Archive for October, 2008

September was a pretty good month for me in terms of domain parking revenues. My domains saw increased traffic and, in general, higher per-click earnings. If you haven’t recently worked on optimizing your parked domains, this is the time to do it.

I provide these keyword lists to help fellow domainers easily identify keyword categories where you could be optimizing for better revenues on your portfolio. Keep in mind, however, that your domains may received higher or lower per-click payouts than those shown for my portfolio. There are numerous reasons for this, including geo-targeted advertising and the regular testing and optimization of advertiser campaigns for increased ROI. Regardless of the variation in per-click payouts on a given keyword, domain owners can usually increase their parked portfolio earnings by optimizing for the keyword categories that consistently show higher per-click payouts.

Here are the highest-paying keywords for my domain parking for the period of September 29 through October 5:

  • credit card $1.21
  • domain name registration $1.50
  • pay per click $1.13
  • payday loans $1.11
  • money market account $1.06
  • free credit report $1.74
  • domain name registration $1.50
  • credit card $1.11
  • merchant account $4.54
  • car insurance quote $2.23
  • credit card, credit cards $1.61 average
  • free copy of my credit report $1.77
  • internet business $1.66
  • business opportunity $1.42
  • apply for a credit card $1.39
  • mortgage $1.28
  • credit card $1.18
  • credit card processing $2.10
  • apply for a credit card $1.32
  • cash advance payday loan $1.32
  • domain name registration $1.23
  • car insurance $1.21
  • pay per click program $1.03
  • credit card application $1.08
  • credit card deals $1.00
  • depression $1.31
  • mortgages $1.15
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Today marks the beginning of the “douchebags” category on this blog.

Having recently sold a .com on TDNAM, I emailed the buyer requesting his info so I could transfer the domain. The guy writes back several days later with some essentially nonsensical blather:

Hello,

Did you receive the text message I sent you through GoDaddy’s internal server 5 days ago ? If TDNAM has not told you I already paid the name pls notify me so I can contact them.

Best,

PS : As to the transfer at MONIKER, once you confirm it is there, I will send you the transfer info

Okay, so obviously this joker doesn’t have a clue. Unfortunately for him, I don’t check every one of my many email addresses 18 times each day, so I didn’t get his brilliant communication right away.

I’m still waiting for the transfer info.

Today I receive an email from this idiot alleging that he has sent me multiple emails and that I have not responded, so he’s “referring this to TDNAM.”

Whatever.

Like they’re going to do anything except tell this rocket scientist to send me the transfer info.

Of course I replied to Mr. D-bag, in my kindest way of dealing with clueless domain newbies, that threatening me wasn’t going to get him anywhere and that if he needed some help with finding the transfer info, he would be better off asking for help instead of making pointless threats. We’ll see if he can pull his head out of his ass long enough to figure it out.

We domainers are generally an honest and helpful bunch. If you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, admit it and ask for help. Just don’t be a douchebag.

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