How to attract traffic to parked domains

[HenryJR]

There is a nice informative thread on this forum about finding and approaching endusers to sell your domain names to.
Similarly, it would be very much appreciated if somebody can give some advice on how to attract traffic to parked domains.
Thank you.

 

[JMJ]

Why would you want to attract traffic to a parked domain?

 

[brizzad]

Why would you want to attract traffic to a parked domain?

He probably wants the PPC revenue.

I'm not sure why he wouldnt just spend the same effort to develop the site and attract traffic to that though.

 

[ZuraX]

I am guessing to earn from any clicks....

 

[fonzie_007]

Most parking services do not allow you to drive traffic to your parked domains. I believe this is againt the terms of service at most, if not all, parking companies.

 

[JMJ]

Attracting traffic IE putting links in your signature, links on your web pages, buying traffic is just another for of click fraud. And it is rightfully so. In addition to click fraud it is creating false stats for the name/s. When a buyer comes along and you show the "attracted" stats and then after purchase the invented attraction goes away it's no different than a pump and dump just another form of it aswell.

 

[HenryJR]

If you have between 100 and 200 domain names, at least for me it will be impossible to develop them myself in order to earn income. So, of course without solliciting people to click on ads on parking pages, I would like to increase the number of visitors to the pages and what happens then, happens.
Some domain names are logical type ins but most of them are not, so I need to do something to make money with them.
Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions.

 

[Amnezia]

if they are not logical type-ins then they are not gonna get traffic, theres not alot you can do about it short of listing your domains in as many places as possible

 

[HenryJR]

Attracting traffic IE putting links in your signature, links on your web pages, buying traffic is just another for of click fraud. And it is rightfully so. In addition to click fraud it is creating false stats for the name/s. When a buyer comes along and you show the "attracted" stats and then after purchase the invented attraction goes away it's no different than a pump and dump just another form of it aswell.

I agree with you that for the stats in case someone would want to buy the domain name it creates false impressions. But if selling the domain name is not your intention, I don't think you can speak of fraud. If you put links in signatures and people come to your parked page they still have to be genuinely interested in the ads before they click on them. Or am I wrong?

 

[EbookLover]

Like others have said, you cannot advertise you parked pages to get traffic. It is against the policy of most if not all parking services.

But I'd like to point out a few things...

if they are not logical type-ins then they are not gonna get traffic

- Not true. Type in domains are not the only domains that get traffic. If you want the passive income that parking services provide, you have to look for and purchase expired domains that used to be a developed site that still get traffic. I have a few of these. People either have the site bookmarked or they find a link or reference to it on another website. I wish I could tell you a good easy way to do this but i only happened upon these domains. I did not actively look for them.

- You say that hundreds of domain is not practical to develop but it is. You only need a mini site or even a blog or both, which are not hard to set up. But it does take work.

- Sounds like you are looking for the easiest possible way to make emoney. Not good. we all want that, but it does not exist. not to be rude or anything, but if your only motivation to being in business for yourself is solely to make money, I would suggest you not even bother going into business as this is a recipe for disaster.

 

[fonzie_007]

I agree with you that for the stats in case someone would want to buy the domain name it creates false impressions. But if selling the domain name is not your intention, I don't think you can speak of fraud. If you put links in signatures and people come to your parked page they still have to be genuinely interested in the ads before they click on them. Or am I wrong?

Linking to your parked domains is still against the TOS for most, if not all, parking companies. If you want to do this, make sure you read the TOS for the parking company you are with. However, to my knowledge, there is no parking company that allows you to do this.

 

[EbookLover]

If you put links in signatures and people come to your parked page they still have to be genuinely interested in the ads before they click on them. Or am I wrong?

I totally agree with you there, but policies are policies and you have to abide by them or they will stop you from using their services.

That said, sounds to me that you need to start selling domains in order ot make money from them. But yes, it requires work.

Linking to your parked domains is still against the TOS for most, if not all, parking companies. If you want to do this, make sure you read the TOS for the parking company you are with. However, to my knowledge, there is no parking company that allows you to do this.

I have seen 2 people in this forum who have links to their parked pages in their sig lines.

 

[tetrapak]

Sounds like you are looking for the easiest possible way to make emoney. Not good. we all want that, but it does not exist. not to be rude or anything, but if your only motivation to being in business for yourself is solely to make money, I would suggest you not even bother going into business as this is a recipe for disaster.

Well said, absolutely agree.

 

[EbookLover]

And to add one thing about that, owning/running your own business is often thought of by those who have never done it as something that is easer and less time consuming than a job. that just simply isn't true.

I have owned operated various business, both online and off. I can tell you that ALL of them took up WAY mor eof my time than any job I have ever had and the money it bring in is not always more than a paycheck. Sad, but true. Generating your own income isn't for everybody. Again, sad but true.

 

[cache]

I once asked sedo about the listing for sale. I was told you could list the name for sale, but you just can not http link it.

So you still could promote your name by listing it without linking it.

 

[HenryJR]

Thanks everybody.
Just for the record. I have been CEO of two industrial businesses, so I know what it means to run a business successfully. One I started up myself, so also the hard start-up efforts are known to me from experience.
I registered some domain names as an investment and to familiarize myself with this area of the economy that was unknown to me. So, I am not looking for an easy way to make money. Yes, I am looking for advice on how to make money with the names in the most effective and efficient way. As you can see, I have deleted my link signature. Of course, I want to play it according to the rules.
Thanks.

 

[tetrapak]

Most effective way to earn money of your domains is to develope them. If you dont know how to do it yourself, then go here: http://www.namepros.com/forumdisplay.php?f=45 ,there are some very professional designers on this forum who are doing the work for a relatively cheap price.

 

[DanaTheDogMan]

Traffic to Domains

I'm fairly new and can't explain it,but I have 3 domains that were recently listed on Sedo's Showcase and after the 30 days were up and they did not sell, I redirected them back to Fabulous, and traffic, uniques, and clicks increased dramatically from pre-Sedo listing. I don't get it, but maybe some do. It is probably due to the search engines covering Sedo's features. I can tell you lots of the traffic evolves from Google. I'm guessing that it could be temporary, but I'm not fighting it, and I did nothing (other than feature on Sedo) to increase the traffic. If it were just from spiders and searches, I understand, but even uniques have picked up.

 

[JMJ]

HenryJR My comments weren't directly targeted at you. It's actually good that this kind of post comes up from time to time. You just happened to be the one who posted it. As domainers we should all take PPC fraud very seriously and when we see members utilizing these means to drive traffic to their names it should be pointed out.

As a honest domainer PPC fraud costs me money. Why do I say this? Well the parking programs and PPC banner programs such as Google/Yahoo shave off percentages of the clicks to compensate the advertiser for click fraud. That shaving comes off of your honest clicks and out of your earnings.

 

[edwinfelix]

If you want to do it perfectly legitly, you can dev the domain to a minisite first, then create links to the minisite, and then(if the minisite doesn't earn enough $$, of course) abandon the minisite, park the domain. There, you get parked domains that are indexed by Google.

Most of my parked domains get visitors, 25% of them get 50+ visitors a month.

If you have and question or need help, PM me.