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.

 

[Hotham Shinboner]

I've made $8 as of today, not in just one day. The most I've made in a single day so far is $1.24. So since the start of Jan, I've made $8.19 total. My apologizes if I misstated that.

 

[pelez]

nice thread, @smurge : how many domain do you have in the park ? i just have 4 domain and some of the domain park require min. 10 domains

and also do you have domain new tld like .club , .bar, .ceo ? i want to buy in that simmiliar extension, but i still doubt about them, some people said it`s not popular extension domain

 

[solarix]

Not sure if this was already posted, but I ran across a nice free tool called Open Link Profiler which helps check backlinks.
http://www.openlinkprofiler.org

 

[shoyeb2014]

I know about google backlink tools and yahoo backling but first time I found Majesticseo.com here new. I do not about it can give me some more information about these

 

[kelvinsmilz]

someone should help me, please. i am a beginner. is namepros only for buying and parking of domains? i can see an avenue created for a business transaction. how can one get his/ her money?

 

[parkdo]

a good post!
and ,I wanna get an account of Domainsponsor
could you help me?

 

[Tauseef]

Please tell me where i can park my domain on Namepros
Kindly send the link

 

[rofikhi]

hi just want to ask, is there a new report from above.com for the title
"Above Marketplace Report". we can learn a lot there i think

 

[rofikhi]

and also i want to ask, can i park fresh buy domain? that are high targeted keyword,can it generate traffic?

 

[rofikhi]

can i post picture other than bodis here?

 

[simran.net]

Another Free tool to check backlinks http://www.backlinkwatch.com

I hope it is allows unlimited search

 

[smurge]

I am here! For some reason I wasn't getting notices. I hope all is well and feel free to ask away.

 

[advaita]

Thanks for the link GW.

Smurge - do you still park domains? Is it still profitable?

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

someone should help me, please. i am a beginner. is namepros only for buying and parking of domains? i can see an avenue created for a business transaction. how can one get his/ her money?

For Parking - DomainSponsor, NameDrive, Sedo, Afternic, DomainNameSales, Bodis, Above.com
For Selling - Sedo, SnapNames, NameJet, Afternic, NameDrive
I hope I answered on your question.

 

[smurge]

Thanks for the link GW.

Smurge - do you still park domains? Is it still profitable?

Yes I do still park and yes it's very profitable. Think about this... 5-6 years ago all the so called "DOMAINING PROS" said parking was going to dry up... well here we are 6 years later and it's still going strong. If you think Google is going to kill a cash cow you are wrong. There is plenty of money to be made as long as you follow the rules.

 

[sofiapartner]

I think smurge is the only one in this forum, who is making serious dollars from parking. How and why? I don't know.

 

[ResoluteDomains]

Yes I do still park and yes it's very profitable. Think about this... 5-6 years ago all the so called "DOMAINING PROS" said parking was going to dry up... well here we are 6 years later and it's still going strong. If you think Google is going to kill a cash cow you are wrong. There is plenty of money to be made as long as you follow the rules.

Would love to know how you're doing it. With over 400 names I am barely making $10 per month. So if you ask me, they were correct. I used to make $200+ per month, which still isnt great compared to what I've heard, but compared to the drop down to $10 - I'd take $200 again. Problem is, most of us dont know what the rules actually are.

 

[baseballworld]

Yes I do still park and yes it's very profitable. Think about this... 5-6 years ago all the so called "DOMAINING PROS" said parking was going to dry up... well here we are 6 years later and it's still going strong. If you think Google is going to kill a cash cow you are wrong. There is plenty of money to be made as long as you follow the rules.

I couldn't agree with this more. I mean come on people none of us would throw that cash away. Keep up the hard work and continue to strengthen your portfolios and the cash will keep on coming in.

 

[Hypersot]

I think smurge is the only one in this forum, who is making serious dollars from parking. How and why? I don't know.

Smurge is definitely not the only one that makes serious money from parking

He is, however, the only one that's actively supporting parking by all means

I don't know if parking is having a future or not, that's up to the big G out there.
What I do know though is that, for the moment, there is serious money that can be made if one can invest some common sense in it

 

[smurge]

I think smurge is the only one in this forum, who is making serious dollars from parking. How and why? I don't know.

Let me put it this way; if you think im the only one making money then you're wrong. I won't mention names but I know at least 10-15 other people who make a hellllll of a lot more than me.

The problem I see is 2 fold; mentality & truth. Everyone expects instant results and if they aren't happy with the results they panic and toss it away. The other problem is truth. Countless times I have come across people that are told the truth and refuse to accept it.

If you are in business and someone is telling you something is wrong, do not get mad at them rather listen to what they have to say. Listen to others point of views because honestly...99% chance your view is skewed by emotions. Making decisions based on "EMOTION" is probably #2 on the ways to fail at business in my book.

#1. Not having enough capital

#2. Making decisions based on emotion instead of logic.

#3. Not listening to others points of view who are better than you in those areas.


No one is perfect but people are better than you at specific things. Line yourself up with people who know more than you in the areas you struggle. Listen to what others have to say even if you don't think it's right.

 

[smurge]

Would love to know how you're doing it. With over 400 names I am barely making $10 per month. So if you ask me, they were correct. I used to make $200+ per month, which still isnt great compared to what I've heard, but compared to the drop down to $10 - I'd take $200 again. Problem is, most of us dont know what the rules actually are.

Okay, I question everything:

1. What changed in your portfolio that you went from $200 a month to $10 a month.

2. If it was nothing in your portfolio then what was it?

You have to keep questioning things?

Have you tried new settings, new keywords, new landers, etc? Have you tried different parking companies? Have you tried auto - optimization features that some companies have? Have you reached out to the support team where ever you are parking for feedback and advice?



If you don't know the rules you need to do the research. I can tell you the rules but telling versus you doing it defeats the purpose of you learning the business.

 

[urljunky]

1 question to smurge, how many visits a day or month does one of your mediocre parked domains get?

 

[ResoluteDomains]

Okay, I question everything:

1. What changed in your portfolio that you went from $200 a month to $10 a month.

2. If it was nothing in your portfolio then what was it?

You have to keep questioning things?

Have you tried new settings, new keywords, new landers, etc? Have you tried different parking companies? Have you tried auto - optimization features that some companies have? Have you reached out to the support team where ever you are parking for feedback and advice?



If you don't know the rules you need to do the research. I can tell you the rules but telling versus you doing it defeats the purpose of you learning the business.

May I reply via private message?

 

[xtremex]

Okay, I question everything:

1. What changed in your portfolio that you went from $200 a month to $10 a month.

2. If it was nothing in your portfolio then what was it?

You have to keep questioning things?

Have you tried new settings, new keywords, new landers, etc? Have you tried different parking companies? Have you tried auto - optimization features that some companies have? Have you reached out to the support team where ever you are parking for feedback and advice?



If you don't know the rules you need to do the research. I can tell you the rules but telling versus you doing it defeats the purpose of you learning the business.

hi

which domain parking service, you are using now?

 

[smurge]

May I reply via private message?

Sure, anyone can message me privately.