Parking an existing website to get ad revenue

[ebookkeeper]

I have a site that I am having trouble selling.

It has about 1,200 natural uniques per month.

If I were to park the domain with say sedo.com how much revenue do you think I would squeze out of it?

Also, How long would it take for all the search engines to recognize my site is gone and drop my search keywords from the top?

If I only get a few hundred out of it by parking then I will just keep the site going and hope a buyer comes someday.

Thanks for the input!

P.S.
the site is ebookkeeper.org

 

[RazorNF]

My opinion is that you should keep the site running, but integrate your adsense better. Place the code on more pages, and above the fold.

 

[nielsencl]

You could set up a domain parking account, (but Sedo would be my last choice, i'd try Bodis.com first or any other you have heard about.) and try parking your domain there for a day or two. You should get an idea of the income and if you don't like it, you can switch it back to your hosted site.

But I agree that if you were to use better placement of your AdSense I think you will be happy with the results. I had to look at 6 pages before I saw that you even had them, and they were at the very bottom of the page. Put them near the top or the middle and use a white background like your site and no border.

You have some pretty good PR, a good topic, and good traffic and there is no reason why you can be making more with that site.

 

[ebookkeeper]

Thanks for the reply, what is the best adsense moneymaker?

Thanks for all the replies so far. If I do put the adsense more at the top and on more pages, which ads should I put up? For example image ads vs. text ads. or 4 text ads vs. only displaying 2 text ads.

I have googled it but opinions seem to vary.

I just want the most money out of it with most clicks.


Which way would you go for adsense?

 

[shockie]

you would have to play around with placement, colours, etc to fully optimize it. but in general, put text ads somewhere near the top and make them blend into the site. i've heard that the cpm ads pay poorly.

ps, it's "misspell" not "mispell"

 

[Lord]

yup, you'll need to play around with how you put the ads. theres no perfect way, but experiment and place them in different ways to find the best return

 

[Cicero]

You will have to mess around with ad placements to see which one works out best.

Google Adsense channels and Google analytics are your best friends :D