Sorry about being awol. I have been extremely busy testing out whypark, and have come to realize that it is kick ass, actually kick ass. I will write a whypark guide in the following month that I will sell using various services. I will however give it away for free to my loyal subscribers =) of course.
I know it says "daily reports" but that is a bit impossible at the moment. I apologize, but I will be updating more than I have been, but probably not daily.
http://tinyurl.com/6r4zvx - a blog about affiliate marketing.
Ok, I am giving away $10,000's worth of business opportunities, ebooks, and tools. If you go to one of the blogs and sign up you go into the draw to win this. I will be doing more monthly draws as well. You can sign up for both if you want twice the chance to win.
http://tinyurl.com/6rqf39 - A blog about domaining and site flipping.
Ok, I am giving away $10,000's worth of business opportunities, ebooks, and tools. If you go to one of the blogs and sign up you go into the draw to win this. I will be doing more monthly draws as well. You can sign up for both if you want twice the chance to win.
http://tinyurl.com/6rqf39 - A blog about domaining and site flipping.
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Day 8 - 2:37pm - Friday - August 22st - 2008
Ok, so nothing from namepros yet. There seems to be a bit of a hassle in making threads. I will update you all if anything happens on that front. But as for now... I made a video about funny domain names that can be found on youtube or blip.tv.
I'm sure many of you have got bored, and decided to type in a stupid word or something funny and see if there was a domain. Most of the time you will find that these are parked sites. You can try it right now, type in a stupid word that comes to your head, then type .com and you will probably see a parked page.
Now you may be thinking, what the heck, why are people buying these domains? Well me too, but this for me seems similar to the google trends pattern of domaining. Probably the same people are buying these domains. Why? Because they are "type-in" domainers. They buy domains with a popular word, or something that they believe would have many type-ins. Like www.poo.com. The guy who parked that site is making a killing. It's a no brainer.
Should you domain like this? If you are going to become a domainer... then choose a style that suits you. If you are random and a bit crazy (or a lot like me)... then this is definitely a good way to go. Especially with the new TLD's
I'm going to go off on a bit of a tangent here. In my earlier posts i mentioned whypark, and that I got into their advertising system. Well I haven't been getting much traffic. But the payout per click is 37c. Which isn't too bad, at a click-thru rate of 6.25%
Heres the loldomains official video
Day 8 - 2:37pm - Friday - August 22st - 2008
Ok, so nothing from namepros yet. There seems to be a bit of a hassle in making threads. I will update you all if anything happens on that front. But as for now... I made a video about funny domain names that can be found on youtube or blip.tv.
I'm sure many of you have got bored, and decided to type in a stupid word or something funny and see if there was a domain. Most of the time you will find that these are parked sites. You can try it right now, type in a stupid word that comes to your head, then type .com and you will probably see a parked page.
Now you may be thinking, what the heck, why are people buying these domains? Well me too, but this for me seems similar to the google trends pattern of domaining. Probably the same people are buying these domains. Why? Because they are "type-in" domainers. They buy domains with a popular word, or something that they believe would have many type-ins. Like www.poo.com. The guy who parked that site is making a killing. It's a no brainer.
Should you domain like this? If you are going to become a domainer... then choose a style that suits you. If you are random and a bit crazy (or a lot like me)... then this is definitely a good way to go. Especially with the new TLD's
I'm going to go off on a bit of a tangent here. In my earlier posts i mentioned whypark, and that I got into their advertising system. Well I haven't been getting much traffic. But the payout per click is 37c. Which isn't too bad, at a click-thru rate of 6.25%
Heres the loldomains official video
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Day 7 - 7:45pm - Thursday - August 21st - 2008
This post is about funny/dumb domain names. There has been quite a few that have been parked as shown by this growing list here: loldomains
So anyways I decided to start a discussion on namepros to see what funny domain names people have uncovered in their domaining experience. Hopefully I will get a killer list of dumb parked sites. My thread isnt showing up yet =( I will update you guys with the thread i posted tomorrow.
But anyways heres a list of what I have found so far:
There are many more to come, got an idea? Comment here or email me at mrthinker6@gmail.com
Day 7 - 7:45pm - Thursday - August 21st - 2008
This post is about funny/dumb domain names. There has been quite a few that have been parked as shown by this growing list here: loldomains
So anyways I decided to start a discussion on namepros to see what funny domain names people have uncovered in their domaining experience. Hopefully I will get a killer list of dumb parked sites. My thread isnt showing up yet =( I will update you guys with the thread i posted tomorrow.
But anyways heres a list of what I have found so far:
There are many more to come, got an idea? Comment here or email me at mrthinker6@gmail.com
Ok first off I must say this forum is great. Just great. There is so much good information in the discussions here, I will try to sum it up in one post but for a true taste you must visit namepros.
The first thing I did when I decided to research namepros was search the term "whypark". I found an 8 page thread (I only read the first and last page due to time restraints). If you need to know anything and everything about whypark its all there http://www.namepros.com/469704-whypark-just-what-the-doctor-ordered-10.html?highlight=whypark
Ok, so what did this thread basically say about whypark? I was rather discouraged when I read the first page... there was quite a bit of talk about whypark being considered by google as a "bad neighbourhood" - which could possibly get you penalized or even have your adsense banned. In the earlier days of whypark there were quite a few people who got their adsense accounts banned. Not because they were a part of whypark however.. but because of click fraud (clicking on your own or friends ads).
So I decided to fast forward to page 8. I was relieved, much more positive talk about whypark. Clearly the whypark team have been working hard to reach their dream. The guy who posted this thread "l2ride55" is testing whypark's revenue generating quite ferociously, make sure if you choose whypark as your parking service then follow his posts at least.
Ok so that was just one thread out of thousands, obviously I am not going to go through all of them, if anything really outstanding pops up on namepros I will make sure I mention it. There is just so much content I cannot absorb all I want to :p
I aint complaining though, +1 to namepros!
The first thing I did when I decided to research namepros was search the term "whypark". I found an 8 page thread (I only read the first and last page due to time restraints). If you need to know anything and everything about whypark its all there http://www.namepros.com/469704-whypark-just-what-the-doctor-ordered-10.html?highlight=whypark
Ok, so what did this thread basically say about whypark? I was rather discouraged when I read the first page... there was quite a bit of talk about whypark being considered by google as a "bad neighbourhood" - which could possibly get you penalized or even have your adsense banned. In the earlier days of whypark there were quite a few people who got their adsense accounts banned. Not because they were a part of whypark however.. but because of click fraud (clicking on your own or friends ads).
So I decided to fast forward to page 8. I was relieved, much more positive talk about whypark. Clearly the whypark team have been working hard to reach their dream. The guy who posted this thread "l2ride55" is testing whypark's revenue generating quite ferociously, make sure if you choose whypark as your parking service then follow his posts at least.
Ok so that was just one thread out of thousands, obviously I am not going to go through all of them, if anything really outstanding pops up on namepros I will make sure I mention it. There is just so much content I cannot absorb all I want to :p
I aint complaining though, +1 to namepros!
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Day 5 - 12:45pm - Tuesday - August 19th - 2008
A couple of days ago I mentioned whypark.
I recently applied to use their integrated ads system. Yesterday I received an email from them =)
Hello,
Your application to the WhyPark integrated ad network has been reviewed and we have accepted your application. Please be sure to login to your WhyPark account and click on the Account tab. You'll see a new field for PayPal Address, which will need to be completed before any payments may be sent to you.
At this time, all of your WhyPark sites are using our integrated ad network. When adding or editing a domain name, you can choose to use our network or not. If we are unable to display ads on any page for any reason, your Top and/or Bottom ad code will be used, so you do not lose any potential ad impressions.
What to expect...
When a domain first starts using the integrated ad network, ads are targeted based on the sub-category chosen. Once we begin receiving data about your site's traffic, ad targeting is further refined to display the most relevant ads at the highest earnings.
Reporting...
You will be able to view your reports by clicking on the Earn Revenue tab. Stats are compiled nightly and available the following day.
Thanks,
Craig Rowe
WhyPark.com
Heres a link to my ad stats with whypark so far: Whypark Integrated Ads
It isn't great at all at the moment to be honest... Only time will tell though.
Day 5 - 12:45pm - Tuesday - August 19th - 2008
A couple of days ago I mentioned whypark.
I recently applied to use their integrated ads system. Yesterday I received an email from them =)
Hello,
Your application to the WhyPark integrated ad network has been reviewed and we have accepted your application. Please be sure to login to your WhyPark account and click on the Account tab. You'll see a new field for PayPal Address, which will need to be completed before any payments may be sent to you.
At this time, all of your WhyPark sites are using our integrated ad network. When adding or editing a domain name, you can choose to use our network or not. If we are unable to display ads on any page for any reason, your Top and/or Bottom ad code will be used, so you do not lose any potential ad impressions.
What to expect...
When a domain first starts using the integrated ad network, ads are targeted based on the sub-category chosen. Once we begin receiving data about your site's traffic, ad targeting is further refined to display the most relevant ads at the highest earnings.
Reporting...
You will be able to view your reports by clicking on the Earn Revenue tab. Stats are compiled nightly and available the following day.
Thanks,
Craig Rowe
WhyPark.com
Heres a link to my ad stats with whypark so far: Whypark Integrated Ads
It isn't great at all at the moment to be honest... Only time will tell though.
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Day 5 - 11:56am - Tuesday - August 19th - 2008
Hi again. I'm sure many of you have been bored and decided to type in a silly domain name to see whats on the other side. For instance... poo.com.
There are two phenomena I have found and many of you will have noticed as well. One is the silly name phenomena, and two is the google trends phenomena. Go ahead, type in a silly word as a domain name and 99% of the time it will be a parked site.
My theory on why people park names with silly names is because of human curiosity. Poo.com will definitely generate an amazing amount of traffic. I can imagine the resell value of this domain name can't be high... But, even though it is a dumb name... maybe because the revenue generated is quite serious, people should take these dumb domain names more seriously as a way of generating some kick ass money.
I have yet to see domain names like these listed however. I don't know exactly why this is. But it may be because people see a stupid name and they think it would be a stupid idea to purchase it. Or maybe the owners don't want to sell because the keyword is so valuable because of the amount of curiosity out there. Or maybe both are occurring. It is my personal opinion that these "stupid" parked domains are making the owner(s) a killing. Why? Simple: Curiosity.
Wow I cant find anything about this on google. All I find is domain name mistakes, nothing about purposely parking stupid domain names. I will be covering name pros before the end of the week, but next up is an update about whypark.
Day 5 - 11:56am - Tuesday - August 19th - 2008
Hi again. I'm sure many of you have been bored and decided to type in a silly domain name to see whats on the other side. For instance... poo.com.
There are two phenomena I have found and many of you will have noticed as well. One is the silly name phenomena, and two is the google trends phenomena. Go ahead, type in a silly word as a domain name and 99% of the time it will be a parked site.
My theory on why people park names with silly names is because of human curiosity. Poo.com will definitely generate an amazing amount of traffic. I can imagine the resell value of this domain name can't be high... But, even though it is a dumb name... maybe because the revenue generated is quite serious, people should take these dumb domain names more seriously as a way of generating some kick ass money.
I have yet to see domain names like these listed however. I don't know exactly why this is. But it may be because people see a stupid name and they think it would be a stupid idea to purchase it. Or maybe the owners don't want to sell because the keyword is so valuable because of the amount of curiosity out there. Or maybe both are occurring. It is my personal opinion that these "stupid" parked domains are making the owner(s) a killing. Why? Simple: Curiosity.
Wow I cant find anything about this on google. All I find is domain name mistakes, nothing about purposely parking stupid domain names. I will be covering name pros before the end of the week, but next up is an update about whypark.
