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.

 

[metwebber]

Can you show these backlinks please?

For example ;
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread146369/pg1
http://www.tarotygratis.com/date/2008/10/
http://hrgiger.com/books.htm

I know this domain is not good to purchase it just an example.

 

[Domainer_1]

I know this domain is not good to purchase it just an example.

Why do you think so? What are your reasons? For me it looks like this:


http://hrgiger.com/books.htm -------> link to the domain is hidden in the website's code, but you can't see it

http://www.tarotygratis.com/date/2008/10/ --------> a blog page with a lot of text, which is almost 7 years old; link is located somewhere in the text; not easy to find(I didn't find). How often do you read blog posts of 2008 dates? How often do other people visit them? If someone eventually visits this page is very unlikely he will find this link. Especially, if he is not looking for it, because there are so many other links to click instead.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread146369/pg1 ---------> I can say the same things about this. Member of the forum wrote a reply in one of the threads in 2005 ("posted on Jun, 10 2005 @ 09:09 AM"), Who will visit this page and read it in 2015?

 

[Domainer_1]

I know this domain is not good to purchase it just an example.

Why do you think so? What are your reasons? For me it looks like this:

http://hrgiger.com/books.htm

link to the domain is hidden in the website's code, but you can't see it


http://www.tarotygratis.com/date/2008/10/
a blog page with a lot of text, which is almost 7 years old; link is located somewhere in the text; not easy to find(I didn't find). How often do you read blog posts of 2008 dates? How often do other people visit them? If someone eventually visits this page is very unlikely he will find this link. Especially, if he is not looking for it, because there are so many other links to click instead.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread146369/pg1

I can say the same things about this. Member of the forum wrote a reply in one of the threads in 2005 Who will visit this page and read it in 2015?

 

[metwebber]

I know these backlinks are useless. I understood what you said.
I was trying to say that the domain has backlinks related to its subject. Other domains which I checked have different types of domains (some of them in the websites which are related to finances, some of them related to health, some of them in toplists etc ) I mean these backlinks had obviously created for increasing the PR not provided traffic. (its called spam backlink i guess.) Anyway I got it your point. Thank you for your helping.

There is another thing which I dont understand. Keywords. (it was mentioned in pages 8-10)
I am using Bodis for test. I guess we can not set the ads in Bodis right ? In Voodoo or DomainSponsor can we set them via keywords ? Or the ads are determined with backlinks of domain. For example someone came from a site which is related to finance, does he see ads related to finance ?
I hope I made myself clear

 

[solarix]

Had a domain earn $7 a few days ago. Oddly enough it only had 2 visitors and not even a click. Must have been a search? Quite strange but I won't complain. I found it last month on drop lists @ 3.99 regfee using research methods in this thread. Domain in the health niche.

 

[Domainer_1]

In Voodoo or DomainSponsor can we set them via keywords ?

At voodoo you can set keywords

 

[pejman]

Hello guys, i am very new to ths forum and i read your posts
Still i couldn't find the best cash parking service provider but before i tested Godaddy premium cash parking and i had good revenues with low cliks because my domain was about hosting

 

[Domainer_1]

and i had good revenues with low cliks because my domain was about hosting

If you had good revenues then what's a problem? ))) If you aren't satisfied with your parking try Voodoo and others, but not Sedo.

 

[pejman]

If you had good revenues then what's a problem? )))

There is not ay problem but trying to find the best provider then may be earn better revenues from other providers, Godaddy send the profits within at least 45 days delay and i don't know about other systems

 

[koskov]

Hi @smurge. Great thread. Recently I acquired a domain name (some guy was pushing it for free on the other forum). After reading this thread, I decided to park it with Voodoo and now I get about $16/month from it. Not much, but taking into account that I got it for free, I think it's a good income. Looking forward to learn something new here!

Thank you!

 

[rubencouto]

Hello!!

This is a great thread by @smurge !!
One question: Is there any FREE online tool to analyze backlinks?

Best regards!

 

[pablohc86]

sure you can use this one: http://www.backlinkwatch.com/

however if you can purchase something like ahrefs.com is totally another world..
you can just give a compare, and the ahrefs free shots are enough to see the difference

 

[philhevican]

I'm relatively new to domaining but am I given to understand that Backlinks are absolutely essential if you want traffic/clicks to your parked domain?

Kind regards

 

[pablohc86]

I'm relatively new to domaining but am I given to understand that Backlinks are absolutely essential if you want traffic/clicks to your parked domain?

Kind regards

If you have a domain like house.com or other keywords typed in the url bar frequently, you can have traffic on a domain with 0 backlinks.
Typo are similar too.

 

[philhevican]

If you have a domain like house.com or other keywords typed in the url bar frequently, you can have traffic on a domain with 0 backlinks.
Typo are similar too.

I see, So a very common "keyword" that's part of the domain and in a lot of cases would count as a premium domain e.g House.com would get a lot of traffic just because it's a killer keyword. However a 3 or 4 word random domain name would in theory require backlinks to gain some traffic to it.

 

[neel2010]

I have parked around 22 domains at bodis. can anyone suggest or help me to get good traffic. Also there is no option to add keywords but i would like to get good traffic with best results.

Please help me

 

[Hypersot]

are your domains new registrations (as in, they've never existed before until you registered them) or are they domains that used to be websites?

 

[neel2010]

Its totally new registered.

 

[Hypersot]

Its totally new registered.

Ok. How do you expect to get traffic then?
I mean, do your domains have high chances of receiving type-in traffic? because if they don't, then you should expect zero traffic coming in

 

[neel2010]

If you want then i can send you list of domains. also please give me advise to get traffic.