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Earning Cash with Domain Names

There are millions of ways to make money on the Internet. Almost all of these approaches start with a domain name since your domain name tells people where to find you on the Internet. Internet names can be purchased for as little as $10.00. You can easily increase this small investment a thousand-fold.

The usual way of making money from domains involves buying and selling. As is the case with traditional real estate, or any asset, the objective is to buy low and sell high. While some have made lots of money selling domain names with this approach, there is not usually a pool of ready buyers for an individual domain name. Names may wait for decades before they get a single offer 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 for some to earn money from domains. This white paper will emphasize this technique. The domain name parking services described here provide free hosting for your domain and pay you every time someone clicks on a link.

Who should you park your domains with? These sites differ in essential ways, and one company may work better than another for your domains.

Affiliate programs allow you to sell a product on your site and keep a percentage of the profit. 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 hosting the offer.

Developing your domain into a full website can sometimes make the most money. It is also the most time-intensive.

Comparing PPC Domain Parking Services

Domain Parking, the easiest approach, is often the best. ParkQuick.com is a site that features unbiased reviews of domain parking services. Parking Services differ from each other in important ways. Some parking services require that you own a certain number of names, and others don't. Changes appear right away with some parking services, while others require approval in advance. (All of these parking services provide free hosting.) In some cases you can be paid when someone simply 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 domains based on what people search for. RPM (revenue per thousand impressions) is not the only factor to consider. Some sites make it easy for you to use one click landers, while others do not.

These services change their techniques 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 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 people who own a few domains and for those who own hundreds of domains.

Some newsletter subscribers have asked whether they can send paid traffic to their pages. Most services forbid all incentivised traffic because it generally does not convert well. Some services do allow you to buy Google AdWords or Overture ads and send that visitors to your domains. This is rarely cost-effective, however. Unless you are extremely careful you may end up in the red by spending more for the ads than you will earn off the parking.

Domainers and Internet marketers are coming at this common ground from different directions. Domainers have generally purchased a number of domains 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 domains and build websites or landing pages. With so much common ground, you'd think that domainers and Internet marketers would have a lot to learn from each other. In the past domainers have seen Internet marketing as a way to supplement pay-per-click services that currently monetize domains in most large portfolios. Many predictions of future domain name monetization suggest that affiliate and CPA (cost per action) marketing may play a larger role.

Find out more free information on making money with domains 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 human behavior to help domain portfolio owners make more money from their domains.

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