Earning Income With Parked Domain Names

It is true, almost all parked pages are shunned by the major search engines because they lack any quality content and are simply filled with ads. Simple logic told me that if the search engines are not interested at all with parked pages filled with ads, and this means the chances of people finding my parked pages is slim to none.

So you need to move on to something better like a content parking system. Most of these systems are way better than the options you get with registrar based parking revenue systems. These systems provide you with targeted content. This content is crawled by search engines and they take you parked domain more seriously as a legit domain. Result is quite simple you get more better rankings in search engines. This increases both traffic and revenue.

Affiliate banners on parked domains!

The most popular method of making money using Parked domains, is providing search queries.

As soon as the user lands up on your site, he is offered suggestions that are infact keywords based on your domain name. These search query results are charged per click on the advertisers and Google Adsense is one of the players involved.

Alternatively, I suggest that you use these parking pages (these can be customized with some hosts) to test banners from affiliate programs with the highest paying hosting companies. Try placing three banners at the top of your pages – with a brief description of the company’s product offerings taken straight from their web sites. This has proved to be a great success for a lot of people – and can increase your revenue stream substantially!

Lazy Domainer Domain Parking Definition

If you've arrived here looking for a domain parking definition, i will try to be as short as possible but i will concentrate on how to make money with parking. Domain parking it's a service that some Parking companies (sedo, name drive and others) offer where you point your domain to them, tell what is your domain about (music, sports, etc), and they automatically build a site (with little or no content) with paid ads.

When someone clicks the ads, you make money. That's all. Sounds easy? It is! You don't have to design a site, prepare content, no hosting bills to pay, no nothing! This is a paradise for the lazy domainer. Now...that is easy money ain't it?

Domain Squatting is Big Business

According to major registrars, the parked domain business nets over $5 - 8 million each year.

HOW?

Domain pages can be registered for small sums of money with a full refund if cancelled within 5 days. So, you can select a few names and see what happens.

If the “name” is an important one then it could sell for between USD 5000—USD 8 million dollars. If you are lucky you could buy a name that has great demand.

You can at an appropriate time sell the domain name on an auction site. You could either list the names on Ebay.com, Afternic.com, or Ezdomainauction.com or hire a broker to sell the domain for you. One such broker is GreatDomains.com. To give you an idea, domains like internetbank.com sold for $92,800 while a1restaurants just sold for $730.

Now start thinking of domain names!

Why Park Domains!

Domain names are being snapped up all the time so if you have thought of a cool domain name for a future project then it might be wise to register it now. There is a chance that if you leave it too late someone else may register it. While your planning your site you can park the domain name.

Domain parking is a process where you register a domain and do not enter the domain name servers of your hosting company. Usually the domain registrar will park your domain by default on their server, this means that if you type your domain name into a web browser you will arrive at a default page provided by the registrar.

If you are going to hold onto the domain for a while or not develop a site straight away then you may want to consider a domain parking service that offers you revenue from your parked domain. Domain parking services such as Traffic parking and Sedo offer revenue sharing from your parked domain. However the issue is that with sites like Sedo, there is not much revenue sharing and you will be getting very low amounts from them.

What you need is a more robust way to making money from these parked domains - carried out in the next post!