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So what is domain parking? Parking your domain is an advertising practise used mainly by domain registrars and internet advertising publishers to earn money from type-in traffic to an blank domain. The url will typically resolve to a page containing only advertisements or links to affiliate programs. There is normally 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 following benefit derived from such clicks. Is it feasible to earn income from domain parking? Yes it is! Some domainers have portfolios of thousands of such sites that produce hundreds of thousands of dollars every month. Some of these portfolios of sites have been reportedly sold for millions of dollars to Venture Capital 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 containing advertisements. This individual 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 pathetic. I had five domains with Sedo for just over 24 months and I made on average 1 cent per month! Not even enough to cover the cost of the URL registration fee each year. GoDaddy was far worse. I had to to pay between $3.50 and $9.99 per month in order to park your site with them. 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'd imagine that if you're a bulk website parker with thousands of URLs, you will probably achieve more traction than I did. But I wouldn't bet on it. Before you think that you'll go out and buy several domains and snowball your domain parking efforts, remember that you're already very late to the game. It's now a very cut-throat playing field and there are many thousands of interent entrepreneurs trying to earn income from domain parking. All of the 2 & 3 letter domains are all gone and so are most of the 4 letter domains too! Capturing type-in traffic is usually a lot easier with shorter domain names or dictionary words. With Private Equity firms 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 combinations. However, you don't need to completely give up on the idea of domain parking. There are still one or two tricks to make some money. Some of them involve generating MFA (made for adsense) sites that have a little bit of content which pulls in organic traffic but are heavily optimized for adsense ads. This is a bit more involved than regular domain parking and a lot more time-consuming. There are methods to automate this procedure, but many of these methods require a certain amount of cash outlay for software tools that all create indentical duplicate content for everyone. Making unique content is highly critical 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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