Parking domain names used to be an easy way of earning a passive income. What if you purchase a domain name and you don't intend to build a website?
It is true you can purchase and own as many domain names as you wish. The best thing to do is to search for a domain name parking service and park these names. Now you ask if you can earn thousands of dollars from your parked domain names. Well...
Not anymore. Not long ago,
I posted an article entitled "How to earn a passive income from parking domain names" on which I discussed the above topic. Today we will carry on from where we left and take it a step further by addressing some of the issues that most people encounter.
Parking Domain Names: The Problem
But just like most good things online, soon or later too much hype builds up and before you know it, it becomes a feasting field for the bad boys and their scams.
Now, we do know that there have been instances in the past,
Where some search engines have penalized and black listed some parked domain names in the context that such names exhibits the characteristics of link farms.
No serious web master or someone in the business of parking domain names would want such a thing to happen. It normally takes a lot of effort and time to regain from the wrath of the search engines.
So the question is:
How do you protect your parked domain names and probably keep on earning a passive income?
Parking Domain Names, The solution
Well, here is a simple solution to parking domain names, and it's really not an ingenious one.
Content.
Yes, I know you have heard it somewhere that content is king. Boring statement, right? Anyway, here is how you ought to do it. Instead of parking domain names by having an all ad's page full of links;
Why not spice up your parking domain names landing page with a little bit of content coupled with a few links here and there! Mmm... that is easily said and can be practical only if you own one or two of those parked domains.
The next logical question then is,
- What if you own several hundreds of such domain names?
It is worth noting that some parking domain names businesses have the ability to use their software to auto create and generate content rich pages that have been optimized to match the domain name keyword.
It's not really that hard to find such services, just do a little research before you choose the one to work with. It's the only way to survive in this business of parking domain names and possibly earn a little bit of passive income.