Reasons For Domain Parking

So what does one mean by parking your domain? Domain Parking is an advertising practise used mainly by domain registrars and internet advertising publishers to generate money from type-in traffic to an blank website. The domain will typically resolve to a page containing 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 typically paid based on the number of clicks and the following benefit derived from such clicks.

Is it possible to make money from domain parking? Yes it is! Some domainers have portfolios of thousands of such sites that make 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 domainer 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 sites resolve to a parked domain page containing ads. This person is reported to make millions of dollars each year, his share for assisting the Cameroon government monetize this situation!

My personal experiments with domain parking programs like Sedo and GoDaddy has been pretty pathetic. I had a handful domains with Sedo for a 2 year period and I made approximately 1 cent per month! Not even enough to cover the cost of the domain name registration fee each year. GoDaddy was far 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 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 website parker with thousands of domains, you will probably achieve more traction than I did. But I wouldn't count on it.

Before you think that you can go out and buy a handful of domains and snowball your domain parking efforts, remember that you're already very late to the party. It's now a highly cut-throat playing field and there are tens of thousands of interent entrepreneurs trying to make income from domain parking. All of the 2 & 3 letter domains are all gone and so are nearly all of the 4 letter domains too! Getting type-in traffic is usually a lot easier with shorter domain names or dictionary words. With Venture Capital 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 dismiss the concept of domain parking. There are still several ways to make some money. Some of them involve creating MFA (made for adsense) domains that have a tiny bit of content which brings search engine traffic but are heavily optimized for adsense ads. This is a bit 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 certain amount of cash outlay for software tools that all create the same 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 article.

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