question What makes a domain good for parking?

[wakeh]

Hi

I am very new to parking... I have some experience in the domain side of things now I wouldn't call myself a "newbie" now....

I have one domain that appears to be receiving clicks and traffic, albeit low volumes. I think this year it may make back it's reg fee, which I appreciate won't make me a profit however.

What I would like to know is, will the below criteria be enough to work with when selecting domains to park? Not in any order;

1. Exact Searches (I use Valuate(.).com)
2. Google Trends
3. Backlinks (I am very inexperienced in this at the moment)
4. Keywords
5. I can imagine myself typing the domain straight into my browser

I am only interested in hand-regging new domains, and paying the minimal amount (I know this limits my success).

Another question is;

As an example, let's say I have a .co.uk domain that now earns $100 per year, is it fair to appraise the domain based on its parking revenue and if so how could you do this?

i.e - multiply it's yearly revenue by 3, for 3 years or something like that?

 

[margulies]

Strong backlinks are key to parking a domain. For a domain to receive $100 in rev per year, you can bet the domain used to be established with good enough quality that other sites linked to it around the web.

If only there was a way to see how many QUALITY backlinks the domain had, that would be a key indicator that the domain would be good for parkings. Since it sounds like you are in it for the long haul I wouldn't worry about Google Trends so much. Also, exact keywords are a thing of the past unless we are talking about super niche specific phrases such as MiamiRealEstateCondos.c0m for example.

Hopefully we can get someone here to point us in the right direction with regard to examining backlinks for parking.

 

[golan]

^^ Right. In order to get traffic to your parked domain, you need people to come to it from somewhere. Either links on other sites, or search engine results, or direct typing in browser. So - either strong backlinks, or keyword match.

 

[OptimaDomains]

Typos work well.