My suggestion on how to monetize

[Steven]

1. If you have a typo of a good name

Park it in a reputable parking service.
Sometimes the visitors will go to your name by mistake and browse the site (includes clicking the ads if they believe it is relevant to what they are looking for)

2. If you recently registered a name (although the name itself may not be a dictionary word) that had contents and had visitors

Park it or develop it.
I would choose to park it because the visitors are smart, and if they noticed that the site was totally different from what it was, they will not visit again.
If you park it, they or visitors from search engine may browse out of confusion (may click the ad if they find what is relevant to what they are looking for).

3. If you register a good dictionary name

I would strongly recommend that you park it, and then putting it up for a sale. If you develop it, and it doesn't seem to drive up a lot of traffic, it may backfire on you if you want to sell it (Unless you have an idea to develop it into something that will drive a lot of traffic to your website).

4. If you register a good name that has a potential (like donatetopoor, stockpicks, etc)

Instead of parking it, develop it into a full site. Don't make a mini-site out of it. You have a potential to make a reputable website that will ensure there will be repeat visitors and increase in traffic with good SEO and advertisements.
You may choose to sell it for a hefty price if your site becomes popular. It's up to you.

5. If you registered a name in which you thought that it was good, but later realized it was not as good as you thought it would be (get-rich-by-doing-this.com, etc)

Make a mini-site first without parking it. Make a mini-site full of contents and pictures. Try to get RSS feeds and replenish your site often with fresh contents as often as you can. Don't spend too much of your time developing it. You don't need to make an awesome mini-site for this. Just wait for the search engine to pick it up.
Let your site age for a bit. See how many unique visitors are coming into your site. If you are satisifed with the number of unique visitors, you have two options:

1) If you like the name and will like to develop it as a hobby, go right ahead and put some advertisements.

2) If you don't want to pursue in development of your site, park it.





I wrote this article to see if I could be of any help.
I would appreciate any rep if it would help you out.
Thank you. :hehe:

 

[lau]

Nice article
rep add

 

[networkmsia]

rep added too.

Good article

 

[thinking1]

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you on some points. Basically development (if done right) will always lend itself to a much higher return in $$$ than parking. Always!

For instance. Mr. Rick stated in an article that his Candy.com makes up to $300 just sitting parked (Which is amazing for a parked domain).

If he were to develop that, using affiliates, opening up an online store, or just making the site look useful and use adsense, he could probably bring in thousands a day with that site alone.

If you have a typo domain you could build it up which would keep visitors at the site alot longer because they wouldn't realize as easily that they put in a typo when they saw a million ads starring in their face. This also lends itself to more money.


Development will almost always offer you more $$ unless you don't have any ads on your site.


Good post though, I'm gonna also give you some good rep because you offered your help and are a good person in this community.

 

[Steven]

Thank you for your invaluable input. I'm also learning something new everyday. :D

 

[TCK]

If you develop, take note of your outgoing links. Are they freebies? In other words, you don't get anything for the clicks. Make sure your outgoing links are roi-focused, either pure ad clicks or lead to other pages with monetized links.

Outgoing freebie links are ok for directory sites or link-exchange pages.

 

[YesBrilliant]

Nice article!

Keep updating and improving it regularly, by yourself and with the help of other members, and you will have a fantastic resource in your hands.

Repd.

 

[dan_Vt]

Outgoing freebie links are ok for directory sites or link-exchange pages.

Outgoing links have SEO value, when done right, that benefits the sites they are on. It's good to have a couple of high quality outbound links. I wouldn't ever say "don't have outgoing links that aren't paid for", really that doesn't fly.

 

[TCK]

I wouldn't ever say "don't have outgoing links that aren't paid for", really that doesn't fly.

I didn't say that either. Please re-read.

 

[dan_Vt]

I didn't say that either. Please re-read.

You didn't use those words exactly, but here is what you said:

Make sure your outgoing links are roi-focused, either pure ad clicks or lead to other pages with monetized links.

Either ad clicks, or links to pages that have ads, this does not leave room for links that are not revenue generating. That's bad SEO.

Outgoing freebie links are ok for directory sites or link-exchange pages.

You don't allow for them to be "ok" outside of directories and link exchange pages.

Again, bad SEO.

 

[TCK]

Dan_Vt,

The topic of this thread is "monetizing", not strictly SEO. For maximum monetizing you should always be thinking roi-focused linkage.

"Again bad SEO" is not helpful response.

Again, please re-read.

 

[dan_Vt]

Dan_Vt,

The topic of this thread is "monetizing", not strictly SEO. For maximum monetizing you should always be thinking roi-focused linkage.

Again, please re-read.

This is funny. Not to get into an argument, but without proper SEO monetizing can flounder...and ultimately, horribly fail. All that investment down the drain because some good seo concepts were not followed.

 

[TCK]

Dan Vt

"Outgoing links have SEO value" is what you said.

This seems to be your whole SEO strategy. There are too many facets of "proper SEO" to discuss here.

To push "outgoing links" as being so important to "proper SEO" shows, I hate to say it, a serious lack of knowledge of what is "proper SEO".

I'd love to discuss "proper SEO" with you, but that's way beyond the purpose of this thread.

 

[dan_Vt]

Dan Vt

"Outgoing links have SEO value" is what you said.

This seems to be your whole SEO strategy. There are too many facets of "proper SEO" to discuss here.

To push "outgoing links" as being so important to "proper SEO" shows, I hate to say it, a serious lack of knowledge of what is "proper SEO".

I'd love to discuss "proper SEO" with you, but that's way beyond the purpose of this thread.

I only brought it up because you stated all outbound links should be monetized in some way, I never said it's my whole SEO strategy. Please re-read.

SEO is my day job.

 

[TCK]

I only brought it up because you stated all outbound links should be monetized in some way, I never said it's my whole SEO strategy. Please re-read.

SEO is my day job.

So is mine.

You still totally don't get my post.

I never stated "all outbound links" should be monetized. Please get that out of your head. ROI-focused is not synanomous with monetized.

Your persistence on this point shows you place a great deal of importance on one-way outbound links in SEO. Way too much importance, I'm afraid.

My post does say that in some situations non-monetized outbound links are fine.

 

[dan_Vt]

So is mine.

You still totally don't get my post.

I never stated "all outbound links" should be monetized. Please get that out of your head. ROI-focused is not synanomous with monetized.

Your persistence on this point shows you place a great deal of importance on one-way outbound links in SEO. Way too much importance, I'm afraid.

My post does say that in some situations non-monetized outbound links are fine.

I'm done.

I tried to make a point because a post seemed to me to point towards over-indulging in paid links. I guess that was lost.

 

[TCK]

Anyways. Let's move on to other more important things.