Making Money from Parked Domains

"Making Money from Parked Domains"
  Last Update: Thursday 22nd Febuary 2007  
 


Let me tell you a true story. A friend of mine who likes to collect domain names was describing a few that he had acquired. While he has a wide range of domains in various categories, these particular domains were all related to web hosting.
Some of the domain names were similar to existing web hosting company names (or derivatives of web hosting company names). Others simply had ‘hosting’, ‘host’, or a related term in the domain itself.

So my friend and I were talking and he said something like, “Yeah, it’s a shame – if only I had the time to develop some content for some of these domains then I might make some money form them”. It turns out that he had no content on any of the domains – just parked pages, or no content at all. When I investigated the domains, it turned out that there was a small but steady traffic stream that visited these domains. Some simply typed in the domain, others apparently found the domain through a search engine that had categorized the parked page.

So I suggested the following to him – why not use a service that will take the domain as is – with no content whatsoever – and suggest search options that generate revenue for each click? He took my advice, grudgingly I might add, and guess what? He made $50 the first month from just a few of his domains.

He was so excited that he asked what he might do to further increase his revenues from his domain names. I suggested that he use his parking pages (these can be customized with some hosts) to test banners from affiliate programs with the highest paying hosting companies. He placed only three banners at the top of his pages – with a brief description of the company’s product offerings taken straight from their web sites. This also proved to be a great success – and his revenue stream increased.
My friend has since invested some time and energy in monetizing his other domains. He has either pointed the domains to a pay per click search engine, or listed affiliate links on almost every domain. This has turned a lackluster domain speculation business into a profit generating pay per click and affiliate business that requires almost no effort to maintain. Needless to say, my friend has taken my out to lunch a couple of times since then.

If you have parked domains and want to try getting paid for search results on those pages, you should absolutely use whypark.com

www.whypark.com

Why WhyPark.com :P

We had tried other domain parking services including some of the free ones like sedo, however none of them performed anywhere near the standard of whypark.com.  The major problems with the others where:

They produce thousands of identical parked pages, they are instantly recognizable by the average internet user and so they leave before they get chance to earn you some money.

There is no content for search engines to follow or visitors to read, again leading visitors away and not exactly helping your search engine rankings.

Visitors and search engines come once and don't return due to the stale, lifeless page.

And overall unlike other parking services WhyPark.com does not take commission on any of the money your domains generate.

With WhyPark

-You choose the keywords that are relevant to your domain name

-WhyPark pulls relevant content and displays it on your 100% ready website

-Fresh content is added to your web site daily.

-Visitors will bookmark and come back over and over again

-Search Engines Will Love Your Web Sites

-Search engines follow, index and rank web sites with real, keyword rich content. While domain parking is useless and will not rank on search engines, WhyPark.com web hosting sites are packed with quality, themed content.

Plus
, WhyPark.com will professionally optimize your web site for search engines with the following features :

-Keyword rich titles on every page

-Easy to follow index pages and automatically updated site maps

- High keyword density

- Layout and code optimized for search engines

- New content is added daily keeping search engines coming back for more

- Rotating article introductions on every page are based on your keywords

- Automated Google Sitemap creation

We were at first a little hesitant to get a WhyPark account because it was a little pricy at $99.95 but after entering the membership area it was without a doubt the best domain parking service available and our membership cost was soon paid in 2 months with the domains we'd already purchased, so it was a wise investment.

If you're wondering what WhyPark sites look like checkout the sites below for an idea.

Domain Site Name
ACTIONFILES.COM File Sharing & File Storage Info | ActionFiles.com
BOOKDEBUT.COM Online Book Review | BookDebut.com
FASHIONDESIGNARTICLES.COM Fashion Design & Fashion Show Info
GAMEDEBUT.COM Online Video Game and Video Game Console Info
JVCENTRE.COM Joint Venture and Marketing Branding Articles

To find out more and see some screenshots go to www.WhyPark.com

Good luck in transforming your parked domains into cold, hard cash!

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