Goodbye Domain Parking, Hello Affiliate Links!

[CureCancer]

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[Restecpa]

The landing page looks awful. There's nothing I hate more than those banner farms, that don't even try to hide the fact that they are totally useless...

Do yourself (and your visitors) a favor, and start off by developing your top 3 traffic domains. You don't have to create 100+ page sites, a few informative pages will do the trick for start. Once you're done, take at least another 2 or so. Then, if you don't feel like developing any more of them, at least you have some better quality sites that you can divert the traffic from the other domains to. Obviously, forwarding them as relevant to the topic of their interest as possible, so they don't get annoyed which shall eventually result in a better CTR or in your case "leads" for you.

I really can't imagine you making any money from the current landing page...

[David G]

I don't think this strategy will work, directing all traffic to a page with affiliate links for webhosting, pills, hotels, toys, etc. - all unrelated - just makes a page people will click away from as fast as they can. If you do this, it's better to make a page for each subject matter at least - casino links for gambling domains, webhosting for tech domains, movie links for movie domains, etc. Landing on a page full of unrelated banners is a real turn off for most surfers. Just my two cents, I think this is the kind of thing a lot of people do when they start out - build a page with so many affiliate links, you think that anyone will find something they like. But it really doesn't work........

Ditto (even if all the redirected traffic counts as valid).

[incka]

If you got a domain which is targeted for a type of visitor (lll.com obviously isn't, carrots.com obviously is) that gets several hundred types in a day build a site.

An old network of sites dropped (but as it doesn't update its links still links to) hockey-history.ws, soccer-history.ws and healthy-eating.ws. By themselves they get only about two visits a day, but after about a year of putting sites on that took half an hour to make they get more like 30 visits a day as they are starting to get positions in search engines and image search. When they are a few years old I'll develop them into larger sites when they are definatly out of google's sandbox. Haven't put adsense on them yet, but if I did I'm sure it would make more than parking would. This might be a special case though due to the continued back links to the domains.

[CureCancer]

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[CyrusL]

If you agree with us that it won't work, what is the point of the experiment?

You're not creating a new foundation or a new FRONT to PROTECT US. You just made a banner farm with CPA links. You just took us back to 1997.

It's not like you're proving anything to the parking companies by doing this either.

I really think you need to do some reading on free markets and then decide if the parking companies are screwing us. If their job was so easy, and their margins were so high, why wouldn't more people enter the business and compete with the big players? If type-in traffic is really worth so much more money, why don't you start a parking company and pay us what it's worth?

The fact is that there is no monopoly in parking and there is tons of competition. True, you can optimize and perform better with targetted CPA links, but a throwback banner farm is not going to get you there.

I'm primarily an affiliate advertiser so if you want some real advice in this area feel free to PM me and I'll be glad to help out. The path you're on right now won't get you very far.

[CureCancer]

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[CyrusL]

So, it's been a week, how well did this site perform?

[Restecpa]

So, it's been a week, how well did this site perform?

I'd like to know as well, after all, we did try to help and we should get some feedback in return as well...

[CureCancer]

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[Restecpa]

It was the worst result in the history of man kind. 30 000 impressions, 390 clicks, $0 REVENUE

BACK TO PPC

Thank you Don't feel too embarrassed about it though - it happens. I can understand why you'd probably prefer to just forget about this thread. However, there are still some good suggestions in it. Parking is not the only PPC option you have available. Don't forget that...

Good luck!

[CyrusL]

30 000 impressions, 390 clicks, $0 REVENUE

The important lesson here is the targeting of any sort of traffic. Dating traffic won't convert with mortgage ads and vice versa, even if there are a few clicks here and there.

The payout of any offer isn't very important either, as I have the highest EPC on $3-$12 payouts.

[DDC_Cyn]

It was the worst result in the history of man kind. 30 000 impressions, 390 clicks, $0 REVENUE

BACK TO PPC

Gotta give you credit for not only trying but for letting us all look over your shoulder. There's no quick answer or we'd all be doing it and no one answer works for everyone. You have to do some trial and error.