Instead of letting your domain names waste away unused, you should consider “parking” them.
It takes less than five minutes, and once your domain is parked, you can start making money every time that a visitor clicks an ad on your page.
If you decide one day that you do want to develop the domain, it is just as painless to un-park it.
In order to park a domain, all you need is a parking service. There are thousands of options out there, and everyone has their own set of pros and cons.
Out of all the available services, Sedo and Moniker stand above the rest.
Both web sites allow you to park and list your domain names for free. Even if you list a domain name for sale, you are under no obligation to actually sell it. However, listing it on one of these web sites can be an easy way to make a couple hundred dollars off a domain name that you had almost forgot about.
If you prefer to do things yourself, you can always place AdSense or YPN on an unused domain name. However, keep in mind that you will need to create some type of content for your landing page if you choose to place either of these advertisements on it. Putting these contextual advertising programs on a page with no content is a violation of the program's terms of service.
You're probably thinking, this all sounds great, but how do I get traffic to an undeveloped domain? There are three ways to go about this:
1) Registering domain names with keywords in them: The idea is that people will find the site by typing keywords directly into the URL box.
You'll be surprised how effective this technique is. One of our clients with a domain of freeSOMETHINGvideos.com is raking $10,000 a month from type-in traffic alone.
2) Domain names based on typos: When someone mistypes a URL, they will land on your site and click an ad in an attempt to get to their desired destination.
3) Article submissions: If you park a domain name that you registered because you may want to develop it at a later time, chances are it does not fall into the first two categories.
In this situation, a couple of article submissions can work wonders. Not only will you draw traffic from the articles, but the proper use of anchor text could lead to search engine traffic for your parked domain.
In summary - Domain parking is truly one of those things that you just need to experiment with on your own. Since it is absolutely free, take your newly acquired knowledge and give domain parking a shot!
Get Paid For Referrals
How would you like to get paid for simply giving your opinion? Not bad eh? Well, it's true, because there are many fortune 500 companies that are willing to pay you for your opinion on their existing products. In fact they will tell you about a new product and pay you for your opinion on what you like and dislike about it as well. It's smart business, because they can save a lot of money and bring products into the marketplace that are already tested with their customers. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
It's important not to simply jump into the first company offering to pay you for taking their surveys. Frankly, many of them don't pay cash, but will put your name in a sweepstakes. I don't know about you, but I want to get paid for my efforts. At least I would like to be the one making the decision. You can do this on your own for free, but I recommend and have used what I call a Survey Directory Company.
Why use them?
Well it's like when I go to Lowe's and purchase a book on how to do a project around the house. Could I do it without the book? Yes, but the book gives me pointers on how to do it correctly and avoid the common mistakes most people make. Well worth the minimal cost. It's the same with the Survey Directory Companies, because they give you an organized approach on how to approach taking paid surveys. In addition the ones I found show you which ones pay cash or in sweepstakes so you can choose which types of surveys you would like to take. You can do 95% cash and 5% sweepstakes or whatever ratio you prefer. They also filter out many of the scam companies that will simply waste your time.
This is a work at home job that can be done the hours you prefer and at the pace you set for yourself. Remember though you have to answer surveys to get paid. It's easy, but if you don't answer any surveys you are not going to make any money.
One of the reasons some people fail when attempting to work from home doing one of the many programs is that they have the false assumption that they will not have to do any work. You will have to work at home to get paid, but you will be able to earn income during the hours you choose and from the comfort of your home. Perhaps you may be working while in your pajamas. That's a pretty good deal when you can drink your coffee answer a few surveys and make some money. Take your time and give yourself a chance at success. Please feel free to read both this article or one of my many others by visiting my link in the resource box below. I always enjoy getting emails pertaining to my articles or my site. Your feedback is important to me.
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