No Profits from Domain Parking at Sedo!

[tolkein]

Ok, guess my expectations of easy money was a little too high to begin with. With 26 domains and 3 days at Sedo, I've only obtained 41 views & 4 clicks on 16 domains, and a grand total of $0.40.

For those of you who read my earlier topic about building my 1st website, well I'm turning it into a bigger challenge. In the last 2 days, I've added an online store (Amazon.com associate) & a classifieds page for my parked domain. Next up will be a blog directory and adult joke site - all 5 websites will be interlinked together. Hopefully, this will drive more traffic to my parked domains.

Anyone interested to follow my personal crusade can check out the website (last line in my signature)

 

[equity78]

Tolk for PPC to work you have to have a cvariety of things, you have to have domains that will be typed in cars.com going to get a lot of type ins, reallyfastcars.com will not, it may be agood name for development focusing on a certain niche but it will not get type ins so PPC will be minimal. You also have to have good paying keywords I have some Beyonce knowles domains that do well at Sedo on a CTR% Basis But Only pay .08 so 30 clicks in a month nets less than One poker click at Fabulous by over 50 %. Check Out RJ's www.ppcmadeeasy.com site, Pm someone like I am allan shore who is at the top of his game PPC wise,maybe he can help you, hopefully these will help you .

 

[sunken]

One thing about Sedo that people don't do and it helps a lot is to suggest the keywords manually that you feel best optimize the domain. Sedo's auto one doesn't really do a good job of this. If it's an adult domain, use Adult Portal. If it's a regular domain, use what you would search for if you were looking for that topic. For instance, cutekittenpictures.com has a 65% CTR because the keyword is cat pictures. While it doesn't pay but .10 a click most of the time, it gets a lot of clicks that add up because it is targetted. If the visitor is presented with what they are looking for when they typed in your name, the more chance they will click. And of course, if it's a poker, casino, loan, credit or other higher paying keyword, make sure that it is optimized towards that as they will pay more.

Just some thoughts.

 

[charbar]

I have adult names parked at Sedo, which are quite specific, e.g. beginning with the word "gay".
Thanks for the advice about "adult portal", but can you tell me why this will attract more traffic?
On the surface, I think most would agree that "adult portal" is too much of a generalisation. Or doesn't it work like that?
Thanks.

charbar.


charbar.

 

[tolkein]

I optimized my site manually, using popular keywords based on Overture's keyword tool. I don't think that's the problem. Like equity78 mentioned, I think the problem is making people go to your site.

 

[harkster]

I optimized my site manually, using popular keywords based on Overture's keyword tool. I don't think that's the problem. Like equity78 mentioned, I think the problem is making people go to your site.

Took me a while but from some of the poker threads (Dan 'the poker man') it became clear that the Sedo keywords are used to determine what ads are displayed on your park page not for SE targeting (I think).

That is a big reason why I like building (at least 1 page) of SE food with a link to your Sedo parking page. Submit to SE's especially MSN and spread a few links around. This has worked well enough that I have decided a few of my names are no longer for sale. By doing this you are not only increasing your chances of a sale but adding value to the name.

This can also help in deciding which to renew and which to let deop.

 

[Matrix1976]

That is a big reason why I like building (at least 1 page) of SE food with a link to your Sedo parking page.

i dunno about sedo, but this is usually against ppc partners TOS...ur not supposed to link your websites to your parked domains...

 

[nRnF]

....That is a big reason why I like building (at least 1 page) of SE food with a link to your Sedo parking page.....

Right, but the "2 click deep" PPC is not the best IMO.
How about using 1 frame pages with SE food HTML in "noframes" tag linking directly ?
= "1 click deep" this get also some nice results.
Allthough this is not the quality food you give them

 

[Sam]

You'll be rearning your reg fee every 1.5 years.... somehow it aint flying

 

[sunken]

charbar,
If you put Gay in as the keyword on a domain targetted for gays for instance, Sedo presents a general and non adult category list. Sedo does not have specific targetting for adult topics (mainly since their ads are from Google). People then looking for the adult type keywords don't usually bother as it's not what they are looking for. The Adult Portal gives them a category list of adult oriented things, of which gay is one of them, along with many others. They then find what they are looking for and click. It won't bring more traffic, but it will give you better CTR for the traffic that does come.

 

[harkster]

i dunno about sedo, but this is usually against ppc partners TOS...ur not supposed to link your websites to your parked domains...

Not what I am doing. I list a domain for sale on Sedo. I develop some SE friendly content for that name and place a link to the sedo landing page. When listing a name for sale Sedo provides instructions on how to do this.

Example: http://www.mccoy-pottery.com/

Before doing this I was making exactly $0.00 and now it is headed toward 10x reg fee this year and has a PR3. When one reaches 20x it is no longer for sale. Is that big $$? No, unless I can have 100-150 names doing it. If PPC dies I will still have names with traffic to work with.

Hell of it is at my age I may not live to see it really working. It takes work but as I see it nothing comes free.

See, I can't seem to sell so am trying to find other ways to make it help feed my buying adiction.

 

[Matrix1976]

ahh, ok, i get it...nice job!

Not what I am doing. I list a domain for sale on Sedo. I develop some SE friendly content for that name and place a link to the sedo landing page. When listing a name for sale Sedo provides instructions on how to do this.

Example: http://www.mccoy-pottery.com/

Before doing this I was making exactly $0.00 and now it is headed toward 10x reg fee this year and has a PR3. When one reaches 20x it is no longer for sale. Is that big $$? No, unless I can have 100-150 names doing it. If PPC dies I will still have names with traffic to work with.

Hell of it is at my age I may not live to see it really working. It takes work but as I see it nothing comes free.

See, I can't seem to sell so am trying to find other ways to make it help feed my buying adiction.

 

[tolkein]

Matrix1976: If you see my classifieds page, I've actually listed my domains in a "search engine result"-like fashion. Hence, the customer has prior information before clicking on the links - I'm not cheating or even asking them to click. That can't be against TOS right? Otherwise, making money from domain parking would be like a lucky draw.

Hark: Neat idea - how do you do that? Should'nt typing in mccoy-pottery.com bring me straight to the page parked at Sedo? Cos that's what's happening will all my domains when I use Sedo's name servers - sorry, I'm a noob at this.

 

[Iravan]

hmm

Ive got 6 names on Sedo and have made 10 bucks :hehe: in about 1 week

Guess I should be happy!!!

 

[harkster]

Matrix1976:
Hark: Neat idea - how do you do that? Should'nt typing in mccoy-pottery.com bring me straight to the page parked at Sedo? Cos that's what's happening will all my domains when I use Sedo's name servers - sorry, I'm a noob at this.

Pardon me while I give a quick explanatiion.

It is really no different than developing a site. In my case I have a 'reseller' hosting account (insert commercial here www.httpme.com) which allows hosting of multiple names. Between my serious development and sites I maintain for a limited number of clients and the 'quickie' developed sites I am appproching 50 names hosted there.

I will use another example. I own bamboo.co.in which is listedfor sale at Sedo but instead of parking it using the Sedo nameservers I 'carve' out space on my server. Next I find or write (this is the hard part) some content and upload to my servers. There is a link which points to the Sedo landing page for that domain. When listing they provide you with a URL to use for this.

At this stage don't worry about Google but concentrate on the other SE's. Change the nameservers for bamboo.co.in to point to my HTTPme account. I scatter some links from my other sites and use a free submission service. I always submit directly to MSN. I also have a couple PR4 sites which when linked from will get the spiders to stop by.

This is still a work in progress (www.bamboo.co.in) and not generating much traffic yet. This an exception as I am hoping to get a sale on this one. I would like to see this name go to an end user for development.


It usually takes a few months to see if it is going to work or not. I have several names I let drop recently which weren't paying their way.

This is not a park and walk but should be watched and tweeked from time to time.

Hope this makes sense cause just quick off the top of me head.

 

[tolkein]

Iravan: Yeah, that's pretty high ...at least compared to me

Hark: What can I say man?! You're a genius. Will follow your step by step instructions for a couple of my domain names and see if there's a difference.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Some names will earn PPC, others are not natural type-ins but are highly developable/sellable. The majority of mine don't make PPC income in large amounts. However, I know those are the ones to sell or develop. Sometimes parking can actually dilute the fact that it's for sale and you make a few $ PPC and lose hundreds in potential sales. A few months PPC will tell you which are which.

 

[boja]

Pardon me while I give a quick explanatiion.

It is really no different than developing a site. In my case I have a 'reseller' hosting account (insert commercial here www.httpme.com) which allows hosting of multiple names. Between my serious development and sites I maintain for a limited number of clients and the 'quickie' developed sites I am appproching 50 names hosted there.

I will use another example. I own bamboo.co.in which is listedfor sale at Sedo but instead of parking it using the Sedo nameservers I 'carve' out space on my server. Next I find or write (this is the hard part) some content and upload to my servers. There is a link which points to the Sedo landing page for that domain. When listing they provide you with a URL to use for this.

At this stage don't worry about Google but concentrate on the other SE's. Change the nameservers for bamboo.co.in to point to my HTTPme account. I scatter some links from my other sites and use a free submission service. I always submit directly to MSN. I also have a couple PR4 sites which when linked from will get the spiders to stop by.

This is still a work in progress (www.bamboo.co.in) and not generating much traffic yet. This an exception as I am hoping to get a sale on this one. I would like to see this name go to an end user for development.


It usually takes a few months to see if it is going to work or not. I have several names I let drop recently which weren't paying their way.

This is not a park and walk but should be watched and tweeked from time to time.

Hope this makes sense cause just quick off the top of me head.

woow, this is a good idea :great:

 

[harkster]

Iravan: Yeah, that's pretty high ...at least compared to me

Hark: What can I say man?! You're a genius. Will follow your step by step instructions for a couple of my domain names and see if there's a difference.

No, I am no genius. A goodly number don't pay off. Since the automatic traffic names are hard/expensive to come by I am just trying different ways to get traffic and hopefully build value. For me the hard part is coming up with the content.

I forgot another benefit of this is I can track where traffic is coming from and tweek accordingly. I have a poker name that gets about 10 uniques/day with only 1 click in 2 months. I am going to do some wiki quick content with a Sedo link so I can see where the traffic is coming from. I may need to target to a different keyword(s). That is what I mean by keeping an eye on and tweeking.

I know this isn't for everyone but I enjoy the challange and learn something new every day.

Off to read the DNJ sales to see what the 'players' were up to this week.

 

[sunken]

Thanks for the information, I will give it a shot and see what happens. Sounds like a good plan indeed, worth a try.