How much time to see results from domain parking?

[Dev222]

Hello,

I have about 200 domains and recently (5 days ago) I decided to try domain parking to see if I can cover their registration cost.

I put 50 domains at Sedo and 35 at Namedrive. I did (I think) what was needed to optimize each domain (keywords, category, template)

So far I got absolutely nothing from Namedrive and about 60 cents from Sedo. Is this indicative of the "earnings" I can get, or I have to wait some time to see results? If I do have to wait, about how much time?

Also, will the parking company do something to drive traffic to the domains, or they will just create the template with the ads and the owner is responsible to promote the domains and drive traffic to them? Or name parking is just about type in traffic? (misspellings etc)

Thanks and sorry for the newb questions!

 

[kriss05]

Hello,

I have about 200 domains and recently (5 days ago) I decided to try domain parking to see if I can cover their registration cost.

I put 50 domains at Sedo and 35 at Namedrive. I did (I think) what was needed to optimize each domain (keywords, category, template)

So far I got absolutely nothing from Namedrive and about 60 cents from Sedo. Is this indicative of the "earnings" I can get, or I have to wait some time to see results? If I do have to wait, about how much time?

Also, will the parking company do something to drive traffic to the domains, or they will just create the template with the ads and the owner is responsible to promote the domains and drive traffic to them? Or name parking is just about type in traffic? (misspellings etc)

Thanks and sorry for the newb questions!

Well...
Your 60 cents from Sedo and nothing from ND mean nothing...yet

There are many factors one has take into account:
1. whether your domains are indexed by search engines or not. If not, your domains will get only type-in traffic and so-called "expired traffic" or "old" link traffic. Small type-in traffic in first 5 days doesn't necessarily mean that your domains don't have type-in traffic - consider to wait for few days more. "Expired traffic" (Namedrive) or traffic from "old" link (Sedo) could be much higher if your domains are indexed. If your domains are not indexed, index them as soon as possible - you are naturally loosing money with every day your domains are not in search engine lists. It takes 1-2 weeks to see results of indexing but, definitely, these results will be positive: your domains will get much traffic. Anyways, sometime parked pages get huge traffic but only few $0.02 clicks, sometime parked page receives only 5 views/month and 5 clicks $1-3 each. 5 days is nothing for domain parking...at least month or even few months if you work hard. Of course, domains with good type-in traffic will perform better and faster.
Very important moment to think about is keywords you are using to optimize your parked pages. The lower competition and higher popularity of your keywords, the higher search engine ranking and the more traffic to you pages. This is a kind of art a bit to "optimally" optimize parked page and it always takes some time, few months of hard work at least, to get success with it. Actually, there are so many things to learn in domain parking so it is impossible to describe them even shortly. NamePros forum is your friend as well as any other domain forum.

2. That parking companies create templates and add the ads to them means that they do drive traffic to parked pages. Some of companies have opportunity to put your domains in their "for sale" catalogs which are indexable by search engines, so that means driving traffic to parked pages as well. You can drive traffic to you parked pages by some legal methods:

optimize parked pages with relevant, traffic-friendly keywords
submit parked domains to search engines
find expired domains with traffic
register good domains with high type-in traffic
click 1-2 times by yourself the ads on your parked pages

So far I don't know other legal methods to drive traffic to parked pages by myself (last "legal" method I mentioned is illegal too).

Another point: I agree with those who compare domains with stocks: today they have a good price but tomorrow everything could happen...and vice versa. The same is true for cash domain parking.

Good luck in domain parking!

 

[Dev222]

Thanks for your detailed answer!

I am a web developer (which is why I bought the domains) so I would prefer not to put too much time and effort into the "domain parking business" because that could be on the expense of my real job.

I was hoping that domain parking could be a quick and easy way to cover part of the cost of the domains.

From the domain parking companies is there any one that would do most of the work for you? (even if that would mean taking a larger share of the profits)

 

[mbuna]

Keep in mind that you only need to bring in about $.60 a month to cover your costs per domain.

 

[kriss05]

Unfortunately, domain parking business is not as easy as it seems. But it is always a good idea to park your undeveloped domains - you never know, they can indeed cover the registration cost and even more or someone could want to buy some of them. All undeveloped domains must be parked for cash parking!

From my experience, NameDrive is execellent choice for domains which have good type-in or expired traffic because they have very nice tempaltes, higly relevant ads and some of them look like real websites (I'm particularily impressed of their "new generation" templates such as Business, Money, MP3, Travel 2, and Real Estate templates). Some of my domains with expired traffic earned $3 per click there. On the other point, they do it somehow that some of my domains without type-in traffic and expired traffic earn good money as well.

If you have enough time to spend for domain parking businness, i.e. you are ready to make extra efforts for optimization, Sedo is good choice. Their SEO optimization tools and relevant ads are comprehensive enough to generate good traffic during a month.

Another good choice, from SEO optimization point of view, is BODIS dot com, really a new revolution in domain parking. If you join them until the end of 2007 you will get 100% revenue for life. Other parking companies pay some percentage of revenue from user clicks, normally around 50%. You as web developer will like their optimization tools. And also I think their links are of the most relevant ones I have ever seen. But 1) you have to be approved for their program; 2) they are quite new company so there are many thinks to add or correct. Probably, you will get a lot from them if you just park your domains there but please note that BODIS was created with strong SEO optimization in mind.

Another good company is Parked dot com, it is also well performing one, they also have strong SEO optimization tools as I heard but have no experience yet with them, going to try.

Another point: you, as web developer, may want to create mini websites for your undeveloped domains, add Google Adsense to them, probably they will perform even better.

 

[Dev222]

Thank you for your replies. I was a bit confused about Domain parking before but now it is more clear.

 

[blaknite]

click 1-2 times by yourself the ads on your parked pages

I noted the smile on the end and took that as a slight bit of humor. However I thought I should point out that he shouldn't do that just in case he's took it serously. Click fraud is bad.

My advice is to just park all the names and let them earn what they do. If you don't want to spend a lot of time, don't try to optimize the keyword. Just pick a generic keyword for the category the name is in. For exapmple if you had grungetunes.com just put in "music" for the keyword. Come back in a month and look at which ones got some traffic and optimize just those.

If you hand regged the names within the last few years you probably won't get back the regfee. 99.999% of the names that are good enough to earn their own reg fee were taken long before now.