Making Money From Free Domain Parking

So what exactly is parking your domain? Domain Parking is an advertising practise used mostly by domain registrars and internet advertising publishers to create income from type-in traffic to an blank domain. The url will normally resolve to a page consisting of nothing but advertisements or links to affiliate programs. There is typically no useful information of any value to the web user who typically 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 resulting benefit derived from those clicks.

Is it feasible to earn revenue from domain parking? Yes it is! Some webpreneurs have portfolios of thousands of such sites that produce hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Some of these portfolios of sites have been reportedly sold for millions of dollars to Private Equity funds. 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 consisting of ads. This person is rumored to make millions of dollars each year, his reward for helping the Cameroon government monetize this phenomenon!

My personal experience with domain parking programs like Sedo and GoDaddy has been pretty lousy. I had a few domains with Sedo for a 2 year period and I made approximately 1 cent per month! Not even enough to bare the expense of the URL registration fee each year. GoDaddy was worse. They wanted me to pay between $3.50 and $9.99 per month in order to park your domain with them. I had 1 site for several months but I was unable to make sufficient money to even reimburse the cost of this fee, even though it wasn't a lot to begin with. I'd imagine that if you're a bulk domain parker with thousands of sites, you will probably get more traction than I did. But I wouldn't count on it.

Before you think that you'll go out and buy a handful of domains and snowball your domain parking efforts, remember that you're already very late to the game. It's now an intensely competitive playing field and there are many thousands of interent entrepreneurs trying to earn money 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 Public companies jumping 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.

However, you don't need to totally give up on the concept of domain parking. There are still one or two ways to make some money. Some of them involve generating MFA (made for adsense) domains that have a minute amount of content which draws organic traffic but are heavily optimized for adsense ads. This is substantially more involved than regular domain parking and a lot more time-consuming. There are methods to automate this process, but many of these processes require significant cash outlay for software tools that all create indentical duplicate content for everyone. Generating unique content is incredibly 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 day.

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