Earn Passive Income From Domains

So what is domain parking? Parking your domain is an advertising practise used predominantly by domain registrars and internet moguls to earn money from type-in traffic to an blank domain. The url will resolve to a page consisting of only 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 ads just to get away from the page. The domain owner is normally paid based on the number of clicks and the resulting benefit derived from these clicks.

Is it possible to make income from domain parking? Yes it is! Some webpreneurs have portfolios of thousands of such sites that generate hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Some of these portfolios of sites have been reportedly sold for millions of dollars to Private Equity firms. One Canadian internet mogul has managed to sign an agreement with the government of Cameroon. Cameroon sites end with a ".cm". Many internet users mistakenly type in ".cm" instead of ".com" and all of the unregistered URLs resolve to a parked domain page consisting of ads. This individual is rumored to make millions of dollars each month, his share for assisting the Cameroon government monetize this occurrance!

My personal experience with domain parking programs like Sedo and GoDaddy has been pretty lousy. I had five domains with Sedo for a 2 year period and I made about 1 cent per month! Not even enough to reimburse me for the cost 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 page with them. I had just one site for several months but I was unable to make enough money to even cover 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 domains, you might get a lot more traction than I did. But I wouldn't bet on it.

Before you think that you can go out and buy 5-6 domains and snowball your domain parking efforts, remember that you're already very late to the party. It's now an intensely cut-throat playing field and there are many thousands of experienced domainers struggling to make income from domain parking. All of the 3 letter domains are all gone and so are most of the four letter domains too! Capturing type-in traffic is usually a lot easier with shorter domain names or dictionary words. With Venture Capital firms jumping 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 totally dismiss the concept of domain parking. There are still one or two ways to make some money. Some of them involve creating MFA (made for adsense) domains 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 procedure, but many of these processes require a certain amount of cash outlay for software tools that all generate indentical duplicate content for all users. Generating unique content is highly important for ranking high in the search engines and getting their traffic. There are ways to automate this process without spending any money but thats a new topic for another article.

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