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How Does Domain Parking Work?

By: Rea Lea Osaka

So what does one mean by domain parking? Domain Parking is an advertising practise used mainly by domain registrars and internet moguls to generate money from type-in traffic to an underdeveloped domain. The domain will usually resolve to a page consisting of only advertisements or links to affiliate programs. There is usually no useful information of any value to the 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 those clicks.

Is it feasible to earn revenue from domain parking? Yes it is! Some webpreneurs have portfolios of thousands of such sites that generate hundreds of thousands of dollars every month. Some of these portfolios of sites have been reportedly sold for millions of dollars to Venture Capital funds. One Canadian internet mogul has managed to sign an agreement with the government of Cameroon. Cameroon domain names 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 reported to make millions of dollars each month, his reward 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 a handful websites with Sedo for just over 24 months and I made approximately 1 cent per month! Not even enough to cover the cost of the URL registration fee each year. GoDaddy was even worse. I had to to pay between $3.50 and $9.99 per month in order to park your website there. I had just one 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 guess that if you're a bulk domainer with thousands of URLs, you might get a lot more traction than I did. But I wouldn't count on it.

Before you think that you'll go out and buy some domains and snowball your parking efforts, remember that you're already very late to the party. It's now a very competitive playing field and there are tens of thousands of cyber squatters trying to earn income 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 firms getting 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.

But you don't need to totally dismiss the concept of domain parking. There are still a few tricks to make some money. Some of them involve creating MFA (made for adsense) sites that have a minute bit 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 ways to automate this process, but many of these processes require a certain amount of cash outlay for software tools that all create indentical duplicate content for all users. Making unique content is incredibly 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.

Article Source: http://amazingarticles.co.uk

The author is incredibly lazy and has a site devoted to creating passive income streams and has also achieved some minor successes with domain name parking through domain embarking.

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