Does Domain Parking Work?
So what exactly is parking your domain? Parking your domain is an advertising practice used mainly by domain registrars and internet moguls to earn revenue from type-in traffic to an blank website. The url will resolve to a page containing nothing but google ads or links to affiliate programs. There is normally 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 typically paid based on the number of clicks and the resulting benefit derived from these clicks.
Is it possible to make money from domain parking? Yes it is! Some webpreneurs have portfolios of thousands of such sites that make hundreds of thousands of dollars each 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 URLs 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 paid links. This person is reported to make millions of dollars each year, his reward for helping the Cameroon government monetize this situation!
My personal experience 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 roughly 1 cent per month! Not even enough to cover the expense of the URL registration fee each year. GoDaddy was even worse. They wanted me to pay between $3.50 and $9.99 per month in order to park your website with them. I had 1 site for several months but I was unable to make enough money to even reimburse the cost of this fee, even though it wasn’t a lot to begin with. I think that if you’re a bulk domainer with thousands of URLs, you might achieve substantionally more traction than I did. But I wouldn’t bet on it.
Before you think that you can jump in and buy several domains and snowball your parking efforts, remember that you’re already very late to the show. It’s now a very competitive playing field and there are tens of thousands of experienced domainers trying to make money from domain parking. All of the 2 & 3 letter domains are all gone and so are most of the four letter domains too! Getting type-in traffic is usually a lot easier with shorter domain names or dictionary words. With Public 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 and combinations.
But you don’t need to totally 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) sites that have a little amount of content which draws search engine traffic but are heavily optimized for adsense ads. This is significantly more cumbersome than ordinary domain parking and a lot more time-consuming. There are methods to automate this process, but many of these methods require a bit of cash outlay for software tools that all create the same duplicate content for everyone. Making unique content is really very critical 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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