine the quality/quantity of backlinks.

How do you determine the quality of backlinks at ahrefs.com?

 

[thegeekguy]

@stub its just my opinion but ahrefs has better back link checker than the other competitors. was able to get a really good domain but you could also just use backlinkwatch if your not doing it bulk.

any of you guys know a tool like spyfu that would allow me to check how much advertiser spend on a particular keyword by month or by year?

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

How do you determine the quality of backlinks at ahrefs.com?

For example you check my signature domain in ahrefs for backlink check. And click on the Total Backlinks. That will automatically list the backlinks by Ahrefs Rank. Now I am not sure how accurate is their ranking system but they display all backlinks by ranking. The highest rank of backlink is listed first and so on... And looking carefully on each ranked URL you will see their system is giving ranks properly and not randomly.

Please and let me know if you agree or disagree with me

 

[Name Trader]

OK. I signed up. Checked you out (impressive). I think what you get for free on AHREFS is better than what you get for free on MajesticSEO. But the Bulk Backlink Checker for a quick look only does 10 domains compared to Majestic's 20. I find 20 to be a reasonable number and 10 is a bit limiting. But I like the backlinks ranking in AHREFS, which I don't find on Majestic.

OK. The bulk backlink checker is there on Majestic too, but it doesn't appear to be ranked, like at AHREFS.