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Earn Money With Domain Parking

Posted by Admin on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 08:59 PM

Domain parking is a method of earning money with domain names which have type-in traffic or pre-existing traffic (if it was a website before). Depending upon the amount of traffic, you could earn hundreds and even thousands of dollars thru domain parking each and every month. There are some domainers in the industry who manage thousands of domains in their portfolio and earn big money thru domain parking.

.ca domain names do very well with domain parking companies as Canadian traffic converts well for the advertisers and thus the payouts to the domain name owner for their traffic is high.

The following are some ways you too can earn extra income by parking domain names.

Buying Traffic Domains

There are various domain auction sites and market places where you can buy expiring domains. Most of these sites may also provide traffic stats on such domain names. Some domain buyers also check the Alexa ranking for the domain before buying it. However Alexa ranking is just an estimation and it may not provide the exact traffic figures.

Monetizing your Domains Previously Used for a Website

Were you running a website and for some reason you discontinued it? The domain may still receive traffic and you could see how much it earns by parking the domain with a domain parking company. Simply add the domain name to your approved parking account by swiching the dns record to those supplied by the parking company.

Single word Domains and Generic Domains

If you have a single word or generic domain in popular extensions like .com or .net, you can try to monetize it by parking your domain. Generic domains should have type-in traffic and you could utilize this by parking your domain. Some Domainers also register typo domains (typo of popular brands or generic word) with an intention to earn money thru domain parking. But this is very risky and such domain owners may – and have faced legal consequences including being sued by the trademark holders.

Finding Good Domain Parking Companies

There are numerous domain parking companies so choosing the right ones may be somewhat confusing for the newbies. Some of the leading companies include Sedo, Namedrive, Parked.com, GoDaddy.com , DomainSponsor, and HitFarm. To start up you could create accounts with multiple domain parking companies and diversify your domain portfolio. If the revenue is not as expected you could keep changing the particular domain to a different parking company. Through this, you could find out the parking company which pays the best for your domain names.

How to Increase Your Domain Parking Revenue

Most of the domain parking companies offer the feature of optimizing the keywords for a specific domain. By optimizing the keywords and landing page, you could drastically increase your revenue. Constantly changing the keywords can help you to find the high paying keywords and you could finally choose to stick with the high paying keywords. As well some parking companies allow further modification of the landing page including layout, colors, images, added text, meta data and more. Take advantage of these features if available.

Risks Associated With Domain Parking

Domain parking can not always provide a steady passive income like a developed website. Unless it is a generic domain, it may lose its traffic over a period of time. If you use typo domains for parking, you may end up in facing legal consequences. If you have purchased a domain based on the traffic stats, you may end up in losses if the CTR (click thru rate) and CPC (cost per click) is very poor and you end up earning less with it than you paid for it. But don't let the risks totally put you off. Start small and experiment and when you really see how it works you can jump right in.

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