Earning Money with Domains

There are hundreds of ways to earn an income Online. Most of these methods start with a domain name since your domain tells people how to find you Online. Domains can be purchased for as little as $6.95. For this small investment hundreds of dollars can be made.
The usual model for earning money from domain names involves buying domains and selling. As with physical real estate, or any asset, the objective is to buy low and sell higher. While some people have made a lot of money selling domains with this technique, there is not generally a pool of ready buyers for an individual domain. Names may wait for decades before they get a single interested buyer and that offer may be too low to consider. Other models for making money with domains have developed in the last few years, chief among them being domain parking.
Pay-per-click (PPC) domain parking has been a very lucrative way to earn money from domain names. This white paper will emphasize this approach. The domain parking services described here provide no-cost hosting of your site and they pay you every time someone clicks on a link.
Where should you park your domains? These sites are different in essential ways, and one may work better than another for your domains.
Affiliate income programs allow you to sell a product on your domain and keep a portionof the income. You can do this from a site you build, or you can redirect a domain to an affiliate page created for you by the company who is making the offer.
Developing your domain into a full-fledged website can often make the most money. It is also the most time-intensive.
Reviewing PPC Domain Parking Services
Domain Name parking, the easiest approach, is often the best. ParkQuick is a site that features objective reviews of parking services. Parking Services differ from each other in significant ways. Some parking services require that you own a certain number of domains, while others do not. Changes that you make appear immediately with some parking services, while others require approval in advance. (All of these parking services provide free hosting.) In some cases you can earn money when someone views your page (pay per impression), or when they click on a link (pay per click). Some of these parking services will automatically optimize your landing pages based on what people search for. RPM (revenue per thousand impressions) is not the whole story. Some services make it easy for you to use one-click landers, while others only allow 2-click landers.
These parking services change their methods and payouts often to keep up with rapid changes in this field. All have ways to detect click fraud, and your account will be suspended if click-fraud is ever suspected. Never click on your own ppc links. ParkQuick's monthly Name Monetizer newsletter will keep you up-do-date on the most recent changes. You can also read the most current recommendations for small and large domain portfolios owners.
Some newsletter subscribers have asked whether they can send paid traffic to their pages. Most parking services forbid all paid traffic because it generally does not result in sales. Some parking services do allow you to buy Google AdWords or Overture ads and send that visitors to your domain names. This is usually not worth it, however. Unless you are extremely careful you may end up losing money by paying more for the clicks than you will earn off the parking.
Domain investors and Online marketers are coming at this common ground from different directions. Domain investors have generally purchased a number of domain names with the hope of reselling for a profit or monetizing the visitors to the domains (or both). In the process they often build websites or landing pages to make money from the domains. Online marketers are looking to make money Online selling their own or other people's products and services. In order to do this they often buy domain names and build websites or landing pages. With so much common ground, you'd think that domain investors and Online marketers would have a lot to learn from each other. In the past domain investors have seen Internet marketing as a way to supplement pay per click services that currently monetize domain names in most large portfolios. Many predictions of future domain monetization suggest that affiliate and CPA (cost per action) marketing may play a larger role.
Find out more recommendations on domain monetization services at ParkQuick.com.

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Leonard Holmes, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and domain professional. At his ParkQuick.com site he uses his insights into the mind to help domain owners make more money from their domains.

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