How I Monetization Traffic

[Ross]

Well heres a quick step by step on how i Monetize the traffic on my domains.

Step 1
I host the domain on a hosting account. From there i will put up a page that says "Coming Soon" or "Under Construction" and i will list some of my sites or possibly some affiliate links. The reason i list some links is to see if the traffic will click on them because if they do then obviously it is real traffic and i could possibly get clicks once fully optimized.

Step 2
Install Google Analytics. I think this is the most important step to this whole thing. This will tell you where the traffic is coming from and how it is getting there. Plus how long the people are on the website, ect. Basically gives you tons of stats on where and why the traffic is there. Now i leave it like this anywhere from 1 week to a month depending on how much traffic is actually coming to the site.

Another thing i would like to point out is AwStats is very helpful if installed on your server. It will let you know if bots are crawling and such.

Step 3
After i feel that i am ready to monetize the traffic i will change the name servers and park the domain at the desired parking company. From here i will leave up the standard parking template until i start getting clicks. If clicks are scarce i will often mess with the template and see if that helps. Once i start getting clicks i begin to mess with the keyword depending on what the traffic is clicking on.

Doing it this way i have found to make more than just messing with keywords and hoping i get it right. I think this a more accurate guess on what keywords to use and what your traffic is looking for.

Helpful Tips:
Archive.org is your friend when monetizing expired traffic. Often times the traffic of these types of names are from back links from other sites of the related topic.

Google Keyword is a GREAT tool to find keywords that relate to your topic and actually have ad competition. This allows you to pick high paying keywords easily.

Babel Fish is a great language translator that will help when translating your keywords. Don't be afraid to monetize for foreign traffic. Often times this is why people don't get clicks is because the visitor does not understand the language that is presented. Just make sure you analyze your traffic correctly before selecting a foreign keyword.

Thats all i have for now. Add anything you like. Thanks!

Edit: I have no clue why i put Monetization instead of Monetize in the title. Mod Fix?

 

[RicoShay]

Thanks for sharing Tivo, good tips there. I do something similar, except I haven't used Google Analytics yet. I agree AwStats is very useful. Recently I've done something in the opposite order.

I was getting a lot of traffic to a domain, but very poor conversions. At times I was getting 20-30 clicks per day but could never manage to improve the clicks to be more than $0.05 p/c.

So, I changed the nameservers and decided to build a quick site. I put up a few pages with free articles i found on some site. The domain was already indexed, so the traffic started coming and site got better placing on google soon after.

I get maybe 3-4 clicks per day on the google ads compared to 20-30 clicks on sedoparking. But each click is worth more than the total I was making per day with 20-30 clicks.

Another good thing is the traffic is improving slowly.

I'm planning on doing this to a few more domains I have. I'll try to post up a bit more info with links and stuff later. Lots of free resources out there... if you have it all at hand then building a quite site is probably as quick as parking & optimizing. (well... maybe an hour or so more but you get what i mean!!)

 

[gwkg]

@Tivo

If you get as far as hosting and google analytics, why not just adsense the page and keep the parking company's share?

 

[Ross]

@Tivo

If you get as far as hosting and google analytics, why not just adsense the page and keep the parking company's share?

Then i would basically have to develop a site. As OneTime said when he does this it takes about an hour or so. This can take longer in some cases as well. Plus if the subject or the content is not what the visitor is looking for you have to change the all content on the site for the adsense to change. Where as in parking you can change the whole page with a couple clicks. So yes in some cases this would be a good thing to do but when you have many domains it becomes time consuming. Honestly this "quick" method i have described litterally takes less than 10 mins to set everything up.


Also if anyone else has tips or suggestions on this topic feel free to share.

 

[dnk]

Often if you develop a website and add Adsense, relevant ads are not shown on the website, only PSAs are served. So parking domains is a better option.

 

[oblongpeg]

So, I changed the nameservers and decided to build a quick site. I put up a few pages with free articles i found on some site. The domain was already indexed, so the traffic started coming and site got better placing on google soon after.

I am trying out something like that too.

Have a look at www.ebetmaster.com to see how it is rendering.

I am setting it up so all the ads and feed variables, the stylesheets and the keywords are in a common area away from the sites. And I can group a lot of it into generic types; for instance, all gambling domains share common ads and keywords (also use the slogan to change each one) so a quick change in 1 area can modify as many sites s necessary. Am setting up something like random multi feed rendering so that should take care of duplicate content.

I am currently finetuning it to run on my home computer so it will be even easier.

At the moment, I can get a site up and running in about 25 minutes.

As you can see, with such a common keyword set, the ads are spot on. I do have some obscure domain names that do not render ads properly, in which case they are parked until I decide whether to develop them or let them lapse.

So far, the new domains are indexing in about 3-4 weeks. Still got to see how far up the rankings they will go.

It is all a bit of a trial at the moment. Going to be interesting to see how it all goes. As gwkg said, why share the adsense. Plus my affiliate links and my other sites can get some exposure.

 

[naiman]

Short and informative

Hi Tivo,

Nice article with good info.

Good on ya mate.

Cheers,

Bernard

 

[rafaelrls]

thanks man!

 

[Smiler]

Thanks for the scoop Tivo. :LD

 

[weblord]

thanks for the nice article.