This post was done by Sammy Ashouri, the resident TUK domain parking nutcase fanatic. If you want tips and tricks on how to earn from domain parking, visit his blog. :)

I’m not sure how many of you have heard Ron Popeil’s famous quote, “Set it and Forget it,” but this is one quote that will NOT work with domain parking as much as it does with his famous rotisserie set.

Domain parking is a simple process. You buy a domain, set the nameservers to whatever the nameservers of the parking provider you are using are, and then sleep hoping to make money the rest of your life. Right? Wrong. You may have a name that’s generating money, but have you thought about optimizing it? Optimizing a parked domain is not that hard, and doing so you can increase the amount you are making by a couple folds.

For example, let’s say you own BondAccounts.com. People come to the site and you are making let’s say a good $5/day from the site. Taking a look at the site… the site might look like this:

Bond Accounts Before

What the hell keywords are: POS, Abba, Abf, Ein, Gto…? Some of these do mean something… like POS is Point of Sale, ABS is Anti-Lock Braking System, etc. But when you combine those together, they look like gibberish (the way it is in the picture). Now with domain parking you can set your keywords. A lot of people don’t do this… but they should. Let’s say I decide to “fix up” this parked domain. After a couple minutes, it might turn into something like this:

Bond Accounts After

Not bad, huh? Business template (Bond Accounts is a business term) and relevant advertisements. You now have bonds related ads–instead of Ein andGTO–which will hopefully get you a higher CTR and possibly a higher Cost Per Click (CPC).

As you can see, domain parking works, but there is a misconception that you cannot optimize. Simple fix ups like these can take you from $5 to $20 a day. That’s going from $1825/year to $7300 just by fixing the look of the domain. Granted you need to have a traffic domain, but if you do and aren’t optimizing, you are bleeding a lot of money. How do I know? I had a domain making $2/day and after seeing the keywords were WAY OFF it is now making around $10/day. That’s 5x the amount it was previously making for a 2 minute fix. And yes, it’s a steady average of $10/day. There are different ways to optimize however, but those techniques are a little more complex :) . I may eventually make a more detailed domain parking post on Fka200.com. For now, I have some tips you can look at here.

Alright everyone. Hopefully you guys are all rushing to your domains parking accounts and fixing things up! For parking providers, check out my domain parking list. Enjoy!

Sammy Ashouri from Fka200.com.

I flunked Math today and have Statistics tomorrow. After Statistics, you’ll have me to contend with as I’ll have a month off. I enjoyed reading the guest posts from all those that contributed, and if any of them wanted to contribute again, I would not mind at all. I will also be releasing my new eBook today, despite the exam tomorrow – I want to get it off to a small start. Stay tuned on Digital Point, as you should see a thread pop up in the Buy Sell Trade section soon.

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