Parked, Sedo, Namedrive or fabulous?

This is quite good comparison of four favourite parking companies. I won’t tell You: This is best, who wants to be a millionaire (some of You actually are better marketers then me ). I just make You choose by Yourself. But somehow people just park their domains with one parking company and stick to that. And that is one terrible mistake. Ok, I can say I’m lucky I’ve jumped from Sedo parking to Parked and my total revenue is much higher. But what works for me doesn’t have to work for You and Your domain names. So I’ve just put here these four parking companies with all the stats screenshots I found with google image search and has some value. I don’t give any referral link I just want people to reconsider having all domains at one parking company. You’re stealing Your own money from Yourself Different companies have different PPC, different ad feeds (yahoo feed and google feed) and different landing page making CTR (click through rate) very different with each domain and company. SCREENSHOTS of STATS from different people, different site niche parked in these companies are at bottom of this POST. And remember -> register in all of them, when the domain performs poorly at Parked, try it at Namedrive or Sedo.

Parked.com -> -> awesome company, works great for my keywords: business, trade, invest, insurance, loans/mortgages domains. I have maybe 1.5x more clicks and about 3-4x more PPC (from average 0,16EURO at Sedo to 0,6-0,8$ stable at Parked.com). Yeah, I need to work around the templates to set some decent colours. But it pays off. Also they pay 0,25$/click for many adult sites and that earnings are in best in adult parking. There’s nothing easier then switching to Parked.com. It generates relevant keywords and keyword combinations (if You have words in domain name) and makes very relevant advertisments on parked site converting into high average annual income. In my case about 20% of domains need to be edited to have correct keywords. Problem of parked.com is that some expired domains with expired traffic barely converts unique visitors to clicks, so I’ve send them back to Sedo or Namedrive. For example some of my expired domains have CTR below 5% at Parked, but some has 5-15% at Namedrive.com.

Parked.com multiple clicks per IP adress

Sedo.com -> Well known marketplace, but not so good at parking. Why? They don’t need it. They just push You tu park Your sites there to get accurate stats for selling and avoid 50$ minimal fee. They don’t focus on parking, even blind and dumb can see parking site has no real content. But still, they have some huge PPC for some business keywords. but on other hand, there are expensive keywords domains making 0,02-0,08EURO per click which makes You pissed alot. I would never park whole my domain portfolio there. I have just few domain nmaes there that makes nice income due to >1EURO for click where other companies doesn’t meet 1$ limit. There is also SedoPro but You need some nice income from domains and plenty of people doesn’t meet that. SedoPro have more customisation and makes more money making some domains true moneymakers leaving plenty of domains still very underrated at PPC.

Namedrive.com -> Good company with fine revenue for most of the domains. There’s only lack of good PPC for few expensive keywords (when testing I’ve had few domains making 0,3$-0,4$ per click that should be valued at 0,5$). My experience is that they pay better for European traffic then Parked. So mostly I have domains with US traffic parked at Parked.com and those who have >50% of EU traffic are mostly parked at Namedrive.com. Still great company. If You got any domain that doesn’t work well with Parked.com (low CTR), go for Namedrive, it usually helps.

Fabulous.com -> another great one, but it’s really hard to get approved. They are only for big players with huge type-in domains. Have tested few domains and they’ve made almost same as Parked.com. Didn’t test this one with my portfolio, just few domains but I must say they are fine. Some say they are better then Parked and Namedrive, but it probably differs from porfolio.

Parked.com stats:

Sedo.com stats:

Namedrive.com stats:

Fabulos.com stats:

Final result:
Parked vs Sedo -> Most domains makes incomparable income with Parked. Sedo is good only for some high earning keywords and it’s TOP marketplace so still it’s important to join.
Parked vs Namedrive -> Parked has higher annual earnings but if You got national TLD with no english speaking traffic, Namedrive will earn better with them.
Parked vs Fabulous -> About equal earnings, but it’s very hard to get approved at Fabulous. They mostly want only high volume type-in traffic.

Biggest advantage of Parked.com is that You can build backlinks and increase traffic. But be aware to only bring relevant traffic to domain keywords, else You’ll get low CTR and risk BAN
Enjoy tons of free cash with parking of Your domains.

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Domain name registration - comparison of cheap domain registration companies

New post that will compare some domain nmaes registrars (mistyped for SEO) and help You save money for more domains or investment in traffic, buy backlinks, beer etc.

Godaddy.com - huge registrar, well known company with tons of good to say about and some bad things. I’ll describe everything

At Godaddy.com, You’ll buy domain, instant payment by any creditcard or paypal.

One great thing is that if You pick some domain, for example .com, and there are .net, .org, .info available, You can buy it as pack and save lot of money (org + net + info for 15$) or You can buy .org + .net + .info +.us +.mobi for 30$ and save even more.

Godaddy.com got cheap domains, but You always need to use good discount coupon. For example long time working OYH3 makes .com domains from 9,99$ to 6,95$. That’s huge save when You’re buying tons of domains.

Godaddy.com allows mass name server change so You can swap to other parking company in few seconds. Whole their system works well. Thier support is quite fine, but still You can get in touch with some moron. Godaddy.com give You 7 days after expiration of domain to buy it back even if it was allready winned in TDNAM aftermarket.

TNDAM.com is great expired domains aftermarket where You can sell domains or buy domains, especially effective is buying expired domains -> read previous article. Register at godaddy and the same login works for TDNAM.

What’s bad about Godaddy.com?

1. If You buy domain, You can’t sell it/push it to another account in 60 days period.

2. Godaddy offers tons of services while You’re buying domain. Most of these services are overpriced, like whoisguard that cost 9,99$ but others have it for free or 2$ fee.

3. Godaddy LOCK domains that were reported as promoted with spam. This takes some work with support employees to unlock it and sometimes cost 20-30$ fee. Happens rarely, mostly it’s caused by domain owners.

Do not use GODADDYs Cashparking - it’s just average parking company and You’ll pay fee to be parked there. To get better revenue from parking, pick companies described in my older post:
http://www.webmasterinter.net/2008/09/parked-sedo-namedrive-or-fabulous

These are base prices for some TLD domains. But there are discount coupons that makes them much cheaper.

To find best working coupons, visit (search there for dynadot.com and it find their discounts):

http://www.retailmenot.com/view/godaddy.com

More % coupon has, bigger chance it will work. But some coupons, like 10% for 25$ purchase, 20% for 50 $ works but people barely understands them so the % is lower then it should be. With bigger purchase, try different coupons to get biggest discount.

Base prices (don’t forget discount):

Moniker.com -> Great marketplace, very safe domain registrar, everything under one roof. Prices are fine, system works perfectly, You can prepay funds, if You prepay certain amount , You’ll get better prices.

Big advantage of having domains registered at Moniker.com is, that they add it to Snapnames.com auction so Your chance to sell increase alot. Read this post about moniker marketplace:

http://www.webmasterinter.net/2008/09/domain-marketplace-comparison

Base prices:

Dynadot.com - Serious company, no problems, fast & working system. Good prices even without coupons. There are still some coupons.

Dynadot.com has it’s marketplace, You can push domain to another dynadot acount without fees. Dynadot.com has it’s own marketplace but I’ve barely used it so I can’t tell You advantages and disadvantages.

Dynadot.com offers various options of payment and also pre-funding money so You don’t need creditcard everytime You want to buy domain:

This is great place if You want Your best domains safe. With Dynadot.com, there’s no place for any worries.

Base prices:

Name.com -> Top, wellknown company with good prices, but somehow I don’t have experience with them so I can’t tell You payment options, options to push domain for free to other user, if they got marketplace etc.

Namecheap.com -> I personally like this company, don’t know even why cause their system often fail and their prices arent’ that cheap. Only whois is free for 1st year what is +2$ in pocket. So if You want WHOIS, then they are cheap.

These would be good company if they don’t have errors on thier site, sometimes it falls during payment, during domain settings changes etc. Quite annoying if You need to do something again. Also try to avoid special characters in Your name, cause they don’t support them and for example when You push domain to other account You need to edit name and edit name in whoisguard, cause else whoiguard won’t be pushed and stay at Your account without domain.

They offer creditcard payment and if Your credit doesn’t work You can pay through google checkout that takes any CC. You can also pre-fund money for instant payment whenever You want to buy domain.

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Expired domains with Pagerank and backlinks selling

Hi. I want to introduce probably easiest way to get money from Your existing domains or build a successful biz on portfolio of expired domains with Pagerank.

Selling backlinks is awesome opportunity to sell link value of site that doesn’t have much traffic to monetize. But if You’ve build successful site with relevant pagerank, why would You sell it?
It can be very profitable cause imagine having 8 adspaces on PR5 site each earning 20-40$ a month (with TLA - but there’s hard to get approved).

But You don’t need to. You can just buy some expired domains with PR2-5 each day.
Then You make some small site with relevant content to original sites content (check http://www.archive.org to see cached old versions).

So. Where to buy such domains and how to avoid domains with fake pagerank?

Best place for me is TDNAM - godaddys aftermarket. First register at

Godaddy.com and same account will work there:

Godaddy.com

Then hit http://www.tdnam.com
and search for domains (lineup domains with “bids” and if You see domain with very small traffic getting bid, then check the pagerank).

You can also search google for other services that find expired domains with pagerank but most of listed domains have fake pagerank.

Ok, I got domain with PR3, enough backlinks so it’s valid PR3. I have set minisite with content relevant to previous site on that domain.

Where to sell links?

The easiest way to sell text link and get tons of advertisers is at:

Backlinks.com

Ok, You don’t get much money for links but You have high chance to sell whole adspace. Also quality (relevancy) of backlinks isn’t checked. Sell also homepage and subpage to maximazi earnings.
And still comparing to buying PR4 site at Tdnam for 50$, that will earn You 30-50$ a month is awesome.
Or just buying PR2 for 10$ that will make 10$ a month.

Earnings:
PageRank (PR) 1 homepage $.50 , subpage $.50
PageRank (PR) 2 homepage $1 , subpage $1
PageRank (PR) 3 homepage $2 , subpage $1.50
PageRank (PR) 4 homepage $3 , subpage $2
PageRank (PR) 5 homepage $4.50 , subpage $3.50
PageRank (PR) 6 homepage $12.50 , subpage $10
PageRank (PR) 7 homepage $30 , subpage $25
PageRank (PR) 8 homepage $75 , subpage $50

If You want to maximize earnings, combine this with Linkadage.com (sells less ads but You pick revenue and it’s easy to sell +50-100% above Backlinks.com) right below:

Another good company is:

Linkadage.com

Works almost same, You pick Your own price (pick +50% or 100% above Backlinks earnings) and You have nice chance to sell some.
Unluckily, Backlinks.com has more advertisers so You don’t sell as much links here.
You can combine these two companies to maximize earnings.

There are other companies like Text-link-ads but text link ads almost never approve expired site due to lack of relevant backlinks and also TLA needs hundreds of backlinks to >PR4 site to get approved.

Direct-link-ads aren’t good too, cause they have very few advertisers and prices are low as at backlinks.com (but backlinks sells about 3x more links).

Enjoy Your new stable earnings for cheap expired domains.

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Cheapest relevant backlinks to increase google position

I mostly sell www.backlinks.com on my sites. These are sites that I can promote well for free so I monetize it.

But since this service offers very cheap backlinks, I’ve started to buy some PR3-PR5 backlinks to rapidly increase my google results. The monthly price is very cheap and those 30 days makes it sure, google will crawle sites that are linking to me and index them.

Prices are very cheap (comparing to text-link-ads that cost about 3-5x more). You can get nice PR update, higher rankings at google and some solid traffic as You’ll get tons of visitors in 30 days.

Price/month

PageRank (PR) 1 homepage $1 , subpage $1
PageRank (PR) 2 homepage $2 , subpage $2
PageRank (PR) 3 homepage $4 , subpage $3
PageRank (PR) 4 homepage $6 , subpage $4
PageRank (PR) 5 homepage $9 , subpage $7
PageRank (PR) 6 homepage $25 , subpage $20
PageRank (PR) 7 homepage $60 , subpage $50
PageRank (PR) 8 homepage $150 , subpage $100

So what are You waiting for? :D

Join here: www.backlinks.com

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Domain Marketplace comparison

This post is more like domain marketplace list, cause You can sell more domains on marketplace with small traffic if You’re lucky, hard to compare.

I suggest to use as many of this places to increase Your chance to sell domain and also get highest payout as possible.

Sedo.com is German company that rised to huge international player. It’s just big fish in pond and it’s important to have domains listed there. They take 10% commision for every sale. Minimal commision is 50$, but if You park domains there, You avoid that 50$. But on other hand You loose plenty cause their parking is total crap.
You can choose extended promotion to be picked in category, on sedo.co.uk, sedo.de etc.
Featured listing (main page rotation for 30 days): 39$, +10$ for local sites like sedo.co.uk, 69$ for all sedo national domains.
Category showcase: 9$ per category. This is affordable and reasonal promotion to get enough domainers seeing domain in category they search for few dollars.

Moniker.com is company that gets domain registering, hosting, domain marketplace under one roof.
Domains here usually sells for higher prices then on other marketplaces, so You can slightly rise price and still look cheap comparing to some other offered domains. Some of my best sales comes from them.
Moniker ads good domains to snapnames.com, but they must be also registered at moniker domain registrar.
Other advantage is to add domains to upcomming live auction to get huge promotion for good domain names.

Afternic.com is awesome marketplace. It’s very effective at selling all types and any value of domains. Fee is 10%, 60$ minimal.
Great thing about Afternic is that You’ll pay 20$ for sign-up so there are no kids with 2-3 domains and so, Your chance to SELL is much higher.
This way, almost any domain You add get viewed by 30-50 domain traders/month.
Afternic got also various options of expanded promotion:
Directory listing for 9,94$ for 30 days -> good affordable listing that brings You attention of domain buyers that need domains from certain category.
Homepage listing for 50$ for 30 days -> huge amount of buyers will see Your domain, sure way to sell good domain for reasonable price.
Expanded PROMO - sale fee is 20% (120$ minimal): This is suitable for expensive domains as minimal fee is high. But the chance to sell is totally awesome. Afternic will put domain on Buydomain and plenty of other partners site to get it visible as much as possible and also it gets more views from Afternic homepage.

I’ll add more tomorrow, it’s 4:44 o’clock and I need to rest

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