Park or develop ?

[evilopinions]

Guys,

I just needed a simple overview of what you guys do !

Park or develop ?

 

[geb9696]

Right now I have 5 developed names and around 50 parked.

 

[netmeg]

About 450 parked and maybe 65 developed (I'd have to count to be sure) The revenue from the developed FAR outweighs the parked, but I just started parking in August.

 

[kokbaw]

Developing is more difficult than parking.
So I only develop 1 and park hundreds.

 

[werewolf]

I only park while I'm developing other websites. Well developed sites make much more money than parked ones. Just my 2 cents

 

[RSK2000]

Many people profitably develop small 'minisites' on their domains.

I have written about some of the best mini site development ideas here...................

 

[JulieLA]

Many people profitably develop small 'minisites' on their domains.

I have written about some of the best mini site development ideas here...................

Great article and lots of useful information. Thanks!

My mini sites also make better money than parked.

 

[Mike]

Developed: 8 - i think
Parked: xxx - not sure to be honest.

 

[PowerUp]

2 months ago, I'd say park.
Now I'd say develop.

Many people profitably develop small 'minisites' on their domains.

I have written about some of the best mini site development ideas here...................

Great article. Thanks for sharing. Rep +

 

[Bigvenue]

70% of my domains are developed and 30%parked,I am planning to develop all.

 

[HiSoC8Y]

guys,

by developed, you mean minisites or a real developed website?

 

[Datalife]

Developing just means making a workable functioning site. It can be big or small...wide or narrow...small or large....It's all up to you.

The bigger a site is of course, the more visitors it should get.

This is something about developed websites, that far outweighs any parked page. You can have a crap domain, and yet pull more visitors compared to a nice domain that is only a parked page.

 

[mhdoc]

I'm not sure the terms "Parked" and "Developed" are accurate any more. It looks to me like the parking companies are gradually making templates and features available that make a "parked" site look "developed". Some of us who like to "develop" have procedures to make minisites quickly.

In my mind it becomes a question of "can the parking company sign up advertisers that pay better than the sources (AdSense etc.) that I can place on a minisite?"

 

[geb9696]

An example of one of my developed sites would be www.collegeanalysts.com I am not really sure where to put "mini sites" as companies like Bodis and soon with Imodo will be parking companies offering this type of mini site experiance.

 

[nscdn]

Develop is a great way to go, especially if your domains are getting very little traffic...

 

[clocker24]

I park hundreds and develop them one by one. The developed sites consist of blogs like SafeBillPay.net and IslamicBanking.info. I have about 10 of these right now.

If I don't have time to even do that, I create a little one-page mini-site like GuatemalaConnect.com. These one-page sites get an extremely high CTR (like 80%) but I try not to leave them like that for too long because the Adsense enforcers don't like them and will pull the ads after a few months.

The developed sites of course make much more money, especially since I can drive traffic to them by advertising/arbitrage, but it takes time, particularly since I create original content for each blog, and then update them once a month or so with new content.

In the end it's perhaps a function of how much free time you have and how internet savvy you are. Creating a successful blog requires a knowledge of blogging platforms, plugins, rss, social media, etc. It's much more work than just parking, which, once you've optimized your page, requires zero work.

 

[StantheMan]

Mostly Parked

I have several hundred parked - at several companies. I would like to develop more - just not enough time - and I'm not fast enough at it. I have been using Whypark as a compromise. You have to have some things in mind or the $100 fee is large. If you have a lot of sites that you can develop, then you can easily recover the one time $100 fee. Search around for posts on how to use Whypark. There are some real good posters on here that can assist (like Varon).

it will also pay you to research which companies are better for what types of domains. Again, the boards here have a tremendous amount of info for you to search.

 

[HiSoC8Y]

I park hundreds and develop them one by one. The developed sites consist of blogs like SafeBillPay.net and IslamicBanking.info. I have about 10 of these right now.

If I don't have time to even do that, I create a little one-page mini-site like GuatemalaConnect.com. These one-page sites get an extremely high CTR (like 80%) but I try not to leave them like that for too long because the Adsense enforcers don't like them and will pull the ads after a few months.

The developed sites of course make much more money, especially since I can drive traffic to them by advertising/arbitrage, but it takes time, particularly since I create original content for each blog, and then update them once a month or so with new content.

In the end it's perhaps a function of how much free time you have and how internet savvy you are. Creating a successful blog requires a knowledge of blogging platforms, plugins, rss, social media, etc. It's much more work than just parking, which, once you've optimized your page, requires zero work.

thanks for your input, and great looking sites

my question, why dont you utilize the adsense power with the 3 ad units on each page? any harm?

 

[netmeg]

The bigger a site is of course, the more visitors it should get.

I'm not sure I agree with this. The site doesn't have to be *big*, and I know plenty of people with big sites who get virtually no traffic at all (they're called potential customers, ork ork) My site with the most traffic (130k uniques/day) only really has one page, with a database behind it. But the search results display in the same page.

my question, why dont you utilize the adsense power with the 3 ad units on each page? any harm?

There *can* be harm, yes. First of all, a page loaded with ads can be off putting to some people. It can also prevent authority sites from linking to you. Second of all, there could be a limited inventory of ads for your site. Google will always show the highest paying ad in the FIRST AdSense block it finds on the page, and the rest in descending order. If you have 3 AdSense blocks, showing say, 3 ads each, that's 9 potential spots. By the time you get down to that 7th, 8th, and 9th spot, you're probably talking 3 to 5 centers, at best.

When I design my pages (whether WhyPark or for my developed sites) I put on all the AdSense blocks I want to start, and then I take at least one off (Coco Chanel school of thought) That means that more higher paying advertisers are in effect competing for the prime spots on my site.

Your mileage may vary. But do some testing with 1, 2 and 3 ad blocks, and see what works best for you. Right now my favorite combination is one adblock and one textlink block. Unlike many people I know, my eCPM has tripled since I did that, and earnings per click went from 27 cents last year to almost 60 cents this year. This is over thousands and thousands of clicks. BIG difference on that scale.

Incidentally - I ran all my 50 Halloween sites this year with no ad blocks, and ONLY one set of horizontal text links, 5 links. my eCPM went WAY up, and I got clicks over $1.50 from them every single day.

Again, your mileage may vary. Test test test test.

 

[HiSoC8Y]

I'm not sure I agree with this. The site doesn't have to be *big*, and I know plenty of people with big sites who get virtually no traffic at all (they're called potential customers, ork ork) My site with the most traffic (130k uniques/day) only really has one page, with a database behind it. But the search results display in the same page.



There *can* be harm, yes. First of all, a page loaded with ads can be off putting to some people. It can also prevent authority sites from linking to you. Second of all, there could be a limited inventory of ads for your site. Google will always show the highest paying ad in the FIRST AdSense block it finds on the page, and the rest in descending order. If you have 3 AdSense blocks, showing say, 3 ads each, that's 9 potential spots. By the time you get down to that 7th, 8th, and 9th spot, you're probably talking 3 to 5 centers, at best.

When I design my pages (whether WhyPark or for my developed sites) I put on all the AdSense blocks I want to start, and then I take at least one off (Coco Chanel school of thought) That means that more higher paying advertisers are in effect competing for the prime spots on my site.

Your mileage may vary. But do some testing with 1, 2 and 3 ad blocks, and see what works best for you. Right now my favorite combination is one adblock and one textlink block. Unlike many people I know, my eCPM has tripled since I did that, and earnings per click went from 27 cents last year to almost 60 cents this year. This is over thousands and thousands of clicks. BIG difference on that scale.

Incidentally - I ran all my 50 Halloween sites this year with no ad blocks, and ONLY one set of horizontal text links, 5 links. my eCPM went WAY up, and I got clicks over $1.50 from them every single day.

Again, your mileage may vary. Test test test test.

Thanks alot for the tips, rep added.