In any case parked means no development so the name has to make sense.  People have to naturally go there.  don't try and make up creative, brand names for parking it just doesn't work.  Take a look at this recent example what would be worth more lastminuteairfares.com or lastmomentairfares.com.  Which would you type in?

gfsd

1) lock away the credit card and invest time in research - running before you can walk will cost you money. Our domainer glossary should help you get to grips with most common aspects of this business:

http://www.domainstate.com/custom.php3?action=orient

2) remember that if you're adopting the parking model, as so many want to in response to recent articles, that you are looking for domains that already have traffic. The park companies aren't there to add traffic to your domains, they're there to monetize the traffic your domains already have.

3) once you're confident the domain(s) you wish to register/buy have good odds of getting traffic, you need to register them with a registrar or to set up an account with a registrar and have the name transferred to it if buying an existing registration.

4) you will then need to sign up with a park service, initially that will likely be someone like sedo due to the lack of entry requirements in terms of traffic/domain volume.

5) When you sign up, the park service will give you the details of how to link your domain to their service. This will be done via either changing nameservers on the domain at the registrar to those supplied by the park company or, if your registrar supports it, setting up a redirect. This is where people who type in your domain get sent to the park companies offering.

If you get the choice of redirect, then a stealth/frames redirect means that it will retain the original typed url in the address bar vs showing the new url which would be within the park companies domain service.

6) parking is a whole content service - you send them the eyeballs and they provide the entire content that those eyeballs then see. You are paid a share of what the park company receives from the underlying search engine when visitors you send click through to advertisers websites to further their interest.

7) if you want to increase your revenue then you can either look at improving the revenue from the traffic you have by choosing better targetted keywords within the park companies optimisation section (if offered) or you can look at adding more names that have traffic. Looking for ways to send extra traffic to the names you already have will likely get your account cancelled without payment.

Rinse and repeat until desired income level is reached.

Once your traffic levels start to increase its worth looking around at all the other options that may open up to you including other park services like domainsponsor and fabulous.

Last edited by safesys on 01-20-2006 at 11:00 AM

Checking out the page is not click fraud, only clicking the ad is.

To your second question.

They can have diffferent preferences, many such as parked.com are designed to try and optimise search engine position - you can create title, keywords and some text, on trafficz.com you can really go to town and add loads of text.

So clearly these ones dont mind you going for the engines. But some do really just want the type-ins, just check the FAQ of the one you are signing up with.

Bodis:

1/ I expect them to have 'traffic issues' a few months down the line

2/ Funny how the owner of that forum personally gave his seal of approval of Bodis to all members by sending a PM to all...
inquiring minds want to know what was the quid pro quo

3/ Must be dang easy to get a feed from Ask/Yahoo on the basis of nothing more than the promise of traffic - no track record, nothing...

4/ As for the lifetime 100% revshare - hard to believe they will keep to it - given that by now most (90%+) of the customers
by number who will likely ever join are entitled to the lifetime offer
I would hate to see the caliber of domains ("available yesterday" type) from random drib drab joiners 2 yrs down the line
On that basis it would have been better to use Bodis.org - since its not-for-profit..

5/ How does it make money?
So it makes money from the few customers that join after the 100% revshare deadline when there is a rev split...?

5/ BEWARE
Does NOT have SSL secure control panel
- password/payment/account details open to sniffers to exploit...shows the importance it places on confidential/valuable customer details..or maybe they are just trying to save a few $$$

http://www.bodis.com/