Newsy parking — does it work?

[Molly]

Hi guys. I stumbled upon Newsy.co & love the idea, I’m just wondering if it works in practice. A couple of questions. Thanks in advance!

1. Have you used Newsy or know of another similar service?
2. Have you been able to sell a domain name using their landing page?
3. Do you earn any meaningful income from parking/ads?

 

[sbweb]

I've never used them, but did check it out.

Nice looking website. It could work as a domain placeholder, but not sure how it would help you make money. All the articles link to a 3rd party site.

 

[alcy]

work or not apparently they suck at advertising cause nobody ever heard of them in like one trillion years. I bet their client count is less than my 10 fingers.

 

[Molly]

Thanks, @sbweb! They allow you to use your own ads / affiliate links.

 

[sbweb]

Thanks, @sbweb! They allow you to use your own ads / affiliate links.

That's cool, but where is the traffic coming from? Because SEO is non-existent and those articles are on 3rd party sites. So basically you have no content to drive traffic.

 

[Molly]

That's cool, but where is the traffic coming from? Because SEO is non-existent and those articles are on 3rd party sites. So basically you have no content to drive traffic.

That’s something I wondered about. Thanks for mentioning it; it’s this sort of feedback I was looking for as I’m still pretty new to domaining in general.