How many domains do you have just sitting around or parked and not earning much? Have you wanted to put up sites but just can’t find the time to develop a ton of sites? What about setting up a quick and easy review site using WordPress and then let your visitors do all the content for you?
This would work best with either generic product related domains or geo-targeted domains but could probably work with a lot of different types of domains. Of course the more related the keywords to the domain the better. Continue reading →

Yes, Market Leverage is everywhere lately. Not only have they been doing their own “regular” promotion but they have been sending out TONS of gift packs for bloggers to give to their readers and all seem to be getting these prizes about the same time and many doing the same type of contest. Nick Throlson  is making it easy on us and just wants us to join the feed and write about the contest. No silly points or anything ;).

You can find out more about his contest on the contest post.

For those that don’t know, there are a few great blogs that do pretty much the same thing as we do here at TalkDots…provide some of the better available domains that we find. Some of the other blogs put out much bigger, and more frequent, list as well as post a lot more of the related industry news and such. BTW, when I put up this blog I thought it was an original idea and thought I was doing well helping others with some ok names…only later did I realize there were a good handful of other great sites but also who had a lot more cool available domain list. Now I have to deal with my own addiction and try to avoid all the names I find on my own but also a lot of good names from these other sites Continue reading →

My WhyPark Review…best domain parking service?

If you have domains you are not actively using for sites or developing, odds are you are parking them at one of the many parking services. If not then you could be leaving money on the table. Domain parking can be a good earner for some people, depending one the quality of the domains, if they are good “type in” domains or already have traffic or just have a ton of domains and just don’t have time to develop them all yet, which is my problem. In some cases, with domains that aren’t prone to type in traffic or don’t have current traffic, you might not make a ton but even for the most offbeat domains, you can usually earn some and hopefully enough to at least cover the renewal fee every year. Make those domains earn their keep.

A problem with most regular parking services is they don’t allow you to promote, link to or build traffic in any other way. Most are cracking down and the only type of traffic they allow is type in traffic and search engine traffic, which isn’t all that likely considering most parking pages aren’t all that well indexed by the search engines. Sometimes your domains can gain a little search traffic and even PR but for the most part parking a domain doesn’t help “develop” that domain much at all.

When it comes to revenue from parking, most of the parking services take a nice hefty cut right off the top so whatever clicks you do get you have to share a large percentage of the earnings. On top of that, most services don’t offer much in the way of optimizing ads and most don’t offer very many options for different monetization methods. You are usually limited to being able to edit the templates, to a degree, and able to optimize for keywords but not a whole lot more.

So what is WhyPark and why is it different? Well really, WhyPark is closer to a host than a parking service. First off, they charge you an upfront fee of $100 which gives you 100 “credits” meaning you can park up to 100 domains. You can buy more credits for more domains as well. While this may seem like a huge turnoff to most, and is a bit expensive, you need to consider what it actually involves before writing it off. What it really becomes is a hosting service for your domains and in the end you pay just $1 per domain, forever. So if your parked page/site ends up being thousands of pages long and gets a ton of traffic you never have to pay for more space or bandwidth. $1 for that, for life, is actually and awesome deal if you can get over the $100 minimum package order.

Ok, but why more like a host? Well even though WhyPark provides many of the same tools you will find at traditional parking services to customize and optimize your page they go quite a bit further and allow you to even use your own CSS and such to build your “templates” if you choose. The ones included are pretty decent and optimized well but if you like a lot of control you have that option.

Another cool feature is the “auto article population system”. When you are setting up a domain you can add in a list of targeted keywords and what that will do is add a bunch of pre-written articles to your “site” which will also auto rotates giving you constant new targeted content automatically. This is great for search engine indexing and ranking. You can also add in your own custom/unique articles which will help even more. What this means is rather than just another obvious parking page your page looks more like a real site with real content that is targeted to your domain and the traffic. Not only should this help with keeping visitors there and clicking ads but it could be HUGE if/when you get picked up and indexed by the search engines. Odds of getting and staying indexed on traditional parking services are very low but with WhyPark you can get your site indexed and ranked well and get free targeted traffic from the search engines.

Another great feature is you can add your own ads and use what you want. Most traditional parking just use feeds from Yahoo or google and you don’t have many options. With WhyPark you can use any ad network or type of ad you can fit on the pages and include affiliate products and all that good stuff. You are also able to add in your own tracking software so you can keep an eye on sales/leads and hits. And the best part…YOU KEEP 100% of the revenue earned. Rather than giving away a huge cut of your click revenue to a traditional parking service you keep anything your site earns. Sure, you have to pay $1 to add that domain to WhyPark but it wouldn’t take too long to recover that cost and then after that it is basically free forever!

What I like just as much as the 100% revenue is that I am actually allowed to promote my domain/site. I can do all the normal site promotion and link building and work on getting better search rankings to get even more with free traffic. I can even run PPC campaigns and send traffic. And somewhat related to getting your “parked” page ranked in search engines, your domain also has a much higher chance of earning PR. Even if you end up developing a domain you had parked at WhyPark, what better way to start off with than an established domain with traffic and PR? Or if you just have a bunch of domains you plan to resell eventually, you can bet that you will get higher offers if the domains have traffic and PR!

So, if you have some domains that you have just sitting around, or parked somewhere already, and just don’t have time to develop “real” sites you might like all the benefits of using something like WhyPark.

Here are a handful of random domains I set up last night (only took about 30 minutes total). They are all pretty much the same as I am still testing the templates to see what I like, and performs, best. But it will give you and idea of the basic layout. AND of course I am linking to help my indexing lol…something you are usually not allowed to do with traditional parking services.

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