Domain tasting - Trying out a domain for free
Friday, Nov 28, 2008
To follow up our recent article about domain parking we shall go further in-depth and in this article focus on the importance and value in something called domain tasting. If you earn your income of parking domains you surely know what this means. However, for those of you still looking for enlightenment on this topic domain tasting is one the most important parts when creating your domain parking portfolio.
“Remember that if you are aiming to earn than a couple of dollar per year you need to build up a thick portfolio of parked domains. Domain parking is all about power in numbers”
Domain parking is not liked by Google and AdSense is prohibited on any site considered as parked. However it is potentially very lucrative. And what makes money is a number of things.
- The quantity of your portfolio - since a parked domain site will generate little traffic from search engine or links from other websites traffic volumes will be relatively low. The more domains you park the more total number of visitors you will have. Only one parking, in most cases, will not give you more than a couple bucks a year.
- Direct traffic - like we said above, almost all your traffic will come from people typing your domain name address in the web browser window.
- Misspellings and type-ins - the closer your domain name is to another website's, that is driving great volumes of traffic, the greater the chance is that the people who misspells the popular website's name ends up at yours.
This is where domain tasting comes in handy. Before registering a domain name, some registrars offer a free trial of the domain. This normally includes a couple of days, where you have the full access to monitor any incoming visitors.
Say that you want to register Cocca-cola.com, domain tasting allows you to try the domain name out and get statistics on incoming traffic. Since you only have the domain for less than a week, normally, it will not have time to get indexed by Google or generate any organic traffic. What is valuable in domain tasting is the amount of direct traffic that enters the site.
Direct traffic - make money on popular websites with domain parking
This is the whole concept of domain parking. Why it works and why so many internet entrepreneurs can make a fancy living of it. With portfolios of hundreds of thousands of parked domains, all traffic coming in is more or less based on another website's behalf. That and web surfers inability to spell correctly.
For example - If you tell a friend to visit a recommended site, he might get the name wrong or be unable to spell it correctly. When he later taps in what he thinks is the right address in the browser, he is taken to YourTube.com, a parked domain offering advertisements, often based on a user-adaptable script that figures out what he might be looking for, adding relevant links.
So if you want to give domain parking a try, be sure to find a registrar that offers domain tasting so that you can measure incoming direct traffic before buying. More than 10 visits for those days you are allowed to try the domain out and you should park it, find a domain parking script and set up your site. And remember that if you are aiming to earn than a couple of dollar per year you need to build up a thick portfolio of parked domains. Domain parking is all about power in numbers.
