Reasons For Domain Parking

So what does one mean by parking your domain? Parking your domain is an advertising practise used mostly by domain registrars and internet entreprenuers to create money from type-in traffic to an blank domain. The url will normally resolve to a page containing nothing but advertisements or links to affiliate programs. There is usually no useful information of any value to the web user who usually clicks on one of the links just to get away from the page. The domain owner is normally paid based on the number of clicks and the following benefit derived from those clicks.

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

My personal experiments with domain parking programs like Sedo and GoDaddy has been pretty lousy. I had several 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 name registration fee each year. GoDaddy was even worse. You need to pay between $3.50 and $9.99 per month in order to park your page with them. I had just one 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 website parker with thousands of domains, you will probably achieve a lot more traction than I did. But I wouldn't count on it.

Before you think that you'll go out and buy several domains and snowball your domain parking efforts, remember that you're already very late to the show. It's now an intensely cut-throat playing field and there are many thousands of experienced domainers trying to earn money from domain parking. All of the 3 letter domains are all gone and so are nearly all of the 4 letter domains too! Capturing type-in traffic is usually a lot easier with shorter domain names or dictionary words. With Private Equity companies getting in on the action, there's more than enough money being thrown around to buy up all the possible dictionary words and their possible permutations.

However, you don't need to completely dismiss the concept of domain parking. There are still several tricks to make some money. Some of them involve generating MFA (made for adsense) sites that have a tiny amount of content which pulls in organic traffic but are heavily optimized for adsense ads. This is significantly more involved than ordinary domain parking and a lot more time-consuming. There are methods to automate this process, 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 highly important for ranking high in the search engines and getting organic traffic. There are ways to automate this process without spending any money but thats a new topic for another article.

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