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So what exactly is domain parking? Domain Parking is an advertising practise used mostly by domain registrars and internet advertising publishers to create money from type-in traffic to an underdeveloped domain. The url will typically resolve to a page consisting of nothing but google ads or links to affiliate programs. There is normally no useful information of any value to the user who typically clicks on one of the links just to get away from the page. The domain owner is usually paid based on the number of clicks and the following benefit derived from such clicks. Is it feasible to make revenue from domain parking? Yes it is! Some domainers have portfolios of thousands of such sites that produce hundreds of thousands of dollars each month. Some of these portfolios of sites have been reportedly sold for millions of dollars to Venture Capital companies. 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 domain names resolve to a parked domain page consisting of paid links. This person is rumored to make millions of dollars each year, his share 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 a handful domains with Sedo for two years and I made about 1 cent per month! Not even enough to reimburse me for the expense of the domain registration fee each year. GoDaddy was even worse. They wanted me to pay between $3.50 and $9.99 per month in order to park your website with them. I had just one 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 think that if you're a bulk domain parker with thousands of sites, you will probably achieve a lot 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 show. It's now a very competitive playing field and there are tens of thousands of experienced domainers trying to make money from domain parking. All of the 3 letter domains are all gone and so are nearly all 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 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. However, you don't need to completely dismiss the concept of domain parking. There are still a few ways to make some money. Some of them involve creating MFA (made for adsense) sites that have a minute amount of content which brings search engine traffic but are heavily optimized for adsense ads. This is significantly more cumbersome than ordinary domain parking and a lot more time-consuming. There are ways to automate this procedure, but many of these methods require significant cash outlay for software tools that all generate indentical duplicate content for everyone. Making unique content is really very 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 day.
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