Does Domain Parking Work?

Does Domain Parking Work?

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So what is domain parking? Parking your domain is an advertising practise used predominantly by domain registrars and internet entreprenuers to create income from type-in traffic to an blank domain. The domain will usually resolve to a page containing only adsense ads or links to affiliate programs. There is often no useful information of any value to the user who usually clicks on one of the links just to get away from the page. The domain owner is usually paid based on the number of clicks and the resulting benefit derived from those clicks.

Is it feasible to generate money from domain parking? Yes it is! Some domainers have portfolios of thousands of such sites that produce hundreds of thousands of dollars each month. Some of these portfolios of sites have been reportedly sold for millions of dollars to Private Equity funds. One Canadian domainer has managed to sign an agreement with the government of Cameroon. Cameroon sites end with a ".cm". Many internet users mistakenly type in ".cm" instead of ".com" and all of the unregistered domain names resolve to a parked domain page containing advertisements. This person is rumored to make millions of dollars each quarter, his reward for helping the Cameroon government monetize this occurrance!

My personal experience with domain parking programs like Sedo and GoDaddy has been pretty miserable. I had four domains with Sedo for just over 24 months and I made about 1 cent per month! Not even enough to bare the expense of the domain registration fee each year. GoDaddy was far worse. I had to to pay between $3.50 and $9.99 per month in order to park your site there. I had 1 site for several months but I was unable to make sufficient money to even cover the cost of this fee, even though it wasn't a lot to begin with. I'd imagine that if you're a bulk domain parker with thousands of sites, you will probably achieve a lot more traction than I did. But I wouldn't bet on it.

Before you think that you'll jump in and buy a handful of domains and snowball your parking efforts, remember that you're already very late to the game. It's now a highly cut-throat playing field and there are many thousands of interent entrepreneurs trying to generate income from domain parking. All of the 3 letter domains are all gone and so are nearly all of the 4 letter domains too! Getting type-in traffic is usually a lot easier with shorter domain names or dictionary words. With Venture Capital companies getting in on the action, there's more than enough money being spread around to buy up all the possible dictionary words and their possible permutations.

However, you don't need to completely give up on the concept of domain parking. There are still one or two tricks to make some money. Some of them involve generating MFA (made for adsense) domains that have a minute bit of content which draws search engine traffic but are heavily optimized for adsense ads. This is a bit more involved than ordinary domain parking and a lot more time-consuming. There are methods to automate this procedure, but many of these processes require a certain amount of cash outlay for software tools that all generate the same duplicate content for all users. Making unique content is incredibly critical for ranking high in the search engines and getting their traffic. There are ways to automate this process without spending any money but thats a new topic for another day.

About the Author:
The author is very lazy and has a site devoted to generating passive income streams and is making money with alternatives to domain parking (domain embarking).



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