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So what is parking your domain? Domain Parking is an advertising practise used mainly by domain registrars and internet moguls to generate money from type-in traffic to an blank website. The domain will typically resolve to a page containing nothing but advertisements or links to affiliate programs. There is typically no useful information of any value to the web user who typically 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 these clicks. Is it possible to generate 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 Private Equity firms. One Canadian internet mogul has managed to sign an agreement with the government of Cameroon. Cameroon URLs 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 ads. This person is rumored to make millions of dollars each month, his reward for helping the Cameroon government monetize this occurrance! My personal experiments with domain parking programs like Sedo and GoDaddy has been pretty lousy. I had a few domains with Sedo for just over 24 months and I made about 1 cent per month! Not even enough to reimburse me for the expense of the domain name 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 domain there. I had 1 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 guess that if you're a bulk domain parker with thousands of sites, you might gain more traction than I did. But I wouldn't count on it. Before you think that you can go out and buy some domains and snowball your domain parking efforts, remember that you're already very late to the game. It's now an intensely competitive playing field and there are many thousands of experienced domainers struggling to generate money from domain parking. All of the 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 Private Equity firms 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 and combinations. But you don't need to completely give up on the idea 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 amount of content which draws 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 methods require significant cash outlay for software tools that all generate the same duplicate content for all users. Creating unique content is highly 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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