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.

 

[Yoocandoit]

Not heard of Above. i use Sedo dot com at the moment, they are quite popular and well known, but godaddy offer parking too. just do a search for domain parking in google. However i would recommend going with a well known and recommended one, as the ones who have been around the longest have the best network to known domain name sites. Search for threads on the forum about domain parking

 

[sach]

thanks for the post @smurge starting up in domain parking to give it a try just found a domain in godaddy auction with majesticseo report as below.

Keyword associated payday loan

External Backlinks 986,143

Educational Ref. Backlinks 5,784

Governmental Ref. Backlinks 4,522

Educational Ref. Domains 24

Governmental Ref. Domains 11

Indexed URLs 120,091

@smurge please advice whether i should i but it and where to park it ??

thanks
sach

 

[pablohc86]

thanks for the post @smurge starting up in domain parking to give it a try just found a domain in godaddy auction with majesticseo report as below.

Keyword associated payday loan

External Backlinks 986,143

Educational Ref. Backlinks 5,784

Governmental Ref. Backlinks 4,522

Educational Ref. Domains 24

Governmental Ref. Domains 11

Indexed URLs 120,091

@smurge please advice whether i should i but it and where to park it ??

thanks
sach

Those stats alone are unuseful to determine if buy or not. You also have to figure out how much bid

 

[sach]

Those stats alone are unuseful to determine if buy or not. You also have to figure out how much bid

thanks for reply

the bid is $25??

 

[sonipat]

Can any tell me how much i can earn from this , i think it is a commission base business can be profit and loss both.

 

[Yoocandoit]

Can any tell me how much i can earn from this , i think it is a commission base business can be profit and loss both.

How much you can earn depends on how much you know and how many calculated risks you are willing to take, if you can sell one or two domains for a profit within a year of registering, then you are doing well, you have to understand how to manage risk and use any new knowledge you gain. Consider how much you can afford to lose per year, since registration is cheap but if you have mutiple domains then can you afford to write off £200 at the end of each year? Despite what people say about domain flipping, the reality is you have to spend time learning about the industry and what works and what doesn't before you can start to make any money, like any business really. Don't quit your day job yet!

 

[toughdomains]

@smurge you mention that
#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?)

but Google retired its parking for adsense product due to poor performance...does that mean they still support it?
https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/2456470

 

[Digimagi]

What ever happened to Smurge?

 

[karim ibrahim]

rookmedia
What is the reason behind the suspension of the account knowing that the sources of visits with my legit

 

[toughdomains]

there are many reasons ad networks ban sites and domains. what we have noticed after contacting over a dozen ad networks is that all of them only want the very best names and the very best traffic. Best as defined by adnetworks are Top 300,000 in alexa or simiar web and mostly US based traffic. So our question is if the top ad networks are all fighting for the top 300k sites who is showing ads on the other 15 million developed or parked domains and all the traffic that is associated with them?

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

there are many reasons ad networks ban sites and domains. what we have noticed after contacting over a dozen ad networks is that all of them only want the very best names and the very best traffic. Best as defined by adnetworks are Top 300,000 in alexa or simiar web and mostly US based traffic. So our question is if the top ad networks are all fighting for the top 300k sites who is showing ads on the other 15 million developed or parked domains and all the traffic that is associated with them?

You mean "Only premium domains"?

 

[karim ibrahim]

there are many reasons ad networks ban sites and domains. what we have noticed after contacting over a dozen ad networks is that all of them only want the very best names and the very best traffic. Best as defined by adnetworks are Top 300,000 in alexa or simiar web and mostly US based traffic. So our question is if the top ad networks are all fighting for the top 300k sites who is showing ads on the other 15 million developed or parked domains and all the traffic that is associated with them?

What best areas in which I can be added

 

[toughdomains]

@karim ibrahim Im not sure what exactly you are asking.
But if your asking how to be part of ad networks you really need to have quality traffic (actually you can have bad content of funny photos but you need quality traffic to that bad content)
once you have an audience to your website advertisers will want to display ads there to target that audience.
If you write about a specific category you can hope to attract specific advertisers. For example if you create a blog about financial technology (fintech) you could attract financial advertisers who are looking to reach your audience and convert them to their customers.

 

[karim ibrahim]

How is reactivated my account again I continued with them and did not answer definitively

 

[toughdomains]

oh I dont know if you were banned by a parking company or network there must have been a reason or violation you may not ever be able to be reactivated if you violated their terms.

 

[karim ibrahim]

I have not violated any conditions actually does this scam and monument of the company

 

[karim ibrahim]

Is there a way to reactivate the account again

 

[Ross Murray]

Nice writing. Where can a person relatively new to the domaining world start???

 

[Igor Mironyuk]

Nice writing. Where can a person relatively new to the domaining world start???

DomainSponsor, ParkingCrew, Bodis + Sedo, Afternic, DomainAgents + this forum.

 

[DC7]

Newbie here.

I have a new premium uk domain that is likely to get some traffic if it is managed correctly. I've parked it with Bodis but am quickly realising that is probably not the best start. Let's say the domain is something like localplumber.co.uk as an example.

Am I better to create a mini website to generate some traffic first and have adspace or is something like redirect.com a better bet?

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

DC7