Parking Pitfalls

[NachoGalactico]

I thought it may be useful to share some common obstacles and traps to help everyone move forward that bit quicker and not waste money.

This is only what I've come across from my own experience, I'm sure there's exceptions to all of these but...

Don't buy:

Anything with the word 'article' in it.

Someone's old wordpress blog site.

A hand reg with 1000000s of backlinks (too good to be true? why would the owner let it expire?)

Faillisted domains - This sometimes can't be avoided but use Bodis' api check first at least.

Anything where the 'anchor text' on majestic doesn't match the domain type. eg an ex fishing site that has anchor text relating to car insurance.

Strange looking ex-directory type sites

Previously parked sites (may be exceptions but if a parked site has been dropped it's probably come to the end of it's useful life for parking).

Anything with a suspicioulsy or inexplicably high alexa rank in a country that doesn't match the cctld - e.g. a .co.uk domain with a high rank in India.

Generally speaking

Be very careful with .info - they're dirt cheap to reg but can be polluted and pumped full of rubbish traffic that can cause you issues with parking companies. Personally I just stay away from the extension now all together (but I bet there's a few gems out there nevertheless).

Remember a domain doesn't have to look pretty to be good for parking purposes. If the intention is income not sale then 'sdfs-391-fdsf.net.nz' may work just as well as your llll.com domain if the metrics are there.

Lastly make sure you use a decent parking provider. There's plenty on here to help make decisions on who you should be trying, these include voodoo, parkingcrew, domainsponsor/rookmedia, bodis, internettraffic, namedrive and domainadvertising. I also highly recommend using Above.

Cheers and please add to this list...

N

 

[Hypersot]

good tips. People need to be reminded though that there are *always* exceptions to the rule...

 

[Name Trader]

I'd go further on one of your tips. I would never buy a faillisted domain. Ever. If my intention was to park the domain. And I would still consider not buying it if I was going to develop it. Why? Because it is extremely difficult to get a domain unfaillisted at Google. Google makes you jump through hoops which might be just too small for you to get through. Even if you are successful, expect to be working on it for 3-6 months. Better to just go and find an unfaillisted domain.

 

[NachoGalactico]

Thanks Stub and I agree - I just meant when I started I didn't really know how to find out if they were faillisted or not until I'd parked them. I ended up with about a dozen or so, out of these a couple made their reg fee back before I dropped them and only 1 is worth renewing. This one makes about $12-15 per month, and it seems to be best monetized by Rook (& the above maximiser), although DomainAdvertising is nibbling away at it. Overall though yes just stay welllllll away from them!

Cheers
N

 

[varunsash]

I have an idea....so Is this considered legit.....

Assuming i hand register a few domains and then populate them with a lot of content and then build backlinks to them. Once they start receiving traffic can i then move it to parking.

So they naturally get traffic and get monetised through parking.

 

[Hypersot]

I have an idea....so Is this considered legit.....

Assuming i hand register a few domains and then populate them with a lot of content and then build backlinks to them. Once they start receiving traffic can i then move it to parking.

So they naturally get traffic and get monetised through parking.

In my opinion it depends on *how* you are going to build backlinks and traffic.

Because if you're looking for -as you said- natural traffic, then it takes a long time and if you spend all that time creating some nice sites with natural traffic, then there is no point parking them now, is it?

 

[varunsash]

Point taken Hypersot.

But parking seems to give me more revenue than using ads like adsense .

Assuming i do this for 1 year and then park them - will this work?

 

[Hypersot]

Point taken Hypersot.

But parking seems to give me more revenue than using ads like adsense .

Assuming i do this for 1 year and then park them - will this work?

I had in mind affiliate programs or reselling said domains. I believe you'll earn much more from affiliates than parking if you drive organic traffic to your domains.
If you're not into the affiliate thing, you can always resell those domains for , again, higher profit than parking

I take for granted that you'll choose a niche that doesn't have much competition, ie. lower CPC, since most of the higher CPC niches are saturated.

Note that I'm also fairly new in the business and all I'm saying is by reading and searching for about 6-7 months, it's very possible I'm wrong in my opinion.

 

[varunsash]

Interesting. Affiliate marketing for me has never worked....How much do you make with affiliate marketing?

 

[Hypersot]

Interesting. Affiliate marketing for me has never worked....How much do you make with affiliate marketing?

Just started :P and I have absolutely no idea where it's going to take me since there is one thing I have a problem with, like most out there,... content.

As I said earlier, everything I say is from all the reading I've done the past months. It seems there is a general opinion that affiliate marketing can potentially bring much more revenue than parking.

Also, don't forget that on the same pages that you set your affiliate links you can also have contextual ads, banners, etc. which can also bring you revenue equivalent to the tier2 ads in parking for all those visitor that do not intend on buying anything (at least that's how it has worked for me so far).

Still, I believe organic traffic is very very valuable and can be monetized by various ways from people that know how things work.

 

[decades80]

@stub there are exceptions, I have faillisted domains making 1+ USD per day each at Domainadvertising.

 

[Name Trader]

Yeah but not from a Google Feed, I presume.

 

[DKN]

In my opinion it depends on *how* you are going to build backlinks and traffic.

Because if you're looking for -as you said- natural traffic, then it takes a long time and if you spend all that time creating some nice sites with natural traffic, then there is no point parking them now, is it?

I'm also having same thought.....Then whats your view bro.

I heard about parking CPCs are better than Adsense CPC.

 

[Hypersot]

I'm also having same thought.....Then whats your view bro.

I heard about parking CPCs are better than Adsense CPC.

I'm not using adsense since I fear that if I do even the slightest thing wrong I'd get a penalty in G. I'm probably wrong here but I try to stay as much away from doing *direct* business with G as possible.

What I use is qadabra, chitika, kontextua and infolinks for my banner ads and in-text ads . I have noticed that , while the rpc is *roughly* the same as in parking, the rpm is really low. This is because it seems that not all clicks convert to money.

I also very recently started running some affiliate sites with amazon ads in. This is still in progress, ie. I get only uniques in amazon but no conversions and I'm still playing around with the setting up of the sites.

I should note here that my banner ads are on blog-like sites that I have parked with SEOparking which provide relevant random content (not a very good idea but that's what it is until I think of something)
I also run on shared hosting with hostgator for my amazon afiilliate sites.

In short, I'm new to non-parking content monetization and I'm definitely still learning. Despite doing pretty well with parking I really need to have a second option open in case parking ceases to exist one day or something happens that makes it hard to make money via parking.

 

[Chow Pow]

Hey, what is the "Bodis' api check", thanks

 

[NachoGalactico]

It's a very useful tool as a check to see whether the domain is faillisted. Use the following and change yourdomain to, well, your domain.

If it shows the word 'secondary' instead of 'primary' then it's faillisted. Doesn't always work but it's always worth checking.

api(dot)bodis(dot)com/domainclassification?domain=YOURDOMAIN

Thanks to Bodis for this

 

[m-i-k-e]

@stub there are exceptions, I have faillisted domains making 1+ USD per day each at Domainadvertising.

DomainApps should also work for those

Yeah but not from a Google Feed, I presume.

Yahoo

 

[arend]

I just hand regged a faillisted domain. Didnt now anything about faillists. Great. Not!

 

[zaki.ahmed]

HI @Chow Pow @NachoGalactico @arend

You can find step by step guide on using Bodis API to find if Domain is Fail listed or not at
http://www.namingzone.com/check-if-domain-name-is-banned/
Since lately it has stopped working 100 % accurately, if its shows clean does not mean Domain is clean as sometimes its not 100 % accurate and may not work on country Level TLD, but if it shows fail listed then its fail listed.

Still a Very useful and handy tool.

 

[s1ckle]

I own dronearticles.com, should I just dump it? Or could you expand why "article" is a bad word?