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So what exactly is domain parking? Domain Parking is an advertising practise used mainly by domain registrars and internet advertising publishers to create income from type-in traffic to an underdeveloped website. The url will normally resolve to a page containing nothing but advertisements or links to affiliate programs. There is often 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 resulting benefit derived from such clicks. Is it feasible to earn money from domain parking? Yes it is! Some domainers have portfolios of thousands of such sites that make hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Some of these portfolios of sites have been reportedly sold for millions of dollars to Private Equity funds. One Canadian domainer 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 paid links. This person is reported to make millions of dollars each month, his share for assisting the Cameroon government monetize this phenomenon! My personal experiments with domain parking programs like Sedo and GoDaddy has been pretty pathetic. I had several domains with Sedo for two years and I made approximately 1 cent per month! Not even enough to bare the cost of the domain name 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 domain with them. 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'd imagine that if you're a bulk domain parker with thousands of sites, you might gain a lot more traction than I did. But I wouldn't count on it. Before you think that you'll go out and buy a handful of domains and snowball your parking efforts, remember that you're already very late to the show. It's now a highly competitive playing field and there are tens of thousands of experienced domainers trying to earn money 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 thrown around to buy up all the possible dictionary words and their possible combinations. 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 bit of content which brings organic traffic but are heavily optimized for adsense ads. This is a bit more involved than ordinary domain parking and a lot more time-consuming. There are methods to automate this process, but many of these methods require significant cash outlay for software tools that all create indentical duplicate content for everyone. Making 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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