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.

 

[yogiDomain]

Traffic without any clicks

I have accounts in Bodis, ParkingCrew, RookMedia, NameDrive for parking my domains. and manage the stats by using above dot com.
I get good traffic daily but no clicks.
Its not long that i have parked my domains.
Can anyone tell me the expect time to start earning.

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

I have accounts in Bodis, ParkingCrew, RookMedia, NameDrive for parking my domains. and manage the stats by using above dot com.
I get good traffic daily but no clicks.
Its not long that i have parked my domains.
Can anyone tell me the expect time to start earning.

I have this problem too. At first at Sedo, now on Domainsponsor.

 

[renserv909]

Been absolutely hooked on this thread over the last couple of days. Decided to create my own portfolio, as of 3rd Jan 2014.

I have 9 sites that I picked up on expireddomains.net trying to follow the methodology described here. Generally picked sites with a catchy name and some backlinks, traffic, CPC.

Really has just hit home to pick sites with worthwhile links. Run out of free attempts on most domain checkers which is ok since my limited budget has now diminished.

Still can't believe that this method works, but thought phuck it, i'll bite the bullet and see what happens.

I would concur with the two posters above. Some rough metric for establishing a predicted return on investment would be brilliant.

Many thanks to Smurge for posting some very informative and detailed advice.

 

[olaajimd]

Thanks Smurge for this thread. I'm a newbie to the domaining industry. I've read this post over the past days and I don't if i missed this but how can I check the quality of the backlinks. I know backlinkwatch lists the backlinks found on a particular domain but how do i know if they are of good quality. Thanks!

 

[yogiDomain]

Thanks Smurge for this thread. I'm a newbie to the domaining industry. I've read this post over the past days and I don't if i missed this but how can I check the quality of the backlinks. I know backlinkwatch lists the backlinks found on a particular domain but how do i know if they are of good quality. Thanks!

IMO you have to check back links on multiple tools.
Check it on siteexplorer, majesticseo and alexa too.
this might give you more details about backlink.

 

[HiFiNames.com]

The quality of back link is to be manually checked IMO.

On which site/page the link is placed?.
The quality/category of that website & web page?.
Any links on comment section is not quality!.
Any links on irrelevant category is not quality!. ( it is not good to have a insurance domain which has lot of backlinks on an entertainment / education related website).

So need pure dedication & manual thinking than just relying on tools when it comes to quality.

Anybody please correct me if i am wrong

 

[kimmy]

DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP)

I guess I consider myself a domainer since I own about 500 domains. I make about 2 dollars a day average from adsense on two particular main domains that I own. One is from a dropped domain I scooped up. I have sold about 3 domains in the last 2 years for $500-800.00 and about ten or so for under $500.

I've used parked domain services through sedo, godaddy and a few others which I don't feel like they really pay out anything substantial. Sometimes I wonder if because they are kind of like a broker that they take a nice cut of the proceeds on clicks. Just a theory I question. I think I may try your Voodoo suggestion to test the waters. I have most success with Adsense where in some years I have made $1800 for the year which covers part of my domain registration fees. So I am looking to construct a parked page template with good curb appeal. Does anyone on the web offer this for free or a small fee so I can implement adsense?

I'm just curious if you have ever used DoubleClick for publishers and if yes, if you have had success with it.

This next subject has nothing to do with parked pages but since you are in this business of domaining, I thought I would ask..... so, I have
monitored on DN Journal website for how much domains sell for on the auction block. Some of the domains I see make me scratch my head as to how it could get up to $1500-8000 dollars. I've tried listing some of mine that estibot say are more valuable ones on the same auction block for no action.....so Is there a secret mafia underground for getting bites on a domain for auction?

thanks for your tips and tricks!
Kim:red:

 

[USA-Domains]

Translation:



I'm no longer going to teach people my "secrets" now that the cat is out of the bag. I mean come on, do you really think I am going to teach you my secrets of making money and create more competition for myself?



By false I mean the truth.



As long as you don't post that rare $50 or $60 click screenshot from Voodoo and try to hype up a service you are offering by making it sound like clicks like that happen everyday when in reality it's a rare occurance.



I will still check my inbox regularly just in case any newcomer actually believes the snake oil I am trying to sell.

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All joking aside, anyone with an IQ higher than that of a peanut can clearly see thru the smoke and mirros. Smurge basically posted a couple screenshots from Voodoo with really high clicks ($50-$60) and made it sound like anyone can make that type of money if only you purchase his program. Do you really think someone that is making that type of money is going to tell you his secrets and create more competetion for himself? Think about that for a second.

This isn't to talk down about Smurge, the guy has clearly posted a few tips here and there but come on man, say it like it is instead of repeating the same "parking isn't dead" and "look at this one everyday $60 click I get".

Any domainer worth his salt knows that parking has been in a sharp decline for a while now. I mean if you want to offer your services for a fee and help people out that's cool and I have nothing against that but no need to deceive and lie to new domainers just for a quick buck.

I will end this post with an actual quote from his website. He has since removed this quote but thanks to our friend Archive.org we can still see it.

"The fastest way to earn income online. At first I was skeptical but after signing up and learning his method I made over $800 my first week. -Anthony K."

Really Smurge? Someone made $800 their first week? And here I am after 5 years of domaining and only making a measly $500 a week from parking my 2400 domains.

Funny how Richard Saperstein (aka smurge) is giving advice to people in this thread while he is scamming people of hundreds of dollars on his clickmillions website.

namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/793108-tried-the-clicks-to-millions-program.html

Once the cat was out of the bag and Morgan Linton along with several other people started trying the service and writing reveiws it turned out to be a scam. Wonder why smurge stopped posted as much in here. Hm...

morganlinton.com/clickmillions-review/

 

[pablohc86]

Funny how Richard Saperstein (aka smurge) is giving advice to people in this thread while he is scamming people of hundreds of dollars on his clickmillions website.

namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/793108-tried-the-clicks-to-millions-program.html

Once the cat was out of the bag and Morgan Linton along with several other people started trying the service and writing reveiws it turned out to be a scam. Wonder why smurge stopped posted as much in here. Hm...

morganlinton.com/clickmillions-review/

Again with this story??
Richard is not a bad guy and click millions is not a scam and neither Morgan says that..
I've no biz with click millions.. Just a happy user..


SORRY BUT I NEED TO EDIT..

Richard is still a good guy.. but his ex company not at all...

what i've seen today after 2 year customer change my minds..

Termination of Report Card Process
Effective immediately, we will no longer be able to offer the Report Card as part of the ClickMillions program. Unfortunately many of the data sources that we have been using to compile results are no longer offering the data to the public and/or in a way that we can extract the information for our routines. In other words, it has now become impossible or cost-prohibitive to gather this information from our data sources. This is now occurring across most of the competitor platforms as well.

We continue to believe strongly in the domain investing business and hope that you will still take advantage of our instructional videos for monetizing domain names. The principles of qualifying expired domain names still holds true regardless of the report card and continues to be a viable business for thousands of domain investors across the world.

Thanks for being a valued customer with ClickMillions and we wish you continued success in the future.

WHAT?????

I PAIED AROUND 900$ FOR THE COMPLETE REPORT CARD LIFETIME SERVICE AND NOW YOU STOP ALL AND YOU SAY THAT YOU CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN THIS BIZ???

YOU TAKE MONEY FROM PEOPLE AND NOW YOU STOP ALL??? HOW COULD PEOPLE BELIEVE IN YOUR WORDS??

I THINK THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO CONDUCT A BUSINESS...

obviously i'm not talking about Richard.. instead i would only be glad if he could help us (our ex customer or simply his apprentice) on how proceed now..
report card were the main important part of the domain life..

 

[smurge]

Funny how Richard Saperstein (aka smurge) is giving advice to people in this thread while he is scamming people of hundreds of dollars on his clickmillions website.

namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/793108-tried-the-clicks-to-millions-program.html

Once the cat was out of the bag and Morgan Linton along with several other people started trying the service and writing reveiws it turned out to be a scam. Wonder why smurge stopped posted as much in here. Hm...

morganlinton.com/clickmillions-review/

I stopped posting because of idoit's like you.

Also, I have never scammed anyone. I was part of clickmillions but decided it was better for me to a different direction.

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Again with this story??
Richard is not a bad guy and click millions is not a scam and neither Morgan says that..
I've no biz with click millions.. Just a happy user..


SORRY BUT I NEED TO EDIT..

Richard is still a good guy.. but his ex company not at all...

what i've seen today after 2 year customer change my minds..

Termination of Report Card Process
Effective immediately, we will no longer be able to offer the Report Card as part of the ClickMillions program. Unfortunately many of the data sources that we have been using to compile results are no longer offering the data to the public and/or in a way that we can extract the information for our routines. In other words, it has now become impossible or cost-prohibitive to gather this information from our data sources. This is now occurring across most of the competitor platforms as well.

We continue to believe strongly in the domain investing business and hope that you will still take advantage of our instructional videos for monetizing domain names. The principles of qualifying expired domain names still holds true regardless of the report card and continues to be a viable business for thousands of domain investors across the world.

Thanks for being a valued customer with ClickMillions and we wish you continued success in the future.

WHAT?????

I PAIED AROUND 900$ FOR THE COMPLETE REPORT CARD LIFETIME SERVICE AND NOW YOU STOP ALL AND YOU SAY THAT YOU CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN THIS BIZ???

YOU TAKE MONEY FROM PEOPLE AND NOW YOU STOP ALL??? HOW COULD PEOPLE BELIEVE IN YOUR WORDS??

I THINK THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO CONDUCT A BUSINESS...

obviously i'm not talking about Richard.. instead i would only be glad if he could help us (our ex customer or simply his apprentice) on how proceed now..
report card were the main important part of the domain life..

I'll help as much as I can, when I have time. Sorry about the report card issue. That is something beyond my control and knowledge.

 

[yogiDomain]

IMO this thread is not a compliant thread.
If you have compliants please post on seperate thread.
Please leave this thread for people who want to get trained and experts to post tips.
Create a fight thread and post your compliants and insults there.
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Please guide me in parking domains. being a newbie i am lost in so much of information ,service providers etc etc.
I am using Above.com with Bodis,PC,NameDrive and RookMedia. Not much of a protfolio but i got 10 good domains(expired domains) and 12 other hand regd(newbie work).
what do you guys think any suggestions.

 

[pablohc86]

I stopped posting because of idoit's like you.

Also, I have never scammed anyone. I was part of clickmillions but decided it was better for me to a different direction.

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I'll help as much as I can, when I have time. Sorry about the report card issue. That is something beyond my control and knowledge.

Yeah i know... that this thing is not depending from you.. is it possible to talk to you in private?
when u free obviously.. or otherwise i could also pay for your time.
i do not see you on skype anymore from long time.. maybe you have a new account..


@yogi
Yep you right Yogi.. this is not a compliant.. i wrote here just bacause i know that Richard post here... and he is the only one who helped me when he was with his ex team.

in order to help you:
how much are you earning monthly?
how many daily visitors do you have average? (daily)

 

[max200]

the best thing about clickmillions was the report card. it was legitimate until report card terminated. garbage on their part to the people who are still committed.

 

[yogiDomain]

pablohc,

My monthly earning has not crossed above $1 so far. I got 10 good traffic domain and some other not so great domains. Unique visits are around 150 daily. But no clicks not even a single click. And the worst thing i am getting addicted to this parking thing.
I pick up expired domains mostly.
any suggestions.

 

[pablohc86]

the best thing about clickmillions was the report card. it was legitimate until report card terminated. garbage on their part to the people who are still committed.

Sure, or better the only important thing is the report card.. Coz other once you have read all u do not utilize nothing.. I payed a really high price for a lifetime powerful report card and now they suspend all.. Really bad business, this is a fraud IMHO.


@yogi: which niche are your 3 best traffic domain?
And where the traffic come from? (I mean country)

 

[yogiDomain]

pablohc86,
Most of the traffic comes from China and US
my top domains
1 is for Heavy machinary.. it was domain of china based company which was dealing in parts of heavy machinery.
2 is .info website which was a website to maintain links like link directory
3 is a gaming paper publishing domain

 

[hotpassion]

pablohc86,
Most of the traffic comes from China and US
my top domains
1 is for Heavy machinary.. it was domain of china based company which was dealing in parts of heavy machinery.
2 is .info website which was a website to maintain links like link directory
3 is a gaming paper publishing domain

I suppose your domains are not really good niches for parking. Although it may get a lot of traffic from expired links, those traffic don't convert. Try to get domains in hot niches that people want to click like crazy, such as biz opp, make money online, weight loss, dating,.,...If you can get domains with good traffic with those niches, you will get clicks for sure!

All the best,

 

[pablohc86]

Yep.. You have to keep in mind that ads have to be related to a product or a service because an advertiser have to pay for that. This is because an hotel domain is better for parking than a directory one.. You have to understand too also where is coming your traffic, region and which backlinks..

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the best thing about clickmillions was the report card. it was legitimate until report card terminated. garbage on their part to the people who are still committed.

Clickmillions is report card.. No more report card =clickmillions unuseful= money to the bin..
Fake company..

 

[hasan003]

Clickmillions is report card.. No more report card =clickmillions unuseful= money to the bin..
Fake company..

Same here I did paid $1000 for lifetime membership and now they terminate report card ?????

 

[pablohc86]

Same here I did paid $1000 for lifetime membership and now they terminate report card ?????

Don't be afraid my friend.. They continue to believe in this business.. So how is useful that program now?
Really bad business