How to Earn Money with Your Parked Domains
May 23, 2008
I see it everyday among my fellow DotComPreneurs.
You are deeply immersed in working on your business and a new product or business idea suddenly appears before you.
What happens next is fairly routine.
You come up with a catchy name or multiple moniker that adequately represent your new bright shiny idea.
Next (usually within seconds or a few minutes) you head over to your favorite registrar and check to see if the domain is available.
Most DotComPreneurs have at least a few great ideas on the back burner.
I know I do.
Which means you may have dozens, hundreds or perhaps even thousands of unused domains just sitting there while you’re working on your other high priority projects.
If you’re like most newbies, the domains you purchased but haven’t put to work yet are parked on the domain registrars default parked page. This happens automatically until you either host your domain someplace else or forward it to one of your other web sites.
The domain industry’s dirty little secret…
What you might not know is that your domain registrar earns money every time someone visits your domain and clicks on one of the relevant ads displayed on their default parked page. The links on the page are targeted based on the words contained within your domain.
Some registrars generate more revenue on these ads than they do on domain name sales.
Something else you might not be aware of is that YOU, the owner of the domain can take advantage of any possible type in traffic and earn money per click just like the registrars do simply by utilizing a strategic parking service.
In the domain parking industry, the top rated domain parking service is Domain Sponsor
You may be surprised at the value of click through traffic of your parked domains. This week, on one domain, I earned $ 7.96 in revenue from only 7 visitors. That’s more than the price I paid to register the domain.
The fastest way to find out is to stop giving your traffic to your domain registrar and park them and take a look at what kind of traffic is coming your way.
1. Go to Domain Sponsor and set up your account.
2. Follow the instructions for adding each domain to your Domain Sponsor account.
3. Park the domain on the servers as listed.
Don’t forget to type in your domain into your web browser to ensure that domain directs to the new redirected page.
*WARNING: Do NOT click on links on your page or type any phrases in the search box*
That is considered to be click fraud since you are being paid by the advertiser for any clicks and your account will be shut down. (you can look but don’t touch or click on the page).
Do NOT link to any of your parked domains from any of your other web sites. That is against the rules my friend. If you are caught posting new links anywhere, kiss your entire account goodbye.
If there were existing links directing to your domain, that’s fair and will generate revenue, but do not try to outsmart the system.
There are a variety of factors that will determine how much money you can earn from your domains:
* The Domain Name itself. Is it keyword rich? Does it receive any type in traffic. If your domain is www.2kewl2Btamed123.com, don’t expect much traffic. That doesn’t qualify as keyword rich.
* Past use (if any) If there are old incoming links, you may get considerable traffic.
* If your Domain is similar to a high traffic existing domain. For example, I have several parked domains that are two words: XxxxXxxxx.com but someone else owns the same words separated by a hypen Xxxx-Xxxxx.com Guess who gets an aweful lot of click throughs? Yep.
* Most people when typing a URL of a web site unconsciously type in a .COM after the words. I owned a domain name for several years when imagine my surprise, a TLC television show was created with the same name and keywords. Since I owned the .COM, it generated thousands of visitors and considerable click through income until that party purchased it from me. I did have plans to develop the domain, but when approached by the buyer, whom I admired and respected, I let it go so it could serve millions now instead of later when I got around to it.
Publicly listing any of my domains would lead to traffic surges so while I can’t do that, I can tell you of the results of a few of my parked domains and you can let your imagination run wild.
Last year one of my real estate domains received 1,995 visitors and earned $ 468.54
Another domain received 9,063 visitors and earned $ 269.84
A diet domain received only 255 visitors and earned $ 179.23
I could purchase 130 more domains by reinvesting that $ 916 in revenue…park them… reinvest the revenue from those…and keep growng my portfolio.
Remember I set it and forget it - all I am doing is parking my unused domains on this service until I develop them. There are DotComPreneurs making millions of dollars each year by investing strategically in expired domains specifically for the purpose of earning revenue this way.
Note: It may take a few months for the keywords to aggregate. Each time a visitor clicks on a link or types in a search phrase, the system collects that data and modifies the words on the page accordingly so your success ratio will generally increase over time and so will your monthly checks.
Remember, those domains were previously earning the registrar that revenue. I did nothing except spend 5 minutes once to redirect them and renew the domain each year for $ 7. As you can see from just a few of my examples, it adds up.
More on domains coming soon but in the meantime, after you get set up and redirect your domains, I would love to hear about your results.
Here is the link to Domain Sponsor
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Excellent information. Thank you. I am one of those people with lots of domain names waiting out there. I wil check into this ASAP.
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