Parking payments compared to Minisites with AdSense..

[gazzip]

I am a bit peeved that the search engines don't seem to be indexing sedo's parking pages like they used to. I'm just wondering if the development time is really worth the difference.

How much of a difference between payments for Adsense on minisites compared with Sedo's payments per click ?

Just what sort of cut are sedo taking ? Any ideas ?

If you can post any examples too that would be great :lala:

Thanks


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[Broker]

Gazzip, I dont have an awnser for you. But I will say this, all my domains but a few are parked with sedo. I seem to be getting alot of traffic on my better names but little to zero clicks so ppc is a joke. The other domains I have are at 1plus and I have made about $60 with adsense in the last few months. Take away the $40 I spent on adwords to make that and I have a large pizza with toppings.

I have since stopped my adwords campaigns and my traffic dropped bigtime. I dont have any premium traffic domains so this is life. I am now focusing on buying and flipping and trying to save for a couple development projects where as the old saying comes to mind, "Build it and they will come" will certainly lead to better revenue.

 

[DomainMayhem.com]

Hasrob, I find myself in the same boat! Though I haven't signed on for adwords yet. Do you feel that it is worth it to continue with it again sometime?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

I've been playing with automated mini-sites for a while and am starting to see $ results. I still park the names first, and let the parking service do the leg-work of telling me where the visitors are coming from and what it is they are looking for, then I tell the script what keywords to generate and what terms to use to create content, and I'm left with what's in my sig at the moment, for example.
The CTR is much, much higher, although I'm still playing with the RPC numbers in order to compare apples to apples. That, and it does take a little legwork, but the SE's have been picking up the sites in chunks at a time.
-Allan :gl:

 

[Work In Progress]

I switched 95% from Sedo to 1plus a few months back. I only have my few adults still parked there.

Basically started parking in December 06 and ended in March.
averaged under $4.00 a month. I have a total of under $20 owed to me in my sedo account. I don't expect to reach the minimum anytime too soon.

Now, obviously, my names aren't considered "premiums" nor do they generate a lot of type in's, but once I switched to 1Plus (in April) and got them some SE exposure (the majority of my visits are now from SE traffic), my income is now way up. I have not used adwords (yet), and terms prevent us from disclosing what we have earned, but in general, I'm into 3 figures now and will be getting my first check next month.


If you have domains that will benefit from SE traffic, mini sites rock! :imho:

 

[DomainMayhem.com]

I've been playing with automated mini-sites for a while and am starting to see $ results. I still park the names first, and let the parking service do the leg-work of telling me where the visitors are coming from and what it is they are looking for, then I tell the script what keywords to generate and what terms to use to create content, and I'm left with what's in my sig at the moment, for example.
The CTR is much, much higher, although I'm still playing with the RPC numbers in order to compare apples to apples. That, and it does take a little legwork, but the SE's have been picking up the sites in chunks at a time.
-Allan :gl:

Allan, do you use 1plus? Whypark? And where do you park your sites first for your research of keywords?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Allan, do you use 1plus? Whypark? And where do you park your sites first for your research of keywords?

I do love 1plus.net (And I'm sure I'll love iMoDo as well!), but my minisites are home-brew so I can control the content and changes and see the effects first hand. Now they aren't as attractive as any "parking company", but part of my goal of my minisites is to not look like a parked site (Which causes a faster "Back" button click than anything else I could think of...).

I park my sites at Sedo first to get a handle of where the traffic is coming from, mostly because it seems to be at least decent at distinguishing between bots and people (Meh - that's giving them too much credit, but my stats aren't as hyper-inflated with image-calls as they were elsewhere.).

-Allan :gl:

 

[DomainMayhem.com]

Thanks Allen, your input is always valued. Rep added to you and workinprogress.

 

[dnk]

I don't believe in automated mini sites , but hand written sites beat parking payments anytime. Advertisers will directly contact you for text links if they get good conversions from your websites, useful content usually converts well .

If your sites have PR, you can also sell text links

 

[sags]

Have you guys considered parked.com as a parking solution?

I have earned much more from them as they pay for "multiple" clicks.

My problem is getting any traffic. I have one parked site, sirenringtones.com which continually receives anywhere from an outstanding 300 - 1200 per cent click through rate. For example, I will get 2 visitors and 12 paid clicks. The domain is profitable because I earn the reg fees after only a handful of visitors, but it could do so much better.

I believe the unbelievable click thru rate is because the advertising is perfectly matched to the domain name and the visitors are probably younger people who are looking for a unique ringtone. They look at a lot of ads seeking the right ringtone.

Now, if only I could figure out how to get some visitors.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Regards,

Sags

 

[Smiler]

Hi Work-In-Progress
I hope you don't mind me asking how many domains you have parked at 1Plus.net and what type of domains that you are parking there that allows you to generate 3 figures. Smiler.

 

[whitebark]

I don't believe in automated mini sites , but hand written sites beat parking payments anytime. Advertisers will directly contact you for text links if they get good conversions from your websites, useful content usually converts well .

If your sites have PR, you can also sell text links

Agreed - and automated sites are a great way to lose your google account full-stop. They are against the terms of service - and they do enforce them. They might not get you right away, but they will.

Nothing beats real content. Not when it comes to search results, resale value, advertiser attraction, etc etc etc.

As for Sedo vs Adsense payouts - there is no comparison to be made.

Development time and $ are always worth it in the end. You are not likely to earn any less, and all that much more likely to earn much more.

 

[.X.]

First off...I am stoked to see "iMoDo" From what i hear, It is going to be awesome!! I use WhyPark.com, The difference in revenue for myself has been going from xx a day,,,to xxx a day, I have used most of the parkers, Sedopro,Fabulous, NameDrive, GoldKey, and on and on, I never will domain name park again, That i can promise. It is for some people,While others do far better with websites, I do much better with websites, I spend hours monetizing, I don't have one site that has a SEO score less than 96%, It just takes hard work, dedication, and most of all, patience.

 

[Charley]

They charge $ 99 fee for signup. Are they a parking provider or mini site developer ?

I use WhyPark.com

 

[irishmat]

SEO score less than 96%

whats an SEO score?

 

[Charley]

SEO score less than 96%

whats an SEO score?

Some arbitrary number that the particular domain assigns based on what the people who wrote think of SEO - it's useless as a metric.

 

[Work In Progress]

Hi Work-In-Progress
I hope you don't mind me asking how many domains you have parked at 1Plus.net and what type of domains that you are parking there that allows you to generate 3 figures. Smiler.

Just over 100 total...Mostly .com and .info, as well as a few .org's

All but 1 have been freshly regged within the last year. The 1 older one that has a history gets practically no visits though.

As whitebark pointed out, you do have to be careful using these with adsense. You need to change content (you can write your own article in 1plus, for instance) and keep things fresh. It's a little work, but worth the effort.




:blink:

 

[DotUSDomains]

You can check your SEO score at Domaintools.com (using the Whois)

And custom writter/unique article/content sites are the way to go,

USing a script/service that does the sites should only be temporary i say,

You go custom you'll get better ranking/better quality of traffic and higher revenue,

The above is a FACT.

 

[.X.]

They charge $ 99 fee for signup. Are they a parking provider or mini site developer ?

They are a mini site provider, You have total control of the content that appears on your website,And whypark provides the content, and it is updated weekly,you can also provide your own content, You have total control of the look and feel of your website, You have total control of what ad publisher, and affiliates you choose to use on your website, And you can advertise your sites in forum signitures, Web directories and ect, If you have more questions about WhyPark.com, Feel free to PM me

whats an SEO score?

Put a name in www.DomainTools.com whois ... It will show thier SEO score, Many people do not understand, When the search engines crawl websites, If they do not like the site, They will not return as frequently, I took tutorial lessons from a lady in india to lean Search Engine Optimization, It has paid off for me big time, If a site has an SEO score of 50% , It is not optimized.Anything less than 80% is a bad number, A site needs to be at least 90%, Over 90% will get you far better search engine indexing.

 

[DomainMayhem.com]

Agreed - and automated sites are a great way to lose your google account full-stop. They are against the terms of service - and they do enforce them. They might not get you right away, but they will.

I've seen this discussed many times, and the 1plus.net owner stated in another thread that they've gotten the green light from google adsense on their setup. Is this info correct?