In this case the stipulation is that you have to keep your domain with them for 60 days, which seems reasonable to me. And sure, all of these parking programs keep something like 35% - 50% of the rev share. What's the alternative? I'd love to be able to monetize and drive traffic to every domain in my portfolio myself, but it just isn't practical. Without spending hours on each of my domains I'm still not as effecive as one of these companies, and parking my domains with them takes about 30 seconds. I have a number of domains that don't earn $.50 in 60 days with Sedo, so this seems like a pretty sweet offer to me. It's also a good opportunity to see if RevenueDirect can earn more on my domains than Sedo typically does in a 60 day period. If not, I'll just switch back. If you know of a company or method that can get me comparable results without taking as much of the rev share, Umbrella, please let me know what it is.
To put it bluntly, those of you that have domains in this situation; making .50 cents or around that mark need an alternative like parketeer. When you make so little you have to consider if the domain is worth keeping. Of course it is, you bought it because you saw the potential in the first place and at a minimum you need to recover the renewal costs. At a maximum you need to make some money off every domain you own. At .50 cents you don't recover the renewal costs on a domain, that's if you continue to park your domain in the same fashion as before. Something has to change. Let's say you put that domain into a normal hosting site, now your making 1.00 a month and can cover the renewal fee. Through trial and error you can make alot more money on the domain now that you have more control over the space, it's ads and you make all the money. One drawback; Hosting fees. We don't expect everyone to use parketeer we just hope they will try it. With us you have full control of your space just as if it was any normal hosting space. With us the cost is $2 per month which is reasonable for having a moldable, SEO compatible space. With us you keep 100% of the revenue, have a flat fee for parking and have all the chance in the world make and keep all the money you make. Since opening Parketeer we have seen people come and go, not many but enough to understand what grip the other domain parking services have on major domain owners. The live in fear of the almighty dollar and are wined and dined to stay under the royal thumb of giving other people their money. What people don’t realize is they control your money it's that simple. They don’t understand there is an alternative. The industry needs to get away from the "money takers" to grow. You need to control the future of your domain portfolio and not the other way around. Plus understand; venturing out into knowing where your business will grow does take some time, it is not instant. The other domain parking services provide instant gratification but take 50% or more of your money. That needs to stop if you bought domains for the long term advantage. Its almost like working and getting a paycheck for half the money you earned and the company almost did nothing to take their half. Oh they took their cut long before they sent you whatever they felt you deserved. Would you work a job like that? When you finally get away from people controlling your domains and your money, then you will grow. Parketeer is the alternative that allows you to control your domains, the content and your money. If there is another system with similar qualities or advantages that benefit the domain owners more, I have yet to see it.
Boy it only takes minutes for the SEDO pigeons to post their loyalty. Since you are so fast to jump in why can't you explain to the listeners how it benefits you and your domain business for SEDO to take 50% + of your hard earned money. That is what the other domain owners would like to hear, like me, why? I own 700+ domains and tried to find an alternative that would helped my domain portfilio grow. I could not find one system that was SEO compatible nor one that did not take a huge percentage of my money, so I made Parketeer. Please enlighten us as to how companies like SEDO that take 50%+ of your money can help you buy more domains. If you had that other 50% don't you think you could buy tons of more domains and watch your portfolio grow? Lets discuss this...
Hey man, I only use sedo to host my spare domains nothing much i just want my domains to be up all the time! -Saad
Sorry, It is hard to know sometimes why people park their domains. It is just funny to see how fast SEDO comments come about after mine. It's not like they should be scared, they wined and dined a 14,000 domain owner away from us in our first month. And it's a coincidence that this owner is somehow making more money that ever before, yeah right. (after using 10 other parking services, 3 or 4 times each) They will take money out of their own pocket to keep domain owners like this. It's all about the money. Not you, not your domains, not your success. Its the money. Until, like always the money goes down.... ....and down ....and down ....and down It's only a matter of time. Lets discuss this...
You said previously that people come and go. Of course they do! If they earn more they stay. Less they go. No call or email for another parking company is going to be enough for them to lose money. The guy/girl with 14k names probably is making more money! Sedo has pull and can payout whatever amount they want. he could be getting 90% of the pull with sedo keeping 10% and sedo makes more than the random publisher so they could be paying him more than he would make on his own unless he had worked a deal with adense or YPN which if he didn't he is nuts. How are you any different than any parking company. You have posted plenty of sales pitches and shameless plugs in this thread. As far as "wining and dining" goes what is wrong with that? This is a business and wining and dining is a big part of it. My loan officer takes me golfing. My manufacturers send me awesome gifts. Even Fedex sends me all kinds of somewhat cool stuff. My Nextel rep. gave me 2 new blackberries. If their services were sub par I would not be with them any more and they realize this. On the other hand I would give them a shot to keep my business. You're right parking is not the best way to monetize a domain. That's why I only park maybe 500 - 600 right now. My sites are where I make my money but at the same time I can't develop all of my names and some just are not worth developing. As far as sedos payout goes they get more of the $$$ due to their sheer numbers of parked names. For the sake of argument let's say they keep 50% of the revenue and pay out the other 50% of which some of us get 65%+ depending on what deal you have with sedo. So let's guesstimate that sedo is getting 20% more than someone who sets up a MFA page which is likely. So I am basically getting 75% of what my name would theoretically get if I set up my own MFA page/site. Since many names which are parked are making enough to cover the cost of renewal but not much more but worth holding onto until sold they are parked. Also domains don't necessarily lose ranking when parked at sedo or others. Many ahve the same ranking as when I parked them. At any rate let's do a test. I'll take one of my sedo parked names out of sedo and park it with you for a month. I'll take a name making $50-100 per month and I'll use YPN or Adsense (you're choice). This will be a good test. If I make more you have earned a customer and probably several more from my testimony which I will gladly give here and at DNF. And if you want you can wine and dine me Let me know. JOhn
Parketeer is different, a different type of parking system. We have never professed to have instant results and are lookin for domains that are not your bread and butter. We are looking for domains that don't make alot since the domain usually needs a few months to get the full effect of our system. If you put in a domain that is making $100 and don't see that return in the first month you will shout to the world we are a losing propisition. If you add a domain that makes $10 a month and watch that domain in 3 months grow to $100 it is a different story. This was the drawback with the 14k domains. He added 300 of his top money producers but did not realize we are similar to a hosting service and produce mini, organic sites which take time for the search engines to find and list. Our system is for long term passive income and not build for our one sided control and instant gradification. If you depend upon money instantly to renew your domains it does take some time to see the same return and watch it build to making you more than it does in the first place. You said "You're right parking is not the best way to monetize a domain" and that is exactly what we have done, to go beyond the parking model and apply natural innovations that allow you to modify almost 100% of every page for the long term. The domain business is a long term market and we take it that way. I suggest everyone sign-up and add a domain or two and you will see that when you add your domain to a web site platform, in the long run it can perform better than at any parking service and have a longer, more stable growth rate. I still don't see how giving 50% of your money away does not apply domain owners to look and test visble alternatives where they can keep 100% of their money, oh minus our flat fee of $2 of course. And there I go again answering your questions with another sales pitch and shameless plug. I just belive after 7 years of being a web developer and SEO expert I know what I am doing is right. If I did not believe in it I would not have my 500 domains parked on the system. Please try us out, use one lessor domain. For 3 months you have only $6 to lose and so much more to gain.
Umbrella, if you have a coupon for 3 months free I'll happily give you guys a try if you think I can earn a bit more. Post or PM the coupon(s), and I'll move 1 or more of my domains over right away. If your system was free (like Sedo) I'd move all my domains over for three months to see if you could earn more money for me. The only reason I use Sedo is because I haven't been able to find anything better.
Try me out... I just wrote this software, I don't have all the rules the other companies have and you can have modifications to the site for a small fee. And you don't have to wait for your money. You use your own adsense, amazon, id's. Plus you have two searches on the site and it also uses my custom 404 software, so your end users can type anything in and it will return them something. Plus you can trigger the pages using adwords where the others won't let you. Read about both on my site. I'm still working on adding the article section... That is harder to do. I have someone checking all the articles by hand to make sure they are using the correct linking codes. Hope to hear for you soon... Bob Owner GetPaidToPark.com
We don't have any coupons. Were you looking for a free ride? If you are we are still running a December special where every domain you add to the system is free till January. We allow you to keep 100% of the revenue so if we park your domains for free to boot what do we have? Nothing to keep the system running? That is why we made Parketeer it's better!
Another one of those "you keep 50%" The site says this at the top... "Stop letting others make all the money off your parked Domains!" And then proceeds to tell you how they take 50% of the money... "you get 50% of the revenue generated directly into your accounts" It's kinda fun to see how they can try and explain their off the top fees. On one hand if you have 5 domains it's not such a big deal. But when you are on the other end of the ladder... 5 domains + 1000 clients = 5000 domains, now think of 50% off the top of that. Only the parking services benefit in this game and they take the 50% that the domain owners needed to grow. What's wierd is that the domain parkers are looking for the better alternative, actually screaming for it. Then it comes along, the alternative and they are scared at a $2 fee on a platform that allows them to modify their domains for maximum payout. And yet every day someone opens up a system built to take 50% of your money. I made Parketeer because I have 700+ domains and built it with the ability to make money for domain owners like myself. Our $2 fee covers servers, bandwidth and marketing and leaves almost nothing for profit. Maybe some of you would be happier if we made a system with no fees? But then you also get no SEO compatibility, no search engine listings, no ability to add links, no ability to add more ads, no ability to add your own content, no ability to add multiple pages, no ability, no ability!!! When you control the clicks the domain owners lose all other abilities to make more money. We changed that!
No, I want to see if my CTR goes up. I will park a name that get's type-ins and search results. It will receive the same traffic or possibly more if sedos stats are off. But if you want I will take a name making $20/month and leave it for 3 months. I'll even give you a list of a few names and you can pick it. I actually hope that you are right! It would be a win win. Actually it would be a super win for you. I didnt mean create a MFA (made for adsense) site/page. That is still parking in my book. I mean develop a business around your domain name whether it be an ecommerce site or informational site etc. I park the names I am not using until I use them or sell due to not ever seeing myself developing a domain. Also the parking revenue is a nice bonus. You either didn't take the time to read the example in my previous post or you did not understand it. Sedo for example makes more per click then you or I do parking our names ourselves. Also the 50% example doesn't hold a lot of water as most with a fair amount of domains are getting more than that. So let's say sedo is getting 20% more per click which is a very conservative example and let's say I am getting 65% of the revenue. On $96 that sedo is paid I make $62.40. I park it with you. I make $80-$2 = $78 assuming my domain performs as well with you as it does with sedo ET El. That is far from earning 100% more money (100% is equal two the second half of the revenue which sedo is keeping). Now I understand that you are more or less pitching the fact that if I park with you my sites have a chance of possibly receiving better PR and receiving better SE ranking. If that is the case then your service is a good option. Either way good luck with your service. I'll keep watching and see how people are doing with it. GL John
Yeah I have a few names parked at fab. I think my problem is I have not learned their system. The general concensus is that they are good for certain names and not as good with others. It's pretty much the same for every parking company though. Some domains do well 1 place and not as well somewhere else.
Cant say good enough things about trafficclub.com . . same credit card related domain at sedo gets me 25c a click BUT at trafficclub its 75c- 1.50 . . . give them a shot . . . the landing pages looks really ugly but for some reason, it works . . . domainsponsor much pay out a much higher %.
Yeah I have found that for some of my domains or actually most of my domains the worse the landing page the more clicks I get. This has been argued about forever but there is a reason that a lot of the big portfolio holders have some of the worst landers. Ultsearch had horrible landers. They are a little better but still very basic. This is obviously by design. I think when Yun Yee sold, the pages were tweaked. Unfortunately, they have robots.txt exclusion so can't see the way their site used to look via archive.org.