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pondelok 12. mája 2008

Parked, Sedo, Namedrive or fabulous?

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This is 5 minute blog just to compare probably most used parking companies.
I won't tell You: This is best, it makes You millionaire (some of You actually are - better marketers then me :) ).

But somehow people just park their domains with one company and stick to that. And that is one horrible mistake. Ok, I can say I'm lucky I've jumped from Sedo parking to Parked and my revenues are now higher. But what works for me doesn't work for most of You and most of Your domains.
So I've just put here these four parking companies with all the stats screenshots I found with google image search :D and has some value. I don't give any referral link I just want people to reconsider having all domains at one parking company. You're stealing Your own money from Yourself :)

Different companies have different PPC, different ad feeds and different layout making CTR very different with each domain and company.
SCREENSHOTS of STATS from different people, different site niche parked in these companies are at bottom of this POST.

Parked.com -> awesome company, works great for my business, trade, invest, insurance, loans/mortgages domains. I have maybe 1.5x more clicks and about 3x more PPC (from average 0,16EURO at Sedo to 0,6-0,8$ stable at Parked.com). Yeah, I need to work around the templates to set some decent colours. But it pays off. Also they pay 0,25$/click for many adult sites and thats spectacular.
There's nothing easier then swapping to Parked. It generas very good keywords and keyword combination (if You have words in domain name) and makes very relevant content on parked site converting to nice income. In my case about 20% of domains need to be edited to have correct keywords.
Problem of parked.com is that some domains barely convert uniques to clicks, so I've send them back to Sedo or Fabulous. For example some of my adult domains does have CTR below 3% at Parked, but some has 20%.
This was one lucky day for one expired site about insurance I've bought lately:



Sedo.com
-> Well known marketplace, but not so good at parking. Why? They don't need it. They just push You tu park Your sites there to get accurate stats for selling and avoid 50$ minimal fee. They don't focus on parking, even blind and dumb can see parking site has no real content.
But still, they have some huge PPC for some business keywords. but on other hand, there are expensive keywords domains making 0,02-0,08EURO per click which makes You pissed alot.
I would never park whole my portfolio there. I have just few sites there that makes nice income due to >1EURO for click where other companies doesn't meet 1$ limit.
There is also SedoPro but You need some nice income from domains and plenty of people doesn't meet that. SedoPro have more customisation and makes more money making some domains true moneymakers leaving plenty of domains still very underrated at PPC.

Namedrive.com
-> Good company with fine revenue for most of the domains. There's only lack of good PPC for few expensive keywords (when testing I've had few domains making 0,05-0,1$ per click that should be valued at >0,50$). My experience is that they pay better for European traffic then Parked. So mostly I have domains with US traffic parked at Parked.com and those who have >50% of EU traffic are mostly parked at Namedrive.com. Still great company.

Fabulous.com -> another great one, have tested few domains and they've made almost same as Parked.com. Didn't test this one with my portfolio, just few domains but I must say they are fine. Some say they are better then Parked and Namedrive, but it probably differs from porfolio.

Parked.com stats:


Sedo.com stats:


Namedrive.com stats:


Fabulos.com stats:


H@ppy earnings everybody, hope You got all domains to parking company then squeez most out of them :D Enjoy.