Parking page builder ideas

[jamesau]

After some light searching I haven't been able to find a tool that helps domainers create simple but customized self-hosted parking and 'for sale' pages.

Perhaps I've missed something, but why don't domainers want to build their own parking pages and install their own AdSense ads? I'm sure most of us have a shared hosting platform capable of managing the files.

The revenue from an average AdSense unit would be substantially more generous than the paltry sums made on third-party sites. Is there something in AdSense TOS that makes self-hosted parking more high risk?

Surely it's time for some innovation in the parking space. I simply can't believe a targeted click is worth a fraction of a cent these days.

I can't help but feel there is a room for a cloud app that builds/generates instant parking pages for self-hosting. Add some nicer page templates and maybe the ability to add basic content and surely there's more money available to domainers.

Or if you were to offer hosted parking pages on such a platform, what about an ad-swap model where domainers input their own AdSense ID and revenue goes directly to their account? For 10% of impressions the page host could swap in their ID. Seems a bit more transparent than the current systems.

 

[Optimal Names]

After some light searching I haven't been able to find a tool that helps domainers create simple but customized self-hosted parking and 'for sale' pages.

Perhaps I've missed something, but why don't domainers want to build their own parking pages and install their own AdSense ads? I'm sure most of us have a shared hosting platform capable of managing the files.

The revenue from an average AdSense unit would be substantially more generous than the paltry sums made on third-party sites. Is there something in AdSense TOS that makes self-hosted parking more high risk?

Surely it's time for some innovation in the parking space. I simply can't believe a targeted click is worth a fraction of a cent these days.

I can't help but feel there is a room for a cloud app that builds/generates instant parking pages for self-hosting. Add some nicer page templates and maybe the ability to add basic content and surely there's more money available to domainers.

Or if you were to offer hosted parking pages on such a platform, what about an ad-swap model where domainers input their own AdSense ID and revenue goes directly to their account? For 10% of impressions the page host could swap in their ID. Seems a bit more transparent than the current systems.

I agree with you when you say that targeted clicks paying a fraction of a penny are getting ridiculous lately. It seems as if my parking revenue is halving itself every year. I am at the point where its not even worth parking. The ROI in terms of what I put in monitoring these names, making sure keywords are working, downloading stats, etc just isnt profitable. Plus there is absolutely no transparency. No auditing. I get a charge back and I am not even allowed to know which domain its from or why. Its a very large black box and Google controls it and no one can even say the name Google!

But to create a parked page for each of my domains would be equally as time consuming, if not more time consuming. I'd be in the red right at the start because I have to pay for hosting for each domain, install some sort of content delivery system and continually update it with relevant material or find myself on the wrong side of the Google TOS. I've read too many bad stories about people expecting that next check, needing to pay the mortgage, and Google refuses to pay, or worse - terminates the relationship.

I dont know what the answer is. But I do think parking is pretty much coming to and end - for me at least.

 

[iowadawg]

I agree with the parking is dead.
Surely a simple HTML page is all one needs.
Instead of hosting each domain, get a shared hosting account.

 

[enlytend]

But to create a parked page for each of my domains would be equally as time consuming, if not more time consuming. I'd be in the red right at the start because I have to pay for hosting for each domain, install some sort of content delivery system and continually update it with relevant material or find myself on the wrong side of the Google TOS.

You could get one shared hosting account, with unlimited parked domains and php (or another language) and a database to dynamically generate the pages, once you do some initial configuration for each domain. I did that just for fun with a few of mine a while back.

If you run Adsense, you don't have to continually update content, BUT you do have to follow the Adsense policies. Among other things, their Ad Placement Policies state that ads cannot be:

• Placed on any non-content-based page.
• Placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads.

https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/48182?hl=en

Or if you were to offer hosted parking pages on such a platform, what about an ad-swap model where domainers input their own AdSense ID and revenue goes directly to their account? For 10% of impressions the page host could swap in their ID.

You'd need to worry about click fraud. If someone sends bad traffic to their domain, you have a 10% chance of sharing the blame and getting your account cancelled.

 

[Optimal Names]

You could get one shared hosting account, with unlimited parked domains and php (or another language) and a database to dynamically generate the pages, once you do some initial configuration for each domain. I did that just for fun with a few of mine a while back.

If you run Adsense, you don't have to continually update content, BUT you do have to follow the Adsense policies. Among other things, their Ad Placement Policies state that ads cannot be:

https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/48182?hl=en.

Thank you for that idea. I am going to look deeper into that. Does "one shared hosting account, with unlimited parked domains" mean that I can have many domains on that account and the URL structure as
<SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domain1>
<SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domain2>
<SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domain3>
:
:
<SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domainN>

so each <SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domainN> is its own .HTML page or PHP (or another language) and then change the forwarding to show a mask of just <domain1>, for example?

If that is what you did, do you have success?

 

[Andrew Chen]

Thank you for that idea. I am going to look deeper into that. Does "one shared hosting account, with unlimited parked domains" mean that I can have many domains on that account and the URL structure as
<SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domain1>
<SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domain2>
<SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domain3>
:
:
<SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domainN>

so each <SharedHostingAccountDomainName> . com / <domainN> is its own .HTML page or PHP (or another language) and then change the forwarding to show a mask of just <domain1>, for example?

If that is what you did, do you have success?

It depends on the hosting company, some of them allows you to do domain1.com, domain2.com w/o SharedHostingAccountDomainName.com in front of it.

 

[Optimal Names]

It depends on the hosting company, some of them allows you to do domain1.com, domain2.com w/o SharedHostingAccountDomainName.com in front of it.

I like that better. Its cleaner. I need to find hosting companies that allow that. Is there a term for that? I would like to search around for it.

 

[jamesau]

You will want to look for 'Addon Domains' as opposed to 'Parked Domains'.

 

[enlytend]

You will want to look for 'Addon Domains' as opposed to 'Parked Domains'.

Depends on how you intend to manage it.
Parked domains are masked forwards to a primary domain. They can share 1 instance of scripts and files that dynamically show different content for each.
Addons are separate sites built on subdirectories of a primary domain. Even though you could share a database and some files, to an extent each would need to be managed separately, and the more you have the more resource intensive they are. If you have a lot you will get sluggish response, especially on shared hosting.
Parked with dynamic content is more work up front but easier to scale.
I did successfully have several domains self-parked and serving their own unique content that way for a while.

 

[domainzaar]

Hi JRayers,

Adsense for-content ads will pay much more than simple parking page ads. The reason is that a parked page has nothing but ads and is somewhat "misleading" - the only thing the visitor can do is click on an ad. Thus, the conversion rates for advertisers from such clicks are much lower than if a visitor came to a somewhat developed page and clicked on an ad there.

I also want to point out that an already built tool does exist to help you manage your domains using either the parked domains or add-on domains method. You just haven't found it yet

After some light searching I haven't been able to find a tool that helps domainers create simple but customized self-hosted parking and 'for sale' pages.

Perhaps I've missed something, but why don't domainers want to build their own parking pages and install their own AdSense ads? I'm sure most of us have a shared hosting platform capable of managing the files.

The revenue from an average AdSense unit would be substantially more generous than the paltry sums made on third-party sites. Is there something in AdSense TOS that makes self-hosted parking more high risk?

Surely it's time for some innovation in the parking space. I simply can't believe a targeted click is worth a fraction of a cent these days.

I can't help but feel there is a room for a cloud app that builds/generates instant parking pages for self-hosting. Add some nicer page templates and maybe the ability to add basic content and surely there's more money available to domainers.

Or if you were to offer hosted parking pages on such a platform, what about an ad-swap model where domainers input their own AdSense ID and revenue goes directly to their account? For 10% of impressions the page host could swap in their ID. Seems a bit more transparent than the current systems.

 

[enlytend]

If you use a package that relies on autogenerated or scraped content, you're risking your Adsense account because your content doesn't adhere to their Webmaster Quality Guidelines.
Just sayin.